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  • #16
    Excuse me, but the idea of ruining the other dresses so nobody else can have one is just...

    I mean, this is all bad, and I don't really know anything about clothes, but isn't there a way you can personalize a dress?

    Can't you dye them, stitch on more material, add a fake flower or some gem stones, or something? Whatever happened to creativity?

    As for the others, yuck and disgusting. I'm not at all surprised at the way people misbehave at the Salvation Army, Goodwill, Deseret, Youth Ranch, and other thrift stores.

    It's also not uncommon to see wealthy people go in there and spend on great items, but they're always up to something sneaky when they do...
    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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    • #17
      Quoth PepperElf View Post
      This. Technically she could have been forced to pay the full price if it couldn't be cleaned.

      and the price is really fucking good. one of my friends use to be in the business (with her mom i think) and has a couple hundred unworn designer dresses to unload. iirc she's also thinking of just 100 a pop. hell, i'd buy one at that price. i've glanced at the collection and it's pretty beautiful
      Hell, I have bought modern formal dresses just to reuse the fabric in a medieval/renaissance costume. I even bought a few couch cushions for the uphoulstry fabric because it almost perfectly matched a medieval turkish piece of fabric, those got used for trim =)
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      • #18
        Quoth PepperElf View Post
        one of my friends use to be in the business (with her mom i think) and has a couple hundred unworn designer dresses to unload. iirc she's also thinking of just 100 a pop.
        If your friend is serious about unloading those, put her in touch with me. Not that I would buy any--I wouldn't--but I know quite a few females, many of whom WOULD be interested.

        Quoth vikingchyk View Post
        People like that are the reason I swear I am never holding another garage sale in my life. Last time, I had at least five of those f*ckers show up, all using different languages[1]
        I don't *think* I'm a xenophobe. I think they were just cheap assholes.
        My niece was down in Key West last weekend, and her family had a yard sale. And she told me about the last yard sale her mom T had....a Haitian family grabbed about $70 worth of clothing (and that's $70 in yard sale prices, mind you), and tried to offer T $5 for the lot of it. Not only did T refuse the offer, when they continued to try to lowball her ridiculously, she threw them out of the yard sale empty-handed.

        (I have nothing against Haitians at all, and most of the kitchen staff at both of my bars are Haitian, and most of them are great people. It's just an example that people from EVERYWHERE can be cheap assholes.)

        Quoth Kristev View Post
        I mean, this is all bad, and I don't really know anything about clothes, but isn't there a way you can personalize a dress?

        Can't you dye them, stitch on more material, add a fake flower or some gem stones, or something? Whatever happened to creativity?
        That would involve actual work and talent. The kind of people that would ruin a whole bunch of dresses just so that no one would show up in the same dress as them tend not to have talent or any inclination to actual labor.

        "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
        Still A Customer."

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        • #19
          I just have to ask, did the wedding dress make it?

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          • #20
            she's currently trying to arrange a sale for next year i think.

            but thanks


            the wedding dress though... is somewhat making me think of one lady at the yard sale we just had. she'd picked out a coffee pot for $5 but didn't want to pay that price. Because it wasn't clean (nothing that some elbow grease wouldn't fix) she wanted it cheaper and got it down to $2. And STILL the look on her face was as if she was permanently disgusted. My bf was helping her, but later even he agreed that she seemed to have the attitude of "you disgust me for not letting me have this for free".
            Last edited by PepperElf; 10-07-2012, 01:20 PM.

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            • #21
              Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
              Hell, I have bought modern formal dresses just to reuse the fabric in a medieval/renaissance costume. I even bought a few couch cushions for the uphoulstry fabric because it almost perfectly matched a medieval turkish piece of fabric, those got used for trim =)
              I recently took home a pink scarf to take apart and use the fabric for another project. The amount of things we simply toss away is amazing, and I'm free to take home things from it... my scrap bin is going to get so full!


              Quoth Joyius View Post
              I just have to ask, did the wedding dress make it?
              Due to my quick reflexes with a tide pen, it seems to have survived the worst! I still haven't put it back on the floor yet, I think I bonded with it and only want to see it go to a good home.
              You seem to harbor barbaric tendencies. I suggest you visit a physician at your earliest convenience.

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              • #22
                I'm not surprised at this behavoir.

                I remembered once I was in line in a thrift store and I accidently dropped a trinket and it broke. I got to the register and they saw it was broke and I told them I broke it but I'll pay for it. One of the clerks threw it away. I restated I would pay for it but they didn't say anything.

                Sometimes I go into the thrift stores either looking for gifts or something to resell on ebay. One time I found a snoppy cup for $.99 and when I got home I see it on ebay for $250 and up.
                Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

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                • #23
                  I used to work at the same store, for a week was all I could stand and no longer. I still have buried memories of people stealing and treating you like dog poop. Especially crazy wheelchair lady. I think I wrote about her on this site...well, she got on my case about and old chair and expected me to know everything about wheelchairs, like I was a nurse or something it was a nightmare. Shudder.
                  Can't reason with the unreasonable.
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                  • #24
                    This pisses me off. Seriously. Salvation army is for people who NEED help and all these idiots are ruining it for others! Oh man that wedding dress thing-- GRRR. That's messed up. People make me sad

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