"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:22:50 -0000, "Kathy" wrote:

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Martin" 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.
.
.
.
.
.

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?

You don't pay the real price.

I pay the price put on it by someone else. I cannot see what your point is
here. Are you going to moan about supermarket workers who get a discount so
don't pay the "real" price? Thought not. This is beginning to sound like a
bad case of sour grapes.

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Kathy