vintage t shirts

[tr4vw]

right now if you look up 'cramps shirt' under 'pre-owned' you will see four listings for a 1990 'stay sick' shirt, all sellers are from japan and they show the SAME EXACT SHIRT with the SAME EXACT PICTURES, the listings show different sellers but how is it THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME PHOTOS and SAME CONDITION, SIZE, ETC. shirt? what kind of a scam is this? also they have very high inflated prices for everything. i hope nobody pays these ridiculously high prices. protect the buyers.

[gosimus]

@tr4vw 

< how is it THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME PHOTOS and SAME CONDITION, SIZE, ETC. shirt? >    

Don't know. 

Maybe it's the same person, using different accounts  

Maybe some other sellers copied the first seller's listing  

Maybe they all uploaded photos from the eBay catalog  

[tr4vw]

i am not a reseller, what i buy is either given as gifts or is some movie, tv show i like, or concert i attended. the point i'm trying to make, at least one point, is that the vintage t shirt market is now a huge business where resellers purchase 'lots' of shirts from other resellers. this is a close-nit community, like a boy's club, where profit is the only motivation. these people have no interest in the music group or otherwise, it is simply done, like walmart or home depot where they corner the market by buying mass quantities where they hope the average person HAS to buy from them because no other business will have that item (in the case of walmart, home depot yes the prices are lower because these are 'everyday' items). if you will notice, these sellers in particular have hundreds of shirts for sale. my interest in this shirt is that i attended a cramps show in the 80's, the shirt i purchased is now too small. these sellers probably have no clue who the cramps were, and i am sure they have no vinyl (or even a cd) of their music. i saw in the mid-80's japanese buying jaguar xke's for huge money ($80,000+), ten years later same car, same condition around $20,000. they created an inflated market that eventually collapsed. buyer's should wait out this inflation, as i feel the market will 'come back to earth' in not so many years.

[krazzykats]

Profit is the name of the game.   People will exploit whatever they can for it.

[gone.c-33]

Sellers, mostly from Southeast Asia where copyright law is almost inexistant, will often purchase genuine vintage t-shirts for hundreds of dollars then recoup their money by mass manufacturing poorly made copies. 

The vintage music shirts market has been plagued with that issue for years unfortunately.