to think they shouldn't have increased the price?

[iamdivergent]

This morning walking to work I saw a table and chairs in the window of a local charity shop, they were marked at £45. I took a pic and sent it to DH, not noticing but the price was also in the pic. DH liked the table too, so at 9am I called the shop.

The person who answered took the details and said they'd call me back, (I wanted to reserve and go in and pay when I finished work), he called me back about 20mins later and said that the table had been sold already. I thought, oh well and continued on til I finished work.

Walking back home I walked by the same shop to find the exact table with a new price on top - an increase of £30 from this morning. I was so I went in and queried to be told that it was definately not the same table.

I looked at my pic, it is definately the same table and chairs, down to a big scratch down the middle of it. We could just afford it at the original price, but can't afford the extra - so annoying and a bit shitty of the shop imo.

So AIBU?

My mil volunteers in a charity shop and the manager is under constant pressure to increase the profits they make. I think that probably explains what is happening and it's a shame.

While charity shops do have to pay rates etc, they get quite a substantial discount on them. That's why a lot of towns have loads of them, no "real" shops can afford the full rates.

I'd have been tempted to show them the pic OP, if only to make a point!!

My friend took 3 bin bags of very well cared for baby toys into a charity shop in Wanstead, her ds started playing with a crappy little bat thing in there and when she tried to buy it she was 20p short, they wouldn't let her off.

When I was in my local one recently a young lad was coppering up to buy his DD a toy, he said she could only have 1 as he was short for both so I offered him the difference but the lady behind the till let him take both