View Full Version : Is this yet another scam? / Third World clothing scam
Kevin Milkins
21-Mar-09, 16:38
I just had a yellow flyer through the door from a company that say they are collecting clothing for third world countries and will be back on Tuesday to collect any unwanted goods.
The flyer looked a bit suspect as it looked like someone with my spelling skills did the proof read before it went to press.
I did a google and I think my first instincts could be right.:eek: You decide.:confused
SHC Collections (Clothing Collections) - Sheffield Forum (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=3923722)
I think if you need a clear out then use your local charity shop.
yeah i received this aswell, thankfully i live close to the charity shop and ive already donated unwanted items
Did they leave a bag or are you supposed to supply your own? If so, just put a load of rubbish in a bin bag. save you a journey to the tip.
Bad Manners
21-Mar-09, 17:20
Scam or not anything that is of use to someone else we give to the local charity shops in this way we are helping our own community .
Charity begins at home
Not really a scam as such, but a registered company (see nature of business) from Companies House
Name & Registered Office:
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD
FLAT 65 RIVER COURT CENTURION WAY
PURFLEET
GREATER LONDON
ESSEX
RM19 1ZZ
Company No. 06437255Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 26/11/2007
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
5242 - Retail sale of clothing
So they are collecting the clothes with a view to re-selling them perhaps?
So they are collecting the clothes with a view to re-selling them perhaps?
This is what it states on the bottom of the flyer. you can make up your own mind as to how they work.
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD is a collecting company who provides people in third Wold countries with clothes for their families they can afford.It provides third worls countries sorting the clothes for distribution. It provides business for UK export, for transport companies.It provides employmeny in the UK factories grading the clothes.It provides employment for people collecting the bags from the door.
So realy they do alot. so why can we not help
Kevin Milkins
21-Mar-09, 18:10
So they are collecting the clothes with a view to re-selling them perhaps?
The heading of the flyer says "THIRD WORLD CLOTHING COLLECTION" and leaves you to believe that they will be sent to third world countries to benifit people that would need them most.
What it actually says is " They will be sent to the third world where the garments will be carefully sorted and worn again":confused
This is the flyer they send out (very professional with a hotmail address!)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ANSdtofBHtM/SUkm8pjAOJI/AAAAAAAABgU/xTY4dMCM_PM/s1600-h/scam.jpg
This is the flyer they send out (very proffesional with a hotmail address!)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ANSdtofBHtM/SUkm8pjAOJI/AAAAAAAABgU/xTY4dMCM_PM/s1600-h/scam.jpg
Professional.
Oh, the irony. [lol]
butterfly
21-Mar-09, 18:25
I will be giving mine to local charity's.
This is what it states on the bottom of the flyer. you can make up your own mind as to how they work.
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD is a collecting company who provides people in third Wold countries with clothes for their families they can afford.It provides third worls countries sorting the clothes for distribution. It provides business for UK export, for transport companies.It provides employmeny in the UK factories grading the clothes.It provides employment for people collecting the bags from the door.
So realy they do alot. so why can we not help
I hadn't seen a copy of the flyer but now that I have its obvious they are selling them on to third world countries not giving them away.
I certainly won't be "helping" to line their pockets no matter how much work they say it creates by donating.
I would like to publicly apologise in spelling 'Professional' as proffesional in Post #9, this has now been corrected, I hope that any further inconsistencies in my spelling in haste will not furnish further comment..
Thankyou
ShelleyCowie
21-Mar-09, 19:35
It was the spelling that cracked me up. Im no thesaurus though either.
Unfortunately i will not be giving any of my clothes, i like my clothes.
If i were to give away clothes its to the clothing bank or charity shops.
I would like to publicly apologise in spelling 'Professional' as proffesional in Post #9, this has now been corrected, I hope that any further inconsistencies in my spelling in haste will not furnish further comment..
Thankyou
There is no need to apologise bekisman it was obviously a typographical error rather than a spelling mistake. Sometimes our fingers can be too quick. It happens to us all.......including you Jox.;)
There is no need to apologise bekisman it was obviously a typographical error rather than a spelling mistake. Sometimes our fingers can be too quick. It happens to us all.......including you Jox.;)
To me......go on then, show me where! I dares ya. :D
Anyway, bekisnam knows I was only having a luagh.
We had this leaflet in the door today too. I donate to local charity shops or the clothing bank. If the goods were being sent to a third world country as a donation I might have given them a few bits, but not if the poor folk have to buy my old tat, but at first glance it looks as if is of direct benefit to the poor folk.
Tuesday about 8am is our bin collection time. I can just see the faces if the whole town is lined with black bags, not that they would touch them, but they would think the whole town was rebelling.
Anyway, bekisnam knows I was only having a luagh.
corse i was[lol]
I put all my clearout clothes shoes bedding etc in a bag and use the bins at the supermarkets
It must cost that company a lot of money to collect peoples charitable donation of clothes and take them down to Essex. I dont think this is a charity. this is one of those companies who get free second hand clothes, iron them, repair them and sell them in shops and make quite a profit. there was a programme about this on TV not so long ago.
It's best to put them to the cancer shop where money raised will go to cancer research.
Talking of second hand, have you noticed that homeaid in Bridge Street, wick are now charging £15 to deliver big items AND the same to collect donated items!!!!
Fran, Homeaid in Thurso have been doing the uplift/delivery charge for three years now. We paid £10 for a bed to be delivered in the early part of January 06 and the same again in February 06 for uplifts.
ShelleyCowie
22-Mar-09, 13:07
i had home aid pick up 2 really big items about a month or so ago and i never had to pay anything for it. The guys were really nice and spoke away fine. Was never told about a charge.
Think if people start chargin am just gonna start a huge bonfire in ma garden, then people can come and go with their junk as they please for free!! [lol]
I would gladly GIVE my clothes to the third world - but I do not want to see other people selling them to these people and no doubt making a profit.
Kevin Milkins
22-Mar-09, 16:28
I would gladly GIVE my clothes to the third world - but I do not want to see other people selling them to these people and no doubt making a profit.
Hi katarina.
If you read some of the posts on the link on the front page of the Org it would seem that many of the items sold does not even get out of this country and end up on market stalls.:confused
The blog by Destination Andyland makes interesting reading.:eek:
It must cost that company a lot of money to collect peoples charitable donation of clothes and take them down to Essex. I dont think this is a charity. this is one of those companies who get free second hand clothes, iron them, repair them and sell them in shops and make quite a profit. there was a programme about this on TV not so long ago.
It's best to put them to the cancer shop where money raised will go to cancer research.
Talking of second hand, have you noticed that homeaid in Bridge Street, wick are now charging £15 to deliver big items AND the same to collect donated items!!!!
You are 100% correct in thinking that this is NOT a charity - its a new slant on 'Steptoe & Son'.
I have little knowledge of HomeAid as anything I have surplus goes to the Hospice Shop. Just maybe HomeAid is going the way of some other 'charities' - pay the wages and expenses first and forget the needy which is why it was started.
Kevin Milkins
22-Mar-09, 16:48
You are 100% correct in thinking that this is NOT a charity - its a new slant on 'Steptoe & Son'.
I have little knowledge of HomeAid as anything I have surplus goes to the Hospice Shop. Just maybe HomeAid is going the way of some other 'charities' - pay the wages and expenses first and forget the needy which is why it was started.
Slightly off thread, but a true story none the less.
I had some items that I wanted to get rid of and a friend said "why not take them up to the Hospice" and not knowing what a hospice did in them days I asked "whats an hospice"
Quick as a flash another friend said about a gallon and half.:confused. I wouldnt say i was slow on the uptake, but it was some time later that the penny dropped.
Okay, this one I do know about, though not the particular company. The clothes and stuff you donate to charity shops or organisations that forward them to Africa sell them to wholesalers in large pallet loads. They are auctioned off to wholesalers who kind of take pot luck though some are more skillful than others.
These end up in Sangwapo markets where a lucky person can pick up a designer suit or skirt at a bargain price. The charities (the reputable ones that is) use the proceeds of the sale to the wholesalers for useful projects. However there are some entrepreneurs realising that there are simple profits to be made here and are commercialising this trade.
I can't comment on this company or leaflet but I would recommend donating your second hand stuff to a charity you personally have an affinity to or respect for.
Please don't imagine that well meaning charity workers are trawling refugee camps and clothing people with your old suits and dresses as that is both unrealistic and impractical.
It's sad that even in the legitimate trade there are profit taking middle men but it's a compromise that benefits the final end purchaser and the reputable charity.
Ooh that was a long post and I'm not even in Caithness yet.
Sorry
as mentioned earlier some people give to high street charity shops, I was put of when I read in the Times that it cost £6 million for cancer research to change their company logo. Not where I wanted my donation to go thats for sure.
Fran, Homeaid in Thurso have been doing the uplift/delivery charge for three years now. We paid £10 for a bed to be delivered in the early part of January 06 and the same again in February 06 for uplifts.
Yes if you buy something you pay for its delivery, thats fair enough.
But this is a new thing where they charge you £15 to collect an item from you which you are donating to them free of charge. There is a new notice in the shop window about this. I think they wont get many donations now.
as mentioned earlier some people give to high street charity shops, I was put of when I read in the Times that it cost £6 million for cancer research to change their company logo. Not where I wanted my donation to go thats for sure.
If you want to help with cancer, give it to Caithness macmillan nursing care then it will stay in the county and help local people with cancer. They really do great things for people here with cancer.
A great idea would be to have a thrift shop where everyone donates items and clothing and then the money raised could be given to local charities.
As well as giving support and aids like special matresses, recling chairs, wheelchairs rtc etc to cancer patients, macmillan also have a lovely suite in the Town and county for cancer patients, where they have their own bedroom, sitting room and bathroom with mod cons, tv, music, kettle etc etc and your family can stay overnight..
Aaldtimer
23-Mar-09, 04:18
If you want to help with cancer, give it to Caithness macmillan nursing care then it will stay in the county and help local people with cancer. They really do great things for people here with cancer.
A great idea would be to have a thrift shop where everyone donates items and clothing and then the money raised could be given to local charities.
As well as giving support and aids like special matresses, recling chairs, wheelchairs rtc etc to cancer patients, macmillan also have a lovely suite in the Town and county for cancer patients, where they have their own bedroom, sitting room and bathroom with mod cons, tv, music, kettle etc etc and your family can stay overnight..
Yeh, my sister who died from cancer some years ago always said to support Cancer Relief, rather than Cancer Research.
The MacMillan Nurses, and the highland Hospice are the ones for me locally.
Kevin Milkins
24-Mar-09, 11:00
Well, dispite many of us saying that we won't be putting our goods out for collection there are many more others that have.:confused
There have been three collectors in our street this morning that have carried all the bags to one collection point at the end off the street and just our street alone there are about 20 bags .:eek:
Well, dispite many of us saying that we won't be putting our goods out for collection there are many more others that have.:confused
There have been three collectors in our street this morning that have carried all the bags to one collection point at the end off the street and just our street alone there are about 20 bags .:eek:
You could always donate a few of your Tank Tops.:D
George Brims
24-Mar-09, 20:43
This is the flyer they send out (very professional with a hotmail address!)]
"professional" - and they are using a free email service? I don't think so.
Yes Kevin, i have noticed a lot of filled black bags with the yellow flyers attached outside peoples door in wick today.!!
The British Legion has a thrift shop going just now in coach road, Wick. There's a good place to put your old clothes and bric a brac. All money goes to help local veterans and local servicemen serving abroad etc.
crashbandicoot1979
08-Apr-09, 18:56
Not sure if a thread has been posted on this before (apologies if it has - mods please merge if this is the case). Just a heads up to warn you that if you get a flyer like this through your door, please be aware that it is a scam. The clothes are not sent to third world countries, they are sold on purely for profit and the not so good stuff just dumped. These people are operating all over the UK and are currently leafleting in Caithness.
http://www.headington.org.uk/pics_headington/pics_news/clothes_collection/pajury.jpg
dirdyweeker
08-Apr-09, 19:02
Yes this has been on recently. Here is a link to the thread.
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=71338&highlight=world+clothing+scam
crashbandicoot1979
08-Apr-09, 19:05
Thanks dirdyweeker. Thought it might have already been mentioned but I couldn't find it. Will ask mods to merge.
thats exactly the leaflet i got today, thought there was something suss aboot it.
ShelleyCowie
08-Apr-09, 21:03
I have had a few of them leaflets.
I give to nothing like that anyway. I donate to local charity shops whether its money or clothing, toys or other things.
purplelady
08-Apr-09, 23:23
Have had 2 so far in as many weeks and in the bin they go x
I do not participate any any of the yellow flyer scams however I have left plastic Charity bags full on the appropriate days for collection and never been picked up because I have a long secluded driveway they dont bother to look and pick up worst offenders Cancer and Heart and Stroke charities that said bags were put in the S Army bins at Tesco
Also at one time we had a perfectly good 3 pce Suite and stool all leather immaculate cond incase you think I was changing for colour etc we could not fit it in our new house but certain charity had too much stock and didnt know when said Items could be uplifted or if they even wanted them
So once agin I gave it to the AV og who picked up and assured me it would go to a good home and had a real good blether with the mannies who uplifted who appeared to know everyone in caithness as they had gone fishing there
Aaldtimer
09-Apr-09, 03:23
..."So once agin I gave it to the AV og "...
AV og?:confused
Well, dispite many of us saying that we won't be putting our goods out for collection there are many more others that have.:confused
There have been three collectors in our street this morning that have carried all the bags to one collection point at the end off the street and just our street alone there are about 20 bags .:eek:
Noticed this in our street too! Would have been nice if they had actually come back to collect them. After lying there for a few days they were kicked up and down the street, clothes lying everywhere.
Best of it is we got another one of these flyers through the door yesterday!
annthracks
09-Apr-09, 10:37
http://andy.2boyz.co.uk/?p=618
Yep - we had one all the way down here near Reading. We always take ours to Oxfam or the Humana bins.
Its a scam, I had to announce this on my radio show 2 weeks ago. Obviously not a lot of listeners as there were bags and bags of stuff on the streets the next day
But you've got to be canny about these things. Why would a 3rd world country want perfume???? As highlighted on the leaflet.
I notice my neighbours have put bags out for them today, they are getting wet in the rain, I am wondering what kind of van will collect them!!
I thought I'd go back to this as I just heard a piece on Radio 4 You and Yours programme with an interview from a representative of the Association of Charity Shops.
Apparantly the price of second hand textiles has shot up hugely in the last couple of years and there are now many for profit operators trying to muscle in on the Charity market.
The advice was to check the leaflet or label with any bag for a registered charity number and you can check it here http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RegisterHomePage.aspx?Language=English&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
I didn't know that, so maybe you didn't either ;)
[edit] Just realised that only covers England & Wales... for Scotland check here http://www.oscr.org.uk/
You will probably recieve a leaflet from SHC Collections Ltd asking you to donate any of your old unwanted clothes which will be sent to the Third World where the garments will be carefully sorted and worn again...
COLLECTION DAY IS
FRIDAY
Charity Shmarity
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD is a collecting company which provide people in need in Eastern European countries with affordable clothes for them and their families. It provides jobs in Eastern European countries for those sorting the clothes for distribution. It also provides business for UK export transport companies as well as creating employment in the UK factories grading the clothes and those people collecting the bags door to door. SHC COLLECTIONS LTD, Company reg. 06437255 e-mail: shccollections@hotmail.com
This is the bit that really rubs me up the wrong way. At first glance, most people will think this is a charity, when in fact it’s nothing of the sort. One of the major giveaways is the inclusion of a company registration number instead of a registered charity number. Oh yeah and don’t get me started on the email address, of course, all the reputable companies I know use Hotmail, errr no!
According to Companies House they have been running less than a year.
Name & Registered Office:
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD
260 BOWES ROAD
LONDON
N11 2JH
Company No. 06437255
Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 26/11/2007
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Take your old clothes and give them to the local charity shop in Thurso or Wick such as HomeAid, Cancer Research, Red Cross, Highland Hospice etc who really need the goods rather than some company in London making money under false pretences.
Just do a search for SHC Collections Ltd for yourself.
Regards,
annthracks
20-May-09, 12:05
I see they're on their rounds AGAIN! filed under WPB..
Mr P Cannop
20-May-09, 13:13
You will probably recieve a leaflet from SHC Collections Ltd asking you to donate any of your old unwanted clothes which will be sent to the Third World where the garments will be carefully sorted and worn again...
COLLECTION DAY IS
FRIDAY
Charity Shmarity
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD is a collecting company which provide people in need in Eastern European countries with affordable clothes for them and their families. It provides jobs in Eastern European countries for those sorting the clothes for distribution. It also provides business for UK export transport companies as well as creating employment in the UK factories grading the clothes and those people collecting the bags door to door. SHC COLLECTIONS LTD, Company reg. 06437255 e-mail: shccollections@hotmail.com
This is the bit that really rubs me up the wrong way. At first glance, most people will think this is a charity, when in fact it’s nothing of the sort. One of the major giveaways is the inclusion of a company registration number instead of a registered charity number. Oh yeah and don’t get me started on the email address, of course, all the reputable companies I know use Hotmail, errr no!
According to Companies House they have been running less than a year.
Name & Registered Office:
SHC COLLECTIONS LTD
260 BOWES ROAD
LONDON
N11 2JH
Company No. 06437255
Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 26/11/2007
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Take your old clothes and give them to the local charity shop in Thurso or Wick such as HomeAid, Cancer Research, Red Cross, Highland Hospice etc who really need the goods rather than some company in London making money under false pretences.
Just do a search for SHC Collections Ltd for yourself.
Regards,
got this though our door this morning
telfordstar
20-May-09, 13:58
I got one of these leaflets through door the day. noticed that they are looking for perfume as well bit strange i thought but maybe thats just me. I however will be doing what i always d when i have a clearout either cancer shop or blythswood.
Kevin Milkins
20-May-09, 16:45
Ours is to be collected in Wick on Thursday.
Despite having a lengthy thread on this scam started on the 23rd March Is this yet another scam? / Third World clothing scam (http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=71338)
I had a drive around Wick on the collection day and was amazed at how many bags that were left out for them.
Their were three dodgy looking guys putting them in piles at the end of the streets in ready for collection and they did not all get collected.
What would be a good laugh is for an organised party of us to get together and wait for them to put the bags at the ends of the street. I will put my trailer on and we could spend an hour picking up behind them and distributing the booty to the local charity shops.:Razz
Wicked idea Kevin. Charity begins at home though.
tiggertoo
20-May-09, 22:59
these clothing scams are the work of the foreigners this government lets into the country mainly romanions and lithoanions they sell these clothes on for £800 a ton,which are then taken abroad and sold on, there even breaking into the clothing banks you see about especialy down in cities, ive spoken to a few people from different cities who were telling me about it and are fed up with these foreigners robbing and stealing,trying to sell there fake rubbish jewlery,
these clothing scams are the work of the foreigners this government lets into the country mainly romanions and lithoanions they sell these clothes on for £800 a ton,which are then taken abroad and sold on, there even breaking into the clothing banks you see about especialy down in cities, ive spoken to a few people from different cities who were telling me about it and are fed up with these foreigners robbing and stealing,trying to sell there fake rubbish jewlery,
Cant blame them for trying to earn some money. The problem lies squarely with our Government for letting them in the country in the first place.
great idea Kevin, i will give a helping hand too!!! I was hearing that both cancer shops are short of clothes so give them there, not to these profit making scam people.
Is there nothing the local council can do about this? Is this not fraud?
i was in formed today that this is a scam.
the clothes is sorted out and sold in street markets and the people keep the money themselves. the clothes which are of no use have dumped at peoples/shop bins and when investigated it was traced back to these Lithuanian? people. Also the police have chased them out of many a place. So i was told today anyway.
put any unwanted clothes to your local charity shop.
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