Cash 4 clothes - ripoff?

scotdebs

Just wondering anyone's experience of these shops there seem to be a few in our area we have loads of second hand clothes all in decent condition but not worth selling on eBay.

Any hints tips or warning stories appreciated

Thanks

Kayalana99

They don't pay alot but its better then putting them in the bin no?

soolin

My son was very pleased with what he got for some of his unwanted items. We'd half heartedly listed some on ebay, but with postage and all the effort of photos it really wasn't worth it.

scotdebs

Thanks folks that's what I'm thinking something better than nothing and we have probably close to 20 black bin bags
I know they pay £1 per kilo for NEW stuff just not sure what the going Rate is for second hand

HOK3Y

I've used Cash 4 Clothes a lot and it really isn't a lot of money that you get but it's more than what you would have if you dropped it all off with a charity shop. You might walk out with £2 but that's £2 more than you had before you went in. They currently pay 40p per kilo for used clothing.

earthstorm

HOK3Y wrote: »

They currently pay 40p per kilo for used clothing.

are you sure its 40p

http://www.cash4clothes.co.uk/

£5 per bin bag of cloths (10 Kilos)

50p per Kilo of Good Quality Clothing & Paired Shoes!

We pay instant cash 4 your books & electrics!

5p per Kilo of Books, Small Electricals & IT!

McKneff

Could you not be a bit more charitable with them. Culd you donate them to charity instead.
You would be giving £2 worth of clothes to a charity shop and they could make 20/30 quid for them, instead of giving them to line the pockets of some one who thinks you are stupid and gullible to accept so little.

scotdebs

Each of our bags weighs over 3 kilos so hopefully more than £2

Mckneff understand where you are coming from but have often handed stuff into local charity shops only to discover the stuff has never made it on the shop floor - the volunteers have had a good old rifle and taken first pick there is only one shop in our local area I trust the stuff to make its way into the shop but due to the nature of the charity they support a lot of the stuff isn't any good to them

HOK3Y

Looks like the one here in Harrogate is a different company. They pay 40p a kilo and I've dropped off a lot with them over the last few months.

I support the charity shops by buying from them and feel no shame selling things by the kilo that I can't EBay or move through a carboot sale. Last time I was in our cash 4 clothes the lady was telling me that the charity shops bring them all the things they can't sell also.

Best of luck scotdebs!

savememoneys

The one here pays £5.50 a bag of 10 kilos of clothes. I used it last week. Managed to get £7.75 for a large bag, so was obviously over 10 kilos, but it was mostly just pairs of jeans that didn't fit anymore so was quite heavy to be fair, but they weren't the best quality of jeans and they still accepted them.

I know they won't accept heavy coats though, if that's any help to you.

ALIBOBSY

McKneff wrote: »

Could you not be a bit more charitable with them. Culd you donate them to charity instead.
You would be giving £2 worth of clothes to a charity shop and they could make 20/30 quid for them, instead of giving them to line the pockets of some one who thinks you are stupid and gullible to accept so little.

My understanding is most of the stuff that goes to cash 4 clothes and similar is sorted and sold on, nearly always to other charities. From the charities POV they get stuff sorted and washed and of a minimum quality for a relatively small price and no disposal costs for the older stuff that can't be sold-this stuff is sold by the initial company for "rags" and recycling. So ev1 wins so where's the problem in that?
TBH I have often heard the charities complaining that the bags they get often contain stuff they can't sell and have to pay disposal costs for.

Of course if you have some good quality stuff you either sell it yourself or that would make a good direct donation to a C.S.

We have a local cash 4 clothes who have a large map on the wall showing where the clothes go to and some of the various charities that buy from them. Suprisingly a lot seems to go to other parts of Europe.

The beauty is they will buy old stuff and things that are worn-even old bed sheets. Things that would be no use to the C.S.

TBH most C.S would prefer you to get the money from the clothes and take that in store to spend there or donate direct.

I often buy stuff from various C.S and volunteer in a number of areas, but we don't have a lot of cash, so I will happily continue to get money back for unwanted clothes either by selling direct or to this shop.

Ali x