Charity shops

[Stirlingsays]

Vinyl is making a comeback.

So is herpes.

 

[totoshkin]

Wash your mouth out, sir!

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Just listening to a jazz cd I picked up this week for 33p. Fourth time I’ve given it a playing. Now that’s value.

You was robbed 🤣

Sorry, each to their own 😁

 

[beak]

So is herpes.

Two for the price of one have you tried it? 😊 😉

 

[PalazioVecchio]

so you think Charity shops are beneath you ?

Ingvar Kamprad was the billionaire who founded Ikea. Worth 23 billion dollars. He was famously a miser and an unashamed alcoholic. Lived to 91. Formerly a Nazi sympathiser, he had a Road to Damascus moment. He drove a battered old Volvo and wore clothing from charity shops.

the fecker was loaded, so i guess he knew a few things more than the rest of us.

Ingvar Kamprad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[totoshkin]

In Australia they are called Opportunity shops which is much more appropriate. There is real value in them. And who cares if something has been used before - there are exceptions I know!

 

[Teddy Eagle]

so you think Charity shops are beneath you ?

Ingvar Kamprad was the billionaire who founded Ikea. Worth 23 billion dollars. He was famously a miser and an unashamed alcoholic. Lived to 91. He drove a battered old Volvo and wore clothing from charity shops.

the fecker was loaded, so i guess he knew a few things more than the rest of us.

Ingvar Kamprad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Or he was a cheapskate.

 

[totoshkin]

Or he was a cheapskate.

That’s a fish isn’t it?

 

[Teddy Eagle]

That’s a fish isn’t it?

You wouldn't buy one in a charity shop anyway.

 

[totoshkin]

You wouldn't buy one in a charity shop anyway.

Oh I don’t know.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Oh I don’t know.

Once bitten. Twice shy.

 

[martin2412]

About 3 years ago my son bought a framed picture from a charity shop for 15 quid because he liked the picture.
When he was walking home with it, a woman said to him 'oh, that's a Beryl Cooke'
After some googling, a month later he sold it for a couple of grand.
Jammy git !

 

[PalazioVecchio]

About 3 years ago my son bought a framed picture from a charity shop for 15 quid because he liked the picture.
When he was walking home with it, a woman said to him 'oh, that's a Beryl Cooke'
After some googling, a month later he sold it for a couple of grand.
Jammy git !

i joked that an A3 print of Picasso's Guernika was an original. Probably worth millions. The old geezer, working behind the counter, went into an apoplexy. Running around telling the other 3 or 4 ladies in the backroom.

Ya gotta be careful sometimes. Sometimes those shops help charity-cases. Sometimes they employ them.

 

[park the bus]

I did a stint as volunteer in a charity a few years ago, very interesting and a bit of an eye-opener all round.
I'm not the most patient type and my only experience of retail is when I worked briefly in a greengrocer as a teenager many moons ago. The point I'm getting to is that the customer can be a real pain in the backside, and so I had to learn patience...
Also, the charity shop is often used as a dumping ground for the public who "donate" all kinds of crap, often sneakily bagged up in black bin liners - "There's some lovely stuff in there" is a catchphrase I quickly became alerted to, usually such donations had dirty and moth eaten clothing that the lazy feckers couldn't be bothered to take to the dump. A lot of stuff is totally unsellable and has to be disposed of appropriately.
Volunteers don't get paid and the paid staff get paid peanuts, so charity shop workers do have first dibs, which is fair enough.

 

[HeathMan]

Some stuff donated is passed on - from memory Oxfam had a shop solely selling wedding dresses. Yet to hear of a shop that sells unwanted palace tops (children do grow).

Expect that there are some clubs with shirts that would require the shops to say "we will give you £5.00 to take that shirt away".

 

[Common Sense Club]

I did a stint as volunteer in a charity a few years ago, very interesting and a bit of an eye-opener all round.
I'm not the most patient type and my only experience of retail is when I worked briefly in a greengrocer as a teenager many moons ago. The point I'm getting to is that the customer can be a real pain in the backside, and so I had to learn patience...
Also, the charity shop is often used as a dumping ground for the public who "donate" all kinds of crap, often sneakily bagged up in black bin liners - "There's some lovely stuff in there" is a catchphrase I quickly became alerted to, usually such donations had dirty and moth eaten clothing that the lazy feckers couldn't be bothered to take to the dump. A lot of stuff is totally unsellable and has to be disposed of appropriately.
Volunteers don't get paid and the paid staff get paid peanuts, so charity shop workers do have first dibs, which is fair enough.

I used to manage a charity warehouse taking in donations from household collections which then would be sorted on site before delivering to the charity’s shops around the country. Very little did not result in an income stream, if not at the shops then sold in bulk to middle men (scrap metal per ton, mixed rag baled and sold to recycling companies). The point is that these days most donations go direct to the shop from the public with a higher rate of resulting rubbish.

 

[eritheagle]

I worked in a charity warehouse sorting through the donations to see what got put to shops and what went on ebay. My peers were lovely but managers were horrible.
I got first dibs on anything that came in that would go to shops and therefore bought some great cds.

One time we were donated some 10-15 framed, signed pictures from great artists like beatles, stones, jam, pink floyd, blondie etc. I told them i would be interested in beatles one if it was put on ebay. They said they had to check it was authentic. I said i thought they were but as usual they didn't listen to me.

The next day i was told to throw the whole lot away but said i could take any out of bin and keep.
I now have a signed beatles record sleeve and rolling stones silver record hanging on my living room wall both with certificates of authentication in the back (where i had suggested they should look).

 

[ASCPFC]

Some stuff donated is passed on - from memory Oxfam had a shop solely selling wedding dresses. Yet to hear of a shop that sells unwanted palace tops (children do grow).

Expect that there are some clubs with shirts that would require the shops to say "we will give you £5.00 to take that shirt away".

I bought the TDK kit in a charity shop. No doubt, someone was fed up with it.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

I bought the TDK kit in a charity shop. No doubt, someone was fed up with it.

I used to see a few obscure Palace shirts in the charity shops around Penge. They seemed to be glued to the rails, as no one ever bought them
I recall seeing the TDK shirt , and one with a tulip stick in the memory