Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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PandaChai said:
Mikayla Nogueira. I've seen this woman before, she might well have been mentioned here, but this particular video was shown to me in a video I was watching about over-consumption.
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Hatred. I know that's extreme, but it's the only word that can describe the feeling it invokes in me. The tacky, gaudy, corpulent, grasping, vanity of it.
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What the fuck, they look like caricatures, like they came from a low budget 3D animated movie. How can someone regularly shop at those ridiculously expensive stores and still look like a white trash lump of lard?
Tackiness of those bags aside, of course.

ETA: THIS BITCH IS ONLY 26?
 
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Panzerfrau said:
How can someone regularly shop at those ridiculously expensive stores and still look like a white trash lump of lard?
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If you don't have the self control to not spend the average yearly salary on a shitty handbag every other week then you probably don't have the self control to not also buy 5 kilos of chocolate a week. I mean we're not that far off the times when being that fat would be a sign of wealth anyway.
 
Panzerfrau said:
How can someone regularly shop at those ridiculously expensive stores and still look like a white trash lump of lard?
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Lack of taste. Which is the main difference between old money and the nouveau riche, particularly the non white nouveau riche.
 
PandaChai said:
Mikayla Nogueira. I've seen this woman before, she might well have been mentioned here, but this particular video was shown to me in a video I was watching about over-consumption.
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Hatred. I know that's extreme, but it's the only word that can describe the feeling it invokes in me. The tacky, gaudy, corpulent, grasping, vanity of it.
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I would ask what "POV bag" means but I'm afraid the answer is something very stupid
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
I would ask what "POV bag" means but I'm afraid the answer is something very stupid
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It’s a mystery. Is it short for Poverty Bag, as in a bag the lower classes might buy with lottery winnings? As in, “that’s povv or povvo”. Is it short for Point of View Bag, as in the bag is looking at another bag for reasons unknown? Has the term Point of View simply changed over time to mean something that stands out? All I know is, everything displayed is hideous and the designers should be ashamed of their lack of integrity.
 
Trapper said:
It’s a mystery. Is it short for Poverty Bag, as in a bag the lower classes might buy with lottery winnings? As in, “that’s povv or povvo”. Is it short for Point of View Bag, as in the bag is looking at another bag for reasons unknown? Has the term Point of View simply changed over time to mean something that stands out? All I know is, everything displayed is hideous and the designers should be ashamed of their lack of integrity.
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They're ugly and stupid.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
They're ugly and stupid.
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So I watch this guy on YouTube sometimes. He lost his office job during Covid and turned to "reselling" to bring in some cash at the time. Eventually he became so successful at it that he didn't bother trying to hunt for a real job again, and his wife even quit her job to join him full time.

I liked the concept. He'd comb through thrift stores and flea markets looking for hidden gems. He'd clean things up, take nice photos, and list them on eBay. It made sense. If a buyer is after something specific, hunting through Goodwill stores is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. He provided a valuable service of categorizing something otherwise chaotic. And everybody in the chain made out well. The thrift store / flea market folks sold their junk; the end buyers got something they really wanted; and this reseller guy got to keep the difference for his trouble. Win-Win-Win.

But lately he's been doing a lot less with eBay and a lot more on a live auction site called WhatNot, and it really illustrates to me that some people are VERY eager to spend some money and care VERY little about what it is that they're purchasing. He has a wide variety of items in his auctions -- everything from clothing to coffee cups to toys to collectibles to home decor and more. How does a buyer participate in an auction like that that's so unfocused? If I need to buy something, I'm looking for something specific -- it makes no sense to sit around and hope that one of the random things he happens to be selling might meet my needs. Maybe if I wanted to give someone a gift and was looking for inspiration on what to select, such a format might be appealing, but even so it just seems unfocused.

But he does really well with it -- that's why he's doing it so much more than eBay lately. I just can't understand the mindset of his customers: hordes of people showing up to his auctions, money in hand, ready to buy something, anything, without really caring what it is.
 
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