Remember that kid in elementary school that wore velcro shoes that wouldn’t stay done up? That was me. If you really must know, the reason that my batman shoe straps wouldn’t stay in place is that the velcro was crammed full of lint, strings, dirt, and whatever else existed on the walk to school. No …
If you go to a thrift store at opening time in my area you’ll find a 30-person line, mostly made up of retirees. How early they get there I don’t know but I do know that some of them literally run through the thrift store and it’s pretty empty by the time I get there …
OfferUp is a legit place to connect with people buying and selling products. But it is also possible to get scammed because its popularity has made it a magnet for scammers. But with appropriate precautions, you can dodge the negatives of this platform and get good deals. In the past couple of years that I’ve …
If you resell authentic luxury items, like Gucci bags, you have to play the procurer, marketer, salesman, and fulfillment manager. And as if that isn’t enough, you also need to be an excellent authenticator. Because returns and chargebacks can ruin your payment acceptance privileges. And if your products are proven fake on a merchant platform, …
Let’s face it, anytime you create a luxury brand you’re also creating a super hot secondary market for your brand’s pre-owned items. Such is the case for Louis Vuitton. In fact, more pre-owned Louis Vuitton items sell every year than new bags. However, purchasing a used Louis Vuitton bag is rife with potential pitfalls. The …
If you’ve never walked into a Chanel store it can be a depressing experience. Believe it or not, there is more than the price that’s a downer. Chanel takes some of the most extreme business practices in the industry to ensure that their product is scarce. This scarcity, in turn, allows them to create urgency …
I hate shipping my eBay sales. I mean, it’s a problem I’m grateful to have, but when I sit down to send out orders I feel like those things are already sold. The mission is done and I need to find more things to sell. So what would add insult to injury when it comes …
Different items have vastly differing popularity in areas of the country. In our neck of the woods, Lilly Pulitzer at a thrift store is as rare as hen’s teeth. In all the time we have been thrifting, I can count on two hands the number of Lilly Pulitzer items we have found at thrift stores. …
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve put back sweaters and jackets at a thrift store because they have more pills than a junkie. Unfortunately, it’s just not thrifted stuff that has a pilling problem. Keeping my Patagonia Better Sweater free of pilling is a job in and of itself. For some reason, …
If you’re first getting into dumpster diving it can be a bit intimidating. I remember when I first decided to drive around in the evening and check out a few dumpsters…they were all locked up. Finding a dumpster that isn’t locked up, has the potential for some good finds, and isn’t crawling with people can …