Help please!!!

[J Arnold]

I have an idea and would like to know where it stands on a legal basis please...

If I create a product and give the product to local charities to sell, they keep 50% once they sell the item and the other 50% comes back to me...

Is that a business or a charity?

Thanks

 

[fisicx]

It's a business.

 

[J Arnold]

Thank you. That's what I thought

 

[The Byre]

That's just 'Sale-or-Return'. If it were not a business, then half the goods on the shelves of Tesco would be classed as charitable donations!

 

[AlexMDS]

whats the service out of interest?

 

[Dimo]

Hmmm, charities. Not to put too much of a negative on it, my experience of offering products to charites is very rarely getting a response from letters/emails despite offering products with very good margins. It's left me feeling they're only interested in getting stuff for free!

 

[AlexMDS]

Hmmm, charities. Not to put too much of a negative on it, my experience of offering products to charites is very rarely getting a response from letters/emails despite offering products with very good margins. It's left me feeling they're only interested in getting stuff for free!

We do some work for a hospice and because of the type of customer they are the price reflects this yet we have lost work before because people donating the work to them in the hope for more paid work.

 

[Dheepika Cho]

I have an idea and would like to know where it stands on a legal basis please...

If I create a product and give the product to local charities to sell, they keep 50% once they sell the item and the other 50% comes back to me...

Is that a business or a charity?

Thanks

It's a business

 

[Mr D]

Hmmm, charities. Not to put too much of a negative on it, my experience of offering products to charites is very rarely getting a response from letters/emails despite offering products with very good margins. It's left me feeling they're only interested in getting stuff for free!

Having worked for a charity and done some selling of stuff at the market for the charity I can say for certain that each time we would have refused anything involving additional costs to us.
Free stuff, great. Stuff where a chunk of the sale would be going to someone else no.
Some of the charities had that as a policy of the trustees written up.

Maybe there are charities who will agree to say £200 retail value of sale or return stuff and happily give £100 (or whatever offer) when it sells. I've not come across any who would be happy doing the work.

 

[masterbee]

It's a charity. Actually, they take from you a pie for the poor but still refund you a amount for preserving your production. That's really a kind option and it would make you happier for the next donations.