Return To Earn Bags

Tanyag34

I've just used the 'Return to Earn' website to send off good, re-saleable clothes for a reimbursement of 60p per usable kilo. I wish I'd read other people's reviews before I did so.
After several emails and a late collection which was totally chaotic, I received my invoice today. For a very heavy, full bag of good clothes weighing several kilos, I was paid a grand total of 60p! I wish I'd given the clothes to charity, which is what I have always done in the past. I just thought I'd give this a go this time. Bad decision. Having read others' reviews after the event, I wish I'd done my research beforehand. Others have also been paid a paltry sum for what they describe as quality clothes, so it seems this company does not honour its website sales pitch. I'm guessing that we are not all sending rubbish to be re-sold overseas.
There are many companies doing this now - presumably to sell clothes cheaply overseas to people who need them at low prices? Good subject matter for a fly-on-the-wall documentary perhaps?

Sanne

I always give all of my old clothes to charity shops - normally the local hospice or children's hospice as I know that the money does go to a good cause and isn't swallowed by huge administrative overheads.

Through the gift aid scheme I know they've made over £300 from the last lot of bags (there was a lot of stuff - happens if you outgrow your dress size, lol) and I prefer this to getting a paltry sum myself from companies who make money with this.