#the eddie bauer jeans are based on a true story i wanted them but on depop they were $90-120

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I do not know how to properly feel about those freaks who go to thrift stores just to resale clothing at 300% markup on like, Poshmark and depop. personally? I think it's a shady practice and more people should be shaming them. but I've also seen arguments about how they're helping keep clothing out of landfills (I don't really think so tbh), or this is how they make money for rent/food/bills/whatever.

but honestly from the emissions them going to the thrift store, cleaning clothes, going to the post office, and the post office shipping it to the customer, is it really saving anything? like, physically, in a solid form, sure. those Eddie Bauer jeans with the flannel lining could've been trashed, but they wouldn't have been hung up to sale if they were trash. the goodwill employee would have seen that they needed repairs or they were gross or just unsellable bc it's not in style or it's summer in Arizona or something. so instead Insta/tiktok resellers marking up $10 jeans to $90 isn't, like, really helping these jeans, are they? since a poor person who would've been really pleasantly surprised by being able to afford nice jeans with flannel lining could've been able to have warmer clothes for the winter. and instead they're going to someone who CAN afford to buy snow pants or quality thermals.

"vintage" thrift resellers are kind of on the same plain as landlords imo, like not nearly as evil and corrupt obviously, but in a New York fashion week "my parents can afford to send me to UCLA for film" kind of way. like you don't care about recycling or the environment nearly as much as you care about making your "bag"