What are people up to at the Endeavour Foundation at the Warwick tip?
On August 10, I was in Warwick seeing my doctor my daughter told me the tip shop was open. So we decided to go and have a look. As I enjoy reading I was having a look at the books. I picked up a box of Australian books marked at 50c a book. I thought I hit the jackpot so I took them to the counter to pay
for them.
The lady that was working there said that she had not sorted through them yet. I was willing to wait. I also told her that I was from Texas she then told me that another lady that works there liked Australian novels so they snatched them off the counter and she gave them to the man to put them out the back. I thought how dare you. I say first in best dressed. I have been upset since. I really enjoy reading Australian novels.
I wouldn’t care but it is the way the lady went about it. I am very sick with two diseases in my liver and there is no cure. As I get worn out a lot so I have to lie down, so I like reading. I have been buying my books new, because I don’t see many in second-hand shops. I am only on a disability pension and I can’t afford to keep buying them new.
Also my granddaughter went out there with her mum and she found a hat pin that she liked so she took it to the counter to pay for it. The man said to the lady behind the counter isn’t that one that you collect? Well my granddaughter got her hat pin but I didn’t get my books.
The shop gets everything for nothing and they are taking home what they want first. I bet they are not paying for what they take home. I wonder who else this has happened to. They pick through it and sell us the rubbish that they don’t want and charge us an arm and a leg for it. So wake up people at the Warwick tip shop and have a heart.
There are a lot of people out there who can barely afford to go to second-hand shops without being charged like a bull at a gate. If people like my granddaughter and I stopped going to second-hand places you all would close down. It’s not about the people anymore it’s about how much you can rob us. You do not care how poor we are.
Deidre Pavlicevich
Inglewood
