Would you tell me to f right off?

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I am trying to set up as a Vinted/ebay reseller but I am finding it hard to find cheap stock.

Someone suggested putting an advert out on local facebook groups to offer £5 for a black bag full of old clothes. So instead of them leaving in the boot of the car for 6m to take to charity, I could offer to give them £5 for it.

If you saw this on your local FB group would you tell me to f right off?

I think as long as you were perfectly clear with your intention at the start. What happens if people just give you a bag of worn T-shirts, pjs, etc? Would you be going through the bags before accepting? Would you be recycling what you can’t sell?

I’d bite your hand off.

I think as long as its coherant (womens size 16 clothes, boys 3-4 clothing etc) it is fine

Thanks for the replies so far. @Passthecake30 yes that’s my worry. Another person said that she just asked for them without paying them so in that case they could go to the charity shop if they were not the best quality. I don’t know if that is real CF behaviour though. Yes definitely recycling what I couldn’t sell or passing onto charity.

I’ve seen posts where people offer 10% of what they get for it.

OP I unironically have about 10 bags of old clothes I would pay you to take off my hands because I can't be arsed taking them anywhere and I tried selling them on Vinted and I couldn't be arsed with that either. Some nice stuff too I'm just lazy.

So in short, yeah I think people will have your hand off for that fiver 🤣

I have no problem with it and would absolutely give to you. Even better if you collected.

Its much preferable to all these MLM schemes people fall into.

one mum at school is driving us all crackers with that at the moment.

Go for it.

If you collected id give you them for free

As long as you can collect the bags, I think it's a great idea.

Thank you so much. This is very reassuring to hear!

My council collect bags of clothes/rags from my house if put in their specific bag and I assume use for charity.

If you took them and paid £5 each, I look into it.

My concerns would be whether you'd return them if they had holes, moths, weren't perfect, broken zip etc?

You know if you are doing this as a reseller, you need to register with HMRC as self-employed, don't you? You will also have to pay income tax on any earnings which take you over the tax allowance.

Charity shops are not universally beneficial or morally perfect. They undercut and displace other shops in our already beleaguered high streets (free stock, no rates, volunteer staff, tax benefits) they ship masses of clothes abroad which they sell it in underdeveloped countries to people with next to nothing, they sell anything valuable commercially e.g. vintage china, rare books, paintings etc. and the big charities pay their senior staff six figure salaries. I think if you are honest about what you are doing, I wouldn’t have too much conscience about it.

I was going to say this - make sure you set up properly because they’re really cracking down on this. You’ll need to keep a log of all your expenses and earnings and register as self-employed.

I don’t think it’s cheeky. I’ve seen lots of companies advertise on social media doing this.

Wouldn't bother me at all, I'd accept you would be making money that I haven't made myself because I quite simply can't be arsed listing and selling stuff online. As long as you gave anything you didn't want to charity.

it is a sort of house clearance, but clothes only

I would be delighted to have someone offer me this

Likely I’d take you up on the offer too!

As long as you're prepared to take the chaff with the wheat and have a plan for disposing of stuff that's unsellable, I don't see an issue.

At the moment it's hard to make much money on ebay for clothes as the market is flooded with competition from sites like vented and cheap clothes sites like seeing the sorts of clothes you would get in your bags will not be high end brands as the person owning them will sell those types of clothes themselves, plus selling clothes on ebay you have to check every inch of the garment for the tiniest flaw,describe the item to death, put every measurement from neckline measurement to underarm,waist hips length from shoulder to waist and waist to hem to cover yourself . The price you get will often be less than the packaging,petrol to the post office and time listing.

Re the posters advising you about registering for tax. Dont forget you can claim business espenses. This would include any money you pay out for stock, miileage/petrol for the car to collect them, computer equipment, software, office equipment, selling expenses (fees/paypal etc) packing supplies etc. If you work from home you can also claim for a % of your rent/morttgage, utility bills, broadband, phone etc. Claim for everything down to the last paperclip and biro.