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Charity shops ...

I've not been in a charity shop looking for vinyl for donkey's, I just assumed they all have someone sorting the good stuff and pricing it accordingly, like our own @Big Tabs or they just put it online and it fetches what it fetches.

Either that or it is all tat, I suppose it depends what kind of area you live in, to be polite I'd say around here I'm unlikely to find any VU first pressings etc.
 
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Super, great, trust you sleep well tonight.

Be careful. We wouldn't want you falling off that high horse and hurting yourself.

I don't know why you've decided to take a pop at me, but I'll be damned if some anonymous, "holier than thou-er" on a hifi forum is going to make me feel guilty for something I didn't think of doing 30-odd years ago, particularly as in the intervening time I have given a lot to charities in terms of donations, buying other stuff in their shops and donating stuff to sell.

So, yes, I will sleep OK tonight. Thanks for your concern.
 
Be careful. We wouldn't want you falling off that high horse and hurting yourself.

I don't know why you've decided to take a pop at me, but I'll be damned if some anonymous, "holier than thou-er" on a hifi forum is going to make me feel guilty for something I didn't think of doing 30-odd years ago, particularly as in the intervening time I have given a lot to charities in terms of donations, buying other
stuff in their shops and donating stuff to sell.

So, yes, I will sleep OK tonight. Thanks for your concern.
So now you have made it more understandable, but does not excuse bunging them a few extra smackers, just saying.
 
I don't see any of the experts on the Antique Roadshow,moralising about what people pay for stuff, they usually get a slap on the backend a round of applause
 
Don't know the record but Discogs not setting a high price so 50p in a charity shop probs the right price.....

Looks like a £20-ish record. Nice find.

I don't know what all the fuss is about - it's not like he gave them a quid for a Picasso and flogged it at Christies.

I have regular donations set up to the charities I support but enjoy finding the odd bargain - I'm sure most people do.
 
It's all about the CDs in charity shops round here - tons of Embrace/Elbow/All Saints but normally one or two interesting bits as well and often 50p or something.

That said a couple of shops have put up signs requesting no donations of books(!)/DVDs/CDs - I guess everyone streams or uses a Kindle so they have trouble shifting them.
Same here. 2 or 3 CDs for a pound. Mostly 90s dross like Coldplay but the odd gem. A Dylan or two. A Jim White album that I played tonight in the car. If they overprice anything, it's not a biggie. They can keep it. I give them paperbacks, stray CD s, records, if they get something for it then great. If that gives someone a bargain, great. If they get a tenner for a scratched LP, equally great.
 
Hi,

About three years ago when I sold my Naim Headline and Napsc the guy that bought it came with his friend to try it out first.

My friend was there so there were four of us able to try the headphones we had on the Headline.

He had a pair of Sennheiser HD650's I had my new Sennheiser HD800s.

There was very little between them, we all agreed on that.

I asked him how much he had paid for them, as I knew how much my HD800's were, he said he picked them up mint (and they were) in a charity shop for £5 :eek:

I sold my HD800s within weeks......

Cheers

John
 
I've not been in a charity shop looking for vinyl for donkey's, I just assumed they all have someone sorting the good stuff and pricing it accordingly, like our own @Big Tabs or they just put it online and it fetches what it fetches.

There's a specialist books & music only charity shop near us who stock loads of vinyl. They have a sensible policy of putting a premium price on anything rare/valuable, and pricing everything else (mostly Paul Young) at a couple of quid. They also take VHS tapes, though I don't know who'd be in the market for them.
 
I don`t know about other charity shops but Cats Protection appear to cycle their stuff around from shop to shop on a regular basis so you don`t see the same stuff every time you go in. Their records aren`t overpriced but the range seems a bit hit and miss and I`ve never found a CD I wanted at any price.
 
Different charity shops seem to vary wildly on their approach to pricing. We donate monthly to two charities so are happy to give, but there's one or two on the high street that I don't even bother looking in as they overprice everything. I often browse CD's and if they're cheap enough sometimes I'll buy albums that I've not heard of just to give them a go, and the ones I don't like them I just give back so they can sell them again.

I think some of the charity shops forget that they offer two services; one to generate income for the charities themselves and secondly they can provide affordable gear to people on low incomes. When I was on the dole for a year or so after Uni I used to buy most of my clothes from charity shops, and books. The local Cancer Research was great, I didn't even bother looking in Oxfam as I couldn't afford their prices.
 
I've only bought a few LPs from charity shops at what I thought were reasonable prices, but despite them all looking in very good condition a few have turned out to sound very poor. So now I just stick to CDs. £1 is my target price so I don't go into Oxfam or BHF shops. The ones I don't want to keep go back to the shops, ditto with paperback books.
It keeps me amused and generates a bit of income for them so I consider it a win win scenario.
 
Just picked up 2 boxes of about 100 albums from Headway brain injury charity.

They are records that are rotating stock from other shops. No wonder they haven’t sold.
Mantovani/Klaus Wunderlich/Ken Dodd/Geoff Love/Max Bygraves... They are priced at £2 an album! The whole lot should have gone straight in the bin. That is were they are heading.

On the plus side, the vintage record cases I cleaned up sold for £35 to one bloke. Ace.

@matt j I have sold some Velvet Underground in the Headway shop. It was a compilation from the 1970’s I think.
I have never seen an original 1960’s V.U. album, unlikely to be donated where I live. Likewise, folk do not donate Led Zep/Beatles/Stones albums very often.
 
Update: the Sting LP in the Sally Ann shop is a 'limited edition on clear vinyl', so may not be over-priced (though anything over 10p is more than I'd pay for a Sting LP).
 
Update: the Sting LP in the Sally Ann shop is a 'limited edition on clear vinyl', so may not be over-priced (though anything over 10p is more than I'd pay for a Sting LP).
Can I just enquire, does the front sitting room not smell permanently of damp cardboard? Also, you don’t know who’s been touching these records.
 


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