plumbingspecials wrote:
@retrose1
Never thought of it that way, the fetish buyers. Might be Niche!
Absolutely a niche and apparently plenty of $$$ in it too! Nasty, stinky old shoes, well-worn socks, full hosiery & pantyhose with holes in the knees!!! Yup. Garter belts, bras, even girdles.
Whether you are appalled and repulsed or not-at-all offended by the *off midline* fetishes of these buyers, it's apparently a very lucrative little area.
I've always wondered what the sellers of these items look like in real life. An old gal slopping around in beaten down bedroom slippers (which will later be sold here to those same fetish buyers lol) or perhaps some pale basement dweller, or the hairy naked guy reflected in the tea pot? Likely mostly NOT the fantasy the buyers build up in their minds. 
paulanjay wrote:Well first off , We can only sell clean clothes on ebay.
Yeah.. right. Supposedly all those *used* clothing items for men and women are all freshly laundered or dry cleaned? I'll bet at least half of the used women's tops (for example) offered here still have the smell of the previous owner on them. Tons of sellers here sort through the racks at the local thrifts and if it looks decent, it's on its way without a drop of water & laundry detergent ever touching it as it passed through the clothing seller's hands. That's why so much of the used clothing still has the smell of the physical person wearing it previously, often not just their favorite fragrance spray but their perspiration and/or deodorant as well. 
But the pieces didn't actually stink, and they looked clean.
I've purchased just a few items of used clothing here on eBay, but I'll bet not half of them smelled like they'd been freshly laundered before being mailed to me. How clean does eBay require clean clothing items to be? From what I've received, apparently *clean enough* is good enough for most transactions.
postingid2017 wrote:"or the hairy naked guy reflected in the tea pot?" LOL, I remember that photo 😉
And this: "An old gal slopping around in beaten down bedroom slippers (which will later be sold here to those same fetish buyers lol" I remember a tv show or plot with a grandmother and her friends were stealing the granddaughter undies and selling them online 🙂
Sounds sort of like that would be something a Betty White character would be doing in a funny movie.
