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Lock downs, job losses and rising prices seem to be fuelling a rise in the sale of second hand clothes.It seems that Ebay sales have ridrn by 30%, and this report explains why the rise will continue. - https://luxiders.com/second-hand-market-2018/. It is slightly out of date, but the fundamentals still seem to be true.

I believe that this is a new opportunity for some of us to build extra income, especially if we can link payments to Bitcoin or crypto. In view of this, I decided to build a sales site with the appearance of a forum to sell elegant clothes, and I hope to encourage membership of this forum to boost Bitcoin usage. The site is called Rag St, and this is the thread that promotes this forum - Bitcoin Talk - the original Bitcoin training and discussion forum (https://ragst.com/index.php?topic=3.0). Let me know what you think I could add to that thread to boost the forum membership.

So what do you think about the trend to buy second hand clothes? Would you consider buying or selling clothes?

Second hand clothes are not entirely a bad idea, it puts reuse into consideration as a form of recycling hence, making ng things available for the poor masses and also, generating income for a vendor.
It's a market which gets it's source mainly from nations for from the equator and having series of weather conditions (summer, winter, autumn and lots more) that determines a dress code for each season hence, in stead of stocking them as waste or like seeds for the next planting season, you can just sell it off, earn some income to budget for the next season which is accompanied with it's unique design and trendy.
Most of these second hand clothes finds its market in countries close to the equator with a sole or maybe two seasons being the dry and rainy season. Though, the dry season seems dominant hence, they were more of summer clothes.
Therefore, if your looking for a market to offload a few seconds hand clothes and make some cash, you've got a market awaiting and a box to save your funds. A waste in one end can be useful in another.
Keep the recycling and reuse going.

I'm not so interested in selling the clothes myself. I want to create a free platform, and pick up some income from the advertising.

I noticed myself that there is huge demand for second hand clothes a few months back. Was very surprised when my great aunt sold some of heir designer clothes via Ebay for a pretty good prices. I wasn't aware people would actually buy them. But it seems like it if the quality is a good, and they look fairly new is so much cheaper than buying them new. Unfortunately most of my clothes are nothing special, so I don't think anyone would actually pay for them. The only thing I will sell this winter is my old Ski clothes and buy some new ones.

simple cause/effect is the lack of oppertunity to do face to face sale via (UK: carboot sales / US: garage sales)

people are doing it more from home
the downside is what usually costs them just £$5 for a 'pitch' now costs the £$3 an item in delivery fees's so more costly to both buyer and seller

when you can get a simple tshirt for £$2 from asda/walmart.. why would you buy secondhanda shirt for £$5 online, not knowing if it wil fit or what state it actually is in

its a gimmick to think you can 'get rich' via online trading via only a few spare second hand shirts. but sory its not a good income stream

People really interested in buying those stuffs? I wouldn't do it for sure.

Probably people are selling whatever they have on ebay life platforms due to no source of income but appreciate your effort of building a free platform and interested to see how many of them are really interested in crypto community.

Who knows maybe your platform will become a ebay like traffic site in the future.Good luck bro. :-*

You might be right. I thought it was a great idea, and had this cool name picked out. But you've listed so many negatives and they're all true! Anyway, the name was cool. EBAY.

Well if you are the sort of person who buys £2 tee-shirts, then you probably won't appreciate a well tailored shirt made from silk, linen, or sea island cotton. Car boots are active at the moment here in Hampshire btw. I don't sell there,but I have a friend who is getting rid of some of the stuff from my garages at car boots.

The sharp eyed amongst you will have read the title, and appreciate that reports are saying that second hand sales are booming. This is especially true for quality and vintage clothing I believe, I know several women who used to think nothing of spending a few hundred pounds on an outfit to go to a formal party, and sometimes they would buy two or three pairs of shoes at over £100 a time, and may never wear some of them. With the move to downsizing of housing, and moving out of city centres, there is probably a bit of wardrobe clearing going on. I wanted to tap into that market. RagSt.com was an unused domain name of mine, and "rag street" is a name that is used by several boutiques around the world, especially those selling elegant clothes for women. "Rag St" is sufficiently different to create a selling site online to exploit the association. I used the forum structure because I don't want to sell items myself, but I wanted to create a venue for sellers and owners to meet, and the sellers can sell on Rbay, Facebook or wherever they choose.

I know that there is big market for second hand clothes and it's continue to grow. But I doubt that such marketplace with Bitcoin payments is very good idea. These clothes usually costs just few bucks and I don't think that Bitcoin is the best payment option for such small purchases.
And I'm not interested in buying second hand clothes. Offcourse, it's possible to find good quality clothes and famous brands there. If we talk about physical stores, you have to dig among so many terrible clothes which probably wouldn't be accept by charity to find something worth attention.
If we talk about online marketplaces, again it's time consuming to find something good there. Personally, I rather would buy cheap, but new clothes. And wouldn't bother to sell my clothes online. Pack it, go to post, pay for delivery. Is it worth efforts and time to get $5 in the end?

This happened in my country as the "socialist" economy was put into full motion, with the collapse of the system as everyone got poorer, the exact same things happened. But not too long after, even second hand becomes too expensive to buy. You keep your clothes until you just can't fix them anymore, THEN you go to the second hand shop. The only ones getting "new" (even fashion brands) are the new rich elite linked to those in power, those internationally defended by "socialists".

Of course you also try to repair anything you have rather than replace it. Unfortunately only the older devices can be easily repaired, those are also less efficient or parts are no longer available...

Then you'll see obtaining protein becomes difficult. You will have nice memories of those days where you could eat meat more than once per month...

One interesting effect of Corona, is that many "wealthy" countries have felt a bit of what it is life like in failed socialist/communist regimes. Corona is passing, but those of us trapped under oppression, have nowhere to look.

Try to live with only 1 dollar a month and see how well it goes. Don't worry, the socialist State provides food... to their party friends; so its not like you needed money like those decadent capitalist countries. Too bad the healthcare, education and basic services are all broken or failing so bad not even (somehow) having money will help you.

And people wonder how 20% of the population fled this country. I guess corona is helping the State feed less people.

I don't think that second hand clothes industry is going to boom.
Shopping and buying clothes is something like a very important process to people. Sometimes people get emotionally attached with their clothes so it would be hard for them to sell to another people something that they have strong bonds and many times those clothes are connected with memories of their life in the past.

Second hand EVERYTHING sales have been blowing up. Like literally, EVERYTHING.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/economy/inflation-used-cars/index.html - Used car sales are booming due to the pandemic, people can't use flights and such right now.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/21/lifestyle/rv-sales-rentals-are-skyrocketing-during-pandemic/ - RV Sales and rentals booming as well, makes sense given the fact that people want to go out into the world and this is the safest way to do it.

Makes sense, given the fact that these are typically cheaper and get more bang for your buck. Helps during a pandemic.

In this time of crisis, we need to be practical in everything. We don't have to be luxurious as most people around the globe is suffering. We don't need materials things to be happy, so I am with this movement.

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What in gods name are you even saying here?

You understand that while yes we are in the middle of a pandemic, and with that, a recession, we can't just stop buying things because some people aren't doing well. We need to keep consuming as a society because our economy depends on it. If everyone just decided that they were going to abstain from buying 'luxury' goods then the economy would take a hit and more people would be out of their job.

I'm not suggesting that Bitcoin is used to purchase individual items, but if I send a crate of clothes to Nigeria ( say ), then Bitcoin could be a useful payment method for the whole crate load.

Where I am at (English speaking SE Asian country) there is a fair bit of small scale local sewing industry.  Just an extended family and some treadle sewing machines in lots of cases.  There are a lot of festival costumes, school dress codes, etc, that provide enough business to keep such a cottage industry going.  Or there were until the so-called 'new normal'.  Now these people are delighted to have something to do and to make enough money for a bag of rice to feed the family.

Conventional logic and assumptions told me that there was no way to compete with the sweat-shops when it came to cheap clothing.  It turns out that that seems to be somewhat wrong.  With a little capital to buy rolls of fabric at decent rates, a product can be put out with a seemingly pretty good profit margin.

The nice thing about small 'production runs' (a few hundred items) is that one can easily make adjustments to the product and try new ideas.  If something sells out, do another run of it and have a couple hundred more items in a few days.

Shipping finished items around the country is a hassle.  What would be cool would be if enough of a particular item for a city were to be born in the city itself, some of these transportation issues would be reduced.  I thought about making a 'platform' which would put capital, organization, and seamsters together.  Also provide some support services (packaging material, pattern exchange, etc, etc).  Sort of a 'distributed clothing system'.  Clothing is not especially high-tech and it is a thing which everyone needs frequently.  Probably a pretty good market actually.

I'm grateful for all of the positive comments about Rag St. It started out as an idea to utilise a domain name to match a few local sellers with potential clothing sources. It looks as if there is a much broader possibility. It is very early days for the forum, and I will have to consider how it can be expanded into a global contact service. Obviously my interest in Bitcoin will be useful, as Bitcoin overcomes the problems associated with payments.

I need to associate an image galley with the SMF software, and unfortunately Coppermine doesn't work with my installed version. Coppermine is the CMS offered in the package library/ I use Piwigo for some other sites, but I don't think that is suitable. I'll have a look through Softaculous and see if there is something in there.

I'll have a word with a few people to see if anyone wants to sell hand made clothing in England. Now may not be a good time, as Covid has shut down a lot of smaller shops, and we are coming to the end of the car boot season.

I think they fact on ground is that for those big buyers who buy second clothes in big and large quantities having to pay with BTC is not a bad idea tbh plus it will be quite easier, faster and cheaper.

To convert money currently in my country is tough, the rate is high and there are no sellers of the dollars like it used to years before now. In my country Bitcoin have found retail dominance and it's a good source of getting forex

Most used-clothes seller in my country already sell online (usually advertising on FB Live though) and receive payment through it so I think if those people are familiar with crypto, they'd appreciate this platform.


Yup, those clothes do end up en masse here. Together with cheaper new clothes from China, they pretty much destroyed local clothes manufacturing. I think it's worthwhile digging in if looking for denim. Older denims tend to be tougher than the shit they make these days and it's possible to find some vintage in those 2nd hand stores.

Personally my only problem with them are the sizes. Considering how large Westerners can get, most clothes would have to be altered.

That's right. Here in our country, the second hand clothes include designer brands. Some or maybe most of it don't look that fancy anymore but with just few alterations, it'll surely look good as new. And yes, it gives opportunity for poor masses to wear a well-known brand in a cheaper price.

There are actually a lot of nice clothes in second hand stores and for me, they're the ones which possess good quality compared to newly made one's.

Ah yes. Since they cannot really see and try the clothes personally, size could be a problem. But I guess spending a small amount for the alterations wouldn't be a problem for the buyer. It's still profitable since he was able to buy the cloth in a cheaper price and he can use it in the long run.

Not all westerners are lard arses. Tge vaccinations and pharmaceuticals taken by parents and given to kids can cause a range of problems. It isn;t just insulin resistance, which I suspect is more related to diet. You see some people with stunted growth, and also many hyperactive bean poles. I agree that "normal" seems to be a declining characteristic though.

Its true that there 'maybe' buyers who buy this item in bulk since it is economically friendly, and you can contribute to recycling products, yet you disregard the fact that what they're buying are second hand clothes from a thrifty shops, I've been into some thrifty shops nearby and you need to really dig into the pile of use clothes only to find one good to go shirt. What I'm saying is that, normally, people who buy in thrifty shops do just buy a couple of shirts and pants then leave. And for online marketplace as mentioned, since it is presented online, the damages in the clothes can be tampered easily through photoshop or any other editing app, and just like that, you get to have a damage shirt for a small price + the delivery fee. Ergo, paying through bitcoin, and online marketplace is not the best way to take advantage of the fast grow of second-hand clothes.

This shows that people purchasing power is decreasing as they can't afford to buy the new clothes. These second hand clothes markets are a blessing for poor people as they can get good quality branded clothes from these markets at a very cheap price.

Second hand is not always a place for the poor people. I like second hand because I can find something very special there, and buying in there I support ecology and the policy of slow fashion.

I find it impossible to predict if I am going to like an article of clothing when I buy it.  For whatever reason, a lot of what become on of my 'favorite clothes' happen to be ones I've purchased 2nd hand.

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In other news (here in my 'developing world' nation), I'm now thinking about the possibility of getting cloth cutting equipment and selling 'kits' of pre-cut pieces in lot of, say, 50, or whatever a comfortable batch size is for cutting operations.  The idea would be that local cottage-industry class seamsters could sew up a batch and sell them locally themselves with no further interaction.  And, importantly, no shipping and banking expenses since a good many potential customers here are 'unbanked' and the shippers are not inclined to service rural areas where there is no profit margin.  The country itself has no state operated postal service.

Speaking of infrastructure, the technocrats are rapidly putting telecom infrastructure to even the most remote areas at what must be huge losses.  It's part of the 'great reset' that the World Economic Forum (Rockefellers et-al) are peddling as the 'new normal'.  It is still not possible to eat and wear bandwidth...but it is possible to know exactly, to the individual level, what a particular peep is eating and wearing.  That's the technocratic dream, and it looks like they will either pull it off or come fairly close.

selling used clothes for now started because people needed additional fees so they sold some items that were rarely used but still valid in the market. if someone collects and creates a special buying and selling forum, then this is acceptable, there must be many who support it.

The boom in the second hand cloth market has increased a lot the demand for buying and selling has increased a lot. The market is adding a lot of new items which is causing the clothing market to freeze. For wholesale many people are able to buy new clothes according to their own ability. Also many new people are coming because of the good security system of the market and this time they have a big smile on their face as the sales are good.

Though this might sound like a good business, I would recommend against it, we are in the midst of a pandemic. We cant see the virus, but the virus is very real. What if the clothes being sold are infected? We would not only put ourselves at risk but the lives of others too.

Should we just go naked then?  I mean, most clothes come out of Asia where your dreaded Kobe Wirus is said (to idiots) to come from.

Anyway, forgetting about the Dreaded Kobe Wirus, there are a couple of reasons to wash clothes you might get whether they come out of a brand new package or not.

They actually retail the clothes and people get to try them. It's just that many clothes that came from the US tend to be large so it's quite a hunt to find something that fits just right. I personally wouldn't bother with alterations except for jeans. This market is also flooded with brand-new (and cheap) clothes from China and those usually have a greater variety of sizes. So if ever I'm buying used clothes, I'll probably just wear them at home.

In our country buying or selling second hand clothes never been problem because we are living in third world and here mostly peoples buying power is not good enough so they love to have very good clothes from these markets with very good price as I personally have many time this shopping which helps me a lot in many ways good thing we have very good markets in different cities where peoples can buy and sell these items very easily its also good for many those not able to spend some good amount on this stuff.

I enjoy resale shopping, picking, and I buy almost all of my clothes from resale shops and places like goodwill, lol..
 One because I am frugal and two because I like to wear nice and interesting things.. I find a lot of cool shirts that you couldn’t just buy anywhere if you tried, like older band shirts and whatnot..

You can’t go expecting to buy a whole new wardrobe, but if you resale shop as a pastime and just pick up cool/nice stuff when you find it, the collection grows over time..

I have accumulated a lot of nice clothes that I like a lot, mostly shirts, paid very little for it, and don’t ever end up wearing the same thing as someone else, like people that shop at malls all end up buying the same shirts as eachother..

Pants in my size are hard to find In my size because I’m not fat, and I’m picky, and ofcourse I buy all my underclothes new..

I also buy a lot of tools this way and at garage sales.. Good quality tools are very expensive so I just stop look and buy what I see.. It would probably take $10k-$20k to replace all the tools in my shop but I probably only have $2k-$3k into it all.. Good stuff too.. USA/Germany stuff..

I have been doing it for years.. I actually enjoy the hunt..

The second-hand market isn't bad, but not everyone likes to use other people's second-hand stuff. I know there are a lot of old clothes that are still fine and their owners have ignored them after 1-2 uses or discontinued items are sold, they are worth collecting. I completely agree that people make use of the good, the best price against the waste.
COVID 19 makes the economy difficult and exports less because the demand decreases. That could be one of the reasons for the boom in the 2hand market.

Also the thrift shops. A friend in Salt Lake city opened few thrift shops about a year or two ago. He says business is booming. It was booming before covid-19 and there is no change about it now. And even if recession strikes thrift shops will be the least affected. 

I’m wearing a cornwell tools long sleeve shirt with cross pistons/rods on it right now that I got from some resale shop..

Can’t find cool stuff like that at the mall.. Never seen another one like it..

I've noticed that the quality of clothes available in stores has dropped significantly. What used to be considered normal (like 100% cotton) is now sold as "bio" and costs more, while the "normal" clothes are all made of cheap plastic. As time goes by good quality clothes are going to become more expensive, I'm sure of it.

My aunt has her own online shop that sells second-hand clothes and brand new clothes, and I see it is booming and a trend because even many people commonly stay at their homes, people still do things in their leisure time and be prepared for their next trip after the pandemic. It is why selling second-hand clothes is an excellent small business, while some people temporarily don't have jobs.

It bears repeating if I've mentioned it before, but selling used clothing (or used anything really) is not very sustainable.  And no, I don't use the word 'sustainable' as a NWO buzzword in this case.  It's kind of the fallout of simple logic.

This thread is less than a month old.  In that time we've invested in a certain amount of equipement and a certain amount of fabric, networked with various people who have been put out of work by the Globalists in their 'great re-set', and turned out thousands of articles of clothing.

'Thousands' is not used in a figurative manner, and it is deliberately plural.

The business is not unprofitable even though making money is not my primary goal or interest.  I very much enjoy knowing that some people are eating and paying their electrical bills again.  Also that the gigantic corporations who eliminated their competition via the covid-19 scamdemic are having a little bit of 'their problem' come sneaking back in already.  These two things in and of themselves make the adventure worthwhile to me.

AGORISM! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObFtEC-gm7g)  Much better than Oligarchical Collectivism as is being ushered in as the so-called 'new normal' by the World Economic Forum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rAiTDQ-NVY).

Those who are in a position to be able really need to walk the walk rather than talk the talk.  It's possible, and it's rewarding.  Mostly, it is us plebians only hope to avoid total enslavement if we have one at all.

And the good thing with this business is that they are not shelling huge amount of initial capital. They can even get some stuffs for free. I am patron with these thrift shops also. Instead of ending up in the landfill, somebody can still use it. I find it not practical also buying expensive clothes while we are still in crisis. And most of the time, we will use those clothes not so often and will just end up cluttering our cabinets.

It's funny how Americans react to second hand clothes. It's absolutely normal in Europe, I'd rather spend a whole day shopping in vintage stores and get some rare and almost new designer clothes or really good and cheap high quality stuff

The second hand clothes market is booming.

I thought you were going to tell us that they were making bombs out of used clothes, now.

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It's funny how first-worlder's are all ga-ga about 'designer clothes'.  Where I'm at, people need something to wear and paying $2.00 is a lot and translates to a noticeable decline in the amount of food a family can consume.

In the day you take browsing the vintage clothes shops, a small team of people can pump out 500 articles of clothing that people need and can afford.  Said people would otherwise be sitting on their asses because the people who made your original 'designer clothes' used their money to implement a 'new normal' by collapsing the economy.

On top of that the clothes are 'latest fashion' and actually look pretty nice.  It's possible to take cuts of fabric which make the articles of clothing look nice and try different things.  It's easy to make different 'runs' of different things that people actually need.  It's also easy to choose low-quality cloth which people can afford, or higher quality (if one has the stock on-hand to do so.)  It's also kind of fun to try to design things so they are durable but also practical to sew on old foot-powered sewing machines so that much of the work can be done in rural areas.

The main reason that it is impractical to do such a thing in the U.S. and Europe is because the governments provide welfare checks.  And enforcement personnel run around fucking with people who might try to engage in cottage industry.  I doubt that such a dynamic is lost on the social engineers.