Charity Shop Prices

The purpose of a charity shop is to raise money for the charity running it. The fact that the items being sold have been donated is irrelevant. The charity needs to get the best price it can for its goods to fund the charity it there to support. It is not there to be a chritable to its customers.

Having said that, I agree, charity shop prices do seem very high these days, but the fact ithat they have been high for some years and have continued to be so suggests that the majority of their customers are willing to pay those prices.

Like any other business if they were pricing themselves out of the market they would reduce their prices.

Perhaps that is why we appear to be having a resurgence of jumble sales. There have been two nearby this year and there hadn't been one for many years.

I have thought prices charged in 'most' charity shops have been unreasonable for quite some time now. Like dorsetpennt I think some of their pricing is unrealistic considering the items have been wholly donated and premises (as far as I understand) are at a nominal rent. They used to be shops were folk could get good second hand goods at reasonable cost. Is it the high cost of advisors, consultants etc? or do they do it for free?

Charity shop bargain may not be the bargain it appears to be, heard a story about a woman who brought clothes into the house and she got an infestation of moths. Her carpets and clothes were ruined and in the end it cost her £14,000 in replacements and treatment for the house

I've thought the same about charity shop prices for a while, now.

When I decided to look for some DVDs that I could watch with my pre-school grandchildren when they came for a sleepover, I found that all our local charity shops were charging between two to three pounds for them. I thought that was expensive but bought one anyway , but then felt totally ripped off when I discovered ten minutes later that I could have bought the same thing brand new one in the supermarket for only £3!

Totally agree with what Greenfinch said, too.

Stopped using British heart foundation years ago because of their prices.
Here in Southend you can't beat Sue Ryder for furniture bargains.
For giving. I just stick to the Samaritans and our local sea scouts.

I have stopped going into the British Heart Foundation charity shops because of the price of their books. They are in good condition but are IMO overpriced.

I went to a local church run charity this pm and bought 2 paperbacks for £1.49p. Both books were in good condition.

I don't think charity shops always realise the difference between designer clothes and supermarket/department store ones. I have seen Primark children's t-shirts priced at £2 where they can be bought new for £1.

I volunteer in a charity shop. If anything is unused and has a price tag on it, it is priced at one third of the original value.
If we think something might be valuable, the manageress checks the internet and charges accordingly.
I passed a charity shop last week and spotted a beautiful glass dish in the window. I am trying to declutter so made myself walk past. It was still there on my way home so I bought it for £4. There was a sticker underneath so I checked on it and it can be bought for 330 Australian dollars - about £150. I'm even more pleased with it now.

It is the price of books which annoy me. My favourite (local) charity shop sells paperbacks for 25p each and hardbacks for 50p. I and many others use it like a library. National charity shops price them at 6 times the price at least.
I think the prices you quote dorsetpennt sound extortionate but I suppose it depends on what the original price was and the value of them now.