eBay buys Depop for $1.2B in effort to lure younger shoppers

theguardian.com

13 pointsiamben4 comments

I was surprised eBay had the cash on hand for this. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Depop is so good. It's incredible how many pieces of clothing worth thousands of dollars you can find for just $100 or less!

I mean just look at all these totally authentic clothes being sold at less than 10% their usual value! https://www.depop.com/search/?q=vetements

With other brands you'll find that most of the products on depop are from super secret completely unreleased collections, and have never been seen anywhere outside of depop https://www.depop.com/search/?q=loro+piana It's just an incredible opportunity!

It's an absolute steal!

The funniest thing is how many people actually buy this stuff. High-end streetwear communities are constantly spammed by fools seriously asking if the item they bought from depop at below 10% resale prices is authentic.

Clowns will buy extremely niche streetwear items like these https://www.depop.com/products/maxisepic-blue-jeans-with-mul... knowing very well that the real ones are reselling for upwards of $30k and then waste the time of people online asking them to "legit check" their garbage.

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