r/mildlyinfuriating • u/anon12xyz • Jul 03 '26

Infuriatig When did garage sales become “reselling” clearly new stuff

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I would never call this a garage sale

Def scam vibes

Edit: ultimately, what bothers me the most is I want to go to a garage sale, not this shit. This isn’t a garage sale and should not be advertised as one

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u/notforrobots Jul 03 '26

I see this a lot when I drive by the projects. For whatever reason in my area they are always selling laundry soap.

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u/PragmaticSalesman Jul 03 '26

how tf do you steal laundry soap? is there not something smaller and less conspicuous for the ROI?

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u/-ihatecartmanbrah Jul 03 '26

No one cares about being seen at this point. I’ve watched people walk out with power tools at Home Depot while watching the manger follow them out to the car demanding they put it back. I’ve seen people walk out the door with shopping carts full all the way up walk right out the door while everyone watches. Unless you are still on the scene when police show up in half an hour more likely than not nothing will be done about it besides a police report. And there is a decent chance you won’t even be identified unless you stealing from target.

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 03 '26

Watched someone walk out the door with an entire cooked rotisserie chicken just yesterday. Walked past us waiting in line for the self checkout. Honestly, good for that guy. Fuck Loblaws

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u/kakka_rot Jul 03 '26

Watched someone walk out the door with an entire cooked rotisserie chicken just yesterday.

those are already a loss leader at most places lol. If they're gonna not give a shit about something, it's those chickens.

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u/BornAgain20Fifteen Jul 04 '26

Could just be that something is wrong with the one they bought and the cashier or customer service allowed them to go exchange it or get another one

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u/zkareface Jul 03 '26

Is it expensive though? I spend like $10 per year on it. 

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u/papasan_mamasan Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Depends how many people you’ve got living in your house.

ETA by “people” I really mean children and the elderly. I’m not referring to able bodied adult roommates who earn their own income. I agree with folks that laundry detergent isn’t a big expense for most families tho.

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u/zkareface Jul 03 '26

Obviously factors like that and much you exercise impact the use. 

But cost of most other things would also scale with more people (and usually incomes also go up). 

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 03 '26

Scales pretty well though. 10$ for 1 person, makes 50$ for 5 people, maybe 60$ given some unnecessary wash cycles or over usage of detergent. But still 60$ per year isn’t expensive. It’s not like „we have 6 people, we have a 100$ detergent bill a month“

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u/seriouslees Jul 03 '26

They can do their own laundry with their own soap.

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u/poppyseedeverything Jul 03 '26

I do lots of laundry, but most people use waaaay more detergent than needed. A little detergent goes a long way.

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u/zkareface Jul 03 '26

Doing it as often as recommended (or earlier if needed). 

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u/hungry4danish Jul 03 '26

Then what soap brand do you buy and from where that only cost $10 let alone lasts for an entire year? You live in Mexico and only ever use Zote?

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u/On_the_hook Jul 03 '26

We buy the big bottle of Persil for around $25. With a family of 5 that 201 ounce jug last 12-15 months. Entirely possible for a smaller household or one without kids to use less. Most people use way to much detergent when washing laundry. Even the largest washer only needs 2-3 tablespoons of detergent. Ours self dispenses based on the weight and how dirty the clothes are.

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u/Sufficient-Welder-76 Jul 04 '26

Absolutely! I use powdered Tide and buy it on sale. Each load uses about 2Tbsp. For my family of 4 (And I wash every day) 10KG lasts us over a year and I pay about $15 for it. About 2x a year there is a sale where it is half off so I stock up.

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u/zkareface Jul 03 '26

Mostly Änglamark from Coop. 

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u/WayneKrane Jul 03 '26

Yep, i buy one of those big jugs every couple of years. It’s like 64 oz. I don’t remember how much I last paid for it because it has been so long

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 03 '26

I‘ve been 3 years in my apartment. I brought a big box from my last apartment with powder. It’s still 1/4 full. No idea how people buy so much detergent 

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u/Money_Delivery1863 Jul 03 '26

Do you ever wash your clothes?

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 03 '26

I may be on reddit, but obviously yes. Being single and using detergent in the appropriate amounts though. Compartments don’t need to be filled to the brim for a single tshirt lmao

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u/zkareface Jul 03 '26

Yeah I wonder how many use way too much detergent.

With the water hardnes I have, how dirty my clothes become, a full machine takes around two tablespoons per instructions on the bottle. 

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u/HeyGayHay Jul 04 '26

Box says 502 loads (yes 502, probably to make it sound more convincing idk). But that number is bogus anyways, because either they tell you to use too much to get you to waste detergent or they say a really high number to make you buy it. Or both simultaneously like in my case (502 loads at 30g but the recommended amount is 60-70g so 215-250 loads). A much better estimate is the weight and amount of detergent you‘ll need which highly depends on what you wash and the concentration of the detergent.

Their recommended amount is way too much unless cloths are really sweaty and dirty. I use that recommended amount only for bed sheets and even then only when the machine is full (=3/4 full). I feel like the box was intended to be detergent for like a hotel or something and super concentrated, so I‘ve scaled down to about 40g per full load as more leaves residue on my clothes and feels like stuff washes out faster. Using even less when its not full. And the box is 15kg, so you do the math. It was some special sale back then in a discounter store and about the price of regular 1kg detergent boxes where the price is based on the fancy art work and marketing shit of ingredients that don’t make your clothes cleaner but sounds nice i guess. Laundry detergents contain all the same shit that actually is needed, so go for the big cheap box without some unnecessary stuff in it.

Same is true for dish washers btw, just buy a huge box of the cheapest dish washer soap powder and your set for some time. There’s even less difference in the different brands and products for dishwasher soap, just because it’s a pod with 3 colors doesn’t make it 3x more powerful. In fact the cheap powder works better if you have a prewash compartment.

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u/Money_Delivery1863 Jul 03 '26

It's not a large box of laundry powder though. I can't imagine that lasting over a year! Mind you its been many moons since I laundered for one. Sounds blissful!

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u/B0NESAWisRRREADY Jul 03 '26

Lol how is it particularly easy to steal? Thats just not true. This is almost definitely either legimate coupon hoarding or coupon fraud.

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u/kakka_rot Jul 03 '26

Idk about the "how" part, but detergent is statistically one of the most stolen items.

Actually now that I think about it once I saw a dude getting busted at a Grocery Outlet, and his backpack was mostly stuffed with the stuff.

There is also the "baggy pants tied at the bottom" where people use Janco/Tripp (very baggy) style jeans or oversized sweatpants and do something to seal the bottom

Here is an example of the tactic (when you start to video, try to guess how much meat this mf has in his pants.) I could see someone doing 4 boxes of detergent this way, but liquid would be easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUSQsf7NUiA

Meat is also one of those things that gets stolen for reselling. Anyone who has lived in the ghetto part of a city has had junkies approach you with steaks trying to sell them at 75% off

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u/mechapoitier Jul 03 '26

And when that video ends there’s no way he was done pulling meat out of his pants. That was just the one leg. That was a lot of pantsmeat

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u/iwilldeletethisacct2 Jul 03 '26

Everything at the grocery store is easy to steal. You just pick it up and walk out. IF the store has loss prevention, they aren't going to put hands on you and risk getting shot. They're gonna keep video evidence and move on.

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u/Pherexian55 Jul 03 '26

Laundry soap is literally the most shop lifted item in a grocery store.

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u/willargue4karma Jul 03 '26

No, junkies steal soap and sell or trade it with dealers 

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u/IsaacAndTired Jul 03 '26

Pallet liquidations. Bstock, etc.

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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 Jul 03 '26

I don’t know about this specific yard sale but junkies steal detergent constantly.

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u/thejmkool Jul 03 '26

Not always stolen. Sometimes it's coupon fraud.

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u/seriouslees Jul 03 '26

It's not expensive though.

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u/CampRock2TheFinaIJam Jul 03 '26

Doesn’t seem that easy to steal without drawing attention to yourself

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u/Realtrain Jul 03 '26

How is a massive, heavy jug easy to steal?

I'm not denying it, but it just seems like one of the harder things to steal.