To think £34 for a charity shop cardigan is excessive?

[malificent7]

Lovely cardigan...great condition and colour. Nice cut but unbranded and made of acrylic. £34!!! The shop keeper said she could go down to £30. I mean it was a bit unusual as in a bit bohemian but not strlikigly so. I would have paid £15 happily. £20 max.

That’s absolutely crazy money for a charity shop unbranded cardi!!

Good grief! The woman's mad! There's no way I'd pay that sort of money for ANY item of clothing in a charity shop.

I bought DD a Women's Laura Ashley coat from a charity shop for £4.50 and still had the tags on. You were being robbed.
Did the charity shop have Vintage or Retro in the title to boost the cost?

way over priced for an unbranded cardigan. I say that as a volunteer with a chain that does not have the lowest prices.

Acrylic as well? That's ridiculous 😂

I mean it was a nice purple colour but still...

Unless it was one of those Alanui cardigans (which are distinctive and often lovely), I wouldn’t pay £34 for a cardigan in a charity shop. Tbh I’m one of those people who would seriously question why any cardigan was £34.

That’s a ridiculous price for an acrylic cardigan.
It’s too expensive even for a brand new acrylic cardigan never mind from a charity shop.
Charity shop prices are just going crazy.
Round our way it’s like they think they are all boutiques …
Papaya ( Matalan ) dresses for £8!
Blue Harbour men’s t shirts for £4
etc.
Just pricing basics far too high …

I did pay £20 for a coat recently but it was a Jack Wolfskin and still had the tag with original price for £250 on it so I felt I was getting quite a bargain to be honest!!

In general though I'd never pay that much in a charity shop YANBU OP

Rather touristy place beginning with BC, @malificent7 ? Yeah, they've caught me out before!

Honestly my local charity shops have similar prices, I see people finding absolute bargains and I never find anything like that. One shop had a battered pair of prada sandals in their window for what felt like a year, £100, I understand they were designer but they were so worn they really looked like they might fall apart, they barely looked saleable!

Bonkers!

My chazza had a Zara coat for £49.99 yesterday! 😮

Yeah, that’s crazy. I’m hearing this quite often from different people. Then the charity shops moan about people donating too much stuff and even turn people away who want to donate! If the prices were reasonable the turnover would be a lot more rapid and everyone would be happy. A cardigan should be about two quid.

I wouldn’t unless it was a really high end designer brand. I volunteer in a charity shop and we had some men’s shirts come in, not tagged but in perfect condition. They retail at £400 each and we did sell two for £50 each. I was quite surprised they had such nice shirts to give away, we had three in total. I bought a jaeger t.shirt, a BNWT Principles dress a BNWT Men’s t.shirt and a white stuff dress for a quid each a couple of weeks ago in a different shop, they were clearing summer stock.

If they didn’t sell so low they would go to the rag man who pays pence per kg. A bag for him can hold about 25 to 30 t.shirts and you get a couple of quid for it. One of the shops in my town was selling a mixed bin bag full of summer clothes by size for a tenner. That’s at least 20 items. They shifted loads, unfortunatley our charity does not do this.

The most I have ever paid is £10 for an item, best buy ever was a brand new cashmere pashmina for £2.

You can get a brand new one for the same price. Why would they price so high?

Depends on the label. But sounds ridiculous

I buy about 75 per cent of my clothing from charity shops and I've noticed the prices going up to stupid levels lately - I've seen Primark and Tesco labels in there for more than they would have originally sold for

Was it Save the Children?

I paid £25 for a cardigan yesterday - out of dim shop light, it was littered with moth holes and so dirty it had to be washed. Twice. When more holes appeared.

Sigh.

Hard to shop sustainable when chazzas are so greedy and unprofessional.

I know… the whole point of charity shops is to re-use because it’s good for the economy, sell cheaply so people on a tight budget can have some nice things & of course raise money for the charity. Some of the shops near me are ludicrious! They check on eBay and match the prices there even when those things haven’t actually sold at that price just listed at that price. I have had some bargains over the years… but I know which ones to go to and which to avoid. Salvation Army generally great & our local Mind sells everything for £1.

I wouldn't pay that new if it's acrylic to be honest.

Totally overpriced. Can't see that selling. Salvation Army near my daughter's is superb. I got a Per Una navy jacket for the handsome price of £3 brand new, labels still on it.

That’s crazy. I paid £20 for a cashmere jumper from cos in a charity shop, it didn’t have tags but felt like it was brand new.

It depends on who is pricing and their personal perception of value of items they are pricing. I'm an avid charity shop buyer and found lots of bargains. What I've noticed is that also they have the recommendations on price , they still price it from their own personal perspective. Stupid but the positive side is that they often underprice really nice items if it's not yo their taste.

I wondered when reading this if it's a really niche obscure brand that you have to know to know it.