To eBay or not to eBay; granny panties

[sarea]

Amy Acker's going to be on Dollhouse!! As is Olivia Williams, who is a lesser-known actress I've always liked. The list of producers has a lot of familiar names. I haven't found a ton of info on who the writers are -- apparently Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain (from Angel) are the showrunners. Tim Minear's written a couple of eps, and so has Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (of Dr. Horrible fame).

You might have noticed that I haven't yet shared Le Creuset pictures/news yet. I'm waiting on one last piece to arrive (technically two, as the lid counted as a piece), as it was mistakenly left off the initial order. I haven't yet used any of the ones I've gotten so far, and I want to wait until I've got the complete set before I take a group photo. :D However, this does mean that I have like, no space for anything. I already packed up a box of kitchen stuff, and I have 5 cast iron pans of varying sizes sitting out because I don't have cupboard space for them anymore.

I also mentioned awhile back that I was going to pick up my mom's designer handbags in December and sell them on eBay. I have the handbags, but given the current economic climate I'm not sure it's wise to list them now. Some are decades old; it's not going to hurt to wait a year or two to try and sell them. My theory is that the last thing people are going to spend their money on right now are frivolous items such as handbags, when so many people are struggling just to put food on the table. (Yet if that is the situation, would such people have been looking to buy designer handbags in the first place, ever?) My mom's theory is that since money's so tight now, people are going to be wanting second-hand goods more than in times of prosperity. Which may be true, and yet ... people who buy second hand on eBay are unlikely to have ever bought it new in the first place -- they would always buy on eBay, imho, except now they might not have the discretionary cash to do so. I don't know; it just keeps going around in circles in my head. What do you think??

Also, don't you hate it when you're lazy and don't do laundry in weeks, then wake up one morning and find that you don't have any underwear to put on except granny panties or thongs?

Comments

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

Your target demo on eBay is not the super rich - it's just the well off, people with an above $250k yearly income who would normally indulge their handbag obsession *at* LV might instead go trolling for something more 'vintage' with a better price tag. People are not going to malls as much, big retailers are closing their doors, and while obviously actual designer handbag makers aren't going out of business, they're not getting as much walk through traffic, and if people are going to buy them, and know they can't afford full price, but want to splurge, or indulge, they're totally going to go to places like eBay when they wouldn't have considered it before.

There's really no way to know, as you said, whether you'll make more or less by waiting another year, but I honestly wouldn't be too afraid of the bad economy driving down the price. What I would do, if you're really concerned, is see if anyone's selling older bags like your mom has, try to do a search on completed auctions from as far back as it'll let you go, and compare figures. Watch a couple of current auctions to see what they sell at.

May/June is a good time for big ticket items, as a lot of girls are getting designer bags as graduation presents now, FWIW.