Local thrift store needs some help!

[Beachkid23]

Should I take the time to educate the person that puts jewelry in the case? They have one section that is said to be fine jewelry tested and marked. So they have a Bracelet marked 1/20 14 K gold filled. Asking price $119. Weight is 5 grams. Then they have another gold ring in there also 5 g Marked 14 K and the price is $119. So I'm thinking Whoever's marking the jewelry sees the 14 K and doesn't know what the 1/20th means. So I don't know if they woukd be offended by it but that stuff will never sell for that price and if it does someone will really upset when they find out that it's fake! So should I tell them what that 1/20 means? I think I probably will next time I go and take my loop

 

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[EccentricInTexas]

I'd offer them 75$ for the ring (seeing as by that weight I compute the value to be 127$).

 

[tamrock]

I see allot of overpriced items in thrift stores and I will tell them my opinion. They never seem all that offended and sometime they will re-price it. Many thrift stores where I live have a day they will do a 50% discount on selected items with a certain color tag that designate a particular product type, such as all jewelry will be orange tags and appliances will be green tags. On these discount days on the tags selected does get the high price stuff out the door and that solves the pricing issues for the store, as they know they can't take the time to research and train all the help to price every item correctly. They do get confused on jewelry, because the help may only be trained in the basic marks to spot the good stuff. So if they see a 10K 1/20 GF. They may just price it as 10K gold. They need to spot and put out hundreds of jewelry pieces out for sale. I stand and chat with the lady pricing jewelry all the time and sometimes she ask me what I think she's got. It's a great way to spot a treasure as its coming out of the bag.

 

[Lost&Found]

Do we tell them when an item is underpriced. It's all give and take.

What I have told them about is about restricted items that they might be selling such as endangered species or other items that are not legal for sale.

 

[Beachkid23]

Do we tell them when an item is underpriced. It's all give and take.

What I have told them about is about restricted items that they might be selling such as endangered species or other items that are not legal for sale.

Yes, I have noted a couple of recalled items to them. I do believe you cannot sell an item if it's recalled. Most of them I only know because I've tried to list them! And we are involved with DCF so we get the latest updates to what need to be replaced for children's safety in the Home. Example~ drop down cribs... That was a nightmare!

 

[jerseyben]

If someone has taken it upon themselves to run a business then they have also taken on all the associated risk. Let them run it (into the ground). Every resource that is discussed here is essentially available to anyone and everyone. Let them do their own work.

 

[OldSowBreath]

I've given up on giving advice at thrift stores and estates sales. Its almost always unappreciated. I shop more estate sales, where most items are grossly overpriced, than thrift stores. Down here, the thrift stores have the attitude that everything is a superlative treasure. I have found items that I wouldn't take from a free box at a garage sale locked up in a glass cabinet at Goodwill. At estate sales, I have found some things way under priced, but I have no sympathy. The family didn't want it, and the other hyper-inflated items make up for it. I will give advice at garage sales, especially when it is someone struggling financially, but I certainly will take a good deal and they have that I don't care attitude.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Don't waste your time, like OldSow said above. It won't be appreciated.

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[cyberdan]

Don't waste your time, like OldSow said above. It won't be appreciated.

I agree 200% besides the person you would be talking too probably wouldn't pass the info up the chain of command anyway.

 

[YumaMarc]

Most, if not all, the items in a thrift store are donated, meaning the donator put no value on it and the store has very little invested in it. They are not likely to lose money on any item, whatever price at which they decide to sell it. I say, let them stay as ignorant as possible. Keep a fairly close eye on things, and it their ignorance will be to your advantage. Yard/garage sales are another matter. If I saw that someone was in desperate need of money, I wouldn't want to feel like I ripped the off.

I had a friend in Arizona who worked at one of the more well-known thrift stores. He told me that when the delivery trucks arrive, or someone comes in with a donation, it is gone over thoroughly by the management if they are on the premises. A LOT of the items of real value never make it to the store floor, but are immediately stashed in the boss' car trunk, or otherwise carted away.

 

[twiasp]

I have one thrift shop in particular that lets me come in and sift through jewelry before it goes on the shelf. Also know for a fact from listening to the jewelry lady vent, that her manager and few others sift through the box when she isn't there and pick things out to take home for personal use, or to the pawn shop 3 buildings away. She has caught them doing it, and has gone to the pawn shop to inquire and they say they get employees all the time from the thrift shop. According to their rules, any high priced items are supposed to be sent to corporate but they never go, they end up with the manager saying he sent them but taking them to sell for personal gain.

 

[Baltimore]

I have one thrift shop in particular that lets me come in and sift through jewelry before it goes on the shelf. Also know for a fact from listening to the jewelry lady vent, that her manager and few others sift through the box when she isn't there and pick things out to take home for personal use, or to the pawn shop 3 buildings away. She has caught them doing it, and has gone to the pawn shop to inquire and they say they get employees all the time from the thrift shop. According to their rules, any high priced items are supposed to be sent to corporate but they never go, they end up with the manager saying he sent them but taking them to sell for personal gain.

Man, that is shady. Is this a charitable thrift store? Seriously though, who knew the thrift store world had a grimy underbelly?

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

let them stay as ignorant as possible.

Its a good point that, their ignorance will likely benefit us later some how. So I agree let them be stupid...

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[bigdaddywittenauer]

Yes you should. By having both items listed at te same price they are either showing ignorance of their stock and/or bad business practice; either could come to bite them later.