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Post by betabutton on Aug 15, 2019 16:24:44 GMT
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Post by Gabi on Aug 15, 2019 17:12:54 GMT
Interesting! I was just on the thredup site and saw this: thredUP reserves the right to purchase your items before they are listed. If your kit has been activated with one of our retail partners, thredUP will purchase all your accepted items and you will receive a payout immediately.
I wondered what that meant. I guess this article explains it. I am not really sure yet what I should think about that.
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Post by kritter on Aug 15, 2019 17:17:15 GMT
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Post by Pantlandia on Aug 15, 2019 20:01:09 GMT
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Post by kritter on Aug 15, 2019 21:05:09 GMT
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
If you can't sell new clothes, try selling previously owned clothes.
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Post by betabutton on Aug 15, 2019 23:34:59 GMT
I don’t understand what this means.
”thredUP reserves the right to purchase your items before they are listed. If your kit has been activated with one of our retail partners, thredUP will purchase all your accepted items and you will receive a payout immediately.
We’ve had the the option to refuse what they offer and ask for our bag to be returned. We can also pay to have items NOT accepted returned. I have always done that, even if I donate my unaccepted returns. I wonder how this changes things. If the kit (bag?) has been “activated” with one of ThredUp’s retail partners, does that mean everything not “activated” (accepted?) will be available for return, or can ThredUp take some of those items not accepted by the retailer and we can still pay to have unaccepted items returned?
I signed in to the ThredUp website and could not locate any of that information. Wondering if I have to order a clean out bag to see all the terms.
I stopped sending them anything after the last bag was “lost” and they claimed they shipped it but I had not received it. They seemed to think I had given them the wrong address to ship to but they only ever had one address from me. And they also appeared to think that they had fulfilled their responsibility to me when they SAID they had shipped it. Only my persistent nagging brought a nice BOX (not my original bag)with my unaccepted items to my home 2 weeks later.
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Post by somany on Aug 16, 2019 2:03:41 GMT
That article is pretty vague about what's taking place, and I couldn't find anything on the thredup site. Sounds like bags will be able to be taken to Macy's so maybe they will process the bags on the spot.
I don't think much of this concept. If Macy's appealed to the same target audience, then maybe it would have some merit, but I don't think that's the case here.
ETA, it sounds like Macy's is taking a page from ebay's book of just throwing things on the wall to see what sticks. We all know how well that works.
I tend to think if the retailers can just hang on, the tide will change at some point. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but I would think the kids today would be excited to be able to go into a store to shop as young adults when they've only ever done on-line shopping.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 16, 2019 9:08:50 GMT
Macy's blew it when they merged with May Stores and converted all those brands to Macys, instead of keeping some of the chain names as separate stores.
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Post by sunsetpainter on Aug 16, 2019 18:56:05 GMT
Argh! If Macy's goes down, can I still get my Frango mints?!? DH always buys me a supply when they mark down their Christmas tins!
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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 16, 2019 19:57:09 GMT
Macy's blew it when they merged with May Stores and converted all those brands to Macys, instead of keeping some of the chain names as separate stores. They also made the merchandise all the same in all of the stores so it was just Generic Department store. The individual stores had had individual soft and hard goods lines, as well as their own particular products, like the Frango mints sunsetpainter mentioned (Frederick & Nelson) and the Bon Marche's particular clothing lines (to mention two stores here). |
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Post by RetroMonde on Aug 17, 2019 2:49:54 GMT
I was just in a mall Macy's today; it was deads-ville there. But the whole mall was eerily empty of shoppers for only 2 weeks before BTS. Maybe weekends are different. Everything at Macy's was kinda meh- maybe I'm jaded after selling 'aftermarket' fashion for so long. Or maybe fashion just isn't very inspiring either... nothing really outstanding or ground-breaking but I'm in the 'burbs.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 17, 2019 4:36:30 GMT
The DH told me that JC Penney's was also partnering with Thred-Up - maybe I'll start sending my crap into them again lol.
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Post by kat on Aug 17, 2019 4:55:15 GMT
There was a Thred Up in the mall a few hours from me but the last time I was there I saw it was permanently closed.
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Post by somany on Aug 17, 2019 13:19:36 GMT
These stores are desiring to get into the pre-owned market while ebay continues to alienate itself from the market. I don't think either of the stores are well-positioned to make this move, but as we all know, ebay could have capitalized big on it instead of treating it like a red headed step-child.
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Post by somany on Aug 17, 2019 13:26:16 GMT
There was a Thred Up in the mall a few hours from me but the last time I was there I saw it was permanently closed. My guess that the difference would be that the overhead cost associated with the existing Macy's and Penney's stores will be spread across the two business lines--new and pre-owned--so that potentially helps the stores and thredup, but with a stand alone store, you are absorbing the overhead cost completely. Still, if you have the opportunity to try on the stuff at Penney's and Macy's, what's to keep it from getting mixed in with the new merchandise? Those who will only purchase new might not be thrilled about that. |
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Post by RetroMonde on Aug 17, 2019 16:05:12 GMT
I can't see it working out for Macy's or Penney's. Its always seemed like you're either a NEW buyer or a USED buyer. And how are you going to sell a new FP top for $90 when there's a used FP top for $20 two departments over?
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Post by kritter on Aug 17, 2019 16:56:51 GMT
Seems like a last gasp for both store chains to keep afloat and not follow Sears down the tubes.
If that is their best shot then they better start looking for new jobs.
It might work for stores with a lot of foot traffic in place but doubtful that it is going to bring in somebody looking for used clothes that might stay and shop for new clothes. Lack of foot traffic is already an issue for those stores.
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Post by Dawn R on Aug 18, 2019 11:09:56 GMT
It does say in the article that " it will be taking items from brands and categories that Macy’s doesn’t currently offer."
I think it is a bad move for Macy's.
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Post by kritter on Aug 18, 2019 16:07:08 GMT
It is a desperate move for Macy's.
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Post by 57roses on Aug 18, 2019 18:26:44 GMT
Somewhere on this board is a thread of another, higher end store that is doing the same thing.
They think when people drop off their old clothes they will have them in the store and be tempted to buy new stuff.
It does sound a bit desparate.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 18, 2019 20:35:58 GMT
They're both making such a dog's breakfast out of their enterprises that I can't see them pulling this off.
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Post by Desire on Aug 19, 2019 12:25:38 GMT
I like Macy's for household goods. In the past I could always find items instore or online that I couldn't find at cheaper stores like JCPenny, Walmart or Target. I shopped at our mall store many, many years ago when the store was Filenes who merged with G Fox, then it became Macy's. It was always my go-to store before I started shopping exclusively online.
I've purchased tons of things from the online Macys, too. Orders will arrive within a day or so because they ship from the local stores instead of a warehouse most of the time. Macys is popular here in the Northeast - everyone getting married around here always uses it for their bridal/wedding registry, which makes it easy for wedding gifts.
Maybe Macy's should stop with a lot the waste they do, like the extravagant televised fireworks/concert they put on every 4th of July and the Thanksgiving Day Parades. Just a drop in the bucket but when lean times are here, every little bit helps.
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Post by parelex on Aug 22, 2019 4:58:01 GMT
I enjoy shopping at Macy's but it's almost exclusively scrounging in the basement level on their Last Act racks, looking for Free People stuff for myself on markdown. Overstuffed, disorganized racks, barely any crowds, it's like zen to me digging through it all for bargains. I used to shop more there in general, but their coupons have so many damn restrictions I don't even bother.
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Post by somany on Aug 22, 2019 12:15:41 GMT
I had pretty much given up on one of their coupons ever working for me. I would think for sure I had something that it worked on but get to the register to find out I was wrong. I did shop there last Christmas and got some good deals, but I had to open a new credit card so that helped. I had no idea my old one had been closed, the salesclerk said they only give you a year of not using it, and then they close the account. I may have to open a new one come Christmas time again because I haven’t used it since then.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 22, 2019 21:56:31 GMT
I was just in a mall Macy's today; it was deads-ville there. But the whole mall was eerily empty of shoppers for only 2 weeks before BTS. Maybe weekends are different. Are you sure your area hasn't already gone back to school? Our BTS shopping was mostly the last 2 weeks of July and first week in August. Schools here were all back in session by August 9th. |
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Post by Pantlandia on Aug 22, 2019 23:05:22 GMT
Our schools don't start until the day after Labor Day. The last two years are the first time I've EVER seen them start in August. This year they are back on the 3rd and 4th.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 23, 2019 1:19:58 GMT
They start in our local school district on Sept 4 - but you don't see lots of people in the malls in the summer around here, anyway. It's like the entire area just gets up and leaves.
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Post by RetroMonde on Aug 23, 2019 2:56:22 GMT
Yep- our area schools begin day after Labor Day. I know because DD is counting the days, lol! The grands are great kids but by the end of summer EVERYONE is ready for a break from each other!
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Post by somany on Aug 23, 2019 9:10:19 GMT
Are your schools air conditioned? It seems like as more and more schools in this area have gotten air conditioning, the start time has gotten earlier and earlier. My kids started sometime the week before Labor Day, usually on a Tuesday or Wednesday so they had 3-4 days the first week and 4 days the second week to ease them into school. My grandkids start 2-3 weeks before. Last year it was 2 1/2 weeks but this year it was only 2 weeks.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 23, 2019 17:36:15 GMT
Not around here, not that I've ever known, but it doesn't get that warm here a lot so it isn't an issue - for instance it's about 60 degrees out on my deck and it's about 10:30. It all depends on snow days/storm days - we don't have many snow days, but on the years we have had them (doesn't take much snow to freak us out lol), that's when the school open in late August to make up the time.
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