Cash 4 Clothes

Pembroke

flipper_2010 wrote: »

Don't they get about £700 per tonne when they sell it on? Think i heard that on one of these police shows when they caught someone who was stealing charity bags people had left out.
But then I don't know if there is anyone else who would buy it for more that 40p, never heard of anyone buying clothing before.

Is it this company? http://www.cashforclothing.co.uk/

At least that one is up front about where the old clothes go, if you click the link at the bottom of their site another comes up talking about how wool jumpers are recycled into new wool items.

If you want to see the website of the company from the OP's post it's here: http://www.ecexport.com/ lists what they collect and what they don't want. Also the cash on collection parts says rather ominously at the end that they will tell you of the charity donation options when they collect your clothes, sort of implies that your clothes will be weighed then you will be encouraged to donate the money back to them.

Buggles

• Your bags get weighed in the van on our calibrated digital scales.

Sorry but I'd want to see the weight myself. I wouldn't trust them to give me the correct weight.

Strapped

We have a textile collection bin at school, and they get the cash from collections. The school does OK out of it and it's a convenient place to throw out old stuff that's gone past the eBay-able stage Worth investigating for anyone who's on their school's PTA/Friends organisations.

tryingtogetsolvent

A few weeks back I mentioned one of these who operates up here in the North East, he even advertises on tv. I bagged up a load of old curtains, bedding, clothing etc which was stored in cupboards and too crap for giving to the charity shops.
The guy came on time, weighed each bag in front of me and paid me £25 in cash. It paid for a night out and it was just rubbish lying around the house.
Definitely worth it as far as I'm concerned.

sharnad

I think you would make a lot more if you ebayed it or did a car boot

tiff

I've done Ebay and cant be bothered with it, got so many bags of clothes now I just want rid of it.

emerald_starcat

You'll be surprised how much you would get if you car booted them.
Does anyone watch The Real Hustle? They did that charity bag scam on there. They gave the charity bags out then collected the clothes so they could sell them in a secondhand clothes shop. I hate dishonest people so would never sell my clothes to the company in the OP.

Bowling_4_Gold

There is a new market stall at my local market which has a table stacked high with these 'charity' bags, some ripped open with the clothes scattered across the table. There were also bags on the floor as well, and their van from which they were unloading from was also full of these collected bags. I presume they charge extortionate amounts on a garment-by-garment basis - a bit like a town centre jumble sale.

BlueCow1975

I have to say that I only use the clothes bags now to donate to our 2 local hospices and they are usually round bright and early to collect. Sadly, I am very dubious about some of them that come through my door these days.

Second hand clothes is big big business - even if you only have 10 reselable items in a bag and make £1 profit on each then obviously thats a free £10 to the business. Branded stuff goes for much much more on ebay and people could easily make £100 on a bag in the right condition.

I do get OP's point about Ebay - if you have a lot it can seem a big hassle to photo, list, post, deal with niggly buyers etc. I tend to only ebay the "nearly new" branded stuff now. Charity or recyle the rest.

I would not use them, but if OP is faced with get absolutely nothing for it or make £20 then if that works for them I have no issue.

Crowqueen

A lot of charity clothes collected in the west get sold in Eastern Europe - when I was out there a few years ago I used to buy a lot of stuff (quite often by the kg) to make rag dolls with.

It makes me more likely to donate: while they may be sold on for the profit of a rag merchant (no such thing as charity shops but secondhand shops are big business) the clothes are still sold at a fraction of the price of new clothes to people on low incomes, just like in the West. New clothing costs just as much as it does here, with the added problem that people are paid far less. Cheap clothes from the west help just as much as they do here, more because nowadays numerous high street charity shops are selling clothes at something approaching prices in cheap new clothes shops such as Primark.

Just to get rid of them it's no different to an old rag-and-bone man, and as long as they are honest that they are not collecting for charity but for sale on, I don't see a problem with it. Selling clothes on eBay can be a troublesome business - it seems that buyers are very picky and a lot of problems arise from clothing sales.