g7prs

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How many old clothes to do these folk think I have? I must get about five of these a week claiming to be for various charities. Who else gets these things on a weekly basis?

richs2891

I get them on a fornightly basis - I just use the bags as bin bags - saves me some money so I'm happy !

Richard

The Zohan

Regularly around 3 per week.

I only give direct to charities, not the companies set up who make money out of selling the clothes then pass on some of the money to the charities.

michaelro

Get quite a few - Handy alternative to bin bags

joey_turbo

iTrader: (26)

Get them all the time. Always seem to see them pull up on collection day in some rusty old van. amazes me that the people down my road fall for it. They are always Eastern Europeans that will just sell them at a boot sale anyway.

Lee247

Watch out for those things. Was reading about this recently. Absolute disgrace

http://www.mk-news.co.uk/News/Lithua...in-charity.htm

I don't get them, living out in the sticks

markjmd

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Get masses of them, very handy as spare bin-bags or for stashing shredder-paper for later use.

Hysteria1983

I have had one everyday this week!

I'm not sure where I am supposed to find this endless supply of clothes to donate, but looking at the bags around the estate, there are some finely dressed people out there somewhere. Possibly not the intended persons though.

grovesy

They showed this scam on real hustle. Collected clothes from an area of CHelsea and opend a shop selling "Vintage clothes".

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

clothing is worth about £800 a ton so they pic it up and weigh it in , simple , i never give to these people, robbing ****s

kingofturds

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There are a few here in our town that sell clothes at the boot sale while the women walk around tryig to sell fake gold rings.
Nothing like a bit of romanian culture to enrich our boot sales.

Clarebabes

I, as others use them as bin bags. My parents take them over to their house in France and haven't bought a bin bag for about a year.

If I have a clear out, I take my stuff directly to the charity shop. Then I know it's going to the right place. I took a working XBox down to mine a couple of years ago complete with about 8 games. They probably thought it was Christmas, but I doubt it even got on the shelves, one of the staff would have put a contribution in for it I reckon.

I once wanted to volunteer for one for that exact reason!

belliott69

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they have stopped delivering them to my house now after i got fed up with recieving them daily and decided to fill each one i got up with sheep ****.

g7prs

iTrader: (5)

I just got my second one today!!! I read the small print on the back and it said that £60 quid from each ton goes to charity!

The Zohan

Yup i read the small print as well and someone is making good money and i doubt it is the charities!

I am quite careful who i give to now - it seems sharp practice to me legal yes but they do not exaclty clearly advertise who gets what.

joey_turbo

iTrader: (26)

Tell me about it. Used to love a boot sale for a bargain. Now most of the sellers are foreigners selling crap.

chocolate_o_brian

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I haven't needed kitchen bin liners for a while anyway

skoobidude

Just keep them and when you have say 50 or so, just toss them into the last one you receive.
There you go, a bag full of bags!

mamoon2

Spot on!

kingofturds

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Or fill it up with old clothes then take a **** in it and give the bag a shake. It will be like one giant sized surprise bag for whoever empties it.

skoobidude

Very appropriate from a username like that ha ha ha

nick172sport

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did do that this week found a cat turd on a old jumper straight into bag

mouse555

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Always read the small print on the bag so you know which charity it is for before using it as a bin bag-we get several every week which we recycle as refuse bags.

pslewis

We get 2 a bloody day at the moment ...... I have stacked the bags up, unused, in the corner of the outside porch - still, they don't get the hint - the thick eastern european idiots!

Turbo2

For every 10 bags we receive through the postbox, I reckon we only get 1 van actually bothering to drive round our way on the nominated collection day. I usually end up taking any filled bags myself to the Sally Army shop, so probably more useful than funding "Lithuanian Cancer Research", ahem. .

room 512

Staff aren't allowed pickings unless they can prove they pay what the shop would sell the items at. Friend of mine works for Scope and if they are caught it is a sacking offence, one of the other managers has just been sacked for that very thing. They are also banned from doing car boot sales, even for their own personal stuff.

Camoscooby

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+1

That's what I'm gonna do, f**kers!