Lol I spent 12 dollars for a jacket worth much more.

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I found a good winter jacket at the thrift store I work at one with a removable hood which I prefer if some of my underneath things already have hoods. But if I was wearing it without another hooded thing underneath the hood it comes with would be useful. It appears to be a roxy brand like ski jacket I don't ski really but I figure a jacket designed for that will be nice to have. but I figure it should be sufficient to help me stay warm.

But then I went to the website for the brand and they are selling simular jackets for like 299$ plus and on ebay I saw people selling used ones for at least 50 dollars or more...I spent 12 dollars at the thrift store for one. Also I thought maybe when I looked it up it would be like 100$ at most but no their ski jackets are like nearly 300$ dollars for the cheapest ones they have. I was not sure it was that when I bought it, just looked big enough I could layer warm clothing underneath and IDK I liked the look of it wasn't till I got home and tried it on I noticed the part to like button around yourself to potentially protect from snow getting inside so I figure normally you would not have snow going upward into your jacket unless you are skiing or snowboarding or walking in a blizzard. So I looked it up and yeah sure enough I saved a lot of money getting it at the thrift store. Even on ebay simular jackets of the same brand used are still being sold for like 50$ plus.

So IDK I guess I would say look to thrift stores for winter clothes, like sometimes the pricers don't realize what it is they are pricing, so like you can get stuff that would be quite expensive new, for like way cheaper than its original retail price. I mean my store I work at could have at least bumped that jacket up to 20 dollars and it still would be a crazy bargain compared to the original price. That said it had a slight amount of visible wear so perhaps that had something to do with the price piont but over all its not all that worn out. And it even has a beer bottle opener with I guess some kind of napkin thing attatched to a cord in one of the pockets so I suppose if you need to open a beer out in the snow and it fizzes over a bit you have a napkin to wipe off that bit of beer you have spilled. I just never saw a jacket that came with a beer opener attached inside the pocket so you don't lose it before. IDK if the jacket already had that or if the previous owner just sewed it in themselves.

I don't really know what the point of this is, I guess its just you can find good things at the thrift store...so go there first, before paying full price for things because you can from time to time find some good finds and spend way less than if you found that good find at a more expensive store. Just kind of sucks being smaller because so much of the clothes that come through are too big like half the things I see that I like initially are like large size so it would do me no good to get it. And yeah even our pants section the size 1-2 is always the smallest tiny section and that is my size range for pants. I guess my theory is its so hard for us tiny 1-2 size pants wearers that don't have very long legs to find pants that actually fit, we just wear the s**t out of any of the pants we find that actually fit so there is nothing left to donate by the time we are done with them. Seriously my problem is I wear like size one pants currently..but seems the still make them specifically for people with long legs so as a result many of the pants that are my size are still too long and I hate it.

From where I came from, it's a common online business.
By buying quality items found from (whatever equivalent of thrift stores are), and then selling it online for a higher yet regulated price.


Said items are imported elsewhere, where it's supposedly as at least 3x to 10x as expensive.

I wonder if said imports, other than second hand items, also came from said respective thrift stores of it's origin.

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Interesting.
I'm already aware of some facts mentioned.


The bulks found here are brought and then re-sold per pieces.
Sure the bulk items I've seen so far tend to be random.

I've personally seen it plenty of times, heard it several times. Even offered a few times.

It's something that can be appropriately discussed, no different from setting a small eatery or setting up a small retail store within a village block.
Just different items, places, capital, etc.


And yeah... I've seen out of place articles not commonly used or worn within my region's climate.

It's a wonder why being a thrift store worker here tend to have lower salaries.
And are a LOT of thrift stores being built/occupied here, side by side with various bazaars and second hand stalls.

Many resellers and reselling imports.
Many of these stores don't even last for few weeks to few years.
Several neighboring competitions. It doesn't sell well alright.



As for business models, it's understandable. But I can't keep up with that kind of discussion, I suck at business.

Not a current or former employee related to said stores...
There's just something wrong here related to business concerning items and clothing most especially.

It's unknown if the same work here are also for the disabled and specifically the poor.
But that's likely not even how it works here.

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