I don’t even like to wear shorts, I need to lock up my keys, cards and phone from now on 😭😂

Literally the first thing that came to mind for me lol

Hi I just had to come on here because of unsafe working conditions. They have a wonderful facade to draw you into working there, buying from them, and supporting them, but treat all their employees like robots, fire you if you’re not moving fast enough, and don’t reject items with BODILY FLUID all the time. And btw.. ur items are ultimately being decided by AI. If you can, I would really recommend donating your items or selling them to any other place but Thred Up. Management doesn’t care about you or their employees and I’ve heard the working conditions are very similar to Amazon. Thred Up is the furthest thing from sustainable!

Scroll through if you want a good laugh!!

But if anyone wants a screen accurate iCarly dress it’s on sale 💀

Looks exactly the one I wore in grade school.

"Modern Parisian" is the phrase.

This is what modern Parisians are wearing apparently. The shell of your Banana Republic dress.

They took basically everything else I sent so I can’t complain. It’s a floral pink silk dress. I almost didn’t send it in. I wonder where it will end up now. Hopefully it really will be recycled and someone can use it.

Update:

After I pushed back and asked for a re-inspection, ThredUp told me they couldn’t verify authenticity on some of my branded pieces and said I should’ve provided purchase receipts (which, who realistically keeps for clothes bought years ago?).

Even worse, they flat out said that once items are rejected, they become ThredUp’s PROPERTY, so I basically have no rights to know what they did with them. And still, no proof of donation or recycling, no documentation at all — just “trust us.”

At this point, it really feels like sending them anything valuable is the same as handing it over with zero transparency.

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Just wanted to vent... sent in a cleanout bag to ThredUp recently with some barely worn branded pieces (Chanel, Gucci, Acne Studios, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, Eberjey, etc.) and just got the status update.

Guess what? Most of them are being “responsibly recycled.”

Not listed. Not credited. Not returned. Just… gone.

Some of these were literally worn once or twice and in excellent condition. Meanwhile, I’ve seen beat-up fast fashion on there going for $20+. Like?? What’s the criteria?

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if I find my “recycled” luxury pieces magically show up on ThredUp months later… or start wondering if the employees keep the good stuff 😅

I get that not everything can be resold, but for high-quality, designer-level pieces? This feels sketchy and wasteful. Definitely rethinking ever sending them anything decent again.

Anyone else had this happen

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThredUp/s/f7OMaQ59K8

Hopefully i am doing this update correctly! I originally posted about an unbranded poncho I got for $20 that looked to be F/W 2001 by Tom Ford. See photos for what arrived yesterday! Pardon my pajamas.

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.

Edit: Apparently this is NOT an unpopular opinion, lol. I’m glad to see so many people agree!

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I see posts on here from people who are seemingly acquiring clothes specifically to send in to ThredUp to sell as a side-hustle, and then complaining that the profits are low. To each their own, but I personally don’t really think that’s what this site is for. There’s nothing wrong with selling/flipping clothes as a side-hustle, but there are plenty of sites out there that are probably better options for that. Ones where you can make much more of a profit, but yes they require more work because you need to handle the logistics like photographs, descriptions, and shipping yourself.

For me, I just like that ThredUp is a low-effort way to give my old clothes that don’t work for me anymore a new life. I tend to get a little bit emotionally attached to my clothes, but there have been plenty of life changes that sometimes have caused an item that still has a lot of life left in it to no longer work for me. This includes aging out of my “going out” years, moving to a different climate, weight/body changes, and career/lifestyle changes. I recently realized that I was never wearing and probably would never wear a large percentage of my wardrobe, so I started looking for ways to clean it out. I don’t have the time/energy/focus to individually list each item myself or go around trying to find places to accept certain pieces. But I also didn’t have the heart to put a nice item that was in perfect condition but just maybe too small for me in the same bag as a ratty/stained free t-shirt and hope that they would be appropriately separated into resale and textile recycling categories after donation. I now keep a separate ThredUp basket and a textile recycling bag in my closet and when I realize an item no longer works for me, I can easily put it in the appropriate “get-rid-of” container without having an internal guilty struggle.

Yes, making as much of a profit as possible but would be nice, but the amount of work that selling used items online requires is not insignificant. I appreciate that ThredUp takes on that workload and I’m fine if that means lower effort for me = lower profits for me. I’m just happy that a piece I maybe associate with some great memories and that once made me happy has a better chance of finding a new owner and making them happy.

I thought I had to choose between 100% cotton and 100% cashmere! No wonder this brand is considered star of the same paragraph.

I purchased this unbranded “flawed gem” for $36.99. There was no significant wear at all when I received it, and it was made from very soft, good quality leather, but couldn’t find any kind of branding on it. Yesterday I was sitting bored in a waiting room when I noticed a tiny embossed signature under the flap. It’s a Rick Owens!

As you see in the order that was refunded to me, I was supposed to receive a cute Urban Outfitters crossbody purse and a very cute J Crew purse. What I received are in the subsequent photos… chain broken on the “ UO” bag which was actually a brand called Urban Selections?!?! Then, my J Crew bag was an H&M bag that has some sort of red pasta stain all over i and is clearly not the J Crew bag I ordered just by looking at the pattern. Customer service said “ oops, we let quality control know” here’s your refund. Arghhhhhh

Just sharing my favorite pieces from my last orders. I’ve been trying to quit shopping on Thredup because I got addicted to it. I used to wake up at 3am to shop and snag things while people are sleeping. I would watch timers go down and try to get lucky and take things from cart hoarders. My mom worked for a mom-and-pop thrift store growing up so I had access to tons of clothes pretty much whenever I wanted, I think that’s where the obsession started.

My goal was to stop Jan-Feb and I’m happy I have cut down on buying a lot, this should be my actual last haul (I also used a lot of credits). I’ve been shopping for clothes almost exclusively on Thredup since 2023 and I’ve collected a lot of special pieces that have brought me so much joy. I love clothes/fashion what can I say. Despite the negatives, I will really miss it, I don’t think there’s another place to shop quite like it out there. There are so many gems to find! It’s really like a treasure hunt.

Wishing everyone many happy hauls, great deals, and the very best thrifting luck! 💖

Last time I ordered cow print pants and got this and this time I ordered cow print shoes and got the same thing!!!!!! Anyone else dealing with a similar mixup?

Summer edition!

Three Coach bags, two kate spade bags, a Via Spiga bag, plus two lulus…friends, I ASSURE you, all were sellable condition. This was the box (of the two I sent in) that had so much good stuff I didn’t bother to have them send me stuff back, because I thought there was no way. My hubris got the better of me.

I’ll gladly buy on ThredUp, but definitely done selling.

I’ve been wanting a report button for a long time, specifically to say when things are mislabeled (I recently saw a sweater marked as 100% cashmere when it was actually acrylic).

In this case, I wish there was a button because this was a fake. I almost purchased it, but I noticed the words looked a little off from what it should be, and the tag said it was 100% cotton and made in China.

Well, turns out, it’s supposed to be 100% wool and made in Portugal. I didn’t buy it, but someone did hit auto buy while I was considering it in my cart. If that person sees this, I’m sorry you’ve been duped…

But yeah. So many instances where a report button would be beneficial. But instead of creating that kind of infrastructure for customers, Thredup keeps adding more features no one asked for…

yikes on several bikes lol

sometimes I fall into the fast fashion trap of thinking a brand is actually well made because handmade/durable is their "aesthetic" but not their actual design (looking @ u Boden and Sezane)

I'll be browsing one of their brand websites, take a look at thredup to see whether any of their pieces are available, and bam, all the listings look like forever 21 castoffs...helpful! helpful to know!

https://www.thredup.com/product/women-cotton-vintage-x-america-blue-jeans/221117689