Charity shops getting stupid with prices

My mate ventures through many charity shops. Finds some retro clothing and then sells on depop for loads of money. Charities win as stock is moved, he wins cos some mug pays £20 for a benetton t-shirt that cos him £2

Good on him I say.
 
My gripe with charity shops is that I was able to drop some CDs/DVDs off back in 2014 and walk away without being harassed. Then 2019-onwards, I do the same and they insist I sign up to a direct debit on top. I have got around another 50 DVDs/blu-rays to get rid of and I dread to think what it's like now in 2022. I might as well take them to CEX and get 10p for each disc. At least I won't get harassed :rolleyes:
 
Semple said:
I suspect some of that behavior is because of donations of luxury items from wealthy people. There are many celebrities who donate some of their expensive clothing/accessories to their local charity shops. The shops know they can get hundreds or thousands for some of these items so they offer them at that price.

It's not like your average Joe having a wardrobe clear out and donating a load of old t-shirts that someone might have paid 50p/£1 for.
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Not really. in my experience plenty of charity shops still overprice even stuff from Primark/Supermarket clothing brands, wanting near new prices. No-one is gonna pay £4 for a tshirt 2nd hand that they could go 2 shops down and buy new for £5.

Pawnless Endgame said:
My gripe with charity shops is that I was able to drop some CDs/DVDs off back in 2014 and walk away without being harassed. Then 2019-onwards, I do the same and they insist I sign up to a direct debit on top. I have got around another 50 DVDs/blu-rays to get rid of and I dread to think what it's like now in 2022. I might as well take them to CEX and get 10p for each disc. At least I won't get harassed :rolleyes:
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Unfortunately that's not limited to charity shops or even new.

I remember taking a neighbour to the local PDSA when her dog fell ill. She'd lost her job about 2 months prior and was on JSA. Now PDSA ask for donations, she offered £20 as that's all she had & the woman behind the counter asked if she could setup a direct debit for £40/month instead. I was gobsmacked.
 
Some "independent" charity shops are OK.

The big ones (Oxfam et al) are just greedy businesses which use volunteers to lower their overheads even more.

Often when someone donates something to a charity shop, they think they will be helping someone twice (the cause the charity is supposedly supporting and someone who needs the item they are donating). Sadly it's usually neither.
 
We usually donate to the local Hospice as they have a few shops around this area.

But agree with others. Prices seem to have increased a lot in the shops, especially when you take into account most of these items have been donated
 
How much of these price rises could be due to the rents/licences/permits/etc like rising where these shops are located? Or is there some special rates as a charity shop?
 
Malevolence said:
You go out walking in your pants? Guess it's true what they say about you folks down there on that peninsula. :p
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I think its a Northern thing ? as i am a Yorkshireman ;) copy and paste to follow

Trousers is by far the most popular lexical choice, with over three times the number of responses than pants. ... It becomes clear that pants is a strictly northern term when one looks at the variation in the North West in particular, where 49% of speakers use pants.
 
Dunno, we buy loads of designer baby gear etc for peanuts compared to retail, brand new as well, they are brilliant for kids things.
 
Magic_x_uk said:
I'd like to think, in my passing, my clothing etc will be donated to charity shops. So that people can buy them for next to nothing
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Isnt the point to raise money for the charity and not for selling things on for peanuts?
 
Charities is not a particularly accurate description of their function these days. Too much of money donated goes to paying huge salaries for people at the top.
Here's a link to what the CEOs get paid per year.

First and foremost, your money goes to the greedy people at the top. The remainder, a small percentage, actually goes to a good cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO_compensation_among_charities_in_the_United_Kingdom
 
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Charity shops have become better at pricing items closer to their actual value.

I used to wince when I saw the local hospice shop would price things for 20% of their ebay price. Even then you'd get people who are clearly re-sellers negotiating the price down...
 
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