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View submission: Brilliant, thanks.
Yeah, and if they don’t, then plenty of people will wander in, look through the shelves while on their phones checking prices, and only buy anything they can sell for a profit.
Charity shop pricing can be badly done, but people ignore that side of the story. What’s the point in just being a sorting room for people to come and only buy what’s valuable on the resale market?
Comment by Raichu7 at 01/02/2025 at 21:23 UTC
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The difference between a reseller and a sorting house is that the reseller has the time and expertise to research the value of things and find out what they are worth. The sorting house just takes things in bulk and sells them cheap. Charity shops have neither the staff, nor the expertise to price all the donations appropriately and many low income people relied on them for cheap basics like clothes, books and toys. Now it's mostly over priced junk that no one wants at the price, and new donations being thrown away because the shelves are too full because no one is paying that much.