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MisterOblivious posted:You seemed to have missed the whole point of the post. Some charity shops aren't raising money for charity, they're attempting to directly serve people. OP is literally denying those clothes to the people the charity is trying to serve by flipping them. The shops aren't trying to maximize profit, I know the concept can be hard for some people to understand, they're trying to clothe people who have difficulty affording clothing. a "charity" aimed at people who can't afford clothes charging the ostensible beneficiaries money and then losing its poo poo on them for using the stuff they've bought in what the owners consider an incorrect way is such a twisted and depraved concept that on reflection I'm shocked it isn't more common
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PancakeTransmission posted:Maybe because medical bills don't bankrupt us? Give it time, Boris is workin' on it.
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i provide bulk housing to the poor at a below market rate made affordable by not spending money maintaining the property. if anyone has a friend over to their place they're evicted; if you want to start your own hotel or nightclub go buy one rear end in a top hat. I'm a charity!
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Dec 3, 2021 15:21
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Is the "charity" part where they offer clothes at low prices, or is it where they take the profits they make and help the poor? Either way, how are her actions negatively impacting anyone else? She's not flipping so much that the stores are running out of stock, because she's only flipping things that are worth flipping. Your $2 5-year-old Hanes t-shirts aren't fetching massive profits on Instagram. And if you need a shirt that badly, do you really care what brand it is?
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but but but it feels wrong at first glance
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Arbitrage is actually providing a service since you’re reallocating resources from where they’re going to sit around and gather dust to where they’re actually going to get used. Is the charity shop actually running out of stuff to where it makes sense for them to ration? It would be the first secondhand store I’ve ever seen do that. Usually you can see some stuff hang out there for months.
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Dec 3, 2021 16:06
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what's great is if she just takes the clothes she's
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Can't believe my tax dollars are supporting someone on food stamps when they also wear Nikes. Maybe if they sold those designer clothes I wouldn't have to pay for their food!!! Share this post if you're not afraid to let Facebook know you love Jesus.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Arbitrage is actually providing a service since you’re reallocating resources from where they’re going to sit around and gather dust to where they’re actually going to get used. Is the charity shop actually running out of stuff to where it makes sense for them to ration? It would be the first secondhand store I’ve ever seen do that. Usually you can see some stuff hang out there for months. She's also giving them room for more inventory. Where I'm at, the stores just stay filled to the brim and the donation sites stay packed. Edit: A Wizard of Goatse posted:what's great is if she just takes the clothes she's But, you see, she's breaking the RULES A Wizard of Goatse posted:what the owners consider an incorrect way I'd bet money that the owners of the shop have no idea she's been banned. This is 100% a rules-follower that's upset because someone else is doing what she's not allowed to do. Variable 5 fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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wilderthanmild posted:There's a tenant at my apartment complex that has been complaining to my complex. Today, he made up a heniois lie about my roomate and I...
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Dec 3, 2021 16:24
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I wonder if the charity shop worker was the one that priced the clothes. Could be some aspect of feeling foolish for underpricing them.
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for telling my baby's mother she only breastfeeds to keep me from having visitation Oh hey I remember this guy. AITA for calling my baby's mother petty for not letting me be in the delivery room? same op posted:rear end in a top hat
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Arbitrage is actually providing a service since you’re reallocating resources from where they’re going to sit around and gather dust to where they’re actually going to get used. Is the charity shop actually running out of stuff to where it makes sense for them to ration? It would be the first secondhand store I’ve ever seen do that. Usually you can see some stuff hang out there for months. Variable 5 posted:She's also giving them room for more inventory. Where I'm at, the stores just stay filled to the brim and the donation sites stay packed. Exactly. Donation stores get so full, they throw crap out. Anyone who comes to help move product along to people who actually want it, rather than it festering until they toss it in the dumpster, is providing a service. As for assuming you know how that thrift store works because it calls itself charity - I worked at a 'charity thrift store' in my teens, and you know what that entailed? They had a few items on the floor with special price tags where a portion of the price would be going to the charity listed. The rest of the store was just pure profit for my bosses and none of it was charity-based. All of their product was from donations from people who thought it would help the needy. When the store got too full, they would make us cut up the clothes before putting them in the dumpster so that the homeless wouldn't get free things. That was 20 years ago, you think this hellworld has gotten better since then about this stuff? I'm not saying that this charity store is that bad, but maybe step off policing items worth a handful of dollars when you don't even know how that place works and let this person loving do their thing, which actually provides a service.
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killerwhat posted:I wonder if the charity shop worker was the one that priced the clothes. Could be some aspect of feeling foolish for underpricing them. All the ones I know of do flat pricing, like $3 for a shirt, $10 for a suit coat, $5 for pants. At a previous job, my hallway neighbor managed a resale shop run by her religious group or whatever. She frequently complained that the biggest issues she had to deal with was employees hiding good stuff hoping that it would still be there after whatever period of time they had to wait before they could buy it, and not enough room to store the donations. If they had been able to set pricing, they could have just marked it way up to discourage buyers and then switched tags the day of the sale. It's not like they have LP or inventory control, either. The obvious solution is to spraypaint the shop's name onto everything they sell, along with the sale price.
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Variable 5 posted:All the ones I know of do flat pricing, like $3 for a shirt, $10 for a suit coat, $5 for pants. i saw that episode of superstore
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:i saw that episode of superstore I've never even *heard* of that until now. I'm gonna have to look that one up.
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I know someone who used to work at REI, and she said that when they do their annual sale of returned/damaged items, the employees not only get first pick, but they also get to mark the prices the items are sold at. So they mark the items they want really cheaply and then buy them up themselves. I've still got some of the camping gear she scored for me. Good old connection-based economy.
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trickybiscuits posted:Okay but consider: just serving him papers isn't funny My favourite type of poster on the Estranged Losers forum is definitely the one who isn't even actually estranged. quote:Fortunately, my daughter and her husband have set up a page on their phone where they can post pictures/videos of my two grandchildren for various members of their family which includes 4 grandparents, aunts and uncles. I will give them credit for that because that at least allows me to see updated pictures of my two precious ones and I love it. Periodically they will do Facetime with me and my husband which they did on/about Halloween and Thanksgiving. [...] 
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Exactly. Donation stores get so full, they throw crap out. Anyone who comes to help move product along to people who actually want it, rather than it festering until they toss it in the dumpster, is providing a service. That would be hardcore illegal in the UK and such matters are generally dealt with swiftly and somewhat harshly.
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Sanford posted:That would be hardcore illegal in the UK and such matters are generally dealt with swiftly and somewhat harshly. Which part?
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Giving charity should ideally be you throwing money or goods at a good cause and then patting yourself on the back, if you absolutely must, on your way out the door. Don't earmark the money for certain projects or programs, and don't demand the staff give you a sales pitch outside the printed material unless it's 5 figures or something. So many people use charity as a way to reinforce the social hierarchy that is the root problem in the first place - they want to feel superior to the people they are helping and demand gratitude for their "selflessness". My wife runs a homeless shelter in our area and while the holiday season is a big one for collecting donations and fundraising, the entitlement the donators feel can be out of control. One wealthy family wanted to sponsor a homeless family being sheltered by providing them and their children with Christmas gifts. They asked my wife if they could be present in the room when the homeless family opened the gifts so they could see their reactions. My wife said no, that's inappropriate. Then they asked if they could stay outside but watch them open the gifts through the window of the shelter. Also a no, because poor people aren't zoo animals. And it goes without saying that all of this needed to be scheduled around the rich family's own Christmas morning plans. Also kudos to the person who recommended Evicted a few pages ago. It's a really important book and a real eye opener to the conditions faced by people who, demographically, are very different from your typical SA poster.
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My mom is the manager of a men's shelter and soup kitchen, and definitely has had things to say about the entitlement of some people who donate either materially or their time. Generally she's okay with the people who donate their time for insta points or whatever, because for the most part, they actually do help out while they're there.
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Flipping isn't unethical, and I doubt it hurts bigger chain stores with tons of donations coming through. It can make a dent in the selection at small shops though, and at those kinds of places, it makes thrift shopping harder on customers who are looking for something other than basic tees or fast fashion. I'm close to a charity shop that's kind of tucked away near a nice neighborhood, and it used to be known as a reliable place to score a suit, business casual outfits, special occasion dresses, etc. It was also popular with the kind of thrift shoppers who buy used for environmental reasons (or because vintage clothes are just better quality than the see-through shirts you get these days). Maybe five years ago, that store started getting multiple flippers a day, and they don't get the same amount of donations as the bigger stores so there was a noticeable drop in the quality of their stock. A couple of months ago they started a little boutique section of more expensive name-brand clothes and put up a sign saying that customers couldn't buy more than one cart of clothes/week. I have no idea if they were just mad at resellers for existing or if it was a business decision to make that money off the nicer stuff themselves, but now I can actually go in and find clothes there again, which is nice. I didn't much care one way or the other about the flippers, but gently caress everybody who took part in that tiktok trend of buying plus-sized thrift store clothes and cutting them up to make ugly "upcycled" outfits for skinny people.
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If you are donating to charity please just give money. Signed, nonprofit directors everywhere.
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zakharov posted:If you are donating to charity please just give money. Signed, nonprofit directors everywhere. 
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I'm just glad people are giving with no strings attached. I work for an international nonprofit children's charity and you'd be amazed how often someone will donate $1,000+ but with a note that reads "THIS IS ONLY FOR CHRISTIAN CHILDREN IN SOUTH DAKOTA OR I WANT A REFUND"
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Mx. posted:AITA for insisting to invite someone to the wedding when my fiancée is against it??? What's the chance she started dating the cousin after the engagement announcement to get that invite?
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Variable 5 posted:Which part? Saying you’re a charity shop without a significant portion of the income being delivered to the charity in question. Charity shops in the UK get various kinds of rate relief, can claim Gift Aid, and get various other benefits so it’s quite well policed by the Charity Commission and the sector itself. Charity retail is a tiny, tiny portion of the charity sector as a whole and is quite close knit - anyone operating a “charity shop” under false pretences would be fairly swiftly outed. Prosecutions happen slowly but the charity press somewhat regularly has people receiving not insignificant fines for failing to operate charities correctly. Edit: Again looking at the UK, if someone gives money towards a specific campaign or cause you have to be able to show an audit trail that it went to the right place. To avoid such bullshit, every year my wife and I contact a couple of local schools and ask them to identify some families who are going to have a poo poo Christmas, and give them some of our money. We don’t know them and they don’t know us, and the kids don’t know anything about it at all. This is a truly excellent way of doing charity and I recommend it, and school staff are always happy to help. Sadly we are yet to encounter a school who says no, we’ve no-one like that. Sanford fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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my wife worked for a secondhand store that'd clean out hoarder houses and poo poo and just dump everything there on the market, and they started spiralling when she started work there because she actually knew what she was looking at, the boss would simply pocket anything she realized was worth something, and it turned out the majority of her customers weren't looking for random garbage they were there for the nice stuff the boss previously couldn't be bothered to ID lol
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Barudak posted:Yeah, Ive never seen one of these genuinely trying to help poor customers so much as making money off of rich people thinking they're helping poor people Yep, the second-hand "charity" stores here exist to raise revenue for their parent organizations. The store is getting their money, and she is getting hers. It's not like the op is taking things from a food bank or the donation bin at a homeless shelter and reselling them. Outside of clothing, most of the stuff you find at second hand stores here is literal garbage making a pit stop on the way to a landfill.
Maybe you'll find a half-decent piece of furniture now and then, but in general anything good, such as boxed videogames, late-gen CRT TVs with tons of inputs that retro gamers will pay good money for, rare vinyl albums, and so on, gets put aside at intake and sold via online auction.
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The_Franz posted:Yep, the second-hand "charity" stores here exist to raise revenue for their parent organizations. The store is getting their money, and she is getting hers. It's not like the op is taking things from a food bank or the donation bin at a homeless shelter and reselling them. I have found some really good appliances at thrift/charity stores. Bread machines and the like, usually in pretty good operating condition. Depends on location, like any store of that sort, I suppose. Also a giant beast of a Sony Trinitron, that was my PS2 TV until I moved and couldn't be assed to try and move the heavy thing again. I've also had good luck with crafting supplies. Random assortments of knitting needles, bits and bobs of Red Heart Super Saver tier yarn that I can use when I need a tiny bit and not a whole skein, sewing patterns, etc.
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wilderthanmild posted:There's a tenant at my apartment complex that has been complaining to my complex. Today, he made up a heniois lie about my roomate and I... I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as a goofball, is in fact, meth/heroin, or as I've recently taken to calling it, meth plus heroin. Heroin is not an experience unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning drug cocktail made useful by the meth, cooking spoons and vital syringe components comprising a full injection as defined by drug users.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I'm just glad people are giving with no strings attached. I work for an international nonprofit children's charity and you'd be amazed how often someone will donate $1,000+ but with a note that reads "THIS IS ONLY FOR CHRISTIAN CHILDREN IN SOUTH DAKOTA OR I WANT A REFUND" A friend of mine had a brief stint as a street fundraiser for Oxfam. At one point he was making good inroads with an elderly lady, who did see the value of fair trade, cutting out big corporations, etc. until she asked "wait, do you guys also support businesses in [very specific place in Vietnam]", so my friend hesitates and says "I should check but that's likely, we do support businesses in Vietnam". This lady's tone sours and says "well my son was married to a Vietnamese woman from [place] and she left him, so I'll not be signing up to become a donor, bye." Some people's POV is so narrow that you wonder how they are even alive.
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My boyfriend (29) said that his dog is his soulmate.quote:My boyfriend(29) and I (f 25) have been together for 3.5 years. He loves his dog very much, which is fine, but some of his comments towards his dog are off putting. He has made it known he loves his dog more than me on multiple occasions. His comment about his dog being his soulmate kind of struck a nerve with me. He has never once even called me his soulmate. I said to him that it’s kinda funny to me how he called his dog his soulmate considering it’s an animal, and he’s literally never even reffed to me as such. His response was, “well yea my dog loves me unconditionally and you don’t.” I was very upset by this comment and tried to talk to him about my feelings about it. He said I’m not arguing about this nonsense and left the room. We ended up sleeping in separate rooms and I am still upset about this. I often right poetry about him and say things such as how our souls collided and I’ve never felt such internal bliss until I met him. So to me this was rather offensive and I feel differently than he does on the subject. I’m not sure how to express my self and my feelings without feeling torn down.
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DemoneeHo posted:My boyfriend (29) said that his dog is his soulmate. Well his dog doesn't get mad at him about dumb poo poo like souls, so
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NecroBob posted:I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as a goofball, is in fact, meth/heroin, or as I've recently taken to calling it, meth plus heroin. Heroin is not an experience unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning drug cocktail made useful by the meth, cooking spoons and vital syringe components comprising a full injection as defined by drug users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yokDFLIwKa0&t=39s
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Sisal Two-Step posted:Oh hey I remember this guy. There was an amazing post between these two posts that was deleted by the mods. AITA for refusing to cover part of my ex-fiance's hospital bills quote:My ex and I broke up early in her pregnancy, we've remained somewhat amicable, we had a couple fights about me not being in the delivery room but have been ok since. She had our baby about 4 weeks ago, and I told her to keep me updated on any hospital bills she might get because I would pay half. What an absolute prince of a man.
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