To wonder how people have so many BNWT for sale?

[Whoooootaminute]

Am I?

Looking on facebook selling pages and some people are selling items Brand New With Tags. Fair enough - one item that you might have purchased and just decided you didn't like it but a list of stuff?

Are they shoplifted?

Some people buy in sales like Next online then resell.

I'm really shocked by this too.

I am selling my first ever BNWT item on eBay at the moment, as I didn't manage to sort out the two part returns process for Dunelm.

It can't all be nicked though, as some is online shops. I have seen multiple posts of people selling 10+ Fred and Noah leggings BNWT on Facebook groups, which means they spent over £200 on baby leggings that were never worn .

I once saw a person selling about 20 pairs = over £400

Do some people buy up stuff to commoditise it/increase value? You get this with reusable nappies for sure.

Usually clothing. I am too lazy forget to send things back in time. Hence BNWT. Straight on eBay. Someone else gets to use it and I get more back than the zero I'd get if I kept the items.

Very rarely happens ro me, I buy stuff when needed, frequently ebay

Christ, this thread makes me wonder why I ever bother trying to do anything to help the environment.

Plus as a person who tried to buy second hand the insistence on overinflated prices these comments really annoy me:

"They refuse to charity shop them & get annoyed they don't get near original price when Ebayed."

"except she doesn’t sell them on because she doubles the price so she’s got an entire bedroom filled with piles of clothes that she can’t sell."

How bloody entitled and wasteful.

I've sold 1000's of bnwt on eBay. Catalogue companies (Littlewoods, Very, Simply Be) sell old stock/over stock through auction houses. At one point we were buying by the crate at 10% of retail value so could sell low and still turn a profit.

Where do you find out about sample sales? Sounds like you can get some good bargains!

To get back on topic, I have quite a lot of BNWT items I'll probably never wear. Mostly stuff I ordered online and never got around to returning. Loads of bits for DD, especially the baby clothes - I went a bit mad shopping in pregnancy and she only wore about half of what I originally bought. Trying to sell them off now as we're strapped for cash (new personal circumstamces) but doesn't seem like there's much of a market for baby clothes.

Buy the next size up in the sales / offers. Kids refuse to wear, don’t suit or skip sizes. Take off the sale tags and try and recoup some costs...

I'm on a lot of Facebook selling pages for branded/ scandi kids clothing. Much of it is BNWT because people "stash" ahead and then forget they have it, or dont like the style any more, or it doesn't suit their child or it doesnt fit in the right season but it's too late to return.

@kitkatastrophe I'm on those groups and this is what shocks me. Thyey must be ROLLING in money to be able to have that attitude.

I am guilty of buying clothes for events and changing my mind. Sale shopping in the hope of loosing weight. But have stopped that largely. However, I have learnt many years ago to keep the tags on. I have sold lots eBay/Facebook, items are worth more with tags. 'Leave the tags on' is my battle cry when anything new comes in to the house.

[quote PrincessBuggerPants]@kitkatastrophe I'm on those groups and this is what shocks me. Thyey must be ROLLING in money to be able to have that attitude. [/quote]
I dont think they all are, I think a lot of the time its bought on credit like klarna or is bought in the sales so they are a lot cheaper.

I have a friend who is always down to her last few £ before payday, yet her child is always kitted out in frugi and duns 🤷‍♀️ different priorities I guess.

I’ve always returned everything that doesn’t suit/fit/appeal - I can’t stand wasting money on stuff I don’t even want so I’m very organised about sending things back. Everything I keep, or have kept in the past, is something I love(d). But over the past couple of years I’ve learnt to moderate my collector’s compulsion and more importantly, I’ve learnt not to shop for a lifestyle that I don’t actually have! I operate a strictly curated capsule wardrobe now and don’t buy very much at all anymore.

The things I’m selling on eBay are beautiful things which for whatever reason I’ve never had the pleasure of using, and as my philosophy on living has changed, so has my philosophy on hanging on to things that I will likely never use. I’d rather someone else gets to enjoy them and I get some money to put towards the things I really want for the person I am now and will actually use.

Went off on a tangent there...must go and list some more things for sale! 🙂

Are any of the items in short supply?
I know a few people who buy supreme stuff, and expensive trainers and sell on for more money, still with tags etc.
Maybe people bought stuff but dont want the risk of going into town to return. Sometimes I buy things and think I'll fit into it if I lose a stone, and then wouldnt lose the weight, or now I've lost the weight I dont wanna wear it.
Sometimes kids say they like something but never get around to wearing it before they grow out of it

Most of the items will be stolen. There are a few genuine sellers out there, but generally people have lots of these items will be shifting stolen goods, hence the lower price than they could have got by returning them to the shop if they were acquired legitimately.

It's not just shoplifting these days, so much has moved online that thieves have contacts in warehouses to be able to sneak a few items out the fire door during their break.

I work in a huge charity shop and we have people who come in once or twice a week and go through every rail for stuff to sell on ebay, especially anything BNWT. We'll never get the prices in store that they get on ebay and our company will only ebay items which will go for over a certain amount of money, an no designer items as they can't be sure if they're real.

@cazisalittlenuts

Sending a load of stuff to charity shop brand new with tags, including a brand new unworn pair of shoes. Bought it all for my mum as she needed new clothes while she was in hospital but then her health rapidly deteriorated before she could wear any of it.

I dont have the energy to fb or ebay it. Not all bnwt is shoplifter, sometimes theres a reason.

I only ever sell things on Facebook fb or ebay items that I would be happy to receive myself. Anything that doesn't sell or isn't quite up to standard but still has lots of wear left goes to the charity shop. Anything that is ruined goes out in the textiles bag with the bins for recycling

Surely it's easy to identify stolen items? Lots of the same items in different sizes, or random sizes all from the same shop. All BNWT. A genuine seller would have a few different items, in similar sizes and probably a mixture of new and used.

@KitKatastrophe

Surely it's easy to identify stolen items? Lots of the same items in different sizes, or random sizes all from the same shop. All BNWT. A genuine seller would have a few different items, in similar sizes and probably a mixture of new and used.

No it’s not as straightforward as that. Many people legitimately buy in bulk to sell on. They would buy up as much of available sale/reduced stock as they want and could easily have multiples of each size.