"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:48:44 -0000, "Kathy" wrote:

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

When you work in a charity shop you are in a position of trust, if you
buy something knowing that the pricing is wrong you should say so.
It has nothing to do with sour grapes it is about honesty and staff
cheating a charity out of income.

How many times do I have to say it - I TOLD HER THEY WERE TOO CHEAP AND SHE
SAID THAT WAS THE PRICE SHE WANTED FOR THEM. They would have gone into the
shop at that price . Got it now?

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Kathy