Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Ebay etc... Are people not buying anything anymore?

[Anonymous]

Just give it away. Are you so poor that you need to sell it? No one wants your maybe fake, maybe stained, maybe not fitting, expensive clothes.

[Anonymous]

Yep. I gave up since Covid. People want it for free, or they want to haggle. They flake on the pickup, etc. It was a great tool pre Covid but no more. Oh well, I guess they can dig though it at Goodwill or the Salvation Army now instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The market determines the price, OP. If other people don't value them as much as you, then they are not worth as much as you think in the resale venue. You have to let go of your assumptions and be realistic.

DP here. It’s not the price. I’ve dropped the prices down to comical levels, people still don’t want anything that isn’t free. They are super entitled now. So donate it somewhere I can write it off instead. I’m not having sketchy people come to my house.

[Anonymous]

Half is WAY too much.

[Anonymous]

Facebook brand groups like Tea etc. also mercari and poshmark bundles. I buy bundles of dresses/shirts from Tea and Hanna in my kids sizes. But like $20-25 for multiple items.

[Anonymous]

I still buy and sell on FB Marketplace. Half is much too high, or your items are not desirable. If you never got around to putting them on your kid, maybe they don't look that attractive to others either.

Popular items sell quick if priced well. Random stuff has always been a harder sell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have brand new clothing that my daughter out grew and never wore. New with tags attached.

Expensive clothing. I am selling for half of what I originally paid.

No buyers in sight.

Are times really that hard right for people right now?

This is the problem. As someone who shops mostly secondhand, I'm not looking for expensive brand name clothing that still costs MORE than new clothing from a basic, cheap store like Old Navy. I don't care what you paid new, I don't have a designer budget.

+1 If I’m spending more than $5-10 on a piece of clothing my kids will inevitably destroy, it’s too much. Cat and Jack all the way unless it’s from buy nothing and here. The people (like you apparently) who are willing to spend more buy new.

[Anonymous]

Personally I think it’s weird to sell clothes. Very bean county. Donate them.

[Anonymous]

People just want free stuff. Whatever you list it for, no matter how good a deal, they’ll want it for less.

I just sold something for half what I should have. I didn’t research the sales history and shorted myself hundreds of dollars. When the guy picked it up, he complained that an accessory, not shown in the photo, was not included and used it as an excuse to pay even less. The item it came with was basically free because he underpaid for it all and yet still he acted indignant about an accessory that wasn’t even shown.

I HATE reselling because it brings out the worst in people and I would often rather throw nice stuff away than deal with that kind of behavior. Same for the guy who offered me $30 for a pair of new $300 shoes. They will go in the trash first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People just want free stuff. Whatever you list it for, no matter how good a deal, they’ll want it for less.

I just sold something for half what I should have. I didn’t research the sales history and shorted myself hundreds of dollars. When the guy picked it up, he complained that an accessory, not shown in the photo, was not included and used it as an excuse to pay even less. The item it came with was basically free because he underpaid for it all and yet still he acted indignant about an accessory that wasn’t even shown.

I HATE reselling because it brings out the worst in people and I would often rather throw nice stuff away than deal with that kind of behavior. Same for the guy who offered me $30 for a pair of new $300 shoes. They will go in the trash first.

+1

People will try to make you wait all day for them, then act like you owe them. Hard pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just give it away. Are you so poor that you need to sell it? No one wants your maybe fake, maybe stained, maybe not fitting, expensive clothes.

Are you anti coupon too? Do you like to purposefully pay more for something than you need to just to prove you are not "poor"? What an odd post. We have a relatively high income and net worth and we still sell used items that have value. We also use coupons and price compare. We haggle aggressively on new cars and use credit card points for travel.

[Anonymous]

Clothing is everywhere, and most people don't care whether it was originally expensive or not, especially if it might be polyester.

Sometimes name brands sell better on eBay or Poshmark, because the whole country is so saturated with clothing. If you are trying to sell locally, cut it down to at least a quarter of the original price.

Like one of the other pps, I don't care asich about name brands, but am looking for natural fiber clothing I can't find in stores.

[Anonymous]

Now that there is buy nothing people give so much away. I give away a lot and occasionally will pick something up that’s being given away but rarely. My daughter mostly wears sports brands now but I can get Nike North Face , adidas etc at the thrift store on a discount day for less than $5 an item for shirts/shorts.
Coats/hoodies around $10….

[Anonymous]

For clothes you need to sell on Poshmark because that is your target audience for clothes. But also only really if they’re nice brands and in demand sizes. You’re not going to get half price anywhere though. People willing to buy from a non-retailer (who they can’t return anything to later on) and go through the effort of sifting online postings to find something they like are doing it for a *good deal*.

No one is going to bother doing all that and then paying $10 for a $20 Old Navy top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People just want free stuff. Whatever you list it for, no matter how good a deal, they’ll want it for less.

I just sold something for half what I should have. I didn’t research the sales history and shorted myself hundreds of dollars. When the guy picked it up, he complained that an accessory, not shown in the photo, was not included and used it as an excuse to pay even less. The item it came with was basically free because he underpaid for it all and yet still he acted indignant about an accessory that wasn’t even shown.

I HATE reselling because it brings out the worst in people and I would often rather throw nice stuff away than deal with that kind of behavior. Same for the guy who offered me $30 for a pair of new $300 shoes. They will go in the trash first.

+1

People will try to make you wait all day for them, then act like you owe them. Hard pass.

But why not just donate or give away in BNG? It seems so wasteful to trash something out of spite.