To buy baby clothes from Ebay?

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Long story short, I'm pregnant with my 3rd, baby isn't due til sept but we are absolutly broke, struggling to pay the rent let alone buy new baby things.

So I decided to start buying a few little things each week from ebay. I've bid on some babygrows and a pramsuit, both used but look lovely and clean.

I was casually telling a work colleague about it today and she turn her nose up when I told her I was getting stuff from ebay. She said she "would never put her baby in second hand clothes" and "you don't know where they've come from" she went on to go on about how baby clothes aren't really expensive anyway etc etc

Maybe I'm being over sensitive but she made me feel really bad, as though I was getting second best for my baby but the way I look at it is that the baby won't know or care and newborns are only in stuff for 5 minutes so even second hand stuff will have lots of wear left in them.

Like I said, maybe I am being over sensitive (pregnancy hormones are raging) but she has made me feel like I'm not doing the best for my baby.

Is it really so bad to get second hand clothes for a new baby?

mamadiva My mum has a friend who has a friend who works in a charity shop in a very nice area and apparently they get so much baby stuff that most of it gets chucked out

Since I had DD, she recently brought over a bag of stuff which my mum picked over and got a couple of gorgeous things out of and then made a donation to the charity in question.

I think I'd be more tempted to give my baby stuff to a woman's shelter than a charity shop because of this.

So now the people who work in charity shops aren't allowed to buy the stuff?? This thread gets more bizarre by the minute!

anglepoise - odd - none of the charity shops in my area get much baby stuff at all! Unless the volunteers all swipe it instantly?

But then I'm in a 'up-and-coming' aka less-nice area and the charity shops are permanently desperate for donations as they sell so quickly. While trying to convince head office they don't want any more poorly-made Indian ornaments as anyone can buy them for half the price next door...

Seeker that is not what I meant. It's the way they take anything decent or I have seen one member of staff keeping things back for months (literally sitting in the office) think it was a pair of toddler clarks shoes someone came in and asked if we had any and the manager said no the only pair were reserved it's that kind of thing I don't agree with, it isn't fair should be first come first serve.

The shop I work in ges too much baby stuff too have sen them just throwing it away that pissed me off considering the manager lives across the road from a childrens home and 5 minutes away from thewomans refuge

I think the people in the charity shop should get first dibs of the stuff as long as they pay for it. Without them charity shops wouldn't exist!!

Yeah that's true nappy I have done that whilst working BUT the fact was those shoes had been sitting in the office cupboard for atleast 2 months as her daughter was waiting until her DD went up a shoesize to see if she wanted them incase she skipped the half size, I wouldn't have minded if she had paid for them but the fact that she just left them there saying they were reserved!

I dress my DS in Boden, Gap, Catamini, Monsoon etc, pretty much all from ebay apart from the odd present.

They wash so much better than the crap you get from Tesco.

They still look brand new whereas the cheap supermarket tops are all bobbly.

And on that note have just bought 2 pairs of lovely trousers and 3 gorgeous tshirts for DS on Ebay for £3.85

Came into this thread wondering how on earth it had attracted 300-odd posts and now I can see exactly why.

I then typed a huge big rant about the evils of morons who pour scorn on others for being less affluent, read it, found it to be crap and repetetive, so I did a bit of editing and distilled the critical bits:

daftpunk, you're an aptly-named plonker.

[leaves the thread wondering what daftpunk thinks about those cretins who sell things on eBay ...]

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ROFL @ makkapakka

notcitrus I believe we used to live in exactly the same area until I moved north at 32 weeks pregnant Don't think I did much shopping for baby stuff down there but the new Heart Foundation shop had a bit of baby stuff.

Perhaps the mums in the locality of my mum's friend's friend's shop are less likely to bother to sell on ebay?

i've said what i think about people who sell stuff on ebay; i'll say it again.

they're tight arsed losers.

You say tomatoe, I say tomato

You say tight arsed oser, I say bargain hunter

Ad daftpunk, I was sticking up for you, but now you've let me down.

Yes, but how do you say scone??!
That's the biggie.

Good ol'e Scottish way (that'll explain the tight arse then ) I say Scawn LOL couldn't think of another way to type that.

Ooooooooooooooooh I've tried telling myself not to get into this but it's just ... so ... haaaaard ...

So daftpunk, you overprivileged muppet my dear, what about those who sell things on eBay in order to recoup enough funds to pay for their heating to be fixed, for example? Because I'd really appreciate your guidance, having recently shed a breastpump and a baby carrier in order that my child stays warm. If I'd only realised it made me a "tight-arsed loser" I'd have sold a kidney instead.

arrhh...no worries Gateau...but it was nice while it lasted.

iatemakkapakka;

listen to me please...i'm talking about people who sell baby vests for 10P...stuff like that, i just couldn't be bothered....i give my old clothes to charity shops, or i give them away to friends...i wouldn't waste my time trying to make myself £10 on ebay...that's all i'm saying.

Yanbu, with hindsight I look at how much I spent on my dc1, and cringe, I often buy on ebay and also sell stuff on again that is in good condition, everyone likes a bargain, your colleague is being a perfect snob. If you have primark near you , they also have excellent baby and kids clothes at probably similar prices to ebay. My 11 year old dd loves looking round charity shops for clothes to customize as well. No shame in it at all.

Was I sad to have dd2 wear dd1's baby clothes? I would have thought all but the very stupid rich would at least pass on between siblings. Then it's not much of a leap to take the clothes that friends/neighbours children no longer want. If I didn't have that (fortunately, that sees mine through!) then I would certainly use e-bay, as a sort of out-sourcing of friends/family.

Of course I love buying sweet little dresses, and do when I see a bargain. But dd1 certainly loves her huge donated wardrobe - I think the only problem will be once she's got to an age when clothes don't get donated any more, because I'm certainly not going to buying that many clothes! I guess e-bay might just come in handy then... I've already given her a charity shop habit - I can be so very generous with toys and books in them! Sometimes I forget that I'm actually allowed in full-price shops. Why do people use them again?

So Daftpunk about the making £10 well I hae just bought a footmuff for £12.50 which doesn't fit so need to sell on to recup costs does it make me tigt arsed lser for selling it?

daftpunk, how can sellers on ebay be tight arsed losers, they are making money out of unwanted items, enterprising I call it!!, my last lot of ebay sales raised enought to buy a trampoline for my kids,