I found it in a bag outside a charity shop.

[MrsJackRackham]

Lady on Antiques Roadshow said she found an 18th century glass in a bag left outside a charity shop. No. You stole an item donated to a charity which has now lost out on potentially £1k. There is a chance that the shop wouldn't realise the glass was an antique but still, she stole it!! AIBU?

Ive had several very nice items taken from boxes of random stuff put outside our local charity shop. This one for some reason deems some items to unsaleable so will plonk them outside for people to take for free.
When I heard this lady this is what I imagined had happened. It was a funny looking glass to be fair and they probably thought ( if it was the same as my local shop) that they couldnt sell what appears to be a single candlestick.

She found it on the street.

People shouldn't dump their bags of donations outside charity shops when they are closed. I volunteered in a charity shop for a few months and they would usually bin anything left outside overnight as it was in the centre of town and couldn't guarantee foxes / dogs / drunk people hadn't peed on it. No one wanted to go through it.

People who leave stuff in the doorway outside charity shops when they are closed are fly tipping / littering. It is also a fire hazard, because dodgy types occasionally feel the urge to set fire to it.

The manager at our local charity shop told me that they sometimes have to climb over it all to open the door and get in the shop in the morning. They aren't allowed to even open the bags for health and safety reasons (inquisitive rats, dumped needles, jack-the-lads pissing all over them late at night etc), and they have to jettison the whole lot in a skip out the back. Which they have to pay quite a lot of money to get emptied. It got to be such a nuisance for them that they now open for a few hours on Sundays to take stuff in.

Forgot to say - if this woman found it in a bag outside the shop when it was closed, then fair enough, as it had been fly-tipped there.

Actually,just realised she could've meant on a table outside the charity shop, our local ones have tables outside with things for sale. I use 'found' instead of buy, I say "Look what I found in the charity shop."

@loafofsellotape yes, this! I watched it twice, I think she just clumsily meant she bought it from a charity shop, but it was in a pile of things outside (rather than displayed inside).

Stuff dumped outside is classed as fly tipping.......the majority of the time it goes straight into the skip.

I don't thinks she's done anything wrong tbh, she came across as someone who wasn't all that bright. She's hardly devious if she admitted to it, she'd have had the sense to lie otherwise.........and wash it. Then the antique expert wouldn't have tried to add a.few CMS to the length.of his dick by humiliating her

It would be nice if she sold it and donated some money to.the.shop I guess but I'd be lying if I said I judged her for it, I save that for the people who dump stuff outside charity shops in the first place.

Well this thread backfired.

So despite the lady in question not actually doing anything wrong, she's smug so doesn't deserve it.

Wouldn't you be fucking smug if you found something worth $1k in a charity shop box? Seriously.

I remember a woman on a past episode, who paid £1.00 for a plant in a small glass pot, she bought it at a car boot sale, and only wanted the plant. The pot turned out to be a vase by Rene Lalique which sold for £32, 450!

Pretty sure she said it was in a bin/box outside the charity shop with other glass items - i.e. the shop had put them outside for customers to look through.

I always thought charity shops had people to check the value of donated items but maybe it was too obscure.

She didn't steal it

I thought she said she paid a pound for it.

This is most definitely stealing !

LoafofSellotape, you state that any bag left outside a charity shop is thrown in a bin because animals may have sprayed or drunk men urinate on them, I don't know where you picked up this information but you have been misinformed. I have managed a charity shop for the last 13 years and never thrown anything away that was left in a bag outside my shop that might have been urinated on, I am sure my nose would pick up that kind of scent. You are right that many shops put up a notice asking people not to leave donations outside. This is because we dont want others picking through them and benefiting from something that is not rightfully theirs as in this case.

LoafofSellotape, you state that any bag left outside a charity shop is thrown in a bin because animals may have sprayed or drunk men urinate on them, I don't know where you picked up this information but you have been misinformed

No I haven't.

When I worked in a charity shop the manager was annoyed at bags being dumped outside the shop (because often they just contained mainly junk which couldn't be sold) but we definitely went through it all and sold anything decent.

Any items left outside the charity shops go straight in the bed as they've probably been sprayed on by animals and pissed up men coming out of the pub and Lots knows what else

I should've posted 'where I live'

** Lord not lots

People need to stop dumping stuff outside charity shops.

*IceRebel

“Surely if she bought it she would have just said so. The use of the word found implies no money changed hands. No matter your opinion on leaving bags outside shops, I think it's awful that she took it. I bet she knew the item was probably worth a fair amount”

Thinking about it, I buy practically all of my clothes in charity shops and if someone comments on an item, I do tend to say I found it in BHF, Cancer Research, whatever when I paid for it. Because it was just that, a lucky find.
And lots of charity shops do have bins and tables of stuff outside. I’ve changed my mind, I don’t think she nicked it, I think she bought it and sees it as a lucky ‘find’.

I’d still feel compelled to give something back to the charity though if it was worth a small fortune.

I do agree that lots of people use the word "found" instead of bought when they've stumbled across a bargain from a charity shop or second hand book shop etc.