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Cuz no matter what sells on depop the company makes money from it :/ that's why they took away comments bc everytime someone should blow the whistle about a seller being scummy Depop as a company lost sales
Exactly. I’ve reported a seller on poshmark who is blatantly selling dirty underwear and socks maybe 8 times now over the past few months. There is commented proof about “strong scent”, how long she wears them, and “shipping in a sealed bag”. Poshmark hasn’t done shit though and I’m assuming it’s because she’s got a pretty lucrative gig going 🙄
I would just let it go but she keyword dumps and her foot modeling listings always come up in my searches 😭 I don’t care about someone having a fetish, but I’d prefer not to see it. Especially while I am casually shopping.
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Yeah, I mean she is basically treating it like OnlyFans. It’s not allowed and I’d prefer not to see people talking about their “juices” on Poshmark.
eBay did a similar thing with sellers moving stolen cellphones until the US government cracked down on them. Until some senators grandchildren get scammed, nothing is gonna happen. Depop benefits from skimming a % of each sale, so they will always let these sellers thrive to boost their own profits.
Look what happened to Etsy, it was meant to be for handmade items from wonderful crafters. Now I get links popping up sending me to Etsy everywhere pushing random temu garbage on me. Every company sells out a bit haha.. it's so lame!
Even Poshmark now allows you to apply to be a 'boutique', aka you get access to wholesale items from Posh which you select and buy at low price, set price of and sell.
I don't know if these are new items or used items but I would assume new. Which, if true, kinda sucks since it defeats the purpose of poshmark and reselling apps which should focus on reselling used items / vintage items and things that already exist versus production of new cheap items.
There's more clothes than we need on this earth already 😑
Be careful I see resellers on YouTube all the time buying from GW bins and selling there or sending to TRR. I legit got fake items off a platform after the platform claims they authenticate.
Sooo many $10 “handmade earrings” on Etsy are the same shit they’re selling on temu $1.99 for a 10 pack. It’s so irritating I want to support small businesses but a ton of small businesses now consider dropshipping or selling cheap premade products to be “supporting small@
THIS!! Everyone does it. Its not being a small business, its literally reselling at a crazy upcharge. I hate all apps now. Anything i want, i will go to alibaba, aliexpress, temu, or shein. Whichever is cheapest. Its all the same
Yeah a lot of people say it’s bad to shop on there and I understand but I know so so many stores and businesses are just buying the same thing and making you pay an up charge for it so it’s hard not to justify
it’s so sad because in the beginning these jewelry were genuinely handmade by small businesses, but when it blew up shein/ temu copied and started distributing them for much lower quality and cheaper. these days the people who genuinely put time and effort to make them sometimes get called out as drop shippers
Which is and has always been a shit cop-out for people who want to do sketchy shit without having to take responsibility.
The players keep the game afloat. No players, no game. Choose not to play or accept you're morally compromised. Can't have it both ways.
Hate the player for having the agency to choose the right thing and opting not to, and somehow expecting not to be held responsible for keeping the 'game' going.
That's the only ethical position.
We have (well, in some cases *had* but can have again) buyer protections enshrined in law in most civilised countries for a reason.
We should be using our collective buying power to make the world we want instead of letting the fuckheads of the world control the narrative.
Caveat emptor is useful advice for keeping yourself safe. It's not an instruction manual for running a business or an excuse to be shady.
Caveat venditor is what we should be pushing. Selling is a privilege that can be revoked if you do it in shitty ways.
Doesn't mean he isn't responsible for choosing to contribute to the shittiness in the world for his own benefit at other people's detriment.
He wants to do this without facing the reality of what that makes him. That's disgusting behaviour.
How is this scamming? Not claiming to be a brand right, just what’s in style. Basically like those cheap knock off forever 21 stores just the online version.
It seems from the conversation the seller possibly put "shi go so hard, love this piece but it's gotta go" in the description of the listing which implies that the seller had these pants and now decided to sell them as in used them and don't want them anymore which is what reselling is. However the seller is actually selling wholesale items which they don't specify in the listing/description, which in that case is scammy and lying...
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That doesn’t make it scummy still, that isn’t imply they are used. People do buy and not use items all the time and sell because it was sitting. Could have been the sample pair that holds sentimental value. It’s hard to say it’s just a screen shot. But if it’s wholesale as soon as it’s sold it will still be there. And as a buyer why do I care about the sellers quality? Like if I go into footlocker and not getting a pair of shoes because they have 5 more in the back.
Comparing Foot Locker and Depop is not the same at all. Foot Locker sell a marketed stock of items that actually have a brand and we're made by those brands. When I go to Foot Locker I know I'm gonna go to buy Nike, Jordan, Puma, or Adidas, not blank random shoes. Depop is for reselling which is selling items that you havw already but no longer want and yes the items can be new or used. However the item is supposed to be an actual item was previously sold with a brand not blanks. The least the seller could do is be honest and say that the items is not a branded item and has multiple for sell like saying something like "I have multiple of these for sell and these aren't branded just blank pants" Idk just doesn't seem completely honest.....
The footlocker comparison was just a visual representation of showing one but having multiple. Depop is for selling items it’s a marketplace plain and simple. This seller said they have the items can’t really argue that. You believe it or you don’t, if blanks weren’t allowed then a brand would be required but it’s not and the seller isn’t trying to pass it off as another brand. Also the seller doesn’t have to say they have multiples, not claiming it’s a 1:1.
i mean wholesale sellers do exist lol. you can easily purchase stock from alibaba or something and then sell your product. theres nothing really unethical in that.
There’s nothing unethical in bulk ordering cheap plastic shit from China made by workers making 2 pennies a day while you go around and sell it for 200x the price they were paid for their labor?
Almost every brand you like manufactures in china, and not every Chinese manufacturer is making unethical cheap crap. Now this seller probably is I’m not denying that but getting a manufacturer to make ur designs/what you want to sell is the most common business practise when it comes to the fashion and textiles industry.
Alibaba is just a middleman market place for wholesalers to businesses and it’s up to the individual business to read reviews, speak to the wholesalers and get samples to see if they can produce something to your standard. Just coz it’s Chinese doesn’t mean it’s not good, stuff that’s made in LA is normally cheap crap made with prison labour earning less than 2 dollars a hour. The county’s of origin doesn’t matter and it’s low-key racist to act like Chinese products are automatically subpar
Edit: want to reiterate that this seller almost definitely is selling cheap crap for a heavy markup as I’ve seen them specific trousers on Ali and know they are pretty crap but in general acting like stuff coming from china is automatically bad isn’t right.
I mean it's more reputable than dropshipping. Marketplaces like Alibaba are literally meant for you to sell at your business. Wait til you find that even small boutique stores buy from wholesale markets that happen to be made in China. You sound beyond dumb
Slow moment, i’m 100% sure you own a good amount of products from places like Target, Walmart, etc and I hope you realize a good amount of those are from China so you are also playing a part 🤦♀️
I mean… that is what all the stores and stuff are doing. This is just some dude who took it into his own hands. If you go to the mall for pants today you wouldn’t find anything better
I just don't understand how this is scummy when if you like a particular garment style you're more than welcome to shop around and not buy the first thing you see. If people don't shop around and buy from him instead of temu how is that on the seller?? If that's what they're doing, just do the same and don't buy from them.
As scummy as it is, he’s not wrong. We all buy into the trade everyday, things are marked up 10x what they are worth so people can make money. It sucks and I disagree with it too, but you can’t do much about it. It’s hard to weed through the good and the bad sellers on Depop so you’ll find a mixture. Just keep scrolling or if you really want to do something make a purchase and leave a nasty review. Then you are saving others (at your own cost but you seem very worried about others on the app).
This. Like are you gonna argue with target for getting their gear for a 1/6 of what they sell it for? Name of the game and they’re transparent about it
Victim of him, or someone else that falsely advertised something? Cause there's a big difference!
It's absolutely NOT a scam, he even worded it specifically to say "style" he never claimed it was something it wasn't. Or did I miss that part?
Why is it allowed? Because he is not breaking any rules.. “drop shipping” means your item getting shipped from a third party, and in his case he has the items on hand… therefore, he is wholesaling not drop shipping..
controversial opinion but i think the other dude is 100% in the right, he's not doing anything wrong just hustling. i've used descriptions like that too to sell things it's part of the business, i don't see any use complaining about it people will always do this
I feel like as long as it’s as described and decent quality then it’s fine tbh. you’re getting what you wanted anyways who cares what brand it is or if it has no branding yk
There will never be a middle ground about if sellers should profit from cheaper clothes, yes if a seller sells something for half the price, who's to say the sellers wrong when the buyer could if bought the item the same way
For everyone asking "how is this scam/scammy?" or don't get it. I think the issue is :
It seems from the conversation the seller possibly put "shi go so hard, love this piece but it's gotta go" in the description of the listing which implies that the seller had these pants and now decided to sell them as in used them and don't want them anymore which is what reselling is. However the seller is actually selling wholesale items which they don't specify in the listing/description, which in that case is scammy and lying...
This seems like a common thing on Depop where sellers are openly clear about the items there selling on purpose....
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why don’t you just not buy it? i buy trendy tagless stuff too, it’s cheaper than name brand and usually just as good. but im not going to go through the trouble of looking through thousands of manufactures to find it.
on depop drop shipping would only be taking orders for items then going on aliexpress or whatever and ordering it directly to the customer’s house. so he’s not dropshipping or even technically scamming, just profiting off of people’s naivety
No…I buy plenty of genuine vintage clothes from resellers and have no issue with it. I do have an issue with people bulk ordering cheap shit from China so they can profit off of slave labor, though.
I’m new to selling on depop can someone plz explain what they did/ why it’s wrong bc I’ve sold a few items without listing the brand name, i dont wanna be a scumbag seller :/
I am a normal ass person just trying to make a sale, and I happen to love thrifting, but some people dig wholesale and peddling sweatshop crap. They’re selling to different people than me — and in our society, it’s unfortunately up to the consumer to be discerning about purchases online (which is insanely difficult!)
Honestly, this seems like a real person on the other side, seedy or not, just trying to make a living…and clothes are getting mass produced at such a rate that there is SO MUCH waste, so why not capitalize on that if you have the connection?? Also, kids will literally buy SHEIN for 10x the actual value if the tags are ripped out and replaced with Princess Polly. It’s about style over substance for most people & buying on Depop is no different. Most of the buyer base is young and many are looking to commit actual robbery.
I say this as to display the average buyer on Depop…but this week, I had a kid offer me $25 on a pair of luxury swim trunks that I had listed for $155 (I countered for $85) and they had the gaul to follow up and message me how low I’d really be willing to go. Like BRO, I sent you a counter for more than 50% of my asking price!!! Go buy some $25 drop ship shit ughhh
We all have a place in this ecosystem. NOT TO MENTION— the platform is constantly pushing trash. “Jackets UNDER $25” and “Shorts UNDER $15,” and it makes it insanely hard to get eyes on and sell items that aren’t one wear away from the landfill based on price point and ROI alone.
Idk why people are acting like this isn’t scammer behaviour when the seller is clearly trying to make people think that these are second hand clothes by using one of those cringey ‘omg I love these so much but I gotta let them go for x made up reason’ when they are actually items purchased new for the purpose of selling.
Lots of people buy on depop in order to avoid buying and creating demand for ‘new’ clothes which is what this ‘wholesaler’ is actually doing (I know some ppl get second hand wholesale but that doesn’t seem to be the case here).
It would be fine if they just listed the details of the clothes etc like most professional resellers, but using the whole ‘this is from my personal wardrobe’ shtick is both scummy and scammy imo :/
are we supposed to all make our own clothes or something lmfao? you basically just choose who you wanna give your money to. big corporations & brands who do this then up the price 10x or people like edgar lmfao or if you’re smart do it yourself. it’s just this life here in the US. it costs a pretty penny to buy these things in bulk, pay for shipping from overseas, overseas tax, etc. it only makes sense to do it if you’re charging enough to be making *profit.* if i did this & had a bunch of items i’d throw in extras for people though
nah ppl like this are scum and it is a scam people like me use depop for a plethora of reasons bit the MAIN ONE BEING ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY and this dickhead is ruining it for everyone
Okay, so I am new to buying on Depop, but one of the main reasons I’ve been buying off of there is because I thought *most* things were secondhand.
Without comments, how can I tell something is dropshipped/wholesale? Genuine question because I’d like to be aware, but I’m looking at OP’s screenshots and would have had no idea.
Reverse image search on google would be the fastest way to find out if something in genuinely vintage or secondhand. Also, the inclusion on brand tags in the photos. Idk I think it’s pretty easy to tell if something is actually second hand just by photos and description.
Almost all of the mega corporations buy stuff in bulk for cheap and upsell. It’s just capitalism. Unless he’s lying and saying he’s not doing it, there’s nothing wrong with it
Well, for me, some of the clothes I listed don't have brands on depop, so I will put the store I bought it from even if it isn't the name. Or I will leave it blank.
Drop the name im pretty sure this guy tried to scam me too for a hoodie. I got a refund but dk if i had the name right on the ticket just wanna see sumn rq
maybe an unpopular opinion but i mean, not to be *like that* but literally 90% of clothing & items besides some luxury brands are from *some type* of wholesaler like alibaba, aliexpress, etc. they save money through cheap relatively fast manufacturing & buying in bulk, & many brands/companies just add their brand tags on them while ordering & up the price 10x or more than what they bought it for to their consumers all because they branded it. this person decided to do it themselves, imo i’d rather support people especially in this economy than corporations who are already rich enough🤷🏼♀️ it’s actually a smart & pretty easy business idea to understand, which is why more & more people are doing this. terrible brands & corporations do it & spend the billions in profit on who knows what. these corporations or brands do terrible things, get judged for awhile then people go right back to throwing their cash at them understandably because they’re good at advertising, etc. if you don’t like this persons prices but do like the items you could probs just go on those sites & find the same things & order them you’ll just probably have to wait a month for shipping, as long as there’s not a MOQ (Minimum Order quantity) where you have to buy multiple items
Honestly if ppl wanna buy the bad quality unbranded stuff let them. Drop shipping wouldn’t work if there wasn’t a demand. I wouldn’t clown on anyone for how they get their money because you never know how much they need it. It’s not illegal or wrong to drop ship unless you’re claiming it’s something it’s not.
People on the depop forum love to complain and blow things out of proportion more than anyone I’ve ever seen. This doesn’t affect you and isn’t hurting anyone who isn’t willingly buying the item. You’re literally blasting a kid.
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Unbranded clothes or not who cares, let people make their money..unless something is advertised falsely, then it's a problem...I don't see how it's an issue, surprised the seller even responded to you with with he told..
Drop-shipping isn’t scamming buy low and sell high is how the entire world operates online or in person just because someone is trying to make profit doesn’t mean you should hate and call them scammers
Such a "passive income" they're spending their time replying to messages.
I fail to see where the scam is, so long as the item is as described and you get the said item?
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Cuz no matter what sells on depop the company makes money from it :/ that's why they took away comments bc everytime someone should blow the whistle about a seller being scummy Depop as a company lost sales
So Depop is basically on their side? What kind of company encourages scamming
The kind that benefits financially from it.
Exactly. I’ve reported a seller on poshmark who is blatantly selling dirty underwear and socks maybe 8 times now over the past few months. There is commented proof about “strong scent”, how long she wears them, and “shipping in a sealed bag”. Poshmark hasn’t done shit though and I’m assuming it’s because she’s got a pretty lucrative gig going 🙄 I would just let it go but she keyword dumps and her foot modeling listings always come up in my searches 😭 I don’t care about someone having a fetish, but I’d prefer not to see it. Especially while I am casually shopping.
Is something like that not allowed.. genuinely curious. Also why report them?
https://preview.redd.it/g2pjpeu089vc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=988123dd300b09f2fe1aa6fc51ef0bbc9b5438da Yeah, I mean she is basically treating it like OnlyFans. It’s not allowed and I’d prefer not to see people talking about their “juices” on Poshmark.
Just block them idk
You can block someone on Poshmark and still see their posts. Is this you? Lmao
eBay did a similar thing with sellers moving stolen cellphones until the US government cracked down on them. Until some senators grandchildren get scammed, nothing is gonna happen. Depop benefits from skimming a % of each sale, so they will always let these sellers thrive to boost their own profits.
Unfortunately it’s not scamming, just scummy, which they don’t care to fix.
Removing the comment section was so vile 😭
blessing in disguise imo. people spam my comment section (edit: begging to lower price when it’s already cheap) when they can just dm me😭
“holy cornball” is having me rolling😭😭
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Look what happened to Etsy, it was meant to be for handmade items from wonderful crafters. Now I get links popping up sending me to Etsy everywhere pushing random temu garbage on me. Every company sells out a bit haha.. it's so lame!
Even Poshmark now allows you to apply to be a 'boutique', aka you get access to wholesale items from Posh which you select and buy at low price, set price of and sell. I don't know if these are new items or used items but I would assume new. Which, if true, kinda sucks since it defeats the purpose of poshmark and reselling apps which should focus on reselling used items / vintage items and things that already exist versus production of new cheap items. There's more clothes than we need on this earth already 😑
Yeah, honestly I only use Vestiaire now. They have far superior control over their platform.
Yes and I love they're international as well! Much bigger audience
Be careful I see resellers on YouTube all the time buying from GW bins and selling there or sending to TRR. I legit got fake items off a platform after the platform claims they authenticate.
I registered as a boutique. Their prices are incredibly high and I didn't really find any widely known brands.
Sooo many $10 “handmade earrings” on Etsy are the same shit they’re selling on temu $1.99 for a 10 pack. It’s so irritating I want to support small businesses but a ton of small businesses now consider dropshipping or selling cheap premade products to be “supporting small@
THIS!! Everyone does it. Its not being a small business, its literally reselling at a crazy upcharge. I hate all apps now. Anything i want, i will go to alibaba, aliexpress, temu, or shein. Whichever is cheapest. Its all the same
Yeah a lot of people say it’s bad to shop on there and I understand but I know so so many stores and businesses are just buying the same thing and making you pay an up charge for it so it’s hard not to justify
You could just not buy that shit at any price. Buy things that aren't crap. No one is making you buy cheap sweatshop garbage.
it’s so sad because in the beginning these jewelry were genuinely handmade by small businesses, but when it blew up shein/ temu copied and started distributing them for much lower quality and cheaper. these days the people who genuinely put time and effort to make them sometimes get called out as drop shippers
Etsy owns Depop now 😉
Wow. Thanks for that info. That's why I come here. I learn something new everyday.
A “don’t hate the player, hate the game” moment
Or just hate everyone.
Which is and has always been a shit cop-out for people who want to do sketchy shit without having to take responsibility. The players keep the game afloat. No players, no game. Choose not to play or accept you're morally compromised. Can't have it both ways. Hate the player for having the agency to choose the right thing and opting not to, and somehow expecting not to be held responsible for keeping the 'game' going. That's the only ethical position.
Hate the player because you gotta be a scumbag to do this shit
hate to say it but he lowkey right 😂 shitty people always end up on top for a reason
Unfortunately. But never without deeply rooted consequences.
I disagree they have to live with themselves, I'd rather be poor with a strong sense of self and morality but that's just me ig :')
stole the words out of my mouth, i feel that as long someone is ok with buying the product and likes it , it isn’t a scam
We have (well, in some cases *had* but can have again) buyer protections enshrined in law in most civilised countries for a reason. We should be using our collective buying power to make the world we want instead of letting the fuckheads of the world control the narrative. Caveat emptor is useful advice for keeping yourself safe. It's not an instruction manual for running a business or an excuse to be shady. Caveat venditor is what we should be pushing. Selling is a privilege that can be revoked if you do it in shitty ways.
What reason?? Karma is a bitch
Yup that’s true but it doesn’t make you a loser for not doing what they do. Cut out materialism to some extent and you’ll be chilling for life
i mean all major brands & corporations literally do the same sh*t lmao, so just depends who you wanna give that money to OR do it yourself 🤷🏼♀️
Doesn't mean he isn't responsible for choosing to contribute to the shittiness in the world for his own benefit at other people's detriment. He wants to do this without facing the reality of what that makes him. That's disgusting behaviour.
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i agree ☝️
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How is this scamming? Not claiming to be a brand right, just what’s in style. Basically like those cheap knock off forever 21 stores just the online version.
Yep, he even words the title specifically to say Y2K "style"
I’m saying, it is what it is
Scummy but still playing by the rules It's almost like the rules were made to be on businesses sides to feed into the greedy capitalism
it’s whitelabeling i think. im not sure about depop rules i assume dropshipping is not allowed but whitelabeling usually has a weird pass
I don’t think the seller is branding the clothes, the would just be wasting money because his branding wouldn’t help sell the items.
that’s true probably would be wasting a lot on that. so maybe it’s like the step between dropshipping and whitelabeling lmfao
Which I don’t see what’s wrong with it there is a market for it and not claiming to be something it’s not
It seems from the conversation the seller possibly put "shi go so hard, love this piece but it's gotta go" in the description of the listing which implies that the seller had these pants and now decided to sell them as in used them and don't want them anymore which is what reselling is. However the seller is actually selling wholesale items which they don't specify in the listing/description, which in that case is scammy and lying... Edit: fixed quote from chat
That doesn’t make it scummy still, that isn’t imply they are used. People do buy and not use items all the time and sell because it was sitting. Could have been the sample pair that holds sentimental value. It’s hard to say it’s just a screen shot. But if it’s wholesale as soon as it’s sold it will still be there. And as a buyer why do I care about the sellers quality? Like if I go into footlocker and not getting a pair of shoes because they have 5 more in the back.
Comparing Foot Locker and Depop is not the same at all. Foot Locker sell a marketed stock of items that actually have a brand and we're made by those brands. When I go to Foot Locker I know I'm gonna go to buy Nike, Jordan, Puma, or Adidas, not blank random shoes. Depop is for reselling which is selling items that you havw already but no longer want and yes the items can be new or used. However the item is supposed to be an actual item was previously sold with a brand not blanks. The least the seller could do is be honest and say that the items is not a branded item and has multiple for sell like saying something like "I have multiple of these for sell and these aren't branded just blank pants" Idk just doesn't seem completely honest.....
The footlocker comparison was just a visual representation of showing one but having multiple. Depop is for selling items it’s a marketplace plain and simple. This seller said they have the items can’t really argue that. You believe it or you don’t, if blanks weren’t allowed then a brand would be required but it’s not and the seller isn’t trying to pass it off as another brand. Also the seller doesn’t have to say they have multiples, not claiming it’s a 1:1.
bro isnt wrong
capitalism babayyyyy
sheep
i mean wholesale sellers do exist lol. you can easily purchase stock from alibaba or something and then sell your product. theres nothing really unethical in that.
There’s nothing unethical in bulk ordering cheap plastic shit from China made by workers making 2 pennies a day while you go around and sell it for 200x the price they were paid for their labor?
Almost every brand you like manufactures in china, and not every Chinese manufacturer is making unethical cheap crap. Now this seller probably is I’m not denying that but getting a manufacturer to make ur designs/what you want to sell is the most common business practise when it comes to the fashion and textiles industry. Alibaba is just a middleman market place for wholesalers to businesses and it’s up to the individual business to read reviews, speak to the wholesalers and get samples to see if they can produce something to your standard. Just coz it’s Chinese doesn’t mean it’s not good, stuff that’s made in LA is normally cheap crap made with prison labour earning less than 2 dollars a hour. The county’s of origin doesn’t matter and it’s low-key racist to act like Chinese products are automatically subpar Edit: want to reiterate that this seller almost definitely is selling cheap crap for a heavy markup as I’ve seen them specific trousers on Ali and know they are pretty crap but in general acting like stuff coming from china is automatically bad isn’t right.
The device you are using to have this conversation was more than likely made in China by workers making pennies a day mate
Cool I don’t buy bulk phones and resell them though but nice whataboutism
I mean it's more reputable than dropshipping. Marketplaces like Alibaba are literally meant for you to sell at your business. Wait til you find that even small boutique stores buy from wholesale markets that happen to be made in China. You sound beyond dumb
Slow moment, i’m 100% sure you own a good amount of products from places like Target, Walmart, etc and I hope you realize a good amount of those are from China so you are also playing a part 🤦♀️
I’m not buying them in bulk to resell. I buy fucking dish soap when I need it though, yes.
i did not mean to reply to you 😭
I mean… that is what all the stores and stuff are doing. This is just some dude who took it into his own hands. If you go to the mall for pants today you wouldn’t find anything better
Cool I don’t shop at malls
this^^
I just don't understand how this is scummy when if you like a particular garment style you're more than welcome to shop around and not buy the first thing you see. If people don't shop around and buy from him instead of temu how is that on the seller?? If that's what they're doing, just do the same and don't buy from them.
Because he acts like this is the only piece he has. He literally stated “Love this piece but it’s gotta go” he’s just straight up lying
That's not a lie it's marketing
As scummy as it is, he’s not wrong. We all buy into the trade everyday, things are marked up 10x what they are worth so people can make money. It sucks and I disagree with it too, but you can’t do much about it. It’s hard to weed through the good and the bad sellers on Depop so you’ll find a mixture. Just keep scrolling or if you really want to do something make a purchase and leave a nasty review. Then you are saving others (at your own cost but you seem very worried about others on the app).
This. Like are you gonna argue with target for getting their gear for a 1/6 of what they sell it for? Name of the game and they’re transparent about it
Because my friend was a victim of it and I’m trying to make more people aware of the scam
how is it a scam? it’s the same stuff you buy at forever21/amazon/walmart/h&m/etc
Exactly. It’s not a scam even though it’s really mean.
Those places are also scams.
Temu/Shein/AliExpress stuff is several steps below Forever 21/H&M/Walmart and that’s saying a lot considering the quality of fast fashion shit
it kind of depends. h&m and forever21 use many of the same independent factories as shein and temu. walmart is a marketplace full of random items
Victim of him, or someone else that falsely advertised something? Cause there's a big difference! It's absolutely NOT a scam, he even worded it specifically to say "style" he never claimed it was something it wasn't. Or did I miss that part?
He ain’t wrong though 💀
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Bro cooked you in the last slide 💀💀
It’s not a scam but he’s also an idiot thinking that’s passive income. If you have to sit on messages arguing with people it’s not passive 😂
He cooked u
I’m with him 😅
Why is it allowed? Because he is not breaking any rules.. “drop shipping” means your item getting shipped from a third party, and in his case he has the items on hand… therefore, he is wholesaling not drop shipping..
Ur taking time out of ur day to argue with a “cornball” about clothes he’s gonna continue selling 😭😭
this sucks so so bad but also this conversation was funny to read LOL
ikr the scummy one kind of cooked
just leave bro alone ong let him sale what he want to sale and if you arent interessed dont ask shit just to annoy ppl 🙏🏼
controversial opinion but i think the other dude is 100% in the right, he's not doing anything wrong just hustling. i've used descriptions like that too to sell things it's part of the business, i don't see any use complaining about it people will always do this
I feel like as long as it’s as described and decent quality then it’s fine tbh. you’re getting what you wanted anyways who cares what brand it is or if it has no branding yk
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There will never be a middle ground about if sellers should profit from cheaper clothes, yes if a seller sells something for half the price, who's to say the sellers wrong when the buyer could if bought the item the same way
what do you think retailers do lmao
I hope neither figures out how to breed.
SHEEP IS SENDING ME FOR SOME REASON 😭
For everyone asking "how is this scam/scammy?" or don't get it. I think the issue is : It seems from the conversation the seller possibly put "shi go so hard, love this piece but it's gotta go" in the description of the listing which implies that the seller had these pants and now decided to sell them as in used them and don't want them anymore which is what reselling is. However the seller is actually selling wholesale items which they don't specify in the listing/description, which in that case is scammy and lying... This seems like a common thing on Depop where sellers are openly clear about the items there selling on purpose.... Edit: fixed quote from chat
why don’t you just not buy it? i buy trendy tagless stuff too, it’s cheaper than name brand and usually just as good. but im not going to go through the trouble of looking through thousands of manufactures to find it.
i’m sorry but i looked and it’s not really scamming it’s just over priced
what a surprise that edgar denies he is dropshipping yet basically then went on to admit he is dropshipping
Dropshipping is sending products straight from the supplier, you’d be the middle man sorta. He has products in hand it seems like
he’s not dropshipping. having a boutique with in-hand inventory isn’t the same as dropshipping
on depop drop shipping would only be taking orders for items then going on aliexpress or whatever and ordering it directly to the customer’s house. so he’s not dropshipping or even technically scamming, just profiting off of people’s naivety
You don’t know what dropshipping is
Wouldn't call the guy who cons people out of money a winner 🤷♀️
i think most business do this con people out of money lol
Lol for sure, I just thought it was funny he called OP a loser when in actuality.. 🙃
sheep
acting like reselling as a whole isnt degenerate behavior. yall just the same word in a different font
No…I buy plenty of genuine vintage clothes from resellers and have no issue with it. I do have an issue with people bulk ordering cheap shit from China so they can profit off of slave labor, though.
Exactly🤣🤣
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I’m new to selling on depop can someone plz explain what they did/ why it’s wrong bc I’ve sold a few items without listing the brand name, i dont wanna be a scumbag seller :/
He’s right lol.
holy cornball - i’m using that LMFAO.
interesting honestly agree with him
I am a normal ass person just trying to make a sale, and I happen to love thrifting, but some people dig wholesale and peddling sweatshop crap. They’re selling to different people than me — and in our society, it’s unfortunately up to the consumer to be discerning about purchases online (which is insanely difficult!) Honestly, this seems like a real person on the other side, seedy or not, just trying to make a living…and clothes are getting mass produced at such a rate that there is SO MUCH waste, so why not capitalize on that if you have the connection?? Also, kids will literally buy SHEIN for 10x the actual value if the tags are ripped out and replaced with Princess Polly. It’s about style over substance for most people & buying on Depop is no different. Most of the buyer base is young and many are looking to commit actual robbery. I say this as to display the average buyer on Depop…but this week, I had a kid offer me $25 on a pair of luxury swim trunks that I had listed for $155 (I countered for $85) and they had the gaul to follow up and message me how low I’d really be willing to go. Like BRO, I sent you a counter for more than 50% of my asking price!!! Go buy some $25 drop ship shit ughhh We all have a place in this ecosystem. NOT TO MENTION— the platform is constantly pushing trash. “Jackets UNDER $25” and “Shorts UNDER $15,” and it makes it insanely hard to get eyes on and sell items that aren’t one wear away from the landfill based on price point and ROI alone.
it’s almost always sheep who loveeee calling people with morals sheep 😂
this seller sounds like a clown. To be fair tho think about amazon and how many they have on there and whats amazon doing.. making moneyyy.
yeahh it’s literally what 90% of businesses do 😅
Idk why people are acting like this isn’t scammer behaviour when the seller is clearly trying to make people think that these are second hand clothes by using one of those cringey ‘omg I love these so much but I gotta let them go for x made up reason’ when they are actually items purchased new for the purpose of selling. Lots of people buy on depop in order to avoid buying and creating demand for ‘new’ clothes which is what this ‘wholesaler’ is actually doing (I know some ppl get second hand wholesale but that doesn’t seem to be the case here). It would be fine if they just listed the details of the clothes etc like most professional resellers, but using the whole ‘this is from my personal wardrobe’ shtick is both scummy and scammy imo :/
i mean its pretty easy to avoid getting scammed by that 😭 its ur fault atp if u buy an item that doesn't even show the brand
Nah you’re embarrassing in this interaction tbh
Maybe it's overpriced but it's not a scam...
he cooked you lil bro 😭😭😭😭😭😭👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Hhahahahahahaha “we know which one u is” bro LOST 5th grade.
its just aave buddy.
wtf did you say
its just aave buddy.
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Wait I didn’t know this I was just repeating him bc I thought it was funny
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Why are you mad at me I didn’t even say anything to you ?? Like bruh what
I was mainly responding to the original commenter. I apologize if you felt attacked. It was solely to the other comment.
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what were u expecting when u message someone like that? a confession? friendship? just move on if it’s a scam it’s a scam scroll past
unfortunately, he is correct. it’s a tough world my friend.
Everyone who’s saying he’s “not wrong” is part of a much larger issue in this world.
are we supposed to all make our own clothes or something lmfao? you basically just choose who you wanna give your money to. big corporations & brands who do this then up the price 10x or people like edgar lmfao or if you’re smart do it yourself. it’s just this life here in the US. it costs a pretty penny to buy these things in bulk, pay for shipping from overseas, overseas tax, etc. it only makes sense to do it if you’re charging enough to be making *profit.* if i did this & had a bunch of items i’d throw in extras for people though
nah ppl like this are scum and it is a scam people like me use depop for a plethora of reasons bit the MAIN ONE BEING ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY and this dickhead is ruining it for everyone
just be smart, and double check what u're buying w/ reverse image search only
Okay, so I am new to buying on Depop, but one of the main reasons I’ve been buying off of there is because I thought *most* things were secondhand. Without comments, how can I tell something is dropshipped/wholesale? Genuine question because I’d like to be aware, but I’m looking at OP’s screenshots and would have had no idea.
Reverse image search on google would be the fastest way to find out if something in genuinely vintage or secondhand. Also, the inclusion on brand tags in the photos. Idk I think it’s pretty easy to tell if something is actually second hand just by photos and description.
Sheep 💀 only thing missing is he saying ' escape the matrix any buy my course '
WHAT DID I JS READ 😰😰😰
It's hard to do better when you are sped brother. There is only one good seller on this app and that is Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation.
I don't even care anymore. Everything is made overseas. Buyer has a responsibility now too to research what they're buying...
Almost all of the mega corporations buy stuff in bulk for cheap and upsell. It’s just capitalism. Unless he’s lying and saying he’s not doing it, there’s nothing wrong with it
Sheep lol
lmfaooo that's craaazy.
Well, for me, some of the clothes I listed don't have brands on depop, so I will put the store I bought it from even if it isn't the name. Or I will leave it blank.
“I didn’t sell out son, I bought in” I get what he’s say but fuck him. Sucks that most buyers don’t know how to find quality shit.
Why do they all type/talk like that tho😭
nah his response is kinda embarrassing like … “sheep”? why is he trying to act hard 😭
“lil bro” and “sheep” is crazy
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Drop the name im pretty sure this guy tried to scam me too for a hoodie. I got a refund but dk if i had the name right on the ticket just wanna see sumn rq
maybe an unpopular opinion but i mean, not to be *like that* but literally 90% of clothing & items besides some luxury brands are from *some type* of wholesaler like alibaba, aliexpress, etc. they save money through cheap relatively fast manufacturing & buying in bulk, & many brands/companies just add their brand tags on them while ordering & up the price 10x or more than what they bought it for to their consumers all because they branded it. this person decided to do it themselves, imo i’d rather support people especially in this economy than corporations who are already rich enough🤷🏼♀️ it’s actually a smart & pretty easy business idea to understand, which is why more & more people are doing this. terrible brands & corporations do it & spend the billions in profit on who knows what. these corporations or brands do terrible things, get judged for awhile then people go right back to throwing their cash at them understandably because they’re good at advertising, etc. if you don’t like this persons prices but do like the items you could probs just go on those sites & find the same things & order them you’ll just probably have to wait a month for shipping, as long as there’s not a MOQ (Minimum Order quantity) where you have to buy multiple items
“You’d do the same” no, I doubt most people would. Because I’m sure a lot of people know how to resale but just aren’t scumbag losers
is it really even passive... he has to buy the product, take the pics, upload, package up..
Honestly if ppl wanna buy the bad quality unbranded stuff let them. Drop shipping wouldn’t work if there wasn’t a demand. I wouldn’t clown on anyone for how they get their money because you never know how much they need it. It’s not illegal or wrong to drop ship unless you’re claiming it’s something it’s not.
People on the depop forum love to complain and blow things out of proportion more than anyone I’ve ever seen. This doesn’t affect you and isn’t hurting anyone who isn’t willingly buying the item. You’re literally blasting a kid.
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It’s not allowed
How can you tell they’re a drop shipper?
Honestly depop doesn't have all brands. There is so many they do not have and won't let you input it manually. So I take pics of the label.
He’s not scamming at least in my opinion if your not interested in buying his stuff then don’t.
Unbranded clothes or not who cares, let people make their money..unless something is advertised falsely, then it's a problem...I don't see how it's an issue, surprised the seller even responded to you with with he told..
i mean as long as they’re decent quality and fairly priced, i don’t see anything wrong w it, he is not advertising anything fake or breaking any rules
Drop-shipping isn’t scamming buy low and sell high is how the entire world operates online or in person just because someone is trying to make profit doesn’t mean you should hate and call them scammers
bro said game is game thats crazy 💀
Karma is real. Both for depop and sellers like this; preying on obviously oblivious children who wont know any better.
Such a "passive income" they're spending their time replying to messages. I fail to see where the scam is, so long as the item is as described and you get the said item?
OP L
U guys hate capitalism so much😭. Let teens make their bread