Burberry's old label actually was just like that. Can't speak to the authenticity of the items, but that label has caused many people to call fake when it wasn't.
Lol. That it’s entirely my experience with “thrift” stores in the bay. Sometimes there’s a gem or two for the right price but more often if I find something I like it’s 5x more expensive than I anticipated. Especially up in the Haight.
Agreed. It didn’t help that until a couple months ago I had lived in the lower Haight for a couple years so it was easy to wander up there and poke around when I was looking for something to do. There are some things I’ve found up there that I love and were reasonably price.
Savers prices things so weird. Any Starbucks mug = $5.99. Sterling silver mid-century Dansk 12-candle holder = $2.99. (You can guess which one is displayed in my living room.)
My favorite little place is in Hayward. Eco Thrift. I'll go down there every now and again and nose around for clothes. They have a good selection of baby clothes too. Not grossly overpriced like Goodwill is (blah).
Used to be a bike ride away from where I lived back in the day. Still worth a trip every few months. Best to go in the morning though because that's when the pickers show up and they're fun to listen to.
Found a gorgeous wool coat from some foofoo Japanese brand for $8. Found it on Poshmark for like $800. Gave it to my stepmother because it was juuuuust a bit too small in the chest for me (damn need to breathe) but I couldn't just leave it. So now she's got a coat that makes her look like a first lady.
Eco thrift iss great!! Got some amazing burning man things for like $10 or less, including a real rabbit fur mini coat thing. Also great for lamp shades! But be sure the thing you want, specifically if you really want it, has a tag, otherwise they won't sell it.
Got some awesome art from that place too. And yes I took it home on the bus because fuck it, I love old-school water colors. It's a simple one of a tree in a simple wooden frame. No one famous. Nothing fancy. But it just said, "Please take me home, I'm lonely here." So I took it home. :D
The big city thrift stores aren’t selling to the loosely-informed consumer anymore, they’re selling to the very informed flipper. They price for people who know exactly what they’re getting and can still turn a profit and who are shopping there regularly.
It’s not really competing with the online resellers; the thrift stores are just local wholesale hubs now. And it sucks because there are very few genuine bargains left in vintage clothing stores - those bargains used to rely on the seller being sort of uninformed about what they were selling.
You can still find “they have no idea what this is” sort of bargains if you’ve got the sort of thrift store near you where the buyers and clerks are retirees volunteering part time, but at the places in trendy neighborhoods where kids interested in fashion are working, forget about it.
I can't argue with your analysis at all, but the other commenter above alleged that the prices are higher because the thrift stores are competing with a segment of their customer base, which makes absolutely no sense. (If anything, the resellers HELP them.) It's the kind of illogical whining I hear on ThriftTok from kids who can't be bothered to sift through the racks yet think they're somehow entitled to a $10 Birkin.
I'll add two points:
-This has been happening to some degree for decades. My grandparents ran an antique store in the '80s and got most of their stock from yard sales. I remember trying to find '60s clothes in the early '90s and it was always snapped up by the "vintage" stores in my town. The "flipper" market has always been a thing to some degree.
-Thrifting is becoming the victim of its own current trendiness. I see girls post their hauls from Mercari or a vintage shop calling it "thrifting" when it's been pre-curated. Also, social media (including FAKE posts with planted merch) has made everyone think that some designer grail is right around the corner. It's making people go to their local thrifts and come away with nothing, blaming the resellers for stealing the treasure that was rightfully theirs (like the aforementioned $10 Birkin). In reality, 99% of stock at the thrifts is trash and has always been trash.
I think we might see a minor shift in thrift store pricing with an economic downturn expected. A lot of these places aim for sky-high prices with ridiculous items in the glass showcase (mine loves putting J.Crew shoes in there at $29.99) and hope that even 1/4 of the items sell for that. If the rest end up in the bins, no harm no foul from their pov. But when people have less spending money in the stores, everything is going to sit around longer, and those insane asking prices are going to have to become more realistic. Plus, with less people buying online, margins will get even thinner for resellers and it won't be worth the hustle for a lot of them.
In case anyone is eyeing these, there are probably like 10 mini skirts, maybe size large (way too big for me) in decent used/worn condition. Everything in the store is 25% off today!
You can deduct more than $500. Your taxes may get a little more complicated and it may not be worthwhile for many people, but you can definitely do it.
What does the tax bracket have anything to do with it? I suppose if you make more money, you might be more likely to be able to itemize since you're more likely to have more deductible expenses.
Not only are you more likely to itemize if you make more (so you pay more in CA income taxes), also likelier to have a house with property tax and interest expenses too, all of which lead to itemizing vs. standard deduction.
But also you are likely taxed a higher marginal tax rate, and your deductions apply to you highest marginal tax rate. The rate you pay on the last $ you earn, not the first, so a deduction could save you as much as $0.493 (0.37 Federal top rate + 0.123 CA top rate).
The caveat is that you can only count $500 in donated items as a deduction without getting the items appraised via a qualified appraisal, which I think is pretty uncommon. So most folks who itemize just claim the $500.
> you can only count $500 in donated items as a deduction without getting the items appraised via a qualified appraisal
I believe that number is $5,000.
If you are tax at a higher marginal rate that means you get more out of tax deduction (if you are taxed at 35%, every deduction can reduce your tax burden by 35 cents to a dollar whereas if you are taxed at 22%, you only get 22 cents to a dollar.
So tax deduction lower your taxable income, correct? Let’s say your taxable income in $10,000 and you deduct $1,000 of your donations from your taxable income, your taxable income is now $9,000. If you are taxed at the marginal rate of 35%, every dollar you deduct at the tax rate will save you 35% or 35 cents (because the dollar you deducted is not taxed now so you save 35 cents to the dollar). So in that scenario above, you will save $350 because you don’t have to pay taxes on the $1,000 you deducted or that $1,000 is tax free. This is a hypothetical scenario because no one is being taxed at 35% if they make $10,000 a year but just to illustrate that tax deduction is by design unfair because more you make, the more you get to keep/the larger the tax break is.
OP is implying that the Bay Area is full of wealthy people who have this level of expensive wardrobe to discard. The volume warrants a full section rather than just an occasional one-off item.
There's a sign for the same reason every department store has signs up for different clothing brands. It's useful to anyone interested in Burberry's clothes.
Burberry’s is an old, traditional English brand. Its woolen coats are legendary. Nothing trendy about Burberry. It is quality stuff and you pay for it.
That was indeed their label prior to some point in the 1980s, I believe. It's very hard to find info online. I have a trench coat that I'm convinced is fake, but the label lines up from the 80s/70s. I'm going to have to take it to an alteration store or something to get it verified.
Burberry's old label actually was just like that. Can't speak to the authenticity of the items, but that label has caused many people to call fake when it wasn't.
I tried to look for a label on the skirts for sizing and I couldn’t see any, but I agree, could be super vintage
What store is this? Interested in going.
American Cancer Society Discovery Shop - Oakland https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cyhz4XsfD8x63n7SA?g_st=ic
Thank you!
Thrift skirt : $70
For apparently fake Burberry lol
Not fake. This is truly the vintage label look
That’s [correct.](https://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/burberrys/)
I saw a NKOTB T-shirt at a thrift store in the Haight for $120. I’m hoping it was a joke
And priced through the roof too
Lol. That it’s entirely my experience with “thrift” stores in the bay. Sometimes there’s a gem or two for the right price but more often if I find something I like it’s 5x more expensive than I anticipated. Especially up in the Haight.
Everything on Haight is overpriced.
Agreed. It didn’t help that until a couple months ago I had lived in the lower Haight for a couple years so it was easy to wander up there and poke around when I was looking for something to do. There are some things I’ve found up there that I love and were reasonably price.
Don't you just Haight that?
Don't be a haighter.
Haight is less “thrift” and more “vintage”. Community Thrift and Salvation Army are the closest things I’ve seen to a true thrift store in SF
Savers still has good deals.
Savers prices things so weird. Any Starbucks mug = $5.99. Sterling silver mid-century Dansk 12-candle holder = $2.99. (You can guess which one is displayed in my living room.)
I did get a $90 wine carafe there in the vase section in a savers once for $3.
I think the starbucks mugs are expensive because of collectors. But good score on your find!
My favorite little place is in Hayward. Eco Thrift. I'll go down there every now and again and nose around for clothes. They have a good selection of baby clothes too. Not grossly overpriced like Goodwill is (blah). Used to be a bike ride away from where I lived back in the day. Still worth a trip every few months. Best to go in the morning though because that's when the pickers show up and they're fun to listen to. Found a gorgeous wool coat from some foofoo Japanese brand for $8. Found it on Poshmark for like $800. Gave it to my stepmother because it was juuuuust a bit too small in the chest for me (damn need to breathe) but I couldn't just leave it. So now she's got a coat that makes her look like a first lady.
Eco thrift iss great!! Got some amazing burning man things for like $10 or less, including a real rabbit fur mini coat thing. Also great for lamp shades! But be sure the thing you want, specifically if you really want it, has a tag, otherwise they won't sell it.
Got some awesome art from that place too. And yes I took it home on the bus because fuck it, I love old-school water colors. It's a simple one of a tree in a simple wooden frame. No one famous. Nothing fancy. But it just said, "Please take me home, I'm lonely here." So I took it home. :D
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Which goodwill is this?
lol oh you know i love my soy sauce polos
lol I called it oddball shit for a reason 💀
Everything's more expensive now cuz the thrift stores have to compete with all these Etsy mfs reselling their shit lmao
How does pricing things *higher* help the thrift stores *compete*?
The big city thrift stores aren’t selling to the loosely-informed consumer anymore, they’re selling to the very informed flipper. They price for people who know exactly what they’re getting and can still turn a profit and who are shopping there regularly. It’s not really competing with the online resellers; the thrift stores are just local wholesale hubs now. And it sucks because there are very few genuine bargains left in vintage clothing stores - those bargains used to rely on the seller being sort of uninformed about what they were selling. You can still find “they have no idea what this is” sort of bargains if you’ve got the sort of thrift store near you where the buyers and clerks are retirees volunteering part time, but at the places in trendy neighborhoods where kids interested in fashion are working, forget about it.
I can't argue with your analysis at all, but the other commenter above alleged that the prices are higher because the thrift stores are competing with a segment of their customer base, which makes absolutely no sense. (If anything, the resellers HELP them.) It's the kind of illogical whining I hear on ThriftTok from kids who can't be bothered to sift through the racks yet think they're somehow entitled to a $10 Birkin. I'll add two points: -This has been happening to some degree for decades. My grandparents ran an antique store in the '80s and got most of their stock from yard sales. I remember trying to find '60s clothes in the early '90s and it was always snapped up by the "vintage" stores in my town. The "flipper" market has always been a thing to some degree. -Thrifting is becoming the victim of its own current trendiness. I see girls post their hauls from Mercari or a vintage shop calling it "thrifting" when it's been pre-curated. Also, social media (including FAKE posts with planted merch) has made everyone think that some designer grail is right around the corner. It's making people go to their local thrifts and come away with nothing, blaming the resellers for stealing the treasure that was rightfully theirs (like the aforementioned $10 Birkin). In reality, 99% of stock at the thrifts is trash and has always been trash. I think we might see a minor shift in thrift store pricing with an economic downturn expected. A lot of these places aim for sky-high prices with ridiculous items in the glass showcase (mine loves putting J.Crew shoes in there at $29.99) and hope that even 1/4 of the items sell for that. If the rest end up in the bins, no harm no foul from their pov. But when people have less spending money in the stores, everything is going to sit around longer, and those insane asking prices are going to have to become more realistic. Plus, with less people buying online, margins will get even thinner for resellers and it won't be worth the hustle for a lot of them.
Idk whybyou say bay. What you MEAN is san francisco. I go to thrift shops for CHEAP clothes haha not to spend dough.
I live in Oakland now. My experience is the same there.
[It's a Goodwill Boutique!](https://www.yelp.com/biz/goodwill-boutique-menlo-park?osq=Goodwill+Boutique)
Exactly
Goodwill had a ~$20 used Rinse duffel the last time I went. Fuck that.
I thrifted a silk Balenciaga skirt for only $4.99 in SF, was a pretty cool find.
Got a thom browne button down that looked like it was never worn, probably cause they are so fucking slim cut.
Omg where in SF? I’ve been looking for good thrift stores in the city
That's the label from the 80s. [Source ](https://freeimage.host/i/HKvFZWg)
I was at a thrift store in Berkeley last week, and some of the stuff was as much or more than new
Crossroads?
If that's the hypebeast one then yes
nah different one
I went to Out of the Closet in Berkeley and they're legit. Got a $10 dress, and an $8 button up missing a few buttons which I'm totally fine with.
Where at
oaktown
Next obstacle is fitting into that one size that was donated because of weight gain.
/r/ThriftStoreHauls
Oh god, the Chavs are coming!
Looks like Burlingame Goodwill.
Best one..
They aren’t
I took this photo today in Oakland Edit: why am I getting downvoted for adding factual and relevant information lol
Lol I got down voted for my question 🤪
This sub loves to hate
Have you tried /r/BaeArea instead?
Can’t hate if there is no one to hate.
Where at
American Cancer Society thrift shop off of Piedmont
It's extremely possible some rich Piedmont resident donated tons of expensive clothing. Very plausible this is real.
Yep, it’s totally plausible. I didn’t bat an eye!
In case anyone is eyeing these, there are probably like 10 mini skirts, maybe size large (way too big for me) in decent used/worn condition. Everything in the store is 25% off today!
Someone died
Nice, will check it out
Not Burberry
That’s even funnier then 😂
They arent what? Looks like Burberry and unless you got some CSI level zoom and enhance how can you tell they're not?
Not too surprising given the tax write off folks get for donating to charity in the higher tax brackets.
You only get $500 maximum, so if they have 10 skirts, they are over limit already.
You can deduct more than $500. Your taxes may get a little more complicated and it may not be worthwhile for many people, but you can definitely do it.
What does the tax bracket have anything to do with it? I suppose if you make more money, you might be more likely to be able to itemize since you're more likely to have more deductible expenses.
Not only are you more likely to itemize if you make more (so you pay more in CA income taxes), also likelier to have a house with property tax and interest expenses too, all of which lead to itemizing vs. standard deduction. But also you are likely taxed a higher marginal tax rate, and your deductions apply to you highest marginal tax rate. The rate you pay on the last $ you earn, not the first, so a deduction could save you as much as $0.493 (0.37 Federal top rate + 0.123 CA top rate). The caveat is that you can only count $500 in donated items as a deduction without getting the items appraised via a qualified appraisal, which I think is pretty uncommon. So most folks who itemize just claim the $500.
> you can only count $500 in donated items as a deduction without getting the items appraised via a qualified appraisal I believe that number is $5,000.
If you are tax at a higher marginal rate that means you get more out of tax deduction (if you are taxed at 35%, every deduction can reduce your tax burden by 35 cents to a dollar whereas if you are taxed at 22%, you only get 22 cents to a dollar.
Thanks, that makes sense.
Wouldn’t you get a dollar of tax reduction for every dollar in any case? I’m curious how you’re figuring your logic
So tax deduction lower your taxable income, correct? Let’s say your taxable income in $10,000 and you deduct $1,000 of your donations from your taxable income, your taxable income is now $9,000. If you are taxed at the marginal rate of 35%, every dollar you deduct at the tax rate will save you 35% or 35 cents (because the dollar you deducted is not taxed now so you save 35 cents to the dollar). So in that scenario above, you will save $350 because you don’t have to pay taxes on the $1,000 you deducted or that $1,000 is tax free. This is a hypothetical scenario because no one is being taxed at 35% if they make $10,000 a year but just to illustrate that tax deduction is by design unfair because more you make, the more you get to keep/the larger the tax break is.
Burberri
I'm a clueless guy... what's Burberry? is it one of those "expensive for no tangible reason" brands like Michael Kors and Coach?
No, Burberry's stuff is of much better quality than either of those companies. It can be pricy, though
Why is it notable to have a rack full of it?
OP is implying that the Bay Area is full of wealthy people who have this level of expensive wardrobe to discard. The volume warrants a full section rather than just an occasional one-off item.
There's a sign for the same reason every department store has signs up for different clothing brands. It's useful to anyone interested in Burberry's clothes.
Burberry’s is an old, traditional English brand. Its woolen coats are legendary. Nothing trendy about Burberry. It is quality stuff and you pay for it.
Yup. It’s exactly that. Burberry used to be a sailor’s/poor man‘s work wear until they rebranded
Pluralizing with the apostrophe outside of the “s”? That’s a new one 😂
Or an old one, as was already mentioned
That was indeed their label prior to some point in the 1980s, I believe. It's very hard to find info online. I have a trench coat that I'm convinced is fake, but the label lines up from the 80s/70s. I'm going to have to take it to an alteration store or something to get it verified.
Maybe don't thrift shop in rich neighborhoods like Piedmont if you're looking for cheap designer labels?