MMD: Would you tell a charity shop that a Chloe bag was under-priced?

JesaRose

Not sure where you get your information but most charities recycle everything they can. At ours everything that can be recylcled is recycled. Bags of rags are not sold "very cheaply" either, and if they were isn't this better than putting it in landfill? Prices have not gone up since the recession but profits have. Most of the "new goods" in charity shops is junk so I doubt it is putting anyone out of business

Some bits are overpriced but not all staff and volunteers can know the retail price of every item on the high street

pacemaker

I beg to differ! Having been a volunteer in several shops I can count on one hand the genuine charity shops with I might add Genuine concerns for poorer people. I was horrified when I saw a big green bin cart taken out by the dustmen to land fill stuffed with signed pictures coffee mugs that had been on sale for £1 each! and not reduced When I asked why and could we not sell box's to car booters the same as the European B/ness men I was told there is no sentiment in business and that is what it is these days! I now support a friend who sells books on line (donated) for different charities he feels need support and charitably give his own time for this and does not take a penny for himself! even though his partner and him are both disabled. Thats what I call genuine compassion for other human beings!:T

before_hollywood

i wouldn't know a chloe handbag was worth more

i also wouldn't be in the handbag bit, i'm male

SingingSaver

This is a much easier one than others.

If I really wanted it (not that interested in handbags really but just say I was...) then I'd be happy to give them £15 for it. After all, it still represents a saving of £585, and if it was a charity I believed in, then I don't resent them getting an extra tenner. They could probably get more, but then someone gave it to them for nothing in the first place.

Everyone wins. They get more than they bargained for, and I get a bargain.

patchwork_cat

Crikey I am shocked by how many people would not say that it was underpriced - this is a CHARITY shop. defo tell them. It always makes me feel that people are incredibly greedy when they go on one of these antique programmes and say oh I bought it for 10p from a charity shop and it sells for £100 - how do they sleep at night? This is not an antique shop that made a c*ck up it is a charity shop run mostly by volunteers.

GiveItBack

but again, pacemaker, they have genuine concern, for the people they're working to help. NOT the buyers, buyers are buying something, their choice if they want to pay the price or not, charity shops have to bring in money to help the charities beneficiaries.

So they might have a limited time they put things out for, they might have a pricing structure.

Have you volunteered in every charity shop going and know exactly what the policies for all of them are? When yuo say they don't have genuine concern for poorer people, remember that that is not the point of the charity (unless it's a charity for helping people in poverty.)

I agree that your friend is compassionate, but how many of us have the time to do that at no cost? Charity shops pay for staff and managers because people are volunteering less.

I knowe I bang on about this (but lucky for you guys I'm away for a week, so you get a break), but don't complain that charities are only after the money, OF COURSE they are. They can't do their job for free. They can't feed the starving, find cures, provide care (or whatever) for free, so they run shops FOR THE MONEY, they do events FOR THE MONEY.

A friend was telling me of an event organised in London where a guy arrived to take part but hadn't raised any sponsorship and resented an entry fee (About a tenner I think), his exact words were, 'Aaw cmon, it's meant to be charity'.

EXACTLY, but you aren't the cause you $:~'$ *&$£ $%&~:!!

Ata fiver, I'd but the bag, donate it back tell them the real price and let them get the gift aid

JesaRose

Well said GiveItBack

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'd be stunned that it got past the manageress, the backroom staff and the three separate dealers they call in on a Thursday morning.

fev_2

I do have to agree with most of you that I would grab the bag for the offered price. I also question how much of the money goes to the charites worth while efforts and how much on the "paid managing" and "running"of the charities.

Thrifty-saver

I would do like most of the others & snap it up & maybe sell it at a higher price & split the profit with the charity as I don't think my conscience would allow me to keep all the extra money