Charity shop in Glasgow that pays you by the kilo?

goldspanners

i took a couple of bags along on saturday and got £6 for them.

its not a great amount of money,but its better than throwing it away.

some might argue its better to just give it to a charity shop to benefit from it at that price.

Always_Harassed

midgetessa wrote: »

Just to be clear....these places are NOT charity shops, they are businesses.

It is not the same as giving to a charity shop at all!

You mean that they might say thank you.

aidansmum_2

these places that sell at 50p a kilo make a profit by selling crates of clothes to the 3rd world at far more than your 50p

unsorted clothes can fetch £800 per tonne

have a read - http://news.scotsman.com/news/Warning-over-39pirate39-clothes-recycling.6584979.jp

Most of the illicit bins are operated by a company called Glasgow Recycling, which is based in Rothesay Business Park in Clydebank. Glasgow City Council said it had warned the company that its bins were on council land.

Other operators are also understood to be taking advantage of the price of old clothes by placing banks in the city.

donate to a real charity, St andrews hospice, british heart foundation.....etc

maybe charity shop people are grumpy sometimes, but arnt they all.

ManicMum

Geez. Charging charity shops for your clothes? That's terrible! If you want money for them, put them on ebay.

Shomac

The shop in Wishaw is supposed to benefit Erskine Hospital, but i have heard differently

MoKa_2

This is pretty much the modern equivalent of the 'Rag Man' who used to come round the streets when we were kids. But instead of a few balloons and a kazoo, they give you a (small) amount of money. :rotfl:

I don't much care what they do with the clothes after they take them off my hands, but I don't kid myself that they're a charity shop. They're a profit-making business and operate as such.

At the end of the day, most of the stuff I'm giving them would be rejected from a charity shop these days as it just wouldn't be of a quality that they could expect to get a decent price for it, so this is a convenient way to clear out my wardrobes, and get my petrol money paid for disposing of it.

Also, no matter how you look at it, they ARE keeping stuff out of landfill and finding ways to recycle/reuse. :j

Jollyvolly

Your experience with the charity shop is unfortunate. I'm a volunteer in the Crossroads shop in Inverness, we all greet each customer with a cheery welcome as a matter of course.

As for sorting out the donated goods, I personally enjoy that task and am constantly amazed by the quality of the items some of which as you say are new and still tagged.

Everyone who donates their once loved possessions is ALWAYS warmly thanked for their kindness and generousity