Charity shops and their prices

Nelliemoser How good it is to see you gift aided your TV that would give another £5.25 to the Charity you support and very worth while doing,I try to enroll as many customers as I can for Gift Aid it certainly boosts the income to the Charity.

At that price I would have tried it. It sounds very reasonable to me. £50 for a product that was £175 sounds like very good value.

If the charities are trying to make money to support their work then they should not sell good quality gifted goods too cheaply. Our very old non flat screen Panasonic television was sold for £25 and gift aided in our local heart foundation shop.
It was in full working order. We had been offered a flat screen model.

The Charity I am manager for takes electrical donations and we test every item and will give a short term gaurentee we have to have the test done by a qualified tester who undergoes a short course which the Charity pays for.
I don't feel £50.00 is expensive for a top end item,would you not have thought to have made them an offer I'm sure it would have been considered I know I would have considered it if a customer had asked me the question.

The Heart Foundation takes electrical goods.

I still think they were asking too much. If it had been £45 I might have considered it, but the £50 asking price put me off.

I'm sure someone else will buy it

Charity shops round here won't take any electrical items.

I'm not sure you can call a charity shop greedy. They are not making money for themselves.

And, yes, you can take something back if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

Yes, I think a third of the retail price is okay. I bought an as new breadmaker recently for £12 and its retail price is £39. I was glad to get a bargain (fingers crossed in case I jinx the thing). It had been tested and even a charity shop buy has to be fit for purpose.

It was an electrical item so it would have been tested. Less than a third of the price new sounds alright to me. Either you wanted it or you didn't.

I assume that this was one of the well known charities? If yes, it's a business now, not a charity. I don't buy from any of the big names ( unless I can't resist the item)
We have a very good animal charity near us and I know for a fact that nobody is paid for their work, unlike the big charities.
This is a subject I fee very strongly about.