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By *nny OP   Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value?"

My motive for buying something from a chazzer is to help them raise funds rather than me taking an oppertunity to grab a bargin...

So I'd bring it to the attention of the shops management that they had an item which was severely under priced and give them the opportunity to re-value it, so the charity could reap the added benefit of its true worth and respect the generosity of the person who originally donated it,,,,,

If however if the management did not wish to change the price, I would buy it myself and sell it for as much as I could get, then donate all the profit to the charity..

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent


"Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value?

My motive for buying something from a chazzer is to help them raise funds rather than me taking an oppertunity to grab a bargin...

So I'd bring it to the attention of the shops management that they had an item which was severely under priced and give them the opportunity to re-value it, so the charity could reap the added benefit of its true worth and respect the generosity of the person who originally donated it,,,,,

If however if the management did not wish to change the price, I would buy it myself and sell it for as much as I could get, then donate all the profit to the charity..

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Sox my lovely, you are (and I've come to this conclusion from many things you've said) one of the loveliest people I've ever not met xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sox my lovely, you are (and I've come to this conclusion from many things you've said) one of the loveliest people I've ever not met xxx "

Awwwww shushhhhh will ya ... you'll have people thinking I don't fart in the bath or pick my nose when no-ones looking lol

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent


"Sox my lovely, you are (and I've come to this conclusion from many things you've said) one of the loveliest people I've ever not met xxx

Awwwww shushhhhh will ya ... you'll have people thinking I don't fart in the bath or pick my nose when no-ones looking lol "

And you'd still be lovely x

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I bought a brand new Phase Eight dress a couple of weeks ago in a charity shop it was £2. The woman behind the counter said they were glad to get rid of it when I pointed out where it came from; so apart from donating regularly in money and goods I am going to carry on wearing it with no qualms.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value?"
do charity shop really do that, ain't that naughty and I wonder who gets the money that someone has paid on e. bay not the bloody charity I bet

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

I bought a Prada bag for £7 in a charity shop and had no qualms in paying that price for it. They got it for nothing and I paid the price they set - can't see a problem with that.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value? do charity shop really do that, ain't that naughty and I wonder who gets the money that someone has paid on e. bay not the bloody charity I bet"

The charity shops have their own e-bay accounts and sell stuff through them so yes the charity does get the money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Following on from the charity shop thread - charity shops are getting better/ more professional at spotting seriously good stuff and creaming it off for auction/ ebay before the punters get a sniff but IF you found something they'd missed, something worth a good bit more than the ticket price, what would you do?

Tell the shop? Buy it and split the proceeds? Buy it and keep quiet about it?

Would it depend on the value? do charity shop really do that, ain't that naughty and I wonder who gets the money that someone has paid on e. bay not the bloody charity I bet

The charity shops have their own e-bay accounts and sell stuff through them so yes the charity does get the money."
so charity shops have cottoned on to what most have been doing for years, shopping in the shops and then banging it on e. bay, however could this be the downfall of the charity shops on the high street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have to afford myself a wry smile when I see cynical comments inferring corruption in others when the caveat of those thoughts so readily match the phrase ....

“ all thieves think all people steal”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

in april I bought a Nintendo 64 007 goldeneye edition still in its box for £4,put it on e bay and got £45 for it,we then went back into Mencap and gave them £40 as we felt so guilty afterwards the staff were over the moon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"in april I bought a Nintendo 64 007 goldeneye edition still in its box for £4,put it on e bay and got £45 for it,we then went back into Mencap and gave them £40 as we felt so guilty afterwards the staff were over the moon "

Good on you...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use to buy vintage dresses from charity shops for 5op and sell em on 4 £25. Do I feel bad ... No. I had to buy it , get a model , photograph , edit and sell it online and send it. So the charity got the price they wanted. I make money. But I'm putting in that extra work so I don't feel bad. I have how ever seen some thing in a charity shop (a juicy bag) and told them to at least put a tenna on it. They did and it sold 2mins later.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I volunteered in charity shop for some time and they had a list from head office of labels in clothes, marks on china etc to look out for. A man used to come in a couple of times a week and look at all the donated bric a brac too he was an expert of some kind. It isn't just a load of people who don't know a from a bulls foot anymore they are very savvy. Of course things will slip the net but it will be fairly unusual nowadays I imagine.

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By *nny OP   Man
over a year ago

Glasgow


"I volunteered in charity shop for some time and they had a list from head office of labels in clothes, marks on china etc to look out for. A man used to come in a couple of times a week and look at all the donated bric a brac too he was an expert of some kind. It isn't just a load of people who don't know a from a bulls foot anymore they are very savvy. Of course things will slip the net but it will be fairly unusual nowadays I imagine."

That's how I thought it worked. If, after getting pro help, they still miss stuff it HAS to be fair game- no?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"I volunteered in charity shop for some time and they had a list from head office of labels in clothes, marks on china etc to look out for. A man used to come in a couple of times a week and look at all the donated bric a brac too he was an expert of some kind. It isn't just a load of people who don't know a from a bulls foot anymore they are very savvy. Of course things will slip the net but it will be fairly unusual nowadays I imagine.

That's how I thought it worked. If, after getting pro help, they still miss stuff it HAS to be fair game- no?"

Debatable, it depends how you look at it. They have chosen to enter the competitive world of enterprise and have no qualms at all in exploiting every advantage they can.....trust me in some cases charity is a very long way from home.....and I ask myself if charity is a two way thing in that if someone can help themselves by making a little extra isn't that part of a charitys goal. But I also think that buying for a tenner and selling for ten thousand would just be morally wrong.

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By *nny OP   Man
over a year ago

Glasgow


" ..........

They have chosen to enter the competitive world of enterprise and have no qualms at all in exploiting every advantage they can.....trust me in some cases charity is a very long way from home.....and I ask myself if charity is a two way thing in that if someone can help themselves by making a little extra isn't that part of a charitys goal. But I also think that buying for a tenner and selling for ten thousand would just be morally wrong."

The buyer is taking a bit of a risk too. You can't always be 100% sure what you're buying is what it seems.

If you buy something for £10 thinking it might be worth £100 and it turns out to be worth £10,000 - have you been bad?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To me regardless of any inadvertent missed opportunity of a charity to maximise the potential from an under-priced item ….

I like to think that by doing the honourable thing, I’d be showing my respect to the person who generously donated that item to that charity hoping to help raise funds for cause close to their heart..

Although I appreciate sometimes an under valued item can find it way onto a charity shop shelf without anyone having made an error of judgement…..

Some people do like to make philanthropic gestures on the quiet, and I like to think that should be respected, so for that reason alone I’d always feel obliged to rectify any situation in a manner where the charity was the ultimate beneficiary…

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Quiet philanthropic gestures are more often than not money though, anonymous donations of valuable items are often made through a third party ensuring anonymity but allowing the value to be known.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Quiet philanthropic gestures are more often than not money though, anonymous donations of valuable items are often made through a third party ensuring anonymity but allowing the value to be known.

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Yes no doubt in many cases that’s true,,,,,

But I like to think by affording every case with the respect of treating it as a genuine attempt by someone to make a stand alone anonymous bequest ...I'd be helping uphold a morality of charitable intention…

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

If I bought something knowing it to be worth more, I would split the proceeds with the charity, most national charities you can sell for charity on eBay and give up to 100% of profits direct...I've done a lot of fundraising and had lots of stuff donated, got a sack full of teddy bears off one kind person that raised over £200 direct to my local RSPCA on eBay (when I'm fundraising, it's 100% to the charity)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When any item is donated with the sole intention of helping raise as much money as possible to help alleviate the problems and suffering faced by the intended beneficiaries of the charity,,

I believe there is a moral obligation to respect that and I fail to see any argument that puts the needs of anyone who’s able to pay for the item in a charity shop over the people whose plight the charity is set up to help..!,

But that just my opinion...

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By *an and loganCouple
over a year ago

ROCHDALE

I worked for a charity and yes we had an ebay account and we had some great stuff which we sold and raised more than £1,000 a week which was used to improve the quality of life for adults and children in hospices who were dying. Knowing I was helping them gave me such a boost.

We should all help more and stop quibbling about what the items are and where they come from just know that you are helping a good cause no matter what it is.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"Quiet philanthropic gestures are more often than not money though, anonymous donations of valuable items are often made through a third party ensuring anonymity but allowing the value to be known.

Yes no doubt in many cases that’s true,,,,,

But I like to think by affording every case with the respect of treating it as a genuine attempt by someone to make a stand alone anonymous bequest ...I'd be helping uphold a morality of charitable intention…

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Oh I'm not arguing with you Soxy and your views are admirable.

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