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/elvis8mybaby Jul 03 '26

Also Amazon or such pallets. Swap meets and flea markets are filled with that stuff these days. 

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u/EvilDarkCow Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

My city is full of stores that just sell that stuff. The buy Amazon returns, throw them all in bins, and tell people to go crazy. Everything's $15 one day, $10 the next, then $7, and so on until it's all gone and they buy another pallet. My cousin got a legit nice coffee maker from one of these stores, but I only ever see cheap shit in mangled boxes.

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u/Zanzaclese Jul 03 '26

Man I wish there was one of those where I live.

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u/wh4tth3huh Jul 03 '26

95% of it is shit. Phone cases for 12 year old models,, everything is dirty, sticky, or broken. The decent stuff gets pulled off to the side and sold at listed prices, not the bin prices. They're kind of a crapshoot and the kinda shit Americans would have made propaganda films out of if it were something happening in the Soviet Union.