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GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: AlanHo on December 07, 2018, 16:39:25
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My wife works one day a week in a Hospice Charity Shop and has become their amateur expert for jewellery, designer clothes, handbags and bric a brac etc. The manager and most of the volunteers don't have a clue what might be of value, so they save such items for her to check.
She uses Ebay and antique dealers to sell the quality donated stuff on behalf of the charity which is unlikely to realise its value in the shop. It's amazing what she makes for them each month. Two months ago she rescued 3 tatty broken watches the shop manager had chucked in the scrap bin - took them down to Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and got £225 for them - just for the gold value. Last week she rescued a German cast silver ornate 19th century combined inkwell and tray in the shop that had not attracted a buyer at £4.99. It is now due to be sold by Hansons at their fine art auction next April who have set the reserve at £100.
What is sad is that people donate such things as Waterford crystal and Royal Albert china but they don't sell. Nowadays people don't want them because most young 'uns don't sit down for a family dinner - they either go to MacDonalds or have a take-away on their lap whilst using their smartphone.
What is equally frustrating for charity shops is the sort of stuff people hand in - such as bags of grubby, smelly underwear, rusty and battered cooking pans, ripped and tatty clothing etc. How they expect the charity shop to sell it is one of life's mysteries. In addition, some people faced with house clearance for someone who has died find it more convenient to dump the tat at the charity shop rather than take it to the Council tip 4 miles away.
The shop fills four 660 litre bulk waste and recycling bins on average twice a week, for which they have to pay a contractor to empty them. The Council don't do commercial waste or recycling collections.
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if any of those donater's are Japanese there could be good coin to be made from that smelly underwear.
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if any of those donater's are Japanese there could be good coin to be made from that smelly underwear.
PM me your address I will don my hazard protection suit and gas mask to pack it up and send it to you for just the freight cost................... :whistler:.
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if any of those donater's are Japanese there could be good coin to be made from that smelly underwear.
:snigger:
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Trish used to do a lot of volunteer work for a local Op Shop before the grandkids came along. She enjoyed sorting out and displaying the stuff. She got to the stage where she was working almost full time! That is just how she rolls.
It is great what Libby is doing to help the charity. One of the ladies who was in charge where Trish worked used to to similar but for her own benefit. :fum:
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The use of charity bins as dumpsters is a problem over here too.
As is rifling them for stuff the sh*theads can sell at markets.
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if any of those donater's are Japanese there could be good coin to be made from that smelly underwear.
PM me your address I will don my hazard protection suit and gas mask to pack it up and send it to you for just the freight cost................... :whistler:.
:rofl: :rofl:
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This bronze casting of John Wayne is one of a first edition of a series of 4 made in the USA complete with it's certificate of origin and in its original polystyrene packaging. It is 22 cm tall.
It has been on the shelf in the charity shop for £4.99 and not sold, my wife rescued in on Saturday and put it on Ebay yesterday. It will be interesting to see what it sells for.
(https://i.imgur.com/MyXRIfE.jpg)
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10 bucks ! , better add another 0 to that.
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Wow! Impressive! :victory:
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... my wife rescued in on Saturday and put it on Ebay ...
Just had a look - should easily fetch £30 :D
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... my wife rescued in on Saturday and put it on Ebay ...
Just had a look - should easily fetch £30 :D
Libby has her first bid (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/John-Wayne-Bronze-Cast-Figure/332937281996) I see - £25 guaranteed at least, with 30 hours left :D
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I've seen those one's online for $60au so Libby might be able to hold out for a little more though without the rest of the set they're valued as a paper weight, the real collectables were the 20" bronze statues that were $399 each.
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12 bids and sold for £44
I guess the Hospice Charity shop will be receiving a Xmas bonus :D
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Better than what they were trying to sell it for aint it. :goodjob:
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Oh wow! That is a great result! :victory: