Charity shop prices

Reading about a 80 yr old man asked for a discount on a £6 coat in a charity shop and was refused it . A young man paid for the coat and wished the elderly man a Merry Christmas. We know even charity shops have to make money but if an item has a price and some one offers a realistic offer for the item I think they should sell it not refuse the Offer All of the clothes Etc are donated to the charity shop in the 1st place and who sets the pricing in the shops or have they lost the plot that they are a CHARITYand are there to help the less fortunate

I've said before . They are businesses. No different from the old Second Hand shops that used to frequent the High Street .

I know someone who goes to loads of charity shops and always tries to to barter for everything then she sells it on.Its up to charity shop.

Charity me arse.

As MrsC says, it's all about making money for the people who run those shops, and folk who volunteer their time for them are just being exploited, I would like to say the Hospice shops are different, but I bet they are not.

I frequent them a lot looking for bargains, mostly aircraft models and the best one to go in is the wheelchair fund, on St Pauls Ave Worsly mesnes, they seem to act in a ' charity way ' I got a good suit there for £3, Its been to many weddings, funerals and christenings and it looks like I've just fell out of John Colliers shop window,,,

Once looked through the window of a charity shop dresses with the prices in the hundreds and handbags around the hundred mark We where in Alderley Edge

I was in the Heart Foundation shop in the old Smiths shop in Mesnes Street about a month back, and I was looking for a particular type of chair, it was the first time I had been in a charity shop, and I was disappointed, they didn't have that chair, so I had a good look at what they had in stock, and it seemed to be expensive for what they were, it reminded me of going to the old Delmo scrap yard off Chapel Lane, their second hand stuff was dearer than what you would pay for new

That is a dear one Tommy Its troo what yoo say, they are bandits with no masks, Blatant scoundrels,

i have told this story before When i was in the uk a few years back.. On a sunday we went to the out door flea market in Manchester. the wife is always looking for high end tweed jacket . on this stall the was an old gypsy woman selling women jackets as my wife is trying on this jacket she asks the woman how mush she wanted? "40 pound" my wife puts her hands in the pockets and pulls out a price tag from Oxfan with a price on it for 5 pounds.....

Peter, Blame Maggie thatch, she was famous for saying, there is no crime in making a profit,,