"Spider" wrote in message
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On 09/03/2012 09:03, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:22:50 -0000, wrote:

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On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:11:58 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
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On Mar 7, 11:20 pm, 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 :-}}

--
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.


No one pays the real price in a charity shop. The goods are second hand
and therefore at a lower value. That's part of the double-ended
attraction: the charity gets stock for free, the customers get a bargain.
That's the way it works, and it works well. If good people like Kathy are
prepared to work for a low wage to help the charity, then I'm glad they're
able to occasionally enjoy the odd incentive. Kathy did not set the price
she paid .. she even quibbled for a higher price .. so in no sense did she
rob the charity, or would ever do so. The suggestion is outrageous and
insulting. I very much hope she enjoys using every one of her labels.

Thank you Spider, I'm glad someone understood that someone else priced them.
I certainly shall enjoy using them, as they are much wider than the plastic
ones I have at the moment.

--
Kathy