To be pissed off with resellers? Aldi Yarn Event

The Aldi yarn cakes I bought were really good value at £1.29 for 100g and they are 80% acrylic and 20% wool. You cannot compare a product which is 100% acrylic as it is not the same!

The 20% wool makes it warmer and nicer to use.

I was going to recommend Stylecraft too, @peesoff. And Drops do some lovely yarns that aren’t expensive too. Wool warehouse sells them.

Also Yarnsmiths which I think is Wool Warehouse's own brand (not 100% sure of that). It's frequently reduced on their website.

I have seen the Aldi yarn but I am trying really hard to only buy what I need for specific projects rather than 'just in case' so I have to dash past. My family try and keep me away from the middle aisle anyway 🤣

Join a few knitting/crochet groups on Facebook, there is almost always someone who will have the aldi yarn you want and tbey aren't trying to make profit. I gave up buying it a few years because they moved supplier from Turkey to China and the quality dropped. I wouldn't bother with it.

I remember the first year they had Kevin the Carrot, they were on eBay for £100, so mean when it was children that wanted them.

Same thing happens with the cosmetics and skincare in Aldi those dupe Benefit micro blade eyebrow pens are always sold out and on eBay.

I heard that stylecraft had gone down in quality, but admittedly I haven't bought any for a few years I have enough to last a lifetime

My friend swears by temu yarn!

It's a free market.

It gets resold as people purchase some, then realise they haven't got enough to finish it so have to pay the inflated prices.

There's reseller groups in fb that sell for cost price plus postage which is obviously much more reasonable.

Stylecraft isn't great since they changed production. Yarnsmiths or Scheepjes are much better Dk imo.

It's extremely lucrative to insert yourself in the middle of a supplier and customer and force them to go through you, or otherwise corner the market so they have very little alternative.

Booking.com is just one that springs to mind - everybody managed just well without them (even in the age of online booking; not just talking about 'when we were young'); but they appeared, flooded all the advertising channels and forced themselves into everybody's consciousness.

I read that they take around 20% of each transaction - maybe more actually - so it doesn't take a genius to realise that prices and costs have been increased for everybody across the board so that they can make a fortune for adding an extra layer and questionable value to millions upon millions of everyday transactions.

Yeah, I can't understand what is so magic about Aldi yarn that it can be resold for so very much more than yarn from other suppliers that is plentiful, on sale all the time and at a reasonable price.

Scummy though the concert ticket scalpers are, I can at least see how, if you want to see a certain band at a certain venue when they don't tour very often, your options are far more limited.

There is a separate hell for middlemen.

Aldi yarn isn't that amazing - I like the ombre cakes and have a few machine knitted blankets with tubes of them going in opposite directions so it's worked out like a plaited checkerboard which look lovely, but the general balls of stuff are meh and yep, check out Stylecraft - for basic acrylic - it crochets really nicely.

I'm sick of everything being scalped and resold. I like to collect Pokemon cards - just a nice fix of some shiny pretty cardboard when I've got a spare bit of money and that nice dopamine hit of unwrapping a packet... but that's been absolutely decimated by the resale brigade to the point I've not been able to even think about collecting the last few releases because it was more of a website queue than for Taylor Swift tickets.

Aldi yarn always ends up with a big frenzy and people boasting about the 100's of skeins they've bought, generally followed by 'I hid it from my DH tee hee hee 🙄' etc.

It's not even good quality stuff..

Get yourself onto WoolWarehouse website and buy the Yarnsmith acrylic - really good stuff in over 100 colours, use discount code SC70 to get 10% off.

Yes, unfortunately, resellers often spoil the situation with popular toys. It's good that Aldi keeps its prices affordable — so there's still a chance for real parents to buy a gift.

I’d just see it as a lesson learned and switch to Stylecraft, OP. Its well priced, easily available (if you buy from Wool Warehouse you can use the code from the back of the crochet magazines and get a good discount) and they make an effort with the dyelots so you can usually get more to finish a project of you need to.

If you can't beat them, join them.

There’s an Aldi destash page on Facebook where people are only allowed to sell for the original price. It’s an active group so hopefully you can find what you need.

They are just glad the sooner it’s out of their shop the better always better to buy too much.