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.

I wouldn't pay that myself. But don't think it's possible to say whether it's excessive without more information about the area and clientele. It might be excessive, might be that they'll have no trouble finding a buyer.

That's ridiculous!!

@malificent7 I run a baby and child charity shop (independent) and I wouldn’t charge nor pay that for a new cardigan.

Wouldn’t see that price on vinted either unless it was a ridonkulous designer.

I have a Chloe baby’s jumper in gold and cream and it retails at £145. Second hand. Fabulous condition. I will be lucky to get more than £4 in the shop for it. We normally charge £1 for jumpers and most are next, marks and Spencer’s, river island, gap, joules etc. checked in vinted and the ones that sell arent getting much either.

£34… madness.

Clothes should be cheap and plenty in a charity shop. £10 a coat, £1.50 for a t-shirt a fiver for a jumper type thing. Get it in, get it sold. My local one has a box of toy cars at £2 a car, brand new ones are £1-£1.50!

I went to buy a tablecloth yesterday from a charity shop, I was going to craft with it and it was only £3. Except when I got to the till it was £30!!! I obviously didn’t take it, but £30! All I can think is it was a brand I don’t know (Sia for anyone interested).

Well now I want to visit your charity shop!

Pop up to Burnley in Lancashire. I think the concept is amazing and it’s so popular with mums to be as well - we sell all manner of maternity clothes, breast pumps etc. we rent out birthing pools and tens machines..

I wish more places had charity shops with a more niched focus - they really do work.

I dropped into a few local charity shops yesterday shocked at the prices though used to buying and selling on Vinted which obviously has its own issues!

I'd price it £9.50 in our place

That's why I have stop going to second hand shops. Way too expensive.

Very true! I was in a shop the other day that had priced a quite average pair of trousers very highly, but there was a silk Laura Ashley skirt for £2!

@trader21c we had a Baby and Children's second hand shop near us too. The lady that ran it loved children but had additional needs so never had any herself. She loved when you took your child in and her items were fantastic, and it was handy to get rid of all the bits that had been grown out of too. She passed away recently and it shut which was such a shame.

normally when people complain about charity shop prices, my thought is that their job is to raise money for the charity and so will price as high as the local market allows, fair enough, but this sounds perverse, I was expecting to read that is was cashmere/merino and in perfect condition- if I came across this in a shop it would really put me off going back

I would have thought £3.40 be more like it!

Yes, me too! I’m near a Fara kids and the stained Boden is practically full price!

Bargain! How much did you resell it for?

No, it’s changed over my lifetime. “people on a tight budget can have some nice things” has gone out of the window, and it’s all about “raise money for the charity”. I don’t know what drove the change - probably after the 70s when young people discovered charity shops, so they lost their stigma and the middle classes came rolling in. Mary Portas too.

My charity shop seems to be hit and miss and I can't work out how they decide the price. Last week got my son some black Church's shoes for £5 in decent wearable condition yet some Nike trainers with the sole falling off were priced £10!

I used to work in a charity shop (Marie curie) and eventually left partly for this reason - the women in charge of pricing were just completely unrealistic and ridiculous with the pricing. I think the biggest sale total we ever got in a day was about £30 there were that few sales. Most things languished on the rails for weeks then would be thrown in the rags bin - my suggestions for having “everything £3” or whatever days fell on deaf ears.

Charity shops get majorly reduced rent even in nice/expensive towns so there doesn’t seem to be any targets that need to be met, there didn’t seem to be any direction or higher input from anywhere - it was just like a hobby for retired women doing a bit of something in their spare time! I found it really frustrating!

One charity shop I know of is selling a Harris Tweed jacket for £100!

I paid £60 for a leather jacket once. It's much more than I wanted to pay but it's absolutely gorgeous and a soft, buttery feeling. It's from mint velvet so I know it would have cost far more new.
That's a crazy amount for a cardigan!

Is it hand knitted if it is unbranded? Thats the only way it could be priced that high, unless they know the brand but it just wasn't visible to OP.

Do you ebay for the charity? I know its a lot more work, but might be worth it for that cardigan.

Nothing I'm wearing it