If you need something like furniture, clothing or kitchen items you’ll pay less buying from a Facebook marketplace seller
I’d sort of hoped it was full of buttons or odd screws “that’ll come in handy one day” 😀
Ages ago they are all crap no idea how they afford to stay open even with the stock being free though they do sell more on eBay etc now
Cheaper than eBay 😂 (yes I just had to search it to see if they were on there)
There are people out there who collect old tins, I don’t get it, but they do. If you can get one of the tins from the 50’s they sell for over £50.
You could just not buy it, no-one’s forcing you 🤷♀️
I’m sure thats vintage
Tin looks in good condition to me. This is Britain’s longest lasting brands. Debate recently about the Lion with the flies. Brand has recently changed? What is the price. What is the problem? Would do well in a flee market.
Charity shop round my parents’ parts had a small box of lego, maybe 20 individual pieces mismatched from different sets, with a comically oversize price sticker stating £19. Thought they meant £1.90 and was informed “They’re very valuable, you know?” at the till.
Another group I follow on Facebook now on here 😄
That’s perhaps an old price tag before everything had a barcode to scan in.
You could clean this tin forever and it would still be sticky
Probably vintage, I think the one in my parents’ cupboard is over a decade old.
Golden Syrup??? More like “Olden Syrup”!!!
Ammirite?
They make more off donations the shops are a tax write off at this point
I love them.
I regularly get massive bargains on out of print books.
Lol, I saw what was literally some old wooden pallets painted white and marketed as vintage storage in a garden centre not too long ago…
We stopped going in our local sue Ryder furniture shop as the prices were just insane old tat dining tables that I could get from FB marketplace for £20 they had for £300-400 🤨 I wanted something I didn’t care about to stick in a spare bedroom so I could make a few airfix kits on
As someone who’s worked in a charity shop; someone put it up for a pound, got reamed by a higher up about the price, how they have to make money, and the price was upped after a quick eBay search. Now it won’t sell for months.
£7??? 😂😂😂
But, it’s a collectable so worth more than a new one at ASDA
Theyre trying it on because the dead lion logo has just been done away with. “Antique of the future”
Charity shops have no clue how to price items.
Thats why you get antiques dealers frequenting them. They’ll pick up bargains that the average retail worker is never going to recognise.
Feel like that boom of people reselling stuff has killed off the proper bargains there anymore.
OP is clearly a bit sheltered, there is a strong market for miscellaneous retro brand items like this.
Don’t knock the old tins I have one in the cupboard we sometimes use when getting the itch to bake treats
Although its a bit depressing that they are twice the size of the current ones in the shops
Did they ever have the plot? Charity shops have no way of figuring out what prices match demand, they could randomly generate every sticker and they wouldn’t see a significant change in income.
Charity shops seem to have huge spaces and sell very little, and the stuff they do sell is rubbish.
I’ll always look in charity shops for any bargains, but it’s usually tat, and the stuff that is good is always vastly overpriced.
Someone has swapped prices to scam the shop.
Ahhh I’d love to have that, fill it with double A batteries, maybe a pen and a rubber band… possibly a radiator bleed key.
These tins are for hiding paper money. No one will know.
plot twist: it actually contains a sewing kit.
Great tin. fill it full of weed and be very happy opening it on occasion…. Does golden syrup still come in such tins?
Charity shops seem to now be run by hoarders who don’t seem to want to actually sell any of their precious wares unless it’s outrageously overpriced.
Also seems like none of the have the concept of ‘what could someone get this on the Internet for, delivered to their door’.
Vintage.
I used to feel quite bad if I found resellable treasures at charity shop. For example I found a designer bag and made £50 on it, anonymously donated half back to the shop and made sure I went there if I needed any new stuff etc
Now if I find a secret bargain I’m just like “that’ll teach you for trying to sell made in china specials at antique prices”
My local oxfam has a CD of a metal rock band I’ve never heard of, I went to buy it as I buy any metal music for cheap but on finding out it was £9.99 I turned it down. Apparently “it’s sought after”. 6 months later it’s still there. My brother is more metal than I am with a collection containing over a 1000 albums, he had never heard of the band either. Oxfam needs to stop searching eBay for prices.
Some set dressers have more budget than sense
I used to work in a charity shop. When you’re pricing something, especially something like this, how else do you determine value other than looking it up. I’ve looked on eBay and this has sold for between £10 and £15.
Given it’s niche, I’d have probably done £5 just to sell it quicker, but 7 seems perfectly reasonable. Even someone looking to resell it will probably make a bit on it, but it would be a good deal for an actu at l collector.
Worst case would be it doesn’t sell and they’ll knock it down in a week or 2.
I also think it’s worth noting that lots of shops struggle for donations, so it’s not like they need the space, no harm in trying to get a bit more for it if the space would just be empty
Some people collect empty tins, and it’s a charity shop, it’s not all about finding bargains but also about money going to a good cause
it’s an antique!
I volunteer at a charity shop and I price stuff up as one of my duties. It really is a case of balancing what I think we can sell it for against how long it’ll be in the shelf. We really don’t know whose gonna be in the shop from day to day and buy something that they couldn’t find elsewhere.
If its on the shelf for more than a couple of weeks we’ll half the price, then maybe half it again after a month or so.
Personally I like to price stuff up reasonably low to get higher stock turnover. My general rule of thumb is to see what a similar (used) item has sold for online and charge 50% of that.
It’s a worthy local charity so for me it’s about making the most for that cause
r/thriftgrift
you’re going to the wrong charity shops, those based in city centres are not worth it. Found a pair of pure wool jumpers for £3 each in my local last week.
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If you need something like furniture, clothing or kitchen items you’ll pay less buying from a Facebook marketplace seller
I’d sort of hoped it was full of buttons or odd screws “that’ll come in handy one day” 😀
Ages ago they are all crap no idea how they afford to stay open even with the stock being free though they do sell more on eBay etc now
Cheaper than eBay 😂 (yes I just had to search it to see if they were on there)
There are people out there who collect old tins, I don’t get it, but they do. If you can get one of the tins from the 50’s they sell for over £50.
You could just not buy it, no-one’s forcing you 🤷♀️
I’m sure thats vintage
Tin looks in good condition to me. This is Britain’s longest lasting brands. Debate recently about the Lion with the flies. Brand has recently changed? What is the price. What is the problem? Would do well in a flee market.
Charity shop round my parents’ parts had a small box of lego, maybe 20 individual pieces mismatched from different sets, with a comically oversize price sticker stating £19. Thought they meant £1.90 and was informed “They’re very valuable, you know?” at the till.
Another group I follow on Facebook now on here 😄
That’s perhaps an old price tag before everything had a barcode to scan in.
You could clean this tin forever and it would still be sticky
Probably vintage, I think the one in my parents’ cupboard is over a decade old.
Golden Syrup??? More like “Olden Syrup”!!!
Ammirite?
They make more off donations the shops are a tax write off at this point
I love them.
I regularly get massive bargains on out of print books.
Lol, I saw what was literally some old wooden pallets painted white and marketed as vintage storage in a garden centre not too long ago…
We stopped going in our local sue Ryder furniture shop as the prices were just insane old tat dining tables that I could get from FB marketplace for £20 they had for £300-400 🤨 I wanted something I didn’t care about to stick in a spare bedroom so I could make a few airfix kits on
As someone who’s worked in a charity shop; someone put it up for a pound, got reamed by a higher up about the price, how they have to make money, and the price was upped after a quick eBay search. Now it won’t sell for months.
£7??? 😂😂😂
But, it’s a collectable so worth more than a new one at ASDA
Theyre trying it on because the dead lion logo has just been done away with. “Antique of the future”
Charity shops have no clue how to price items.
Thats why you get antiques dealers frequenting them. They’ll pick up bargains that the average retail worker is never going to recognise.
Feel like that boom of people reselling stuff has killed off the proper bargains there anymore.
OP is clearly a bit sheltered, there is a strong market for miscellaneous retro brand items like this.
Don’t knock the old tins I have one in the cupboard we sometimes use when getting the itch to bake treats
Although its a bit depressing that they are twice the size of the current ones in the shops
Did they ever have the plot? Charity shops have no way of figuring out what prices match demand, they could randomly generate every sticker and they wouldn’t see a significant change in income.
Charity shops seem to have huge spaces and sell very little, and the stuff they do sell is rubbish.
I’ll always look in charity shops for any bargains, but it’s usually tat, and the stuff that is good is always vastly overpriced.
Someone has swapped prices to scam the shop.
Ahhh I’d love to have that, fill it with double A batteries, maybe a pen and a rubber band… possibly a radiator bleed key.
These tins are for hiding paper money. No one will know.
plot twist: it actually contains a sewing kit.
Great tin. fill it full of weed and be very happy opening it on occasion…. Does golden syrup still come in such tins?
Charity shops seem to now be run by hoarders who don’t seem to want to actually sell any of their precious wares unless it’s outrageously overpriced.
Also seems like none of the have the concept of ‘what could someone get this on the Internet for, delivered to their door’.
Vintage.
I used to feel quite bad if I found resellable treasures at charity shop. For example I found a designer bag and made £50 on it, anonymously donated half back to the shop and made sure I went there if I needed any new stuff etc
Now if I find a secret bargain I’m just like “that’ll teach you for trying to sell made in china specials at antique prices”
My local oxfam has a CD of a metal rock band I’ve never heard of, I went to buy it as I buy any metal music for cheap but on finding out it was £9.99 I turned it down. Apparently “it’s sought after”. 6 months later it’s still there. My brother is more metal than I am with a collection containing over a 1000 albums, he had never heard of the band either. Oxfam needs to stop searching eBay for prices.
Some set dressers have more budget than sense
I used to work in a charity shop. When you’re pricing something, especially something like this, how else do you determine value other than looking it up. I’ve looked on eBay and this has sold for between £10 and £15.
Given it’s niche, I’d have probably done £5 just to sell it quicker, but 7 seems perfectly reasonable. Even someone looking to resell it will probably make a bit on it, but it would be a good deal for an actu at l collector.
Worst case would be it doesn’t sell and they’ll knock it down in a week or 2.
I also think it’s worth noting that lots of shops struggle for donations, so it’s not like they need the space, no harm in trying to get a bit more for it if the space would just be empty
Some people collect empty tins, and it’s a charity shop, it’s not all about finding bargains but also about money going to a good cause
it’s an antique!
I volunteer at a charity shop and I price stuff up as one of my duties. It really is a case of balancing what I think we can sell it for against how long it’ll be in the shelf. We really don’t know whose gonna be in the shop from day to day and buy something that they couldn’t find elsewhere.
If its on the shelf for more than a couple of weeks we’ll half the price, then maybe half it again after a month or so.
Personally I like to price stuff up reasonably low to get higher stock turnover. My general rule of thumb is to see what a similar (used) item has sold for online and charge 50% of that.
It’s a worthy local charity so for me it’s about making the most for that cause
r/thriftgrift
you’re going to the wrong charity shops, those based in city centres are not worth it. Found a pair of pure wool jumpers for £3 each in my local last week.
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