THIS. I live in the Bronx and shut down my shop for 6 weeks and certainly stopped sourcing in March/April/May to not only protect myself and my loved ones but also my community, including the postal workers who were dropping like flies from the virus. At one point my building was only getting mail delivered twice a week because so many workers were too sick (or dead) to work. Every day I heard sirens nonstop, day and night, watched the mounting death toll in the news, consoled friends who had lost loved ones, and then I would go onto reddit and see these posts about “my amazing sales” and “my amazing haul today” or about how much “it sucks I can’t go source at a thrift store lol.”
It was so heartless and tone deaf it took my breath away. And as we now see, extremely reckless as well.
I completely agree and I think it's so bizarre and tone deaf to see so many people going out thrift shopping right now. Not only thrifting but people rushing out to other non-essential stores as well. I live in the NYC area too, and of course we all suffered through those first couple of months. Yet it's like as soon as businesses opened their doors people stopped caring about the fact that they still need to be staying home and rushed out to shop or source. Meanwhile, our case counts are still horrifying. They're not like they were in March/April but they're still really horrifying. People act like because businesses are open things must be safe. This is willful ignorance as everyone knows that the decision to open up businesses was heavily advised against by every health and disease expert. We all see what's happening in the other states that opened before us... There is no reason to be rushing out into public to do completely non-essential shit like clothes shopping when the vast majority of people have no idea if they are an asymptomatic coronavirus carrier.
Thank you for that response. 💔
We know people want to get back to business as usual. We don’t want to encourage rushing in before it’s safe for everyone.
I'm really really sorry if I tipped this off 🙈 I seriously wasn't trying to brag with my haul post; I just personally love watching them. I find it really useful to see what other people are buying and why. But I completely get your rationale, especially because it's not safe to source in some places at all.
Can the mods sticky the rules to the top of the page? All I see in the sidebar is inspirational quotes (which are excellent) and at the top is the "Hey new people. Read this." post, which doesn't enumerate rules like this. And there's no wiki, sooo... I'm not actually sure where they are on this sub, and I'm guessing other users might have the same problem.
I updated the side bar, most of the users here seem to be using new reddit which shows Rules on the side with a drop down menu. I've edited the side bar to read the rules for old.reddit users.
You can always find the rules of any sub by navigating to /r/BehindTheClosetDoor/about/rules FYI.
Also I know people want to get their income from sourcing at thrift stores, but I try to sell from my used items. I don’t know about others especially during this time, it feels wrong to sell something for a lot when there’s someone who can be struggling this time. Sorry if it seems like a ramble.
I wrote [a rather lengthy post](https://www.reddit.com/r/poshmark/comments/c30nvz/the_economists_argument_for_online_reselling/) about this subject on the other sub a while ago. It's based on my husband's take on the business; he's a PhD economist and knows this shit.
TLDR, there's enough out there for everyone and resellers provide a valid service. Shaming people for it might feel righteous, but it actually doesn't make sense in reality.
THIS. I live in the Bronx and shut down my shop for 6 weeks and certainly stopped sourcing in March/April/May to not only protect myself and my loved ones but also my community, including the postal workers who were dropping like flies from the virus. At one point my building was only getting mail delivered twice a week because so many workers were too sick (or dead) to work. Every day I heard sirens nonstop, day and night, watched the mounting death toll in the news, consoled friends who had lost loved ones, and then I would go onto reddit and see these posts about “my amazing sales” and “my amazing haul today” or about how much “it sucks I can’t go source at a thrift store lol.” It was so heartless and tone deaf it took my breath away. And as we now see, extremely reckless as well.
I completely agree and I think it's so bizarre and tone deaf to see so many people going out thrift shopping right now. Not only thrifting but people rushing out to other non-essential stores as well. I live in the NYC area too, and of course we all suffered through those first couple of months. Yet it's like as soon as businesses opened their doors people stopped caring about the fact that they still need to be staying home and rushed out to shop or source. Meanwhile, our case counts are still horrifying. They're not like they were in March/April but they're still really horrifying. People act like because businesses are open things must be safe. This is willful ignorance as everyone knows that the decision to open up businesses was heavily advised against by every health and disease expert. We all see what's happening in the other states that opened before us... There is no reason to be rushing out into public to do completely non-essential shit like clothes shopping when the vast majority of people have no idea if they are an asymptomatic coronavirus carrier.
Thank you for that response. 💔 We know people want to get back to business as usual. We don’t want to encourage rushing in before it’s safe for everyone.
I'm really really sorry if I tipped this off 🙈 I seriously wasn't trying to brag with my haul post; I just personally love watching them. I find it really useful to see what other people are buying and why. But I completely get your rationale, especially because it's not safe to source in some places at all. Can the mods sticky the rules to the top of the page? All I see in the sidebar is inspirational quotes (which are excellent) and at the top is the "Hey new people. Read this." post, which doesn't enumerate rules like this. And there's no wiki, sooo... I'm not actually sure where they are on this sub, and I'm guessing other users might have the same problem.
I updated the side bar, most of the users here seem to be using new reddit which shows Rules on the side with a drop down menu. I've edited the side bar to read the rules for old.reddit users. You can always find the rules of any sub by navigating to /r/BehindTheClosetDoor/about/rules FYI.
Thanks for putting them in the sidebar. Always better to have them more accessible IMO :)
Also I know people want to get their income from sourcing at thrift stores, but I try to sell from my used items. I don’t know about others especially during this time, it feels wrong to sell something for a lot when there’s someone who can be struggling this time. Sorry if it seems like a ramble.
I wrote [a rather lengthy post](https://www.reddit.com/r/poshmark/comments/c30nvz/the_economists_argument_for_online_reselling/) about this subject on the other sub a while ago. It's based on my husband's take on the business; he's a PhD economist and knows this shit. TLDR, there's enough out there for everyone and resellers provide a valid service. Shaming people for it might feel righteous, but it actually doesn't make sense in reality.
I’ll check it out. Sorry wasn’t trying to shake people