Clothing resellers and buyers: Are they worth it?
This weekend, I decided to clean out my closet to see if I can earn some extra cash by selling it to one of those commercial thrift stores.
I have done things like this before with Buffalo Exchange and they are, for the most part, generous with their return. They give you the option of getting store credit or getting cash (which is usually 10% less than the store credit).
Most of the time, I am not 100% satisfied with the money I get back, but hey - they helped me clean out my closet and I got a little pocket money for the weekend.
Since I don't live in one of those swanky Bay Area shopping towns, I was excited to find out that there was this place in the Tri-Valley Area that was like Buffalo Exchange. Since I am about to defame it a little bit, I will call the store, The Philosopher's Wardrobe.
Anyways...I brought in a Bloomingdale's Big Brown Bag of clothes. It included everything from ready-to-be-disposed H&M garb to out-of-season (but not too old) Guess slacks to funky vintage store clothes. I thought I was gonna score at least $50 with all the stuff in the bag.
When I got to the store, it was small, quaint and was reminiscent of one of those '80s mall stores like Miller's Outpost - except a little hipper.
I got to the counter, gave them my stuff and the employee said that since they were really busy that day, it would take about two hours to sort through the stuff and give me an offer.
I could live with that.
Fast-forward 120 minutes and I came back excited to tickle my palms with some green. The teen employee told me that they could only take two items and offer me $4.40.
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