Recent charity shop buys

DefaultM · June 2023

Philly_Q said:
darthed1981 said:
I remember pointing out to groups of women going to see the films that pornography is free and plentiful online, you don't need to go watch a terrible film for five minutes of stuff you can remember later, no matter how cute Jamie Dornan is.
Did you hang around outside cinemas with a placard, trying to turn them away at the door?

Worst thing anyone ever said to me when I worked at the cinema...
Taylor Lautner that played the wolf in Twilight had his own film where he played the lead role. This 50 odd year old woman comes in with her ancient mother and says "one ticket to Taylor Lautner please, and I'll need a waterproof seat if you've got one".
I had to fight back a wince before it's her mum's turn and she repeats the exact same joke, then they both stand there howling telling me about how they hope he's constantly shirtless and how that gets them wet. Absolutely vile.

darthed1981 · June 2023

Philly_Q said:

darthed1981 said:
I remember pointing out to groups of women going to see the films that pornography is free and plentiful online, you don't need to go watch a terrible film for five minutes of stuff you can remember later, no matter how cute Jamie Dornan is.

Did you hang around outside cinemas with a placard, trying to turn them away at the door?

BluesLover · June 2023

Had a lively debate recently with the manager of an Oxfam music and books shop. I pointed out to him that all their vinyl seemed to be priced at top money, and consequently wasn't actually selling very well. There were albums I was interested in, but not at their prices, and they'd been in the shop for many weeks. Their stock is all donations, so surely money in the till was better than over priced stock not moving off the shelves?
I said there used to be a famous used record shop where their prices dropped steadily (Beano's?) until they sold.
I was wasting my breath...

boogieman · June 2023

BluesLover said:

Had a lively debate recently with the manager of an Oxfam music and books shop. I pointed out to him that all their vinyl seemed to be priced at top money, and consequently wasn't actually selling very well. There were albums I was interested in, but not at their prices, and they'd been in the shop for many weeks. Their stock is all donations, so surely money in the till was better than over priced stock not moving off the shelves?
I said there used to be a famous used record shop where their prices dropped steadily (Beano's?) until they sold.
I was wasting my breath...

I’m surprised they had the space to hold onto stock for that long. Admittedly I worked in a small shop but we had a strict two-week policy. Two weeks at full price, two weeks reduced, then cleared out. The cleared out stuff was taken away by a proper recycling company, not landfill.

ICBM · June 2023

BluesLover said:

Had a lively debate recently with the manager of an Oxfam music and books shop. I pointed out to him that all their vinyl seemed to be priced at top money, and consequently wasn't actually selling very well. There were albums I was interested in, but not at their prices, and they'd been in the shop for many weeks. Their stock is all donations, so surely money in the till was better than over priced stock not moving off the shelves?
I said there used to be a famous used record shop where their prices dropped steadily (Beano's?) until they sold.
I was wasting my breath...

There's a specialist Oxfam record shop in Edinburgh like that. I made a trip to it recently and came away with nothing, despite there being a lot of CDs I would have bought... but not at £5, £7 or even more when with a little patience you can find them on Ebay for about half that even including postage (free, if it's Music Magpie). Being willing to give to charity only goes so far.

But the Oxfam bookshop in Glasgow has stopped selling CDs, even though they were priced sensibly - £2.49 usually, which I'm OK with - when I asked why, the manager said they weren't selling enough to devote that much space to the rack (despite there being nothing else in the space now). I pointed out that I bought on average at least a couple whenever I'm there, although presumably it's not just me... it can't be, the turnover was pretty high because I usually didn't see much of the same stock for more than a month or two. Baffling.

Redlester · June 2023

There really is not much a policy when it comes to pricing things.

I have a little insight into this as I mentioned in a post above, because I know one of the managers at a local charity shop when I was discussing how they deploy young DofE volunteers- some shops do check what the going rate is for something online and price accordingly from there.

Nothing wrong with that as long as it's priced fairly and priced to sell.

The big problem is when- with books especially- often older editions of popular academic textbooks are priced at the RRP for the current edition, or bizarrely priced higher than that.

hollywoodrox · June 2023

I went to buy a vinyl Hits compilation from the early 80s it was priced at £2.75 but was badly scratched & dirty & missing the inner paper sleeves . I pointed this out & said I’d pay 99p for it owing to its condition but the woman said the manager would not allow them to drop the prices even though she only thought that’s what it was worth

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