"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:11:58 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote:

On Mar 7, 11:20 pm, "Kathy" wrote:
I work for a charity shop. We are allowed to buy donated goods as
long as
someone else prices them.
My boss, who doesn't garden beyond the mow the lawn/weed the boarder
point,
told me we had had a donation of "some" plant labels. She thought
there
were too many for us to sell, so would I like some of them? Of
course, I
said yes.

They are brand new, wood, good quality, 6 inches long and 1/2 an inch
wide.
I have 404 [yes, four hundred and four] of them.
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For £1.50 :-}}

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Kathy


I suppose the next thing is you'll be on Antiques Road Show or Flog it
and they will turn out to be hand carved by Chipendale and worth a few
hundred pounds each.

and the original owner will turn up shouting that the charity has been
robbed.
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I dislike the idea that charity workers can get the best things from the
charity shop before the public even sees it.
It's not ethical, IMO.

We pay for them, so what's unethical?

Oh, come on. you know they are worth more You are robbing your charity.
I would be ashamed to do it.

I know they are worth more. I *told* her they are worth more. That is the
price she put on them, and that is the price they would have gone into the
shop at. If you had come into the shop, seen a carrier bag full of plant
labels at that price, would you have refused to buy them? I think not. I
do most of my shopping in charity shops, my own and the others in town.
This is mainly due to the fact that, as an employee of a charity, I am on a
low wage, so get of your high horse Christine, it cuts no ice with me.

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Kathy