Bought bike from charity shop

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  • Deastons
    Deastons Posts: 464 Forumite
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    If I buy something from a charity shop, my main reason is to help the charity.

    The goods are donated to them and are clearly second-hand. I can't imagine buying something from a charity shop and then attempting to return it for a refund/exchange.

    Do the right thing and just go and buy a chain, rather than try to take the money from a good cause. It's £4 for heaven's sake.
  • whitegoods_engineer
    whitegoods_engineer Posts: 636 Forumite
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    Seriously? You went back to a charity shop expecting the staff to have a fully equipped workshop in the back to repair a faulty bike?

    The world has gone mad!
  • photome
    photome Posts: 16,362 Forumite
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    Deastons wrote: »
    If I buy something from a charity shop, my main reason is to help the charity.

    The goods are donated to them and are clearly second-hand. I can't imagine buying something from a charity shop and then attempting to return it for a refund/exchange.

    Do the right thing and just go and buy a chain, rather than try to take the money from a good cause. It's £4 for heaven's sake.
    whitegoods_engineer wrote: »
    Seriously? You went back to a charity shop expecting the staff to have a fully equipped workshop in the back to repair a faulty bike?

    The world has gone mad!

    Couldn’t agree more
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 17,643 Forumite
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    Keep_pedalling wrote: »
    Chains like tyres are consumables. My bikes get through 2 chains a year, a set of tyres will be changed approx once every three years. If a chain breaks but still has plenty of ware left in it you don’t even need to change it, simply rejoin the change using a spare link if required.

    How things have changed! Decades ago, chain would last forever, rear tyres about a year, front 2/3 years
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