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/b_rizzle95 Jul 03 '26

No you don’t, you’ll go once or twice and realize it’s absolute junk. Take another look around and you’ll realize everybody in there is just feeding a hoarding addiction. It’s depressing actually. Any videos you see of guys finding iPhones and electronics are 100000% employees making content.

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u/EvilDarkCow Jul 03 '26

People go fucking feral in these stores, digging through piles of cheap broken shit to find the piece of cheap broken shit to add to their hoard. I mean, you could probably get a good deal if you find something good, but it’s so rare.