£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.

YANBU
I told a charity shop off for pricing a Tu top I donated at more than I paid for it
Charities are just like big business now, take the tax breaks off them I say

What is a day dress? Is it different/what is different from one you'd wear any other time (night?)
Or is it just words to distinguish a normal dress from a nighty?

YANBU. Where i live we have so many charity shops that they all have to price realistically, and i have two or three WS dresses I've bought in them. They were between £4-£7. I'm always surprised by the charity shop prices in other places i go to where there is less competition, the prices seem much higher. But hey, there is very quick stock turnover in my local ones, so everyone benefits. The few times I've seen things overpriced they hang around for ages.

I find that pricing for books has gone a bit ridiculous too, especially as some of the target market may have gone digital with kindle style devices.
Oxfam charging 2.50 for a second hand book?! Its 4.99 on amazon you fools.

However i use my local charity shop, with their 20p books like a library almost and donate back when i have read.

I used the term day dress to means casual dress as opposed to an evening dress.

Anyway, I'm sure someone will buy the dress, but it won't be me.

Charity shops can be very savvy now. I once came across a "Orla Kiely" dress with a price tag of £50, supposed RRP £300.

Problem was, it was an Orla Kiely at Uniqlo dress, and it was £24.99 full price.

I shoulde probably add, I knew the price because I had the same one at home!

Curtains are still very good value, usually about a fiver a pair, steamcleaned. I've just upholstered some chairs for £6 using some very nice quality curtain fabric.

That and my Changing Rooms staple gun.

Some of our local ones are good value, but I'm a sucker for a well-thought-out display, so BHF wins on that score.

The one thing that winds me up in one particular shop is the signs by the book display exhorting customers to bring books back once they've read them. If I didn't want to keep it, I'd borrow it from the library without needing to hand over £3.

Our Barnardos is pretty good for layout and pricing.

I've said this before here but our local town is in a poorer area, the charity shops there sell most things for £1. There is a high turnover of stock, lots of donations of stock and the shops are always full. There is something different every time you go in.
Compare this to the next town along in a reasonably affluent area. Prices are frankly ridiculous and the same items sit in the shop week in week out. Shops are almost always empty. One example was a very tatty Miss Sixty denim jacket, missing button, filthy and priced at an amazing £30. Unsurprisingly it remained there week in week out for about six months. Kind of became the standing joke of "ooh wonder if they've sold crap coat".

I was looking for old slips - the old lacy nylon kind - as they are great for a dressing up box. I saw two today for £8 each! madness.

YANBU. Charity shops are getting very expensive IMO. I was in Oxfam the other day looking at some wellies. They were asking £3.99 for a pair. When I looked more closely, I could see that they still had the original Wilkos price sticker in and they were originally 99p new!

I saw a manky suite on sale in a YMCA charity shop today for £300. It was the talk of the town!

DP was working next to a Sue Ryder furniture shop last week and went in for a look. He said they wanted £500 for a three piece suite, and nearly full price for a second hand tv.

it would get that on ebay.

Yup, charity shops are charging way too much in general. However, it must work for them overall, or else they would lower the prices.

I never go in them anymore as I also think the quality of what people donate has gone downhill too, since the downturn of the economy. Many people now sell anything good themselves for the money, rather than donate it. If I wanted cheap supermarket clothes I would just wait for one of the regular sales at the supermarket.

Clothes generally aren't the quality they were. However I've had some excellent bargains on china and cutlery recently . . . I didn't need them, but they were too good a bargain to miss.

It's that Mary Queen of whatserfaces fault, she started it with her revamping charity shops show

The charity shops need the money to pay for their stupid press 55 buttons per transaction till come computer. Then they need to pay the manager and provide her/his company car.

Our local Dogs Trust shop is ridiculously over priced and just had its second refit in 4 years!

I think most charity shops have totally lost their way tbh!

People like me who dont have much spare money find it chepaer these days to buy new in supermarkets and Primark than shop for overpriced(as in dearer than new) Florence and Fred and Atmosphere in charity shops.

I agree charity shops are charging too much in general. I live in a 'nice' area where the charity shops are raved about. I donated loads of old clothes and shoes a few months ago. They were generally in fab condition, some worn only once and one or two things brand new with tags. However I saw some of them in the window a few days later and couldn't believe the prices on them. A pair of new look shoes, worn once, which I paid £29.99 for were on sale for £19.99. Would anyone pay that for second hand shoes?? A warehouse dress I bought a couple of years ago was on sale for £29.99. I would be surprised if any of them sold at those prices.

I live in a relatively affluent rural area with a town centre that has at least 6 charity shops inc BHF oxfam & Sue Ryder. There is also a local country 'general' auctioneers that sells antique and modern furniture. Often, good quality 3 piece suites that can't be sold for£20 at auction get donated to Sue Ryder - Who somehow manage to price them up for £300+ and sell them within days. People are crazy.

I am still mourning the change in charity shop prices over the past couple of years. Once one of my favourite pastimes, I now rarely go in any of them as the prices are now ridiculous.

The thing is I used to spend quite a bit when things were cheaper and then they'd often get the item back for resale in due course. Now I will not part with my cash unless it is for something I have a genuine need for or something I absolutely adore - which is much rarer.

Brand new pair of Next Jeans today; Barnardo's; £3.50.

I live in an upmarket area of Edinburgh that's known for its plentiful charity shops (it's become a bit of a joke actually). Anyway, the prices are effing ridiculous. I saw a top in the window for £75 earlier this evening. I'd rather take my stuff to charity shops in less affluent areas, or donate to the local primary school as they often use them for raising funds.