Bought for £4.99 from Charity shop, sold for £500. Would you donate further?

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So my parents found a little antique from a Charity shop that they paid £4.99 for and it just recently sold for over £500 at auction. I've suggested they donate a little more to the shop seeing as they have made such a tidy sum.

Dad is of the opinion that because he shops there often, he doesn't need to.

Thoughts people of GD? :)
 
That depends are they one of those places like the BHF shops that charge basically new prices for shagged old goods under the guise of it being ok as it's for charity or are they generally sensibly priced?

I'd probably stick another few quid in their collection tin to be honest.
Although I suppose that depends if he shops there because he has any interest in the charity or just because bargain.
 
Depends on the shop. I might consider dropping £20 in if it was a charity I liked, if it was Oxfam no way. You could always give the money to another charity after all it would still be for a decent cause.
 
No, keep it.

I'll add a little anecdote from my mum who volunteers for a charity shop a couple of days a week to get her out of house. She regularly maintains the shops book section, so when people donate books she has to sort them, put them out, etc.

One day somebody dropped off a stash of old books, for some reason the shop took their details, I'm not completely sure of the reasoning why, but they did. In this stash of old books was a collection of first editions which my mum swiftly identified. As a collection they were valued at £42k, they eventually sold at auction for close to the valuation.

Did the shop make any attempt to contact the person who donated the books to let them know they may have mistakenly donated items of significant value? Did they ****. Charity kept it all for itself.

Edit: I should clarify that things were swiftly taken out of my mums hands, so it was not her who was completely cutthroat!
 
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After just reading that a certain charity head has just had a rather nice 3.2% rise in salary putting him near the 200K mark I would be inclined to not donate any of my windfall.
 
What type of charity is it? Some are small & are run purely by volunteers. If it was one of those then I'd probably bung them some of the money, maybe not so much one of the large national ones that waste money like a normal business.
 
Rids said:
One day somebody dropped off a stash of old books, for some reason the shop took their details, I'm not completely sure of the reasoning why
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Pretty sure all charity shops do this, it allows them to collect gift aid on your donation (depending on what the goods sell for). We dropped off a load of stuff before we moved house at a couple of charity shops and after ~3 months or so got a statement through to say how much had been sold (think it was a few hundred pounds) which was really nice to see how far a load of old DVDs and books had gone!
 
Rids said:
One day somebody dropped off a stash of old books, for some reason the shop took their details, I'm not completely sure of the reasoning why, but they did.
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Its tax claimable, a bit like ticking the box for gift aid hence they need to know your details
 
I wouldn't, myself.

If I buy stuff off the rainforrest on the cheap then resell for higher, I wouldn't pass on anything back. Same goes for any other shop.

Charity shops, ultimately, are just shops. If your parents didn't sell it on and just kept on to it, the charity will still have the exact same amount (same as if someone else bought it)
 
Perhaps pass a little on to another charity of their choice?

They've effectively already given it to charity in the first instance, by buying the item originally.

Everyone's a winner. Except for the guy who bought it for £500.00 and not £4.99, of course...
 
I'd go back to the charity shop, wave a photo of the item under their noses and yell, 'See this? You sold it to me for £4.99, but I only got £500 for it! What kind of dirty low life racket are you guys running here?!'

Then I'd walk out before they could answer.
 
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