charity shops

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Well if you get a jigsaw with pieces missing there's lots of craft ideas on Pinterest using them so still worth buying. Here's 2 examples and great with summer hols coming to do with kids/grandkids or just cos they look great!

I work in a charity shop. We have 3 or 4 people working each shift but get large numbers of donations. When jigsaws are donated we check the no. of pieces up to 100. (These are usually children's' ones.) It is so time consuming that it is impossible to check the larger puzzles so we have to hope that the person donating them has been careful. We receive lots of good things - so if you aren't sure they are complete please don't take them to a charity shop.

The jigsaws I used to give charity shops not only were complete, but had the edges and middle sorted into two separate bags!
No, i think it is a shame that people give real rubbish to charity shops on the assumption that someone will like it - no they don't, not broken jugs, jigsaws with bits missing, DVDs that don't work...

I'll try that Juggernaut if I haven't thrown them away.

I used to work in a charity shop. One of my jobs was to count the jigsaw pieces. Also we would check books were in good order. I guess a lot depends on the manager. Ours was very diligent and I guess that is what makes customers return.

Thanks for that advice, I will certainly give it a try.

Jaycee5
If you have a DVD which 'skips' or 'freezes' try this....
Put a spot of toothpaste on a soft cloth and wipe over the playing surface of the DVD, always going from the centre outwards. Use 'bog standard' toothpaste, as cheap as you like.
Rinse the DVD well under cold running water, dry carefully and thoroughly, and try it again.
Toothpaste is only slightly abrasive, but just enough to get rid of minor scratches and 'dinks' without damaging the surface of the DVD.
It works, I promise

That came out slightly garbled (but you know what I mean).

I've given up buying DVDs from charity shops because only work 50% of them work if it is a box set (which obviously cost a bit more) there is always at least one that doesn't work.
Why do people give things that are of no use? It is just meanness as it will ultimately lose the charity shop money.

If we receive donated jigsaws, in our local charity shop, we do try to remember to ask whether they are complete. Most people will say that they are, so we have to take their word for it. Our volunteers will check the number of pieces in a child's puzzle, but we do not have time to count puzzle pieces of 1000, or more.

Makes you wonder what they think you would be doing with a jigsaw in the privacy of your own home

I knew of somebody in a responsible public sector job who volunteered to check jigsaws donated to a charity shop, by taking them home and doing them, and was told that she would have to go through what was then called Disclosure checking to make sure she was suitable!

Even though it's a charity shop you should be able to assume they're selling you a complete jigsaw puzzle. No one would accept that it was OK to sell a thriller or mystery book with the last chapter torn out.

If I like the subject matter I will buy it. To help the charity. I usually give more than the marked price. Precisely indinana what were they thinking.

I wouldn't buy one if it was marked 'incomplete' because I really couldn't bear to do a jigsaw if I knew from the outset that there were pieces missing. What on earth are people thinking, to give them to a charity shop in the first place if there are so many missing pieces?