Saturday, January 12, 2013

Gains Of Buying Second Hand Clothing Online

By Dorothea Garner


Selling of second hand clothing online has been in existence since the 19th century and has been growing since then with technology playing a big role in the growth. With the introduction of online sites like the eBay, advertising, auction and purchasing has been made much easier. This business has ended up generating millions of dollars in revenues for several countries.

Dealing with online selling of the clothes has caused a fashion change because you are able to access designer clothes, handbags, hats, belts and jewelry whose owners want to dispose for different reasons. The materials are always trendy, and cheap thus a preference of many people who want to look cool without incurring a lot of money. The various sites selling used clothes are therefore a good avenue for learning about fashion and various accessories.

Through this, people are able to assist in saving the environment from catastrophes like global warming, pollution of the air and water resources by purchasing, trading and selling through web. Many fabrics are non biodegradable thus do not decompose when disposed of. Buying and selling used clothes therefore minimizes the production otherwise needed to produce others to meet the ever growing demand.

Clothes are often sold at reasonable prices compared to buying from a physical store since the cost of maintaining websites or these web store accounts is often quite minimal. The low price may also be attributed to the fact that most of the clothes on sale are given out for charity. Sellers also give good discounts to buyers who purchase large quantities.

Everybody cannot be a designer or a fashion guru though they want to look cool in different clothes. They therefore often check out different websites to know the latest trends which they can order thus ensuring they are always good. Your image is the one that reflects your personality so you ought to take advantage of sites like eBay and be ahead of your peers in the fashion.

Most of these types of these websites are run by various charitable organizations therefore; when one buys the clothes one is helping a needy person. This is because a certain percentage of sales from the clothes go back to helping the needy in the society. One can thus gain by having both a good garment and contributing to charity.

Since the clothes have once been worn by other people, there is no cost of labor to produce the garments because they are already in existence. This reduces the cost of doing such business since one requires very minimal capital to start. In addition some of the clothes put on the website are worn by celebrities and one can use the designs to design even better garments.

Buying and selling second hand clothing online from sites like eBay saves buyers and sellers a lot of time otherwise spend hoping from one store to another searching for something in particular. In addition, all transactions are done through the internet therefore minimizing expenditure. Such time and money could be used doing something more value adding.




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