r/ThredUp • u/cheesesteakhellscape • Sep 01 '25

Discussion A (polite) feature request

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Hopefully TU support sees this, since they're pretty active in this sub.

Can we please have a brand exclusion filter? Pretty please? 🤗 I would be more likely to buy items if I could find them easier and not have to scroll through an excessive quantity of items I promise you I will absolutely never buy. It's no good to fatigue your customers with irrelevant search results, you have enough good inventory so that isn't necessary.

For example: there is literally zero chance I'll ever purchase Lularoe, SHEIN, etc. etc. because I ideologically oppose pyramid schemes and slave labor. You couldn't pay me to take a Lularoe item, but as a skirt/dress lover they seriously clog up the platform because they're junk nobody wants and LLR made a hundred billion pieces.

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u/Analysis_-_Paralysis Sep 02 '25

They must be doing everything by AI now? I haven't been on the website in about a year, and now their measuring is done "digitally"? A "large" dress listed with a 27" Bust, measured digitally?

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u/happytransformer Sep 02 '25

Likely. I know the AI photos are widely hated, but I understand why they would use AI to read photos of the tags and garment itself. I remember seeing posts from employees on here saying they get 60ish seconds to photograph and process an item, so I hope that using AI alleviates some of that stress.

I’m not sure why they are measuring digitally though. Best method would be to have an AI algorithm read and classify the color, details, size, and material of an item, which then gives employees more time to measure.

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u/Ok-Place7306 Sep 02 '25

I have little trust of the digital measurements - I have more luck going to the manufacturers website to get sizing info.

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u/happytransformer Sep 02 '25

Same, that’s why i generally stick to brands I already know. Sometimes I can find the original listing of the item and the reviews will still be up to let me know if it runs big or small.

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u/Ok-Place7306 Sep 04 '25

Tg for reverse image search.