#riskyshift

riskyshift — yureru

34 people have responded so far. The demographics reflect my social network. 80 % are  female, All are over 25 years and more than 50% are over 60. 95% use charity shops at least once a year.  85% use high street outlets. They buy everything that charity shops sell but the biggest sellers were in order of preference 📚, CDs and DVDs, women's clothing and household goods. More than 80% want to save 💰 and/or support a good cause. 40% are motivated by environmental imperatives and a similar amount want to find vintage clothes or collectible items. No one was planning to resell goods on eBay for profit. Less than 10% thought that charity shops would save them time. Only 20% use apps or email reminders and 20% said they were not interested in using an app. 20% like the thrill of finding something unexpected. But   40 %  were “early adopters” and said that they were interested in using an app to alert them to a good deal or a preferred item at a charity shop. Another 10% say they would follow on if others were using it.  I found the results of this survey to be encouraging and I plan to follow up with some people who said they would be happy to have a more detailed conversation. I think it was useful to do this because a small amount of external validation  has helped me to decide to stick with this 💡. I will explore further other crowdsourcing tools to use because I recognise this this group is more likely to be skewed towards my views than a more random group, and some of them might have been giving me the feedback they thought I wanted to hear. #Wisdom of crowds#madness of crowds#riskyshift#groupthink