hey everyone welcome back to my channel
it's karen lavender clothesline and in
today's video we're going to do a
clothing haul because you guys keep
asking for clothing and for some reason
i show a lot of hard goods so if you're
new to my channel i am a full-time ebay
reseller i support myself this way along
with making these youtube videos to show
you guys what i'm picking up why i'm
picking it up and how the selling is
going so recently i really disciplined
myself to make sure i'm getting on a lot
of new fresh listings and that plan is
working my sales are getting better and
better so very grateful after this
little bit of a slow down on ebay but
today i have a rack of clothing behind
me we're going to go through the pieces
and a lot of times these pieces of
clothing are not your typical
high comps you know you can run the name
and look for how they're selling on ebay
now while that's a really good plan to
follow
i find a lot of what i pick up is not
easily found in a google search or in an
ebay search not to say they're not
common brands they might be but a lot of
times the items i sell even clothing are
very obscure different pieces and i pick
them up because of the style or the
quality or something about them i think
i can use really good keywords and sell
them so i'm going to show you a few of
those pieces today and just talk about
what i paid what i expect the items to
bring if i even know that and yeah just
basically why i picked them up so hit
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a reseller or not all right let's get
started i'm going to show you the first
few pieces and see what you think leave
a comment down below of what your
favorite item was let's get started
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so the first item i wanted to talk about
is this cottage core dress cottage core
is a term that i didn't make up but it
is still a trending term cottage core is
one word kind of like a compound word
and i think it means that the person
wearing it wants to look like they live
in a thatched roof cottage out in the
country who doesn't want that lifestyle
sounds good to me but i picked this toy
dress up
turd is a solid seller for me and i show
you the labels of most of the brands
torrid uses single numbers for their
items so this one's a 2 which translates
to a 2x very pretty
beautiful floral print very flouncy i'll
use that word in my keywords too along
with cottage course so that is the first
item i believe i paid i want to remember
correct prices 5.99 for this and i had a
discount because this was senior citizen
day i think this dress will probably
bring between 25 and 30 dollars the next
type of items we will recognize the
brands this is athletic wear i pick up
almost any athletic wear if it's a
halfway decent brand meaning nike atleta
lululemon of course and especially if
it's new with tanks i'm very hesitant to
pick up a lot of athletic wear if it has
more than gentle use i think because
people are exercising in the clothing
athletic wear tends to have more wear
than a casual dress or blouse or
whatever you get what i'm saying first
item up sports bra
so sports bras are a big seller for me
this one is nike i think yep nike and
it's called full support
new with tags
i will always pick these up i believe i
paid 2.99 for this
and i'm not sure what i have this on for
i think this one is listed i'm gonna say
probably 25 something like that
i'm just going to be tossing items over
to the side so we can keep this moving
next up a pair of bike or cycle shorts
these shorts are compression meaning
they have a lot of stretch to them a lot
of holding capability here is the
athleta symbol
this is the velo velo cycle short there
is the branding
again new with tags
you can always tell a cycle short if it
has built-in padding in the bum which is
great i did pay 4.99 for these and again
i think i have these listed i'm going to
say probably about 30 don't quote me on
that if you want anything from this haul
or if you want to see what i'm selling
it for or even what it's sold through at
you can look at my store lavender
clothesline all right let's get started
on the rack behind me i saw this blouse
on a rack and this is just beautiful
it's kind of like a kerchief print
that's what i call it or a bandana print
that's my own made up term i will use
that in keywords a lot of times this is
maeve m-a-e-v-e for anthropology i'll
show you what the tag looks like
just a pretty lightweight summer blouse
and does the tag it is new with tags
this one is 78
is the original retail and that would be
a real retail price anthropology is not
a store to up price their items and then
put them on a big discount they are the
type of store that items are quite high
priced but they're always beautiful good
quality i find with anthropology now
anthropology did get flooded on ebay
probably i'm going to say six or seven
years ago people really caught on to it
anthropology is the store and they carry
a lot of brands you can actually google
anthropology brand labels and a chart
will come up to help you identify the
different pieces that anthropology sells
but i said yes to this absolutely it has
everything going for it new with tags
beautiful simple boxy style which a lot
of women like that especially in the
summer very breezy so i paid 4.99 for it
and i imagine this is going to bring a
solid forty dollars and while i'm
thinking about it if you guys wanna know
where i get my tassel earrings yep i am
still wearing tassel earrings i don't
really care if they're in style or not
when i like something i like it it makes
me happy i'm at that point in life where
you know you're not so worried about
what's trending for yourself you're just
into wearing what is happy and these are
target again i get most of my tassel
earrings from target and target is still
selling tassel earrings but i'm sure you
can find them online so that is the
story with the earrings for all of you
that ask i think that's got to be one of
my number one questions is hey we should
get those earrings so
obviously you guys like tassel earrings
too alright
so this next dress
really pretty again this is cottage core
peasant style
and this is loft locked is ann taylor
loft no diamond markers underneath no
dots that means it's the retail store
retail ann taylor and teller loft is
much higher price than their outlet
stores so this one is new with tags with
the price missing from it i imagine this
dress had to be close to if not over a
hundred dollars beautiful dress now ann
taylor and ann taylor loft and tele
factory when they are the outlet pieces
i have a tendency to stay away from that
the quality is not really there i used
to work for ann taylor years ago so i
know quite a bit about the ann taylor
brand but their retail products are
beautiful so that's why i picked this up
because it is cottage core it's a
flouncy dress again meaning feminine and
just breezy and the material has a real
light movement to it so i absolutely
love this dress i paid 6.99 and did i
list this yet i don't think this one is
listed yet i think i'll probably put
this on around the 50 55 mark this next
item is kind of like a kimono robe i did
not recognize the branding i don't know
who this is this is called it looks like
plus side so it is a 4x and it seems to
be new but it has the button placket oh
it does have tags yeah it just says on
the plus side that is the branding but i
really liked this robe and i got this
for i think this was 350 all the
goodwill tags are off
very pretty very lightweight very
feminine and i'm sure i'll probably get
over twenty dollars for it so that's why
i went ahead and picked this up
so there are many times the brain does
not matter to me i know collective gasp
in the community because i'm like a rule
breaker on ebay i don't feel that the
good business model of copying every
single thing and going by how many sold
and how many listed that's called the
sell-through rate i don't pay attention
to that a lot now don't get me wrong and
don't go out and buy a lot of no
name brands but if i find an item that i
think is good quality by the by the
material if it's beautiful if it's good
sizing if it's new with tags if it has
all of the other item specifics we'll
call it in place i will go ahead and
pick up the item sometimes i do have to
wait longer for these items to sell
rather than say if this was soma or
brand that sold through quickly but this
has just beautiful detailing to it look
at the lace on the sleeves beautiful
lace too
there are a lot of different qualities
to lace and this is a nice quality so
this could be a good brand i didn't even
bother to check now when i go to listed
i will take a look at comps to guide me
price wise but other than that it
doesn't bother me i didn't recognize the
brand i think it's gorgeous and i think
somebody's going to want this so with
having just said that i don't pay
attention to brands all the time there
are times i do pay attention to the
brand this is a men's polo
and this is i believe vintage burberry
now you have to be careful with brand
names especially the luxury brand names
because a lot of them will get you in
trouble
listing them on ebay if they're fake and
there are a ton of fakes out there so i
have a tendency to stay away from
high-end luxury brands whether it be
prada chanel
burberry
st john's who else
filson i will stay away from them if i
think there's any chance that they're
fakes but 99 sure this one is real i'm
going to show you what the tag looks
like
it is also branded on the sleeve let me
find a sleeve that where it's branded
i'll fold that down for you
so you can see that the weave of the
shirt is excellent the quality of the
shirt is just amazing the buttons are
beautiful the buttons are individually
branded and that's what i talk about a
lot when you have a luxury item every
piece of that item whether it's the
zipper or if it's the buttons they're
going to have the branding on them a lot
of the story is also told by the inside
tags you want to see the correct country
of manufacture
you know all the little details and the
seams tell a big story when you look at
the finishing work on the inside of the
garment it's kind of like looking at the
back of a painting dr laurie who i
follow very closely is an authority on
recognizing different artwork
authenticating she has a vast amount of
knowledge and i think the best tip that
i learned from dr laurie in the hard
goods field was to look at the backstory
look at the back of the item so with
clothing i do a lot of research on the
inside of the item on the seams how it's
put together whether the patterns match
up so if you have a man's shirt and it's
a luxury brand you can be sure that the
pattern says a tropical pattern on the
pocket matches up with the rest of the
shirt that the two sides of the opening
of the front of the shirt match up the
pattern goes straight across i'll see if
i have a piece to show you that but
burberry men's polo yes all day long
even though it's not a real big find for
burberry like a trench coat that i found
that brought i think 450 dollars this is
a good solid find and i think it's gonna
have a good sell through rate
4.99
minus my 15
somebody do the math and i said yes to
it
next up i couldn't believe my eyes
finding this piece
this is
saint john
i'll show you the marie gray
this is a santana in it now while i do
find the sweaters and the skirts very
rare do i find the dresses and very rare
are they in great condition so st john
has a very distinctive knit in a lot of
their pieces it's called the santana
knit i don't even know how to describe
it i don't know if the camera will pick
it up
it is a specific texture of the way the
garment is woven this is just beautiful
it is a cocktail dress with a sweetheart
neckline beautiful jewelry embellishment
and the belt has the matching enamel
clasp
studded in rhinestones
let's see if i can get out of the shot
for that
so i said yes absolutely so quickly for
this dress 6.99
i don't know i'm thinking over the
hundred dollar mark for this no i
haven't
i haven't comped which i will for this
stress when i'm getting ready to list
again to set my price but i didn't need
to comp this to know i was picking this
up and
hopefully this is still bringing the
money that it used to be could be over a
hundred dollars beautiful condition
gorgeous gorgeous and i think somebody's
going to want it while we're talking
about nice brands i want to show you
this dress this is lily pulitzer i think
we're all familiar with that brand very
florida very beautiful prints you can
usually spot a lilly pulitzer dress very
far away
there is the tag or the branding
and is this one this one is new with
tags also new with a cut tag
so let's see what this one is called
this is called the jonah romper and the
reason it's called a romper is
underneath this split skirt
built-in shorts
i absolutely love this piece very cute
they usually have a very beachy print to
them and if you look at the print it'll
have fish or coral this one has lobsters
in it
and i love that lily does a lot of times
beautiful detailing to it a beautiful i
don't know what this is called trim
um
there's a name to this and it's escaping
me right now but very pretty you can see
and usually the trim is like a real pop
of color so i absolutely love this piece
again i paid 6.99 for it minus the ten
percent just know that all of the
clothing behind me was minus ten percent
so i won't keep saying that and uh lilly
pulitzer in good condition is always a
yes for me i think the same shopping
trip that i picked up the st john
santana knit dress i found a tory burch
dress what
how does that even happen
some days i go to the thrift store and i
never question why i'm doing this for a
living but sometimes i think where is
all the good stuff i think you guys are
buying it all but some days you get
there and it's just this magic happens
where you're going through racks and
you're just finding beautiful pieces and
this is no different the quality is just
stunning on this tory burch it's a
beautiful red and black
dress and new with tags you gotta love
that
so this originally sold for 498 dollars
they did have it on the clearance rack
tory burch did for 300
and i paid
6.99 so there you go that's why i do
this for a living
just beautiful i don't know what the
tory burch is going to bring because i
don't find tory burch that often i do
once no i'll find shoes handbags
but dresses i don't find as often as the
accessory pieces so i still have yet to
look this up to comp it and try to
figure out where to price this at a lot
of times how i price things is going to
depend on how common the size is needed
so if i pick something up that's a very
tiny size it's going to take slower to
sell so usually i price it more
aggressively if it's anywhere from i'm
going to say a six up
up being better like the larger sizes
then i price it a little bit higher
because that's more realistic but if i
have a dress that's like a size zero or
a size two or a petite it's definitely
going to take longer i will get less
money for it so what size is this now
that i've said all of that what size are
you
this is a size medium not bad
this brand i find quite often i used to
find it less rare and i used to get
excited for this brand when i first
started selling if i found free people
we the free free people i was just over
the moon happy now it's like oh okay
free people so funny how it changes as
you're selling many years i picked up
this thermal knit top it's got a fuzz on
it
i really like this style and i have a
tendency to keep things like this for
myself but i would like this in a color
i didn't even know if i would keep this
for myself so this one is not new it
does look new but no tags so i will call
this pre-owned
just a really nice thermal top i paid
4.99 minus the 10 still have to say it
and i'm thinking probably 25 to 30 for
this one this next item is an item that
i was like oh i don't know this i didn't
know that lululemon made button-down
woven dress shirts for men i don't know
how i missed that to me lululemon is
such a strong athletic outdoorsy brand
that when i saw the tag i actually did a
double take i'm like oh lululemon makes
dress clothes did not know that thrilled
to find it beautiful condition no new
with tag but again it looks like it's
new
and this probably is a good shirt to
talk about the premise that i talked
about the concept a little bit earlier
where when you find a good brand how the
pattern will match up when the tailor
puts the pieces together they're putting
the pocket
keeping in line with the pattern that's
running across the shirt so you can see
it here i'm going to bring this close to
the camera
this is a pocket here it is a zip pocket
and see how the pattern of the shirt is
coming across these stripes and it goes
right across the pocket they have
matched this up perfectly so just a
really nice detail for finer clothing
that you want to look for now let me
just say do i have a tommy bahama
i have a tommy bahama shirt here we're
going to look at this one
i'm going to go right into this don't
mind it it's crinkly this is just washed
and freshly hung dry
see this pocket here this is the same
with tommy bahama which is a brand
that's faked a lot if your pocket
doesn't match up with the material that
the pocket is sewn on if the pattern is
not perfect most likely your item is a
fake and i did not know that so i had to
clear out a few of the shirts in my
store because it felt like they might be
a fake and it was weird because the
branding the fake branding looked
exactly like the correct tag so i'm not
a hundred percent positive that tommy
bahama always matches up everything
perfectly but it stands to reason that
yeah they would be a brand to do that so
this is the tag
and again you can see the pocket see
this palm leaf it perfectly blends into
the palm leaf on the shirt
really nice quality so that is tommy
bahama you can always look for and be
able to easily tell most likely now if
i'm wrong and you guys know that tommy
bahama will
have their patterns not match up like
look at this even the leaf coming across
carried through to the other side of the
pattern see this leaf down here
it's carried through on the other side
of the shirt so i know that you know
what i'm saying but if you know any
different especially for tommy bahama
leave a comment down below if you've
heard of this concept or you know that
there are genuine tommy bahama branded
items or any luxury brand that doesn't
match up their patterns all right having
said all of that chit chat chit chat
let's keep going and see what else i
picked up the two men's shirts 4.99 both
and i don't know the lululemon will
probably bring more than the tommy
bahama because tommy bahama is more
saturated so a lot of times i'm basing
my price on how many are out there okay
so i just ran downstairs to get this
shirt because this was already put into
inventory this is robert graham another
brand i love to find
this is a men's dress shirt
and i will show you the branding on this
i've shown this branding before because
i love to find these these always do
well for me there is the branding
robert graham has embroidered his logo
in the background show robert graham's
not sitting there at a sewing machine
branding his own items but you know what
i'm saying and also so this one is new
with tags let me just say that which is
great
also on the bottom hem portion
if you open up where the shirt is sewn
it has more branding
this is all embroidered amazing and this
one says knowledge wisdom truth i think
they all have that same saying i feel
like one time i had a really special
shirt and it had something different i
could have dropped that
it's so weird when you're a reseller and
you're talking about reselling all day
long roger and i are always talking
about reselling i'm always telling him
no more reselling um it's amazing how
you start to dream about reselling your
dreams so sometimes i think did i dream
that i found oh no i really did find
that in the thrift store but robert
graham yes all day long i paid 4.99 for
it just thrilled to find this shirt and
i do have this listed i'm going to say
probably have it listed close to the 100
mark knowing me and we'll see how it
does robert graham has some specialty
prints i they're not one-offs i'm trying
to remember what they're called i don't
know if there's certain collections but
uh those will go for higher especially
if they're new with tags but um robert
graham always brings a good solid i'm
going to say 50 to 75 if not higher this
is a lululemon top that i might have
shown a couple of videos ago and when i
got ready to list it i took a closer
look at it and i have some question of
whether this is genuine or not so i have
not listed this in my store so this is
lululemon
as you can see it's an athletic top and
the thing that concerned me about this
and i wanted to show this to you guys
just get rid of the hanger is that the
lululemon symbol on the back seems to be
crooked i don't think lululemon would
ever let that pass through if their
machine did make a mistake but i don't
think their machines make a mistake so
when i see that the symbol is crooked
most likely this is a fake so we'll not
sell it on ebay
now to be truthful i didn't know if this
got stretched out but even looking at it
now it seems like the symbol is not in
line with the striping
so leave a comment down below of what
you guys think if this is real you know
it's genuine or it is a fake
all right we are back to athleta
this is a gorgeous heavyweight pullover
i'm going to call it a sweatshirt for a
lack of a better term sometimes these
things cross over and i don't know what
to call them and while i'm listing i'm
like okay what would a person call this
it's not a jacket it's not a sweater i
wound up calling everything a sweatshirt
that's probably wrong but a lot of times
if it's a current piece in the store for
the brand it's great because you can
just go on the store website sometimes
you can find it in google and a lot of
times these items have style numbers on
little inner tags and you can put that
into a google image search or a google
search which is great so here is the
branding again for athleta
and it is a blue a quilted
really nice
kangaroo pocket hoodie so current
meaning it's either this year's or last
year's i have to do research on it but i
was recently in athleta and tried on a
ton of clothing for myself because i'm
finding more and more i really like
wearing stretchy clothing especially
when thrifting and as i get older it's
very nice to be comfortable but still
look a little sporty so i like athleta i
went into the store i often do that even
if i'm not shopping for myself i go to
the mall i grab a cup of coffee and i
just walk around the mall to see
what people are buying what's in the
windows what's trending that is a huge
help when you want to sell like i do
when you want to have this business
model where you're not just going by
brands it teaches you style so read
fashion magazines look at the pictures
go on pinterest and put in a certain
style name like you can go on pinterest
and put in cottage course style or
cottage court dresses and let the
pictures scroll in front of you to get a
real sense of what a certain style looks
like so with this i said yes because
athletic clothing does have a following
to me it doesn't bring the price that
lululemon brings or a couple of the
other luxury brands but i always say yes
to it if i can buy in at a good price i
don't say it'll blow out of my store but
definitely i pick it up this one i think
i paid 5.99 for and i'm thinking off the
top of my head probably 35 maybe even
40. all right next item up
i had no clue about what how could that
even be after all these years allen
edmonds i've talked about that brand so
many times for shoes allen edmonds
button-down dress shirt
where have i been have i been on the
moon how come i have never found one of
these i don't know
so that is why i picked it up i don't
even know if these sell through well it
could be the people just like the allen
edmonds shoes but when i see this
branding their quality is
really good i love allen edmond not that
i wear
admin shoes or men's dress shirts but
this is the tag
and again i grabbed it off the rack just
to talk about how even after all these
years i got dust flying fiber flying all
these years selling it's still i'm
surprised all the time and i grabbed it
off the rack to talk about one more time
see the pattern luxury brand good brand
the pattern is correct see the striping
it goes right through the pocket they
have matched this up so when you're in
the store and you're looking at men's
clothing and it's a print in a shirt a
polo shirt or a button-down dress shirt
take a look to see if your pattern is
matching up and that will tell you a
little bit about the quality of the
brand here is an item that i saw again i
did not know this branding but look how
beautiful this is
gorgeous
it is oola popkin and it is a size 2830
yes please just beautiful
so ullapopkin is a brand that i used to
be more excited about and it always did
well for me
of late probably the last year or two
sales for it have cooled in my store
because people hold on to oola popkin
and i don't know if the brand is still
made i think it is it could be that it
got picked up by like qvc
when outlets or tv channels pick up a
certain brand to me it kills the brand
if there's a special following because
it just becomes so mundane so every is
that a lot of times you'll still have a
following for it but not as good as it
originally was all right so i got the
ula popkin for 4.99 i have not listed it
or comped it but for this i'm thinking a
solid 35
so pretty
all right so this next item we're not
talking about it because of the brand
necessarily but i wanted to hit on this
again there are a few tricks or tips
that i use in the thrift store to be
able to find items and maybe i shouldn't
be sharing all of this maybe you guys
already know these tricks but i like to
share them with you guys you guys know i
like sharing almost everything with you
am i killing my own business probably
whatever i really don't care i always
find plenty when you see items that are
more wrinkled than the rest of the items
to me this means this is newer on the
rack because when an item hangs it
naturally decreases a little bit so
gravity naturally pulls the wrinkles out
so when i find an item that is
very wrinkled to me this means this is
newer on the selling floor than items
that are less wrinkled now it could be
that somebody donated a less wrinkled
you know a more pressed item and it's
new on the floor but when it's wrinkled
that's usually what it means to me this
is vineyard vines it's got the whale
logo we're seeing these a lot in the
thrift store now vineyard vines the
retail store is crazy expensive i don't
know what this would have cost i'm going
to say like 75
but more and more we're finding these
things in the resale market so now the
price is coming down i still pick them
up i think roger picked this one up for
me and it's got the whale with a soccer
ball print on it how cute is that so
that is one of the tricks i use i also
use shoes when shoes are still rubber
banded together like sneakers or
whatever and they're put on the shoe
rack a lot of times that means they're
newer on the selling floor than if there
is the rubber band missing now your
thrift store might take the rubber bands
off but i know a lot of the goodwills
don't have time to do that so they're
getting the shoes in from wherever the
distributor warehouse is and their
rubber band together to keep them
together and they're not bothering to
take the rubber bands off but when the
shopper comes down the aisle they
naturally take the rubber bands off
while they're looking at the shoe and
the rubber bands wind up on the floor or
wherever and that tells you when they're
rubber banded together they haven't been
looked at yet and they're probably newer
on the selling floor so that is another
tip i use and the last tip that i'm
going to leave you with i don't think
i've ever shared this i might have when
you're walking down the aisles you want
to look at the outsides of the aisle
before you look at the middle of the
aisle because if you think about it like
say in hard goods when the employee is
pushing a bin of hard goods and their
job is to get things out on the shelves
as quick as possible they're gonna have
a tendency to put things towards the end
third of the shelves rather than the
middle they're not gonna walk down each
aisle and put something in the middle
they're gonna just walk down the main
aisle that they're pushing their card
and put the items towards the end so if
you don't have a lot of time like i do i
spend hours and hours in the thrift
stores thrift stores are my number one
place to source if you haven't figured
that out but if you don't have time you
want to look at the outsides of the
aisles the outsides of the racks not the
middles now like i said if it's
color-coded or there is some reason they
have to come in further on the aisle
that's different like a certain size or
a certain color but if they're just
trying to get things out on the floor
your best items are going to be on the
ends of the racks and the ends of the
aisles try to pay attention that if you
see employees putting stuff away and
we'll all be racing towards the end of
the aisle now i just want to give a
special thank you to all of you who are
coming up to me in the thrift store
other stores just out in life i
appreciate you guys so much it is your
kindness and support that has made my
channel what it is and i'm very
appreciative i love you guys i hope your
week is good go out and get what's yours
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