Charity shop bargains?

I help out in charity shops both in the UK and Spain when we are there.    Its good to hear you have purchased some lovely items ValDa but give a thought to the charity that they were donated to.....     If you sell them and make a 'mint' I am sure the charity would benefit from a percentage of your profits.

I help out in charity shops both in the UK and Spain when we are there.    Its good to hear you have purchased some lovely items ValDa but give a thought to the charity that they were donated to.....     If you sell them and make a 'mint' I am sure the charity would benefit from a percentage of your profits.

You obviously didn't read my earlier post where I said just that:

Well, they're all packed up in bubble wrap now and in the car, so whether they're 'real' or 'fake', they are still lovely pictures and will be in pride of place on our wall in France.  I don't want to cash in on them, so they will be considered to be worth what we paid for them.  

However if some expert should come along and tell us that they are genuine, then I may sell them, replace them with similar prints, and give a large donation back to the charity shop where I bought them.  Like others, once I knew their true value, I would have a conscience about buying something valuable for which the charity could have got a lot more money. (It was the PDSA shop)

Excellent ValDa.   My apologies for missing your above post.  I knew you would really because you strike me as a nice person.....  Hope they are genuine.  A lot of people wouldn't though  - as seen on programmes like Flog It or Antiques Roadshow. where items are bought for a few coppers and sold on  for a lot of money.

If you live where in the town I think you live in there will be no shortage of charity shops and plenty more to go at.

I wouldn't get too worried about the charity missing from the number of requests we get for direct debits from them they are running more like a business anyway.

didn't type the top line right. ShouldI have read :If you live in the town I think you live in there will be no shortage of charity shops and plenty more to go at.( In a none storker type way)

sorry.

If you live where in the town I think you live in there will be no shortage of charity shops and plenty more to go at.

I wouldn't get too worried about the charity missing from the number of requests we get for direct debits from them they are running more like a business anyway.

...The charities I help are not big ones.  They are small local ones and rely on every penny they can get.