Overpriced Nonsense

[Anonymous No.9433521]

What's the most over-priced, fever dream number you've ever seen attached to something Lolita, Jfashion or Cosplay related?

I saw this today and I was just like... Dude. No way, dude.

[Anonymous No.9433533]

[Anonymous No.9433535]

>>9433521
off topic but am i the only one who thinks sugary carnival looks bad in ANY colorway? that and melty ribbon chocolate are the ugliest shit ap has ever made

[Anonymous No.9433536]

>>9433521
She won't take offers and won't split the set either. The last one sold on LM was only $500, but I found mine a few months ago for only $300.

[Anonymous No.9433537]

>>9433535
I find the special set a little less ugly but otherwise yeah, it's the ugliest carnival print AP has ever made in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.9433540]

http://m.ebay.com/itm/ANGELIC-PRETTY-Puppet-Circus-One-one-piece-dress-/302237660950?hash=item465ec4b716%3Ag%3AhRoAAOSwTM5YtWOk&_trkparms=pageci%253Af3586f94-20c3-11e7-b263-74dbd1808fc6%257Cparentrq%253A6a8b424a15b0a605a24fed1dfffb8a94%257Ciid%253A1


Yeah it's puppet circus but come on....

[Anonymous No.9433541]

>>9433521
Maybe in 2010

[Anonymous No.9433542]

>>9433535 >>9433537
I think it's the "historic" nature of this print that makes it popular; I feel like it and Milky Planet basically represent an era of Lolita; kinda like how Iron Gate represents Gothic Lolita.

>>9433536
I've seen it on closet child for around that much as an individual main piece; but only recently. Like, a year ago I still saw it listed around $400 or more. Now it's definitely often going for 3-something.

>>9433533
Sure that wasn't a typeo?

[Anonymous No.9433547]

>>9433542
Not a typo, it's been up at that price for over a year now. Just a crazy overpricing.

[Anonymous No.9433554]

>>9433536
>>9433542
I don't blame her for not splitting the set, I hate doing that with my sets because extra shipping and fees get annoying. Plus sometimes I just like to send shit out all at once and not have to deal with multiple packages (and the packing for them) or buyers.
However I do think she should maybe lower that price by $100 or so. If the dress goes for $300-400 and the accessories about $50 (?) apice...

[Anonymous No.9433621]

Honestly like 90% of the time someone tries to resell their Bodyline I laugh. They always want to sell it for what they bought it for while the prices on the sites are super low. Recently saw Cinderella Bunny jsk posted for $65. It's $20 brand new on the website. These people are high.

I have a bunch of Bodyline from my younger days but it's really just more worthwhile to just keep it and wear casually or around the house than try to sell it.

[Anonymous No.9433636]

>>9433621
If you ever think of selling it, a good tactic / charity thing to do is to sell it as part of a "beginner" or "first" coord. I saw a set marketed as that for $80; it included well-matched OTKs, blouse, wrist cuffs and headbow. I liked it because it gives me hope that some newb wont look so ita.

[Anonymous No.9433648]

>>9433521
Why does nobody ever talk about that one booth in the dealers room at Anime Boston? They literally sell Bodyline for $180, iirc they were named Aliks Cosplay.

[Anonymous No.9433656]

>>9433521
ugh, i want this dress. i've been wanting it for a very long time, but even if i do have the money for it, i would never buy it at this price. it's been there for months, almost a year i think.

[Anonymous No.9433657]

>>9433648
That''s so sad, that's easily a newbie lolita trap. Have you ever seen anyone actually buy BL from them?

[Anonymous No.9433669]

>>9433648 >>9433657
There's a booth like that at Sac Anime every time. They sell a mix though; including AP replicas and Tao Bao overpriced.

[Anonymous No.9433679]

>>9433648
>>9433669
There's a booth at Fanime as well. Not sure of the name or the prices but I remember scoffing at the prices.

[Anonymous No.9433690]

>>9433679
The booth at Sac anime I say was selling Kiss Me Cat for $80; it was the original print screen printed onto white costume satin. The booth had no name, no cards, no advertisements.

[Anonymous No.9433735]

>>9433690
We have a shop like this in Germany too, they popped up a few years ago and selling taoboa, Bodyline and replica shit for hilariously high prices, but also have some original japaneeeesu stuff from eg shimamura which they also sell for prices over which I can only laugh.

[Anonymous No.9433757]

>>9433535
I think it looks just okay, but the special set is particularly hideous to me. That is the ugliest in-between shade of blue-purple I've ever seen. It makes me think of bad 90s fashion for some reason.

[Anonymous No.9433794]

>>9433648
Otakon has a booth like that also, not sure if it's the same people. I silently watched a girl get ripped off there while I was buying something at the booth next to it. I sorta felt bad for her but didn't want to speak up.

[Anonymous No.9433820]

>>9433521
Every single thing she sells is overpriced tho.

Pic related - you can find this set on Yahoo auctions for $400

[Anonymous No.9433821]

This goes for around 4000-5000 yen on auctions/second hand sites.

[Anonymous No.9434074]

>>9433820
Why do you think she overprices so much? You'd like as an independent secondhand bussienss she's losing some kind of profit from having so much merch not cycling out of her house.I mean, you can only store so much stuff! I've seen accessories and non-main pieces on her shop that are fairly priced but she's so weird about sets and main pieces.

>>9433821
Closet Child now sells that dress for $90 USD. It never sticks around long on their site, so you have to snatch it up, but it shows up there every few months, somethings several at a time, and it's now been $90 consistently the last few times I've seen it.

[Anonymous No.9434110]

>>9433621
I was just laughing at the same thing. Someone mistakenly bought Bodyline socks (???) and wants back what they paid for it? And someone else is selling a Magic Tea Party blouse for like $35 with less than good condition, when I can get the new one for what, 5-10 more and no one has worn it?

Somewhat OT but I like the Japanese style of reselling more than the Western style. They recognize that the more something is used, the lower the price should be. It's easy to get Mary Magdalene and BtSSB for a better deal whereas Western sites inflate the prices even with stains and damage because burando.

[Anonymous No.9434130]

>>9433648
How are they allowed to be there if they're selling illegal replicas?

[Anonymous No.9434137]

>>9434110
Agreed. Especially about socks and shoes. I see these bitches on Lacemarket trying to sell off their scuffed up shoes for over $45. I would only buy something like that for $15 tops.

[Anonymous No.9434181]

I don't know if this counts but I heard someone was offering 10k for it over in the Dream Dress thread.

[Anonymous No.9434186]

>>9434181
It's rare as fuck, seen maybe twice. There isn't really any set price of what it "should" be sold at so it's hard to say if it's overpriced or not.

[Anonymous No.9434223]

>>9433535
melty ribbon chocolate? its not really even a print just a textured fabric? its also really pretty are you sure you mean melty ribbon chocolate?

[Anonymous No.9434257]

>>9434181
There are Chinese girls who wanted it as a wedding dress offering 5k+ too, so that isn't really surprising.
OTT Baby and AP dresses have gone for more than 2k before.

[Anonymous No.9434283]

>>9433794
Next time catch the person later and let them know. This is going to haunt you.
>>9434110
They are trying to make a living on resale. But just like any good retailer you have to have a sale. Those jsk are getting dusty.

[Anonymous No.9434413]

>>9434074
That's like £70 so half what she's charging...

[Anonymous No.9434654]

>>9433820
Kitty Carousel overprices all her shit. She's done it for years. It looks like nothing sells because she's had the same tacky crap for over 3 years. Fucking scalper chan.

[Anonymous No.9434709]

>>9434181
It doesn't count. It's not overpriced if people are willing to pay that amount for it. I'm not sure if you understand the point of this thread.

[Anonymous No.9434762]

>>9433554
This seller typically gets items and jacks the price up. She's had this set for sale for a few years, back before Lacemarket and most people were still selling on egl-comm-sales and facebook sales groups. She's going to sit on a lot of those items until she eventually lowers the price. The market is so saturated now that nobody will bite even good $100-$150 items.

[Anonymous No.9434773]

>>9434709
I though it meant overpriced compared to the original store price.

[Anonymous No.9434792]

>>9434773
Original store price means literally nothing. A man in pompeii probably paid 10 denarii for a wooden dildo, you think that factors in to the current auction price of that very same dildo?
People who try to cry "scalper!!" and cite original retail value of an item are fucking idiots who don't understand the concept of a secondhand market.

[Anonymous No.9434848]

>>9434181
It exists!

[Anonymous No.9434929]

>>9434792
Ah, I see now, thank you for informing me.

[Anonymous No.9436578]

>>9434654
Does she ever sell anything?

[Anonymous No.9437088]

>>9433542

>I think it's the "historic" nature of this print that makes it popular; I feel like it and Milky Planet basically represent an era of Lolita; kinda like how Iron Gate represents Gothic Lolita.

Iawtc. Remember when sugary carnival first came out? It was OTT sweet heavens.

[Anonymous No.9437090]

>>9434181

I don't really get this. Even when it was first released there was hype over it. What is the appeal of Princess jellys?

[Anonymous No.9438216]

>>9434181
just a heads up, it sold for 852,001 yen

[Anonymous No.9441046]

>Nameless Poem
>$190+shipping
Really now?

[Anonymous No.9441054]

>>9441046
I feel them. I also bought Nameless Poem first hand at that price when it first came out and really wanted to get my money back on it when I realized it's literally the least versatile dress I've ever owned. Then ista mori re-released it seventeen times and now everyone and their mom is trying to get rid of it. Sad day. I'm not even going to try to sell mine now, because I know it wouldn't go for anything more than $50.

[Anonymous No.9441056]

>>9441054
I see them regularly go for 90-120, there's some hope