Is it right to Moan about Charity shop prices.

System

Pollycat wrote: »

Yes, and while your bowing, do bow to pulliptears as well as they have the same opinion as I do.

In fairness its not the best person to have backing you up. She famously claims I am stalking her on here but i've noticed recently she thanks every person who disagrees with me on this forum. I think she is on a personal vendetta

PILES

pulliptears wrote: »

I shop in them primarily to find bargains and I love a good root. I don't go in there specifically to help a charity. If I want to consciously help I donate into a collection box etc. In fact, I can't even tell you what my favourite charity shop is collecting for I think it's cancer research but I'm not 100%.

The only charity shop I go into because I want to support them is the PDSA and if I can't find anything I'd like to buy I make a donation at the till.

Without being patronising thats fine, as I say my experience and that of a good few people I know is different. However your sentence above highlighted shows that you do support the charity via the shop, so I guess its never all one or the other.

PILES

Pollycat wrote: »

Yes, and while your bowing, do bow to pulliptears as well as they have the same opinion as I do.

Are they deep fried after being battered the same as the Mars bars in Scotland?



I've just left a big bag of stuff at my local hospice shop (where I donate all my goods to).

I carried it to the bus stop and from the bus stop to the shop - passing another 4 charity shops on the way.
So for me, which shop I support by donating my unwanted goods (as well as buying raffle tickets, Xmas cards and diaries from them) is important to me.

I do understand the convenience of dropping stuff off though.

Metaphorical bowing only, and on the assumption that your research is properly done. I have responded to Pulliptears already. As for the deep fried bit I dont know as I've never eaten one.

Azari

goater78 wrote: »

In fairness its not the best person to have backing you up. She famously claims I am stalking her on here but i've noticed recently she thanks every person who disagrees with me on this forum. I think she is on a personal vendetta

Projection is a fascinating human characteristic.

Look at any post where someone disagrees with me or is rude to me and you can pretty much guarantee that it will be thanked by at least one person. Click the button to see who did the thanking.

Can you spot a pattern? :rotfl:

System

Azari wrote: »

Projection is a fascinating human characteristic.

Look at any post where someone disagrees with me or is rude to me and you can pretty much guarantee that it will be thanked by at least one person. Click the button to see who did the thanking.

Can you spot a pattern? :rotfl:

Yep that's true. However I do like winding you up as its usually great craic

Azari

goater78 wrote: »

Yep that's true. However I do like winding you up as its usually great craic

You may delude yourself into thinking you've wound me up but, in reality, all you've done is made me laugh a little at your obsessive small minded pettiness.

What's doubly amusing is that despite there being plenty of evidence that you indulge said pettiness you are quite happy to accuse someone else of doing the same thing and describing it as a 'vendetta'.

Your hypocrisy is astounding.

System

Azari wrote: »

You may delude yourself into thinking you've wound me up but, in reality, all you've done is made me laugh a little at your obsessive small minded pettiness.

What's doubly amusing is that despite there being plenty of evidence that you indulge said pettiness you are quite happy to accuse someone else of doing the same thing and describing it as a 'vendetta'.

Your hypocrisy is astounding.

You sound quite wound up here. I noticed when we proved you were a liar on the amazon thread you disappeared off sulking for a week

You take things too personally you want to relax a bit. A forums not real life. I imagine in the real world you're quite popular

Pollycat

Now, now you two.

Play nicely together.

System

It always ends in a fight

carmel11

A lot of charity shops that I go into employ both elderly people and people with varying degrees of learning difficulties.I don't expect they would all know that Atmosphere was Primark and their Monsoons from their B & M s.
They have massive amounts of stock passing through their doors every day and it has to be cleaned, priced, sorted, stored.Should we insist they are only employing fashion experts ?. I think everyone complaining who thinks themselves a pricing expert should g o and do some voluntary work in them, then see how hard these shops work, often with very unreliable attendance from the volunteers, who can choose to come in and work when it suits them, or not.