Donate 2.5 pounds and select up to 5 books.
Your welcome.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Is "your" bolded because its a trap for people to point out you used the wrong version?
Correct. You must be the rogue.
Your must be the rouge
My welcome what?
You would be surprised how many people need a writeup like the one in the post.
yeah ill take one order of 2 books, and uhh another order of three books
That'll be £2.50
£5.00 actually
Ah, my joke was that I am too stubborn with my pricing. You WILL have the discount, and you WILL like it. But maybe I'm too old and tired and convey it with a glare.
I like that each of you is trying to out-pedant each other in a very civil manner
It's arguably the only purpose of social media. 😂
SCIENCE BITCH
"1 to 5 books - £2.50"
A new branch of Mathematics has been discovered.
I see you're familiar with just gimme two fiddy and take some books theorem
2.5 weird F-shaped things
It's a stylised L, for libre.
I would do this to incentivize shoppers to take as many as possible. Like at a charity shop that needs to make room for a sizable donation or just to churn the shelves a little.
The sign is still pretty amusing tho.
We do an annual charity book collection and we do this towards the end of the day too. We really don’t want any books left if we can avoid it.
This was outside a charity shop. 👍
100 old karens with nothing to do must have argued that they are entitled to one book for .50
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This is one of those times where seeing it all written out feels redundant, but you know if those examples weren't there people would be asking if one book cost £0.5.
Guarantee it wasn’t written out first until they had people argue about it
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I’m sure they had to do this because they had too many people asking “how much for 3 books”.
That or just because funny.
Used books are hard to move. This is one reason why most libraries don't take donations. These sales are for clearing shelves more than for making profit.
A library I used to use would put old books for sale outside. If someone came in to pay for them, great, but if they happened to mysteriously disappear, that was fine too.
Speaking for myself, I'm too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can't trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.
My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It's been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent's walls every few months.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.
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I found out why they want to get rid of them fast. They're actually ice sculptures disguised as books!
that just means that those are really cool books
it's marketing
what's cooler than being cool?
Perishable books?
buy one get 4 free
Don't say it that way because people will take 5 and trash 4 of them just because. Labelling it this way, people will actually take 2 if they only want 2.
£2.50
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