Rejected - By A Charity Shop!

[hc4361]

Struggled to get a large glass 3 tier tv unit in to the car, took it to large charity shop that accepts furniture - and they refused to accept it.
Even though it is perfect, with black glass and shiny legs, these things just don't sell anymore.

Don't know why I'm surprised - I hate the blerdy thing :D

What to do with it is the question.

Have you ever been rejected by a charity shop?

[Mamyalynne]

Put it on Freegle and if it doesn't go then off to the tip.

[tiggerblue10]

Try the British Heart Foundation

https://www.bhf.org.uk/shop/donating-goods/f-and-e-collection

[woofgang]

yup a friend of mine did the Gone for Good thing. Three bags of new M and S clothes mostly still with the tags in, new fashions not olds stuff. No one wanted them.

[woofgang]

tigger it was the BHF who turned my friend down

[tiggerblue10]

My parents got rid of their old 3 piece suite to the BHF. They also offered them £50 for the lot but my parents told them to put that towards the charity funds.

[tiggerblue10]

They took my old TV a couple of years ago as well.

[Tilly2]

You should have rang them first, HC.

Do you have a local Freegle site? Someone might want it.

[Tilly2]

I was rejected by a charity shop because they had too much stock, so I took it across the road to another one.

[hc4361]

It was BHF. I've already tried Freecycle, Freegle and Gumtree so it probably will be the tip.

Shops are still selling them, unless they can't get rid of old stock.

[Tilly2]

It looks like the recycling tip then.

[Hopkirk]

Stick it on the pavement with a 'free' sign on it.

[Tuvok]

Hopkirk - apparantly they do that in Australia (don't know about the sign though!)

[Tilly2]

...or put 'For Sale' on it and someone will nick it! :-)

[hc4361]

Ha ha

[Prudie]

We got rid of a huge coffee table with BHF but not by taking it to the shop but by booking a collection online. They even emailed us a couple of months later to tell us what they got for it which was quite a bit more than we had originally put it for sale at on our local free ads site.

[Eve]

Are there any local charities who help with housing for people who have been homeless or something like that? That they might take it to be used rather than sold? This is one local to me, maybe something similar near you?

https://mustardtree.org.uk/get-help/community-shops/

[hc4361]

Great idea, Eve

[naomi24]

I agree with tigger. I've never known the British Heart Foundation to refuse anything. It's the only charity I know that takes electrical goods, for example.

[EDDIE51]

Like all shops, Charity shops have only limited space ! They can't be lumbering themselves with stuff they know will never sell ! It uses up space that could be used for stuff that WILL sell !
I used to work in a Charity shop. We got offered 100s of things that we knew would simply NEVER sell ! I had to keep explaining that we had rent and rates to pay , so we had to make a profit ! A lot of people seemed to think of us as a free dumping ground for rubbish to save them a trip to the 'Tip' ! One lady tried to give us a huge load of part full sticky jam jars ! She got very annoyed when I told her we could not accept them !

[naomi24]

You've certainly had an incredibly varied career, Eddie.