It’s a cycle you see a bit of.
Tip shop does a half decent trade rehoming junk.
Opportunists take over thinking “I bet I can make more cash” and jack up prices.
Then, nothing sells and tip shop is shut down as “uneconomic”.
either that or
the second hand shop down the road gets in the ear of someone on the council and, magically, the tip shop is shut down due to health and safety reasons.
I lived in a town where the local men’s shed ran the tip shop. The blokes got the boot because dodgy secondhand dealers got in the ear of politicians.
It was a brilliant tip shop because the people sorting the junk new what was what.
