Bought for £4.99 from Charity shop, sold for £500. Would you donate further?
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Disappointed by your collective lack of altruism GD.
No you have no obligation to give them any money beyond your own conscience, which seems to be (mostly) lacking in this thread.
No you have no obligation to give them any money beyond your own conscience, which seems to be (mostly) lacking in this thread.
If it's one of these national corporate charities (Oxfam, BHF, Scope, Etc) then no. A local hospice, homeless charity then maybe.
I hate those national corporate charities, they all use slave labour under the guise of volunteers and they all had their grubby paws in the New Deal/Workfare nonsense. They make enough money to pay a proper wage.
Air Ambulance is a good charity though.
I hate those national corporate charities, they all use slave labour under the guise of volunteers and they all had their grubby paws in the New Deal/Workfare nonsense. They make enough money to pay a proper wage.
Air Ambulance is a good charity though.
Not in my opinion. These days there is no excuse for not taking a few seconds to Google items before you give them away.
My thoughts too. I know a little about one branch of a certain well-known national children's charity. I can't go into details, but if what I know was public knowledge everyone would stop donating overnight.
A lot of people in this thread seem to have trouble distinguishing between a car boot sale and a charity shop.
If you've chosen to shop in a charity shop you've already entered into the premise of giving. In that a proportion of the profits from your purchase go towards giving and supporting whatever cause the charity targets.
So to knowingly buy something undervalued, or later profit from, in many ways is defrauding the charity or at least the concept behind it. It's scummy behaviour put bluntly.
If you've chosen to shop in a charity shop you've already entered into the premise of giving. In that a proportion of the profits from your purchase go towards giving and supporting whatever cause the charity targets.
So to knowingly buy something undervalued, or later profit from, in many ways is defrauding the charity or at least the concept behind it. It's scummy behaviour put bluntly.
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NO
They donated the item in good faith trusting that it would achieve the full selling potential.
Just because someone made an error in pricing an item does not make it morally acceptable to profit from their error in this context.
Your logic: If somebody walking down the street trips and falls depositing the contents of their wallet onto the pavement, it's acceptable to take the money lying on the ground as they should have looked where they were going.
Give over, so we're supposed to be dickinsons real deal now are we when we enter a charity shop, I will be popping in a few this week as we have loads to find the next hidden gem.
They donated the item in good faith trusting that it would achieve the full selling potential.
Just because someone made an error in pricing an item does not make it morally acceptable to profit from their error in this context.
Your logic: If somebody walking down the street trips and falls depositing the contents of their wallet onto the pavement, it's acceptable to take the money lying on the ground as they should have looked where they were going.
Well no, as that would be theft. Completely different to buying at item at an agreed price...
Well you openly admit to shopping in charity shops, so the laughs on you.
And what's wrong with shopping in charity shops, stop being a stuck up tool.
I would argue a charity shop is not a shop in the traditional sense anyway. You're not purchasing an item, you're making a donation and receiving said item in return.
Oh struck a nerve have we.
I think you're wrong. I bought a second hand sofa from a BHF furniture shop few years ago and it came with a full receipt detailing my terms of sale contract with BHF retail company Ltd or some corporate entity like that.
Not at all, I just find people attitudes like yours rather unpleasant, anyway I give to charity shops like shelter to help the homeless I do my part.
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No! You paid the price they were asking and they got the money they asked for. I've done this many times, the last time being not long back when I dropped on a pair of early Moorcroft vases for £7.50 and sold them on for just over a grands worth of profit (after fees).
My attitude of respecting the premise behind a charity? That it's a not-for-profit organisation, ergo you shouldn't be seeking to profit from it? Well excuse me for having an ounce of moral decency.
As for my view on charity shops, well I think they're a scourge on Britain's high-streets. They look dreadful, they are completely at odds with trying to nourish developing enterprises, and only serve to attract benefit-type penny pinching scroungers and old biddies.