£20 for a White Stuff day dress in a charity shop?

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AIBU to think this is a bit pricey? It was a nice dress but not that special. I'd have paid £5 or so for it, but not £20.

Did they forget to stick the decimal point in/stuck it in the wrong place and it should have been £2.00?

I wouldn't spend £20 on a second hand WS dress, fairy. It's almost sale price.

Saves you money on price new and maximises money to the charity.
If it's more than you want to pay then don't buy it. Just like any other item in any other shop

No, because the price tag was missing so I asked how much it was & it came back £19.99.

I know it's for a good cause & they're not profiteering but even so it seemed a lot to me, for what essentially is a second hand dress.

Disclaimer: I'm not working at the moment so money is tight, £20 is a significant amount of money right now.

I certainly wouldn't pay £20 for a dress in a charity shop. YANBU.

Was it the British Heart Foundation? I find they charge ridiculously high prices for their 2nd hand clothing - £5 for a primark t shirt, for example.

I've paid £10 for a second hand Joules dress before now and £5 for a Fat Face skirt, that's a bit more reasonable!

Just don't even go there Gast.

I used to love charity shops but it's cheaper to buy new these days most of the time.

I find furniture charity shops the worst for it. £25 for a veneered MDF bedside cabinet or whatevs. Er no thanks- I'll go to Argos.

It used to be that charity shops had a dual function in that they would be raising money for the charity in question but also providing people on low incomes with a way of clothing themselves and their family at a reduced rate. Unfortunately in the past few years this second function seems to have been forgotten by the bigger charities, it gives me the fucking rage

White Stuff isn't designer

I can't stand charity shops anymore. I've seen Primark things for more expensive than new.

We used to shop at charity shops when I was a kid because we were poor. I used to think charity shops were a charity for the buyers too - not anymore.

I'm not above bargaining in a charity shop.

I once saw a tiny denby jug for £10 in oxfam and asked if they would take less. They said "it is Demby You know". I said "yes, but it also has a Wilson's Brewery mark on the side". I got it for £5 in the end.

Nope, Chuck. The charities want all they can get. I donate (on behalf of ds) to the RSPB. They called me last week and asked for me to double my contributions. Given I already donate a tenner a month I thought this was some nerve! The charity shops here are all Tesco/Asda clothes for a few pounds.

YANU. That's silly for a charity shop. BHF and Cancer research I just avoid now. They charge ridiculous amounts for things regardless of label (not that white stuff is really a hugely expensive label when you consider their sales).

I worked in an Age Concern years ago and we had a Cancer Research next door and the price difference was silly really. They used to have Primark wear for more expensive than what you'd buy it for new. Charity or not that's a bit ridiculous!

I was just thinking this yesterday in a charity shop. They were selling baby/toddler tshirts at £2.50 each. I like to support charity but why spend that much on a worn, slightly stained top when I can buy a brand new one in the supermarket for £2?

YANBU. White Stuff is hardly a designer brand, it's maybe mid high street with Next and Monsoon. £20 is utterly unreasonable.

I live in a town with a lot of charity shops, but the hipsters seem to get all the good stuff! I find the big name Cancer Research/BHF to be utterly cheeky with prices. However, my local hospice shop and the place that supports the local animal shelter are much more reasonable. I've noticed that bigger charities pay their sales assistants now, so I guess they have to cover overheads. Plus the local places tend to be staffed by nice older ladies who don't care about brands etc and price stuff more reasonably.

YANBU.
Charity shops have gone a bit OTT in their pricing these days and I find it's the upmarket high street items that tend to have their value somewhat overestimated particularly White Stuff, Fat Face, Marks & Spencers ( which isn't even that upmarket to begin with).

I was going to buy a Ted Baker short coat a few weeks ago, but the price put me off. It was £35 which I felt was quite high for something that had a bit of signs of use and I'd need to get dry cleaned before using, pushing the price up to nearer £50. I guess someone bought it in the end as it had disappeared a couple of weeks later.

I have had some great bargains from charity shops and I don't mind if they up the prices slightly for upmarket brands - so I got a wonderful cerise full length pink wool coat by Boden for £16 (+dry cleaning) and a Sandwich zip up shirt dress for £5.99 ( BHF - don't think they realised it was a pricey brand !).

White stuff is a lot more expensive than next - eg Next jeans are roughly around £22 - whereas white stuff/fat face are more like £45

The quality of the fabrics Next use are terrible though. They used to be fantastic, thick t-shirts and wool jumpers but now it's just an expensive Primark. I don't think White Stuff is too great either though but it's better than Next. M&S quality is good but the designs and cuts are dated.

I'm not sure I agree with the statement about charity shops being 'dual purpose' - weren't they always there to make money for the charity rather than providing a service to the poor? That was just a benefit.

However I do totally agree that the prices in charity shops have become ridiculous - we have quite a few in the small town I work in and love nothing more than a lunchtime rummage. One or two here are starting to price themselves out of the market.

Our British Heart Foundation is the best of the bunch by far - really really nice clothes (which I've bought many many of) at reasonable prices. Note I said 'reasonable' not bargain. I paid £25 for a fantastic 3 piece suit with a matching tie. It was only Debenhams, nothing high-end but would have been pricey - it was worth every penny of that £25. Similarly Jack Wills shorts for £6.50 - great condition and a nice cut, worth the money. The Scope next door though... everything is mega bucks, whatever the label and condition. Most of it is generic supermarket stuff or ancient outdated things anyway. I think I've bought on thing from them; a leather French Connection belt which was, to be fair, worth the £8.00.

The manager at the BHF told me she turns her stock round ultra fast and prices at the upper end of what sells. I think this is the best way to do it - a shop I go into most days because it's fresh stock and prices that I can't say no to! A good technique.

Putting on eBay prices won't shift stock quickly - after all the whole bloody world can see an eBay auction, so a bigger audience! With the case of my suit, I may well have been the only 5'8 man with a 28" inside leg who wanted a charcoal pinstripe suit in the whole of my town! Had it been the £50 or £60 it would probably make on eBay, I wouldn't have bought it and I bet no one else would have either. Price to your market charity shops!

Yanbu! I used to volunteer in a charity shop. We had guidelines for pricing items which some of the other volunteers followed to the letter. On numerous occasions I pointed out that you could by a new primark tshirt for less than the guideline price. I used to go around changing the labels when I was working alone, otherwise we would have crap overpriced primark stuff overtaking the rails