• @Doxatek@mander.xyz
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      622 days ago

      Yeah for a while going to goodwill and stuff became trendy so they pumped those prices up. I see just awful stuff priced at new or near New prices which is insane

      • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        622 days ago

        I went to find a used cassette player, just a little boom box. Found a crappy brand one beat up and with a $40 price tag. Gtfo with that. I can buy a brand new Sony for $50

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      321 days ago

      I had to buy “business casual” clothes for a work trip and went to a thrift store. I found a pair of pants that was $15, but they didn’t fit great. Since I needed at least two pairs of pants I went to Costco and they had brand new Dockers for the same price.

    • volvoxvsmarla
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      321 days ago

      Oh that’s so true. I have looked through all the thrift stores in my surrounding and they all had really bad clothes for bad prices. When you can get a new top in a size that fits for 5€ at H&M it makes no sense to pay 12€ for an H&M shirt that has holes in it and doesn’t fit right just because it is from a thrift store.

      I don’t buy clothes often, I have much more than enough from when I was a teen. But I think that when I do, in the future, I’ll just go straight to a normal store. I don’t see the sense in spending the time and energy if it isn’t worth it at all.

      • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        621 days ago

        There’s also this thing now where “trendy” thrift stores go to regular thrift stores and pick them clean of anything worth buying, then they Jack up the price.

      • @Leviathan@lemmy.world
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        221 days ago

        I look for thrift stores in or around proper rich neighborhoods. There’s one I go to that routinely has stuff from last year or that no one’s ever worn, tags and all.

      • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        120 days ago

        I have never bought a car, I looked at prices for new cars last year and I was blown away. I didn’t know at the time that they were at an all time high