If a thrift shop wants Ebay prices then they need to list those items on Ebay! They need to price thier items about 50% - 60% of the Ebay price, and sell the item quickly to someone who will list it on Ebay. If there is little or no profit margin the dealers will let the item sit. The drawback to stores that put their good merchandise on Ebay is that I usually avoid those shops, as there is never anything good there. The manager has to strike a balance between getting top dollar for everything, and bringing people into their store.
In my experience hospice thrift shops are usually very reasonable on pricing, and have a nice selection as well.
-Jay
Hospice thrift stores don't ALL have the same pricing guidelines. Most thrift stores, even the larger more organized chain stores have their own pricing policies.
Let's not pick on one genre of thrift stores just because one might have bad pricing.
We don't dislike all Habitat for Humanity thrifts just because one manager has crazy high prices.
Review the store in the directory and see if they respond.
There's a local store to us that was upset that they were getting bad pricing ratngs.
"LOWER YOUR PRICES!", is what I told the manager that thinks he can get what ebay is getting for items. Ebay has thousands of eyes daily looking at each item.
People will learn by not getting shopped.
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