Comments on: Finding vs Buying

By: susie_bubble

susie_bubble — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:04:51 +0000

An interesting question you pose there…. I think the above commentors covered it all but I do think when you’re TRAWLING through eBay going through a list of search terms, ‘finding’ something you end up setting your alarm at 3 in the morning to bid on at the last minute deserves the term ‘found’… it’s all pedantic I guess…

By: GLC

GLC — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:20:04 +0000

I would say that “bought” means you paid money for it. “Found” means you got it for free or literally found it someplace unexpected to find clothing, like “I found this shirt in the hall. No one else claimed it so it’s mine” or “I found a hat on a grocery shelf.” If it’s litter, then it is in the found category.

By: hammie

hammie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:44:21 +0000

how about – locating? because if you listed it, it really is there to be found hey? xx

By: Jenny Dunville

Jenny Dunville — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:40:32 +0000

I’d say I need to know where the “Jewish Ladies Thrift Shop” is.

By: Aja

Aja — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:30:25 +0000

Anything over $100 isn’t a “steal” or a real “find” designer or not. Especially if it’s hideous.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:17:42 +0000

Finding=you probably weren’t looking for it, so unless you routinely scan The Bay with random searchwords or take full inventory of categories, you are being far too particular in any given ebay search to “score a find.”

Buy-It-Now braggarts are particularly tedious *JANE AND MOM*. Why even say where you get something if you do a high-priced buy-it-now…it’s false modesty. If you pay in the 300’s for some glorified schmatte with an old guy’s name on it (that he didn’t even design) it’s as good as buying from a typically overpriced bricks-n-mortar vintage store, so shut up about the “finds” and “steals” and enjoy your hoarded rags guilt-and-pseudo-humility-free!

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:46:25 +0000

I often use them pretty interchangeably- I go rummaging through secondhand bookshops pretty often, where looking through piles and piles of books for what you want is quite a job. It’s a little bit of an achievement to find a 1950s edition of a Nancy Mitford book hidden under a pile of other stuff for a friend who wanted it. But I wouldn’t say I ‘found’ a copy of The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (to take just one example) in the display window of the shop!And that jacket might actually be redeemable if the leather were another shade of green, IMO. But who knows, it might look better in real life.
Like dust, I’m a crappy buyer but that’s because I live in a bloody third world country where the fashion is mostly awful. I haven’t bought any new clothes in over a year now- been living in my dad’s discarded shirts.

By: dust

dust — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:46:47 +0000

FINDING is my favorite!
I hate when sales person, even if selling piles of crap on the market, comes to me with the advice. They ruin it for me, cos’ I love the effort I put in finding. Yes, I’m a die-hard finder, lucky one, too.
All the other stuff I make myself anyway, so I’m a very, very bad BUYER.
There is a difference, for sure. I wonder how would it feel to just go into posh fellow designer shop, get the thing and just pay for it. Something tells me that the rewarding pleasure of finding something useless and making it alive again, would be all gone with a whip of a credit card.

This applies only on fashion, entertainment and interior, when it comes to machines and tools, different rules apply.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:00:07 +0000

ha!i think i found who bought your jacket…

http://atlantishome.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/two-great-vintage-jackets.html

http://seaofshoes.typepad.com/sea_of_shoes/2009/11/ysl-moschinoalso-losing-my-comment-section.html

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:47:37 +0000

Oh – and EXCELLENT job on the 80% profit on the sale, too!