To the sellers - Designer clothes on Ebay

Dr.Who-Who

I think I speaks for most of the buyers - If there are any of you selling high street designer clothes ie : Monsoon/Warehouse/French Connection/Zara/Mango/Cavalli/Calvin K/Laura Ashley etc.

It is not wise to cut & remove all labels (Monsoon are the most culprit) before despatching out to the buyer(s).

Once you have cut or remove any labels from the clothes it has become no value & of no interest to the most of the buyer(s) including myself ( I totally agree with Orkneystar - I feel incomplete too!!!! I couldn't have said it any better ) who like to make sure that the said item is actually a branded item that we are after.

I can understand why the seller(s) stated that the label has been removed to stop peeps from returning it to the store but I think the seller fail to see that the items that they are selling are at least 80% out of season and it will not show on the store system.

:rotfl:finished my ranting now.:eek: back to where I normally am

alfiesmum

Dr.Who-Who wrote: »

I think I speaks for most of the buyers - If there are any of you selling high street designer clothes ie : Monsoon/Warehouse/French Connection/Zara/Mango/Cavalli/Calvin K/Laura Ashley etc.

It is not wise to cut & remove all labels (Monsoon are the most culprit) before despatching out to the buyer(s).

Once you have cut or remove any labels from the clothes it has become no value & of no interest to the most of the buyer(s) including myself who like to make sure that the said item is actually a branded item that we are after.

I can understand why the seller(s) stated that the label has been removed to stop peeps from returning it to the store but I think the seller fail to see that the items that they are selling are at least 80% out of season and it will not show on the store system.

:rotfl:finished my ranting now.:eek: back to where I normally am

Why's that then?

masterbrown

A lot of the time these items are from outlet places where the labels have already been cut before the seller even got them.

jaynemaria

I know when I have been doing some research the wholesalers of ex high street/chain stores state that the item must have the labels removed and can only be advertised as ex chain store and you cant state this is from so and so shop.

This is just for people to buy and sell on, cant see why a private seller would do this though

OrkneyStar

I am put off by labels being removed- despite never wanting to return any item to a shop for refund (quite hard really as I live in Northern Isles!), just feels incomplete. I know this is not rational lol!

mambury

I sometimes sell ex chainstore clothing and rather than remove the label I deface it with sharpie pens. That way the buyer can see where the items is from and can't return it to the original store.

emerald_starcat

Does it really matter if the buyer tries returning it to the store? The store will probably refuse as the item will be from a previous season, and the customer won't have the receipt.
Even if the buyer does get money back from the store, does it really affect you as a seller? - no it doesn't.
Leave the labels in!

Dr.Who-Who

mambury wrote: »

I sometimes sell ex chainstore clothing and rather than remove the label I deface it with sharpie pens ( I don't mind bidding or buying it when I know that the label is still intact). That way the buyer can see where the items is from and can't return it to the original store.

Thats what I thought they (the sellers) should do, rather than keep listing it on months and ends! and nobody is bidding or buying it. It is such an eye sore to keep looking at the same newly listed items over & over again:eek: and yet it didn't click to the sellers as to why nobody bid/buy/make an offer for it. But then they are the sellers, and I am the buyers, and I look at the situation differently.

I like to see it myself - with the label still intact at least I know that I have bidded for the correct brand that I am after.

OrkneyStar

mambury wrote: »

I sometimes sell ex chainstore clothing and rather than remove the label I deface it with sharpie pens. That way the buyer can see where the items is from and can't return it to the original store.

See that would annoy me too lol!
I realise why you do it though .

alfiesmum

If I want an item of designer clothing, it would be because it was of good quality I would have thought. The fact the label isn't in it, would only be a problem if you wanted to show other people how much you supposedly paid for something. And I grew out of that, oh, don't remember ever doing that. If it's quality, and that's what you buy, you'll know when you get it. If it's a Karen Millen dress with the labels cut out, and you've got half a brain you'll be able to tell the difference between that and a Primark dress with the labels cut out.

OR, buy it from Karen Millen in the first place, then you can have a carrier bag to flash too! hehehe

Can't see it matters either way really. I sell higher end clothing on eBay, I don't cut the labels out, but I don't see it as a selling point, coz I don't tell buyers that I don't cut the labels out.

OP, could you tell me why it has no value when it has no label - assuming it's authentic. I am genuinely interested.

OrkneyStar

I don't want to flash my labels tbh, any item with a damaged label seems incomplete to me, be it Primark, Asda, Next or Karen Millen!