This guy was 99 cents...
Op shop workers CANNOT price thing properly. They are sloppy and odd in their methods of choosing a specific price and each shop varies so much. I went to one the other day which had reasonable prices, whereas another one (from the same chain of stores) had astronomical prices. Why? I just don't get it. Gone are the days when it was about helping people, and buying something used at a great price. Now most of the used items you find, you can find new at nearly the same price!
Now it's become a money making scheme, hardly anything to do with charity. And what does most of the money go toward? I bet it's for advertising, paying the op shop workers wages and upgrading / prettying up their stores.
Having said all that, the best times to go are with somebody you know that has a government pension/concession/student card because they get a small discount on Tuesdays (at least most of the op shops have this in Western Australia) or when you know they have half price days. Half price days can be hard to find because a lot of them don't advertise it. But, you will know it's half price day when you get there - they usually have a big sign on the window or a worker will tell you when you walk through the door. It's pot luck really when you think about it - and with all that money they are making, why can't they advertise it??
Well, that's my op shop gripe for today. But of course, I will never stop op shopping! Not even if I become a millionaire (as my husband insists that's what we'll become after he completes his new 'invention'. LOL. Oh it's all very hush, hush, so I can't talk about that... sorry. :/
