£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.

Bhf put those stickers on the books brecon. You right the stickers dont come off. Agree re the return after use stickers are silly. Its one of the reasons i dont buy books there. They also charge more than oxfam for their books. I am visiting charity shops less and less and some sue rider or oxfam books i never ever go into as its too expensive for me. Last time i popped in the perfume suddenly from ldll was on sell for £4. As any idll shopping knows its £2.99 or £1.99 when they do an offer....... Yanbu re charity shop prices. However in my mums village they have amazing room which prices like they used to.

I use to live in an affluent area of s w London. The charity shops there were my bugbear. One in particular always had a sign up about being full and asked for no donations to be left. If any clothes were less than £20 the stock would be selling and there would be space for new stock!!

I agree that prices have gone up over the last couple of years but it is still worth a look- smiles fondly at brand new Hush Puppies shoes I bought this week for £3.75!

What is the purpose of a Charity shop?
To raise money for that charity. That's it, that's the reason for their existence.

I've not shopped in BHF since I donated 4 big bags of stuff. The 4th bag was full of stuff I didn't think was suitable for sale and i was going to take to the tip but I mentioned it when I was in there and they said they could take it for recycling and still raise something for the charity.

4 days later I was rummaging in same shop and came across the primark troursers with a big hole in the crotch, a jumper with a hole in and various other items from the bag all marked at at least £5. I mentioned it to the manager and she said in their view the items were fine to sale.

I can still find bargain trousers/ jeans in the charity shops but have given up on everything else.

So recently I've got a couple of pairs of wool work trousers (Hobbs) for 2.50 and some French connection jeans for 3. At the same time they're selling bobbly per una jumpers for 4.50

I agree. I am in London and the prices at my local charity shop have been ridiculous. I still go in sometimes, and have bought the occasional item, but often the pricing is silly. Items considered "designer" have really high prices even if old and very used looking. E.g. A washed out Boden dress might be £20.

I would prefer to give my money to charity shops but have found ebay to be vastly cheaper for children's clothes. If you are careful you can pay no more than £1 per item. We have limited funds so have to go with the best value. Shame really.

My local BHF charity shop, which I used to love, is now ridiculous.

Dunlop wellington boots complete with mud, £9.99. New, £6.99.

A second white stuff dress would probably sell on ebay for about £20 if in good condition. I work in charity retail, a lot of pricing is done by looking on ebay, so if they looked to see what people pay for it on there I can imagine them selling it for similar.

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I completely agree that their sole purpose is to raise money for the charity, but I'm not convinced they can be raising much money if nobody is buying those tatty primark dresses at £20 each. Be realistic in your pricing, and consider your local market, and you'll make more, surely?

Our local cancer research shop used to be great.It is in an area with a lot of passing traffic and good parking so gets loads of donations. The shop used to have a shop packed with rails heaving with all sorts of things and it was possible to spend a happy half hour at least going through everything. I would rarely leave without at least one purchase.

Then it got 'made over' :(

Now it is a pretty looking shop with wide spaces between the tiny rails and no baskets of stuff to rummage through. Everything is in good condition and the prices are okay ( although I did wonder why they charged £8.00 for a random top yesterday when usually they are £4.00 at most)but there is not a lot of anything now. Mens trousers for instance has a 2 foot rail. The nightwear has to share a rail with evening dresses and there are no baby items at all.

I tend to take a quick look every so often but there is nothing to hold me any more. The manageress said the improvements meant that they had to ship out a lot of stock to other shops .Apparently the charity now do a £1.00 shop and a designer shop .This is fine if you can get to them but Im limited to this area.

Does anyone have a Lighthouse shop. Are they all stuffed with poor quality items or is only my local one?

I think our town must be considered low end! I went into the Sue Ryder shop about three weeks ago and bought a lovely stripy Adams rugby top and two pairs of jeans (2yo DS), a pair of decent quality Tu lined trousers (13yo DD1) and a Tess Gerritsen book for one whole pound all in.
My mum is the charity shop queen. She finds Boden, Fat Face, Monsoon, all sorts, for peanuts.

We have 11 charity shops in the town where I'm staying! I shop in them exclusively out of necessity, but have found some amazing stuff! Some real finds. Some shops have a really fair pricing policy and some not so much and I do think that they should serve a dual purpose. I think the knack is, if you find a bargain, buy it... if you don't need it now you will later. Between that and donations I am the best dressed 'homeless' woman I know!

Glad it's not just me who has an issue with BHF

I'm clearing my late father's house and invited them up to take a load of furniture to sell. The two guys walked round with curled lips, remarking that "it's rather old isn't it?" I pointed out that if it had been new I'd have been selling rather than donating it and told them to leave

Incidentally those same items are now selling for a substantial sum on ebay, and in view of their attitude it won't be BHF who get the proceeds ...