To not understand why people don’t return the BNWT items

[Singlebutmarried]

Especially those that are still in store.....

.......or am I a cynical old bag and think they may have been obtained with a five finger discount? 🤔

I've sold BNWT occasionally on ebay and I would consider the "brand new" to mean never worn, not necessarily this season's stock.
My reason has been that I've bought things, tried them on at home, then left them hanging in the wardrobe and never got round to wearing them.
I always put this in the description eg "bought last summer but never worn"
Anyway, it wouldn't matter to me when something was originally in the shop as long as I liked it.

I’ve got baby clothes that were BNWT and never worn. I’m keeping them for later children but if I don’t like them when they come out of the loft, they’re going to be sold. People also get unwanted gifts and can’t be bothered to return for a credit note etc.

I've always assumed that when someone is selling multiple sizes of a BNWT item, they have bought multiple sizes specifically to sell, probably in a sale or something.

Can you take back clothes with tags if you haven't got the receipt? Got too much of some size baby clothes and some I didn't like so sent to charity shop. Would have swapped if I'd known.

I agree! Its so easy to do as they rarely question you.We have even returned things without tags or packaging ages later and got full value in store credit.Perhaps they're just too lazy to go back to the shop

I went to an auction that sold loads of clothes and bags BNWT. I think they were previous season/ discontinued lines. I bought a few handbags there and sold them on eBay for a small profit. Gutted to think people might have thought they'd been stolen, but I suppose they are in some cases.

No idea,but glad they don't as I'm on a budget. My local charity shop this month alone I got a pure silk camisole nightie & a Julien Macdonald summer dress, £5 each.

I've sold bnwt. All gifts. I didn't try to take them back to the shop without a receipt as suggested by some here as a) would have only got store credit not much more useful cash, b) didn't necessarily even know what shop it was from c) might not have a shop of that type in my small town, and don't have a car.

@hannnnnnnx

""Any reason for assuming they're dodgy rather than sourced from a wholesaler, ex-stock supplier?"

😂you’re having an absolute laugh. No self respecting major clothing retailer would allow their products to be sold from their wholesaler or supplier or as ‘‘factory seconds’’. They just don’t."

But they do. Many brands issist on the items being detagged and listed without the original brand name (not all sellers respect this so might list them with the brand name in the title - I have no idea how hard the brands try to stop this as I've never done it) and some sell excess stock off with the brand still visible. They are sold in bulk by other companies.

There are also brands which are not exclusively associatedwith high street shops - again, they sell items wholesale to shops and online sellers. Where do you think independant shops get their stock from? Why is is so hard to belived that online traders source from the same places?

OP because i hate shopping and procrastinate about returning them until past the return date 😖

I wouldn't assume stolen, I’d assume the seller was as shop avoidant as me, but was better at selling on! I HATE clothes shopping, so I grab and run to try on at home, then most often the time goes past the return date and they either sit in my wardrobe or I give them to friends/charity. There’s a pile in my room now, definitely past the return date, I cannot be done with ebaying them, packaging, posting etc so I will see if my friend or her SIL would like them, if not they’ll go to the charity shop BNWT - not stolen.