26 October, 2017

cash for clothes and gold

I once read a book that mentioned selling clothes in bulk to a buyer but never saw one until we passed this sign in Ballybofey and this guy was bringing in bags of clothes.   This business also buys gold.






21 comments:

  1. If those are bags of gold he's really in the money!

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  2. I have never seen that before too. We have boxes in the street to put clothes in. Btw, the lamp you mentioned yesterday in my photo is a camera surveillance of the police. They hang all over the centre of Amsterdam for safety.

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  3. ...here clothes are often donated.

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  4. No doubt the guy is ripping people off

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  5. I have seen similar shops in our town but I'm not sure who profits from these organisations.

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  6. So what does he do with the clothes? I don't trust anyone buying gold. But clothes are even more suspicious. Oh, I know, there's a non-profit in New York run by a Trump surrogate; it has one employee and just got a 1/2 million dollar contract to provide clothing for certain African countries. (Nah, I just made that up, based upon a real situation running the same scam; only the real one is connected with the Interior guy, Zinke.)

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  7. Usually clothes are donated here. Something off about that.

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  8. I have never seen this before either.

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  9. I wonder what they do with all those clothes. Gold can be easily resold. I wonder if the clothes are also resold.

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  10. I usually donate my old clothes, but I guess this is a way to make some money for the business.

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  11. Neat! I've never seen a place that would buy your clothes. Here we just have yard/garage sales, I'd rather take them to a shop and be done with it.

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  12. I've never seen a cash for clothes either, Bill, until now!

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  13. Bags and bags of gold! ;-)
    I think if clothes are in bad shape they are sold by the pound to big companies that use them for stuffing etc.

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  14. Love the sign. Used Clothes and Gold...
    Used clothing stores (usually called Vintage, thrift, or Gently used) are a big thing right now. Well, at least they are here. Buy a kilo for 50c, then sell each item for about the same in a store. At least that is what they do in these parts. Sometimes people steal clothes out of the donation boxes, and then sell them.

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  15. I give a lot of clothes to Goodwill. I wonder if I could manage to part with more if I could get a little something for it. Sometimes I need more incentive. I've sold some inherited gold jewelry in the last couple of months to help fund my photography upgrades.

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  16. I know of and visited one of this boutiques a few years ago. They were paying cash for designer gently-used clothes, accessories and handbags. I remember seeing this dress (forgot the brand) with a $900+ price tag.
    : )

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  17. That's not much of a price. Maybe sellers should sew pebbles inside the seams.

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