Donation bags through your letterbox

[LeMaquis 10]

Best advice is to take any unwanted items to a charity shop of your choosing - what they do with the stuff is unknown really but at least it doesn't end up on ebay or a car boot !

 

Some of it may well end up on ebay. The better organised shops will recognise valuable items and maximise their income.

[Tim1 10]

A couple of places have them outside the shops for you to pick them up. They fit the 30 litre bins perfect in our house. Beats paying for the Brabantia official ones

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[scousemouse 10]

I alkways take donations to charity shops, so never leave stuff ouside

[spats 10]

Still no bags. Anyone getting them?

There will probably be less of the dodgy bag scam ones being distributed because the amount of cash paid out for textile recycling has crashed to an all time low, so it's not really worth the effort for the scamsters.

[Ableton 10]

I used to take loads of things to charity shops but stopped as the best stuff was always taken by the staff with no donation made and never made it out into the shop where it was intended to go for sale.

[pattricia 575]

I used to take loads of things to charity shops but stopped as the best stuff was always taken by the staff with no donation made and never made it out into the shop where it was intended to go for sale.

 

This is true and also the men who pick them up from your house for charity shops also rifle through them first. The most genuine are The British Heart Foundation who ask you over the phone what items you want picking up then you sign a form with the stated articles when the men come to your door.

[max 13]

I used to take loads of things to charity shops but stopped as the best stuff was always taken by the staff with no donation made and never made it out into the shop where it was intended to go for sale.

 

Have you reported any instances of this, with proof, to the shop managers or charities?

[L00b 441]

Have you reported any instances of this, with proof, to the shop managers or charities?

LOL, bless!

 

Not meant as a personal dig, max, but shop management is routinely the mafia don first picker in such instances.

 

Seen it plenty enough, both at the coalface and from hearsay of friends volunteering in such shops. That said, at least one shop I know does enforce 'at least token donation' from first-picking staff. For the stores that do, I suppose it's just overhead for the staff before the picked stuff finds its way to eBay or Gumtree or Shpock (yes, I have seen some our donated stuff FS on there, and not being auctioned/sold by the shop)

 

Hey, I ain't going to cast any stones: at the end of the day, they're volunteers. They could choose to spend their time in front of Jeremy Kyle on t'box with a cup of tea instead.

 

Still, in agreement with Daven and scousemouse. Any stuff we donate, we take directly to Bluebell Wood stores. We never use donation bags. I don't think I've ever seen them collected by the same person once, in the 8 years we've lived where we do.

Edited October 5, 2016 by L00b

[Ableton 10]

Have you reported any instances of this, with proof, to the shop managers or charities?

 

It was the mangeress and the rest of the staff doing it

[spats 10]

Well organized Charities should have in place a system of secure whistle blowing for instances like these. I often think that Charities should be sending in their own operatives to volunteer at their charity shops. Not just to monitor for malpractice, but to actually give them a better understanding of what it's like to work in these places.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Anyone in Bents Green, at least, is plagued by at least two bags a week arriving with the usual junk mail (pizza restaurants/gardening services/Estate Agents/other nuisances).

[scousemouse 10]

Thre is a charity bag that been there for two weeks just of Abbey lane, the people don't seem to be bothered about taking it too a shop, that is the main reason I always take my unwanted goods directly to the shop,