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Used to be thrift stores didn't have someone checking ebay for pricing information like they're a vendor at a trade show...
To be fair it also used to be that there wasn't anywhere near as many people who go through thrift stores, game stores, pawn shops, ect, to buy something to only turn around to flip it for more than what they bought it for.
It's an epidemic that's caused a runaway race to the bottom. Stores mark up prices to prevent it, people come in and resell at a markup anyways, stores raise prices because when they look it up they find their resold stuff at a markup.
Market efficiency!
The middlemanification of every nanofacet of life
So true. I keep seeing posts from complaining "thrifters" that they can't make much profit anymore. If an algorithm thinks you're a collector it inevitably pushes people who resell crap. I just like pointless stuff i dont want a business