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I’ve done that a couple times here, on ebay, wherever. Put a jacket up for sale and priced it thinking I paid x for it, but in reality I paid y. So many jackets so little time. It happens.
Well put, I wish I could express myself as wellStruggling with this one. I think I may change my answer alot depending on the circumstances. For instance. If someone is purely buying the jacket to flip it and they're doing it over and over again, essentially taking jackets off the market to create some sort of monopoly, then I'd be against this. If someone is buying a jacket, tries it on, doesn't like it, maybe does some clean up, fixes, etc. and adds some extra to it to cover shipping/time/whatever, I got no problem with that.
Being this is an "informed" crowd, I doubt someone is getting some sort of sleeper jacket that no one knew the true value. What I think happens more times than not is just a matter of timing. Certain brands, styles, etc. get hot around here and those tend to move quicker as a sort of frenzy develops. There could also be a dry spell of certain things or just an over supply. And those sit around and the price drops. All this is economics 101.
My straight zip Cal I bought on here, the TFLer picked it up for peanuts at a thrift shop. Didn't even realize what he had until people here confirmed it. I paid probably 7 or 8x what he bought it for. TBH, I have no issues with it. I didn't expect him to sell it for the thrift store price. I guess you could make an argument that the "community" made him realize what he had and therefore he should have been less aggressive with the price. IDK, I could flip a coin on this one and be wrong or right in either case LOL.
Bottom line, other than maybe at best covering my shipping costs over the price from the first transaction, I'm pretty sure I typically lose $50-200 bucks on anything I've bought and resold. I'd say that's happened at least 10-15 times. I think the people who are trying to do this as a side hustle are going to get burned more than they make a few bucks here and there. Again, unless they are very quick fingered and buying everything up or at least the jackets that have some potential for upside when the timing is good, most jackets seem to be fairly priced give or take 10%.
The other scenario I'd comment on is people buying jackets here and then flipping them on Ebay. Now obviously this is a more dangerous game because of the fees and need more higher pricing. Fundamentally I'd be against this as I like to see the jackets stay in the TFL community. But if said person honestly tried to sell the jacket here and there's no takers and he gets a higher price somewhere else, it's a little hard to cast judgement on that. Again the circumstances, frequency and just overall intent would get a different answer from me.
Bottom line, I think it's one of those you know it when you see it kind of things. I'd say generally speaking the more extreme cases are breaking the spirit. Someone adding like $50-100 to what they paid to hopefully cover shipping and leave room for negotiating, I have no problem with that, even if they doing it 1000 times.
Denim & Supply is a low tier cheap sub brand from RL, that jacket is not worth that at all. Just because of that the $500 price tag is quite funny but seeing it sold for 150€ first it's even more outrageous. Even the $245 are because he didn't do a single thing to the jacket.So how do we feel about this?
Original listing :
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...arnstormer-jacket-sz-m-40.106621/post-2886181
Now listed for more than three times the money :
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/ralph-lauren-barnstormer-sz-m.109829/post-2974609
So how do we feel about this?
Original listing :
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...arnstormer-jacket-sz-m-40.106621/post-2886181
Now listed for more than three times the money :
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/ralph-lauren-barnstormer-sz-m.109829/post-2974609