Charity shop workers - please share your tips

YoungBlueEyes

Could something be started where we can add our own? That might be easier.

I only discovered the clearance one that's fairly near me cos I was down there for another shop in that retail park....

Rosa_Damascena

YoungBlueEyes said:

Could something be started where we can add our own? That might be easier.

I only discovered the clearance one that's fairly near me cos I was down there for another shop in that retail park....

In doing so, it would be good to distinguish those that are genuinely clearance. Big isn't necessarily clearance as I found out last year: Barnardos in the retail park next to Coventry station is huge but ridiculously expensive for a chaz.

TheOhGodOfHangovers

Just thought it might be worth mentioning that PAT tested electrical items in charity shops are only tested for electrical safety, not whether they actually function correctly. (We just don’t have space/time to start running tvs, slow cookers, heated curlers, etc)

So make sure you keep your receipt and leave price tags/labels on until you have checked them yourself. 

MrsStepford

annieb64 said:

I was wondering when the first copy of "Spare" will appear in the charity shops. 

I sold mine to Zoffit for 2.50

Crazycatlady2

MrsStepford said:

annieb64 said:

I was wondering when the first copy of "Spare" will appear in the charity 

My daughter volunteers in one so I’ll ask her to keep an eye out lol

she got me 2 books today…I’m sure she comes home with something every week 😂

MrsStepford

My husband was told by his then boss that he didn't want to go to a conference so he had to go instead. We were skint at the time and when I looked up prices to hire a dinner jacket and trousers they were exorbitant. I called Oxfam Customer Services and asked if they had away of tracking stock down. BNWT M&S  DJ and trousers was sent to me by overnight delivery and I found a BNWT black silk tieable bow tie in a pocket. I rushed into town and put it in dry cleaners. The next day was a Saturday and OH rushed round our town looking for a double cuff white shirt and a cummerbund. He found both on sale in Debenhams IIRC.

He went to the conference and at the opening dinner someone took his photo. He looked gorgeous and people started calling him 007. 

Upon his return, his boss refused to reimburse him for the clothes and dry cleaning, which left us eating beans on toast for a week more or less. 

However, the boss was caught by karma. OH learned that after he left, the boss was caught stealing and committing fraud and fired. 

But charity shops can go above and beyond as Oxfam did. I don't doubt that if OH had refused to go to the conference, he would have been the one fired.

Rosa_Damascena

MrsStepford said:

My husband was told by his then boss that he didn't want to go to a conference so he had to go instead. We were skint at the time and when I looked up prices to hire a dinner jacket and trousers they were exorbitant. I called Oxfam Customer Services and asked if they had away of tracking stock down. BNWT M&S  DJ and trousers was sent to me by overnight delivery and I found a BNWT black silk tieable bow tie in a pocket. I rushed into town and put it in dry cleaners. The next day was a Saturday and OH rushed round our town looking for a double cuff white shirt and a cummerbund. He found both on sale in Debenhams IIRC.

He went to the conference and at the opening dinner someone took his photo. He looked gorgeous and people started calling him 007. 

Upon his return, his boss refused to reimburse him for the clothes and dry cleaning, which left us eating beans on toast for a week more or less. 

However, the boss was caught by karma. OH learned that after he left, the boss was caught stealing and committing fraud and fired. 

But charity shops can go above and beyond as Oxfam did. I don't doubt that if OH had refused to go to the conference, he would have been the one fired.

Did the boss earn the nickname P45?