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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by hamolton on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:42PM (#25310808)
Do you have plans to address the criticisms you've had on Youtube and Reddit comments? It sounds like a lot of people have been unhappy with quality of service given the prices (esp. if you get low quantities), citing the dirtiness/wrinkles of clothes received (you don't wash them on purpose I guess), how there seems to be a lot of clothes that are beat up or faded compared to what you'd get at a thrift store, how you don't have controls over the brightness and vibrancy colors you get, and there seems to be little adherence to the requests customers put in text box.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by Animats on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:38PM (#25311162)
I'm amazed the business model works. The shipping and handling may cost more than the contents.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by imustbeevil on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:56AM (#25313896)
It's hard to find the right words for this, but I would sincerely reevaluate your perspective.

A surprising number of people thrift / buy used clothes. Between thrift stores and consignment shops, more people shop there than Department stores (30% vs 21%).

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/thrift-store-day.htm...

It's currently popular among younger people as a push against "fast fashion". People want clothes that are unique and affordable, and their only options are thrift stores or color blocks from Uniqlo.

This is the "kind of person" who buys used clothes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihjDIczdCA

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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by AtlasBarfed on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:18PM (#25320716)
Fast fashion is likely undermining used clothes, since they degrade quickly to not being wearable, but still have the same landfill degradation problems as other textiles.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by nix23 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:27AM (#25314046)
You sound like a terrible character, and you should be ashamed about yourself.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by selimthegrim on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:43PM (#25325530)
He (I am confidently making this assumption, feel free to to correct if wrong) also clearly has never had kids or hand me downs
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by mint2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:07AM (#25315527)
You do know there’s such a thing as a washing machine?

It takes dirty clothes and removed the dirt and nothing dangerous will survive the detergent and hot water.

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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by notebook00 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:22PM (#25320451)
Use the dryer to kill bedbugs, lice, ticks, etc. In this case bedbugs are probably of greatest concern.
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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by chance_state on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:17PM (#25311383)
> Do you have plans to address the criticisms you've had on Youtube and Reddit comments?

Isn't this just an advertising platform? Why would we address criticisms here?

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Re:No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018) by phaus on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:41AM (#25312659)
When people notice an influential employee that works at a company is active in a community, that presents them with an opportunity to talk to a living breathing person that might actually respond to questions that they feel have been ignored by official channels. People ask questions like this all the time. Unfortunately, sometimes its the only way to get someone at a company to actually help you.
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