I don’t see a problem with that tbh. I buy almost everything in a couple of second hand stores. The first one is a regular one, with cheap clothes but is really hard to find anything good, half the time I left empty handed. The second one is almost a designer store where the people who supply the clothes knows about fashion and spend their time looking for cool clothes and everything they sell is cool, and I have to restrain myself or I would go broke.
I think there is value on looking and curating the good clothes from the thousands of crappy ones that are on regular thrift shops.
Thank you. I was a clothing flipper for a while, I was living in a relatively rural but well monied area and I got into it because the thrift stores there would have genuinely great stuff. It would sit on the racks at $7 or less for weeks, even through half price days. I have a good eye for quality, and so I started picking up things for a pittance and selling them online. My prices were less than half of original retail but still well above my original purchase price. I have a lot of fun combing through bins and racks and finding hidden gems, but it’s not for everyone and not everyone knows what to look for. I would make minor repairs, remove scents, stains, and pet hair, and list things with descriptive keywords, clear pictures and measurements.
I stopped when I moved to a place with much worse thrift stores (higher prices for less) but I still go and pick/shop for myself and my family. It was valid work, and I don’t begrudge any clothing flipper their profits. It’s just too competitive a business for the margin to be all that high.
agree. I do buy from online clothing flippers because I’d rather spend $10 online for a polo I know will fit than an hour hunting through the racks only to find nothing that matches my needs.
My local thrift store doesn’t even have dressing rooms anymore.
I don’t see a problem with that tbh. I buy almost everything in a couple of second hand stores. The first one is a regular one, with cheap clothes but is really hard to find anything good, half the time I left empty handed. The second one is almost a designer store where the people who supply the clothes knows about fashion and spend their time looking for cool clothes and everything they sell is cool, and I have to restrain myself or I would go broke.
I think there is value on looking and curating the good clothes from the thousands of crappy ones that are on regular thrift shops.
Thank you. I was a clothing flipper for a while, I was living in a relatively rural but well monied area and I got into it because the thrift stores there would have genuinely great stuff. It would sit on the racks at $7 or less for weeks, even through half price days. I have a good eye for quality, and so I started picking up things for a pittance and selling them online. My prices were less than half of original retail but still well above my original purchase price. I have a lot of fun combing through bins and racks and finding hidden gems, but it’s not for everyone and not everyone knows what to look for. I would make minor repairs, remove scents, stains, and pet hair, and list things with descriptive keywords, clear pictures and measurements.
I stopped when I moved to a place with much worse thrift stores (higher prices for less) but I still go and pick/shop for myself and my family. It was valid work, and I don’t begrudge any clothing flipper their profits. It’s just too competitive a business for the margin to be all that high.
agree. I do buy from online clothing flippers because I’d rather spend $10 online for a polo I know will fit than an hour hunting through the racks only to find nothing that matches my needs.
My local thrift store doesn’t even have dressing rooms anymore.