13 charity-shop bargain hunting tricks blog discussion

Keithmanchhester

Haggling in Charity shops is really not acceptable.  It isn't meant to be a charity for the shopper (as a shop volunteer I have lost count of the times that I have heard someone say, "look at this price - I thought it was a charity shop"). The duty of the shop staff is to get as much money for donated items as they can.  If you don't like the price, you don't have to buy it.  In my experience, if it hasn't sold after a set period of time, it will either be reduced in price or sent on to another shop for another try.  

Pollycat

I wondered why this thread had been re-lifed after almost a year.

The original article (from January 2019) appears in this week's MSE money tips.