Yes, but… There are consequences. Used goods will also have price increase if new ones are more expensive.
And eventually , all of the used goods will wear out necessitating new goods.
Entropies a bitch
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The only clothing item I buy for durability is boots. All the rest of my clothes are the cheapest possible shit I can find, because it doesn’t matter.
No one on earth can convince me a $60 pair of jeans is worth $60.
No one on earth can convince me a $60 pair of jeans is worth $60.
$60 has the same buying power thar $30 did just 15 years ago so it might be more helpful to think in living wage hours (where 50 hours of work pays for rent).
In 2025 average rent is $1650. So a living wage after taxes would be $33. In 2010 it was $890 which means a living wage was $17.
There isn’t one living wage. It varies greatly by location, and so do wages. However, there isn’t any location that consistently pays living wages.
$60 on used denim will go much further.
Learn to identify higher quality vintage denim and you’ve begun profiting. Old selvedge will last a lifetime properly cared for, newer denin barely lasts me a couple years with all the spandex in it.
Frankly, just learn to identify vintage denim at all. People have the mistaken idea that everything used to be better quality than now, and that was never true, there has always been bad and good quality stuff. BUT, the thing about buying older stuff (vintage clothing, antique furniture, old tools, etc.) is that if it was bad quality stuff that wouldn’t last, it wouldn’t be here now to begin with.
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Depending on the type of product there may be several times the necessary amount already laying around.
D:
Or, better yet, just give the stuff you don’t need to the people interested in getting it, and participate in mutual exchange.
Crush capitalism!
- Posts item for free
- Gets message “how much does this cost?”
- ”Its free”
- ”Can you deliver it to me? (Insert some excuse here)”
put item on sidewalk with sign that says “free!”
Item sits there for months
Remove sign that says free, and replace with one that says “$100 OBO”
Item is gone by morning
“Unfortunately, no. I currently don’t have resources to deliver stuff, but I’ll be happy to see you at my place!”
But yeah, classic on your end :D
That’s when you make them pay the shipping + a bit of extra charge for your time since they did asked for price before.
i keep trying to get secondhand underwear but the upcharge is ridiculous
Get ready for used goods to cost more than today’s new goods.
I would love to see a source for the actual claim that buying used avoids tarrifs, because all I can find says that tarrifs still apply to used products being imported.
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Used guns are not much of a reliability concern. They’re pretty durable goods. Plus, you should really be looking the thing over in person before you buy it anyway, and ideally put a few magazines through it.
This is exactly what he wanted. You are now buying amongst yourselves. Not saying it’s bad advice, but worth pointing out
Is this true? Buying second hand doesn’t add to gross economic output, and doesn’t add anymore jobs. I only buy smartphones second hand because the market for them is so evil, with all these throwaway landfill devices. Its one of the only boycotts I can do in this smartphone dependent world.
if reported creatively enough it could boost GDP, and increase the number of “independent businesses” which can be assumed to have at least one employee (the owner/ person wearing /selling clothes)
you aren’t thinking about cooking the books hard enough.
“Hurr durr I’m going to make up bullshit to male orange cheeto look good by twisting bad things to make them look good”
That’s you, that’s what you sound like by the way
Your god emperor orange cheeto wants to kill people for not being white or being LGBTQ+
Shut the fuck up about how the orange cheeto is doing good because we both know its bullshit
Fasciasts aren’t welcome here
Wait. What? I hate trump. My point wasn’t “hey, look how smart he is”. It was “you might think this is a life hack, but its not. This was the intended outcome”
I don’t trust second hand electronics due to the fact that you’re often playing Russian roulette with them
And I don’t like the idea of buying chairs and mattresses second hand because of bodily fluids or the chance someone died in one
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But the value of the new product goes up if people tend to buy the used version of it.
Sure you can probably get a good value on a bluray player because people are getting rid of them still to go all streaming. But can you get a good price on a used working order 4K TV? Probably not. The prices of even used 2 generation old goods are going to be as high as they were when new before tariffs hit.
Used is not going to be cheaper in a week or a month or 3 months of tariffs, it’s going to be the same amount as new right now or possibly more.
These days there are sooo many resellers, flippers, scalpers. People who think it’s a side hustle to go around buying up cheap used stuff and selling it for just below the price of new stuff and pocketing the difference. It’s become so hard. Late capitalism ruins even good deeds.
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It was just an example. Probably not even a good one. Sorry for the negativity though. Feel badly for lending towards a negative mood but well I had my own reasons, negative experiences. Just the same I’ve edited a little.
Gotta look at the right places and be patient
I went to an estate sale and got a bunch of freebies
I also picked up folding mattresses for 10 usd when a new one is 60 ish
My pc is a secondhand for about 600 or so when the parts itself are 1.2k new
Buying secondhand is not the same as just walking into a store and finding what you need at a fixed price.
Sure it’s harder especially for certain things (mostly hobbyist stuff and fashion) but TVs are not hard to find for a reasonable price.
I was gonna say, there goes my dream of buying a brand new Honda CB500F. The MSRP is ~$7000 right now. It’s gonna skyrocket.
Hell yeah!
Buy it for life
