I think people who sell second hand clothing should f*** off. The prices are now driven to extremes (like $50 jackets at value village). Less and less decent clothes are at the shops and it’s starting to fill with shein and temu crap. I know people who sell clothes who have ins with people at value village etc who they pay to text them when they are going to drop clothes on the floor or if they see something of value go give them a heads up. Seriously it should be an embarrassment to admit you buy USED CLOTHES and sell them back to your own community at marked up prices.
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Interesting perspective. In my small town I thrift for 100% denim (difficult to find without spandex added). Prices ARE way up on used clothing and yes, a lot of SHEIN with labels still on from original purchase. To each their own with this stuff – you are correct, thrifting is not the deal it used to be for the average consumer
Could not agree more!
I agree. I used to do a lot of secondhand clothes shopping on eBay because I could get good name brand clothes for Walmart prices that were lightly used
So instead of buying some cheap shit at Walmart or Kohl’s I could buy a second hand shirt on eBay for the same price and look like I’m more put together and the shirt will last longer and be a better quality
It’s getting harder to do this though
Thankfully I live near a mall so I’m able to go often and just shop salesRacks to make up for it
You should be upset at the system. We’re all forced to buy cheap ass polyester clothes at normal clothing prices, so OF COURSE vintage clothes are getting to be sought after and pricier.
The bins is a whatever that place is a warzone. The thing that really annoys me is those guys who sit around at the back of a thrift waiting for new racks and stuff to come out and they rush after it like a flock of seagulls
This is so real. Its so unfair that people can’t find anything good at the thrift stores anymore because all the depop girlies spent the whole day taking everything even remotely cool. I know they say “I dig through the bins so you don’t have to!” Ok but I have no problem digging for my own stuff. But now I can’t because all the good stuff is being sold for double the price somewhere online.
I don’t think this is unpopular. Except to those who do this shit!
I guess the one good thing coming out of Cheetoland is that new trade policies are going to make fast fashion a thing of the past. Likely fewer people are going to be able to shell out top dollar for “vintage” stuff online.
also while I’m at it– (and cause you shouted out VV) you can blame free trade for destroying the canadian textile and fashion industries–that is why we produce very little of our own clothing and why we end up with so much foreign fast fashion crap.
I’m not convinced that resellers are the reason that SHEIN, Temu, and other poor quality clothing are filling up the second hand shops. It’s a reflection of the availability of poor quality NEW clothes in the market. People donate those clothes more quickly because they don’t last long, or they were poorly constructed from the jump.
Sure, resellers are reducing the availability of good quality items in second hand shops, but it’s the clothing industry (particularly ultra-fast fashion) that is making thrift stores full of cheap polyester crap.