find your favorite style: Don’t be dictated to by fashion designers. Choose your favorite style when you shop resale. Put together a look that is your own and don’t look like everyone else. Whether you’re refreshing your wardrobe or your home, make it unique. Plus, at resale prices you can afford to try a new style! Then, if it’s not for you, just pass it on.

enjoy a wide selection: Your favorite color and design is more readily available in resale than it is in new-merchandise stores, since those new stores can’t afford to carry the variety of styles a resale shop can. And the selection is always changing at resale shops. If you don’t find it today, you probably will next week… or even tomorrow.

get full value: You know how a new car depreciates the minute it’s driven off the dealer’s lot? Same thing happens in clothing, furniture, and equipment. It’s common to save more than 50% off retail prices when you shop resale. And savings of 90% are not unheard-of. Your money gets you better quality at any price level. Why buy cheap when you can buy inexpensively?

enjoy personalized service: Can’t find anyone to take your money in a department store? Hate standing in check-out lines at discounters? Tired of trying to put together a look without someone helping you? Try resale! Most resale shops are personalized, warm places. Whether you’re just browsing or seriously shopping, you’ll get the service you thought was extinct. (our eBay store has incredible customer service AND a easy breezy return policy)

be eco-savvy: Imagine the cost to the environment for new items: depleting the soil, adding fertilizers to the watershed, increasing air pollution with shipping by truck or boat. Add to that the fact that you’re cutting down on the waste stream: now don’t you feel good about saving that designer item from the land fill? Besides, you’ll have to work less yourself when you shop resale, which has its own savings to contribute to the environment!

think about what it costs to full up a tank of gas to spend a day or weekend shopping in the city - $40-$50-$60 or more!!! now, think about the costs associated in food, drink, and legwork.

now, try spending half that time on-line and you will usually find a better variety and more much interesting items than you would at the local mall. on-line the only cost you incur beyond the price of your items is shipping.

at light switch, we ship most single items at a cost $4.85 and then combine shopping as $2 per additional items. so for $24.85 you can have 11 items shipped to your house AND usually it’s much less since we will use a flat rate box whenever possible. if you have a return you may spend $4.85 or $5.00, but if you had to return to the mall, how much would you spend in gas?

just some food for thought.

i just returned from a whirlwind weekend in Las Vegas and one thing I have to say is that THE SHOPPING IS INCREDIBLE. (more…)

I use to be a snobbish shopper. I would only shop at places like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, The Gap, Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy’s, and expensive boutiques like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Burberry for my clothes and accessories. In my early 20’s I was living on my own and paying my own Visa & American Express bills and so my shopping dollar had to stretch much further so I started to dabble at Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshall’s, outlet malls, and the clearance racks. I saved so much money that I slowly started to shop in these places more often than not. I still dressed great, I just didn’t have $3000 in credit card bills every month.
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