Right, so I've done a bit.
Look, you can see.
Look.
You can see over the table.
You can see daylight.
So I probably... it's not that much more to do.
It's just it's down the other end of the table.
And I couldn't stand there last night.
So I haven't got that much more to pack away of the boutique clothes that need to be priced.
And I'm writing on the bags what they are and that they need to be priced.
Because I don't want to use all the price labels and then them be stored up.
So what I'm starting to do, particularly for Blackwood, and if the other shops would like to do it for me please as well as their pricing, usually we do the bulk of the pricing, but I know obviously you get some stuff in.
We're starting to write the RRP on things so that people can see.
Now the RRP on this is £69.
Now there is a few things missing, okay?
But it is £69.90, okay?
So we're starting to write the RRP.
Now I'm not going to charge... I don't know.
I might put him up online for £25 first and see if we get any offers.
If we don't get any offers we'll put it in a shop for cheaper.
But there is parts missing, okay?
But as you know, things are dearer online.
So we're doing the RRP because we've changed our signs now from James Baby Bank and charity shops to James Food Bank fundraising shop, right?
Because we wanted to get away from the charity element because people kept coming into Blackwood shop and were saying, you know, charity shop must be really cheap, right?
Because it had the word charity on it.
In reality, charity shops are run like businesses, okay?
They run off business models to make money for the charity for people in need.
But I understand where people are coming from.
And we've got different generations of customers.
We've got our mothers which need help and our baby banks and shops work well for mothers.
And they work well with the clothes hanging up and the nappies and everything that we do that works really well.
The next generation we've got is the pain in the arse vintage sellers who want everything for £50, right?
So this will help us by writing the RRP because it will show the vintage sellers that we mean business and we know what we're talking about.
So hopefully we'll get rid of some of that.
Or they can pay a decent price for it.
And then if they want to take something like...
If I put this up for £20 and they bought it for £20, right?
And they want to wait around and see if they can get £45 for it.
That's up to them, isn't it?
But we've had a decent price for it.
I mean, I wouldn't pay £69 for that.
But there we are.
Some people will.
The next generation of customers that we've got is like my age group.
And my age group go really well.
They sell really well with the designer clothes like the vintage Levi's, the vintage Adidas, vintage Nike.
They love it.
They're like, oh, £20 for that jacket, no problem.
They're like, oh, Nike top £10 in a charity shop, no problem.
They'll pay it straight away.
Because they know the value of it.
And they like the vintage.
You know, they like that thing.
We also have like a lot of vintage customers that buy older clothing, older like Marks and Spencer's dresses.
You know, there's a niche in the market for that as well.
And then we've got older customers again that believe that charity shops are for people in need at the point of buying.
Now we do keep our price points low.
Like we have our £2 section and in there is the majority of clothes.
The only clothes that we ring fence are brand new, designer branded.
That's the only thing that we ring fence.
Maybe like a vintage dress as well.
Prom dresses are £20 and they go in the sale.
Somebody had a wedding dress the other day for £10.
Same with the wedding dresses.
We do it at £20 so that people can afford it.
We used to do £50 and people can't afford £50 anymore.
But we came down on the prices.
So we do do things cheaply.
But then we have to sell the other stuff that we're going to get a profit on for more.
That's what covers our running cost.
That's what funds the nappies and the food.
Food is expensive, nappies are expensive.
That's why we've come away from Jayne's baby bank and charity shops to Jayne's food bank fundraising shops.
So people can look at it and say, oh it's a food bank fundraising shop.
Which is at the forefront of everybody's mind at the moment of food banks.
It's very relevant.
It's quite on trend.
It's awful to say that the word food bank is on trend but it is.
And people want to support food banks.
So that's why we do it.
But what I want to say is we're writing the RRP on it to draw attention to how much it costs in the first place.
And how much value is still got in it.
I mean it's quite bad that this is.
I think there might be a couple of books missing as well and a Lego figure or two.
Because it says it's got four there so there's probably four missing in there.
So we'll figure it out.
Figure it out a rough price for it and see what we get.
If we get 20 to 25, brilliant.
If we don't, we get something else.
But if you see the RRP on something in a shop, it's at the time it was priced.
So today, Valley is selling for £69.99.
I've got something over there selling for £35.
It might not be £35 when you look at it in three months time.
Because maybe Argos have gone on sale.
So just be aware that at the point of pricing, the RRP's are correct.
So I've just put that up now as a disclaimer for us.
Like I said, our job is to raise as much money as possible for you guys.
Not to pay my wages, not to pay a company car, not to pay for my house, not to pay for massive bonuses.
Not for me to have lunch out and all the rest of it.
I don't even get my nails done.
Not for me.
Just stay out of me.
I'm not in my painting trousers anymore.
I have got rid of them, fair play.
But that's what we're here to do, is to raise money to help you guys.
