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How Can Dropshippers Differentiate Their Products in a Highly Competitive Market to Achieve Higher Profit Margins?
2024.05.21 12:23 Interesting-Pea-5929 How Can Dropshippers Differentiate Their Products in a Highly Competitive Market to Achieve Higher Profit Margins?
In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, dropshippers face significant challenges due to the sheer number of competitors offering similar products. To achieve higher profit margins, dropshippers must find ways to differentiate their offerings and stand out in the crowded marketplace. Here are several strategies to help dropshippers distinguish their products and attract a loyal customer base.
1. Niche Specialization
Focusing on a specific niche allows dropshippers to cater to a targeted audience with unique needs and preferences. By specializing in a particular product category, dropshippers can become experts in that field and build a reputation for offering high-quality, curated selections.
- Identify Gaps in the Market: Conduct thorough market research to find underserved niches or emerging trends. This can be a product category with limited competition or a new trend gaining popularity.
- Create Tailored Marketing Campaigns: Develop marketing campaigns that speak directly to the interests and needs of your niche audience, using language and imagery that resonate with them.
2. Superior Customer Service
Exceptional customer service can significantly differentiate a
dropshipping business in India. Providing a seamless and supportive shopping experience can turn one-time buyers into repeat customers and brand advocates.
- Responsive Communication: Ensure that customer inquiries are addressed promptly and professionally. Use chatbots for instant responses and maintain a personal touch for more complex queries.
- Easy Returns and Refunds: Implement a hassle-free return and refund policy to build trust and confidence in your brand.
- Post-Purchase Engagement: Follow up with customers after their purchase to gather feedback and offer additional support. This can help build long-term relationships and encourage repeat business.
3. Exclusive Product Offerings
Partnering with suppliers to offer exclusive products can set your store apart from competitors who sell generic, widely available items. Exclusive products can justify higher price points and attract customers looking for unique finds.
- Custom Branding and Packaging: Work with the best dropshipping suppliers in India to customize products with your branding or unique packaging. This not only enhances the perceived value of the product but also helps in building brand identity.
- Limited Editions: Introduce limited edition products to create a sense of urgency and exclusivity. This can drive quick sales and create buzz around your store.
4. Enhanced Product Descriptions and Imagery
High-quality product descriptions and images can greatly influence purchasing decisions. Dropshippers should invest time and resources into creating compelling content that highlights the features and benefits of their products.
- Detailed Descriptions: Write thorough product descriptions that answer potential customer questions and emphasize the unique selling points of the product. Include size guides, usage instructions, and care tips.
- Professional Photography: Use high-resolution images and consider offering multiple views of the product. Lifestyle photos showing the product in use can help customers visualize how it fits into their lives.
5. Value-Added Services
Offering additional services can enhance the overall shopping experience and add value beyond the product itself. These services can differentiate your business and justify higher prices.
- Personalization Options: Allow customers to personalize their purchases with custom engraving, monogramming, or other customization options.
- Bundle Deals: Create product bundles that offer a better value compared to purchasing items separately. This can increase the average order value and provide convenience to customers.
- Loyalty Programs: Implement a loyalty program that rewards repeat customers with discounts, exclusive offers, or early access to new products.
6. Effective Branding and Storytelling
Building a strong brand identity can create a loyal customer base that values your brand over competitors. Effective storytelling helps connect with customers on an emotional level and fosters brand loyalty.
- Consistent Branding: Maintain a consistent brand voice, color scheme, and aesthetic across all platforms, from your website to social media profiles.
- Brand Story: Share your brand’s story, mission, and values. Customers are more likely to support businesses that align with their personal beliefs and values.
7. Strategic Pricing
While price competition is common in dropshipping, strategic pricing can help differentiate your products. Focus on offering value rather than just the lowest price.
- Premium Pricing: Position your products as premium by emphasizing their quality and unique features. Customers often associate higher prices with better quality.
- Dynamic Pricing: Use dynamic pricing strategies to adjust prices based on demand, seasonality, and competitor pricing.
Conclusion
In a highly competitive
dropshipping market, differentiation is key to achieving higher profit margins. By specializing in a niche, providing superior customer service, offering exclusive products, enhancing product descriptions and imagery, adding value through services, effective branding, and strategic pricing, dropshippers can set themselves apart from the competition. These strategies not only attract customers but also foster loyalty, leading to sustainable business growth and increased profitability.
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2024.05.21 01:47 J-Chapman Old News – Doherty Hotel Opened One Century Ago
| Clare Sentinel 1924-04-11 NEW HOTEL DOHERTY NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC https://preview.redd.it/ncope1ye4o1d1.jpg?width=2127&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f69df529d7703dc48ee470e259caab27eeea073b Mr. A. J. Doherty, former State Senator, one time member of the State Board of Agricultural and a former director of the Michigan State fair, has completed the best hotel in this part of the state and it is now open to the public. The formal opening is to take place on the evening of May 12th, when the Clare Chamber of Commerce are to give a complimentary banquet to Mr. and Mrs. Doherty, by which the citizens of Clare hope, in a small measure at least, to show appreciation to the man who has done so much for his “own home town”. The banquet will have to be limited to 150 persons and will include some of Mr. and Mrs. Doherty’s friends from different parts of the state and the members of the Chamber of Commerce of Clare. This is to be one of the most elaborate banquets ever held in this part of the state. No expense will be spared and all the plans are in keeping with this beautiful building, which Mr. Doherty has built, not for the financial returns he expects to reap, but rather as a testimonial of his good will toward the community. Three years ago the Clare Chamber of Commerce purchased the site on which had been located for many years the popular “Calkins House”, but which had been destroyed by fire. The consideration was $6,000 and they presented this site to Mr. Doherty with the understanding and agreement that he erect a hotel costing at least $60,000 on that site. Mr. Doherty has gone many times beyond that amount and erected a four story steel, brick and terra cotta structure which is modern in every way and fireproof. An Otis elevator, display rooms for traveling salesmen, complete laundry, billiard room cafeteria, which opened April first, dining room, ballroom, radio, mezz-nine floor, room for two mercantile establishments and spacious quarters for the public library that have been donated by Mr. Doherty are among the features housed under one roof. The equipment throughout the structure is of the very latest and best. The lighting fixtures are exceptionally fine. There are 60 guests rooms, each containing hot and cold running water, and several suites. Thirty-six of the single rooms afford either a tub or shower bath. The furniture is walnut and mahogany and blends neatly with the interior mahogany finish throughout the building. The main floors are of terrazzo. The corridors and the floors of the rooms are of music and are covered with beautiful rugs. All dishes, towels and linen are stamped with the “Hotel Doherty” monogram. More than 100 guests can be accommodated at one time. When Mr. and Mrs. Doherty came to Clare from New York state in 1878, they had very little money. He engaged in the mercantile business in rather a small way and purchased a home for which he was to pay $750. of this amount he was able to pay $250 down and the balance he paid in installments. He succeeded in business and in 1901 he was elected to the State Senate from the 28th district, and in 1903 he was re-elected and again in 1905. some time later he was appointed a member of the State Board of Agriculture to succeed C. J. Monroe, of South Haven. He took an active interest in the affairs of the Michigan State fair while he was a director. In the senate he was known as “Bellwether” Doherty for his possession of great political sagacity and the added fact that he led the senate roll call, considerations which gave him much influence. He has built eight business blocks and many residences in Clare and has stood ready at any time to do anything to advance the best interests of his town. Residents of Clare are free in their assertions that for its size, there is no better hotel in the state. https://preview.redd.it/l0yiheib3o1d1.jpg?width=687&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4abec7faa13f279a856bfaf26a014bf42863fe1a Clare Sentinel 1924-05-16 NEW HOTEL DOHERTY FORMALLY OPENED MONDAY EVENING Prominent Men from Different Parts of State Attend Event. MR. PERRY SHORTS GIVES ADDRESS OF EVENING Mrs. Doherty Presented with a Large Bouquet of Roses. Makes Excellent Response. The banquet given by the Clare Chamber of Commerce in honor of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Doherty and the formal opening of the “Hotel Doherty” Monday evening, May 12, is now a matter of history, but will never be forgotten by those who were privileged to attend. No expense or pains had been spared to make this event a complete success. Promptly at the appointed hour, the orchestra under the leadership of Robert Heisman of Midland, began playing and the guests were admitted to the dining room. This room, however was not large enough to take care of the one hundred and sixty-eight guests who were present, and a table had been placed in the lobby so all could be accommodated. The dining room was decorated with palms and ferns together with beautiful silk American flags. The tables were graced with sprays of smilax and large bouquets of carnations. These decorations were in charge of Walter Caple, of Mt. Pleasant, and his work was well and capably done. The food was excellent and well served. The music of the orchestra was enjoyed, especially the old plantation songs many of which the guests joined in singing these in company with the music. Following the serving of the banquet, W. S. McAllister, President of the Board of Commerce, at the beginning of his talk, got himself in right with the ladies present, by calling them beautiful and got in wrong with the men, especially those in dress suits, by calling them ordinary and commonplace. He spoke of the disappointment and discouragement which prevailed in Clare at the time the old Calkins House burned and of the many plans proposed only to be abandoned until Mr. A. J. Doherty undertook the task of erecting this beautiful building. He paid tribute to Mr. Doherty and expressed the appreciation of the Chamber of Commerce and the citizens of Clare. In his usual happy and witty manner “Mac” then introduced Judge Ray Hart, of Midland, as toastmaster for the evening. Judge Hart has appeared in this capacity in Clare before, but never has he or any one else filled that position so acceptably as Judge hart did at this banquet. In his remarks, he spoke of the success of men which often can be attributed in a large measure to the inspiration, faith and co-operation of their good wives and then introduced Rev. H. B. Johnson, who spoke briefly of Clare, the best town, and on behalf of the Board of Commerce, presented a large bouquet of roses to Mrs. Doherty. Although it was a complete surprise to her, she responded in a very wonderful manner, and emotion ran high when she told how she appreciated the love and sympathy of her friends and neighbors expressed by this gift. Mr. Perry Shorts, vice-president of the Second National Bank, of Saginaw, and graduate of the University of Michigan law school, then responded to the toast, “The successful American Business Man”. His address was a masterpiece. He said, “We hear eulogies of ministers, scientists, statesman and others but seldom does any one speak of the common American business man. He is looked upon as hard headed and coldblooded, but his success is so important to all of us that it is well to consider those qualities which will make him succeed. He must have commanding will power and any man or any army with a fixed determination will win. The successful business man will have a good supply of labor. Hard work is the key used by wealthy men, scientist, surgeons, lawyers and statesmen to unlock success. Good citizenship is one qualification and this means love for country, state and own home town. He obeys the laws and respects the rights of others. Honesty is the foundation of good citizenship. The ideal man of today is a man of good character. A man is at his best when he is lifting his fellow men to a higher and better position of living. We often say that credit is the basis of business, but character is the foundation of credit.” He spoke of the spiritual things, which, while they are invisible, they are the most important. He urged all to be broader, more generous, bigger and wiser. Ex-Governor A. E. Sleeper then spoke of his acquaintance and friendship with Mr. Doherty which began when they were associated together in the State Senate many years ago. E. V. Chilson, Deputy Secretary of State, in a very feeling and touching manner expressed his appreciation of Mr. and Mrs. Doherty and their friendship. There was great applause when one of the former Clare citizens, Mr. Dennis E. Alward was introduced. Mr. Alward said, “I arrived in Clare 44 years ago, when pine stumps were in the street. There was a population of about 250 people. Mr. S. C. Kirkbride occupied a residence on the site of this hotel at that time. That day I met for the first time, a young attorney, Mr. C. W. Perry. A young banker, C. H. Sutherland, a merchant, Nathan Bicknell, the father of James S. and William H. Bicknell and the family of Doherty’s. Mr. Doherty and I built our homes side by side, we had no money, but were great neighbors. When I came to Clare that first day, they were building the town hall and there was as much interest manifested by the citizens as if it were the capitol of the state. I was a stranger and all were interested in me and a young man on the roof of that building engaged in nailing on shingles paid too much attention to the stranger and hit his thumb with a hammer. His language was emphatic and sulphurous, but that man has been a builder ever since that time he worked on the town hall and he has always built substantial and well. I count myself fortunate to be able to come back to my home, to the city which will always be my home and pay tribute to what my friend Doherty's have done.” Hon. James E. Davidson, of Bay City, and Senator Karcher, of Rose City, spoke briefly. Hon. W. W. Potter, of Hastings, who was a former resident of Clare county, was introduced. Judge Hart read telegrams and letters from Congressman Roy Woodruff, Hon. Leonard Freeman, Gov. Alex Groesbeck, Auditor General O. B. Fuller, Regent of the U. of M., Julius Beal, Sec’y. Of State Chas. DeLand, Hon. George Lord and others, who expressed regrets at being unable to be present. After the speaking, the tables and chairs were removed from the dining room and a goodly number of the guests danced until late in the evening. Guests from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Chilson, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Roe and Dennis Alward, of Lansing; Hon. Wm. Wallace, Perry Shorts, R. T. Maynard and Herbert Gay, of Saginaw; Mr. A. Reinhart, Dr. McKay, Clifford Olmstead, Judge Hyde, Judge and Mrs. Ray Hart, and Harvey and Mrs. Dudd, of Midland; Mr. and Mrs. H. T. McKerring, of Flushing; Rev. Fr. Flannery, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Caple, of Mt. Pleasant; James E. Davidson, and Homer Buck, of Bay City; Mr. and Mrs. E. Simons and E. Curtis, of Coleman; Mr. and Mrs. E. Holcomb, of Alma; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weatherhead, of Harrison; Ex-Gov. and Mrs. A. E. Sleeper, of Bad Axe; W. E. Currie, of Detroit; Hon. And Mrs. W. W. Potter, of Hastings; Senator Karcher, of Rose City; Mr. O. W. Achard, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hudson, of Owosso; Mr. and Mrs. James McKay of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doherty, of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Doherty, of Saginaw; and Frank B. Doherty, of Mackinaw Island; Mrs. Wm. Tasker of Detroit. submitted by J-Chapman to Clare_MI [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 00:24 Unorthodocx Looking for someone who can design a monogram style logo with the initials “GC”
| As the title says would it be possible for someone to design a monogram logo or just something really aesthetically pleasing, creative yet minimalistic. I’m planning to have it embroidered onto some personal boxing gear and clothing. For reference, I’ve attached some samples of a couple ones I like from professional boxers. First picture (Ben Whittaker), second picture (Canelo Alvarez), third picture (Caleb Plant). Again, those are just some of the ones I like but if anyone has better ideas, feel free to do so! submitted by Unorthodocx to PhotoshopRequest [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 00:03 ComradeCombloc Arkayne seems scammy. Will avoid in future.
This company is a shifty place to do business with. The checkout page reloaded as I clicked the confirmation of purchase. Resetting the shipping to the most expensive option (fedex ground) instead of free shipping, which I had selected. For an extra 32$. They have no phone number to reach them during normal business hours to fix this sort of shit I'll be doing shopping elsewhere from now on.
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2024.05.20 08:36 moguru619 [For Hire] Professional Logo designer with 8years of experience for a reasonable rate for clients with a limited budget.
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2024.05.17 02:42 Fancy-Reindeer-2862 Best Sewing Machine
Hey everyone,
I’ve been diving deep into sewing machine research lately and wanted to share some recommendations based on what I’ve found from Reddit threads and Amazon reviews. Here are some of the top sewing machines across different categories:
Best Sewing Machine:
- Brother CS6000 (over all best)
- Singer Start MX23(Best For Beginners)
- Singer Heavy Duty 4423 (Best Heavy Duty)
- Janome Memory Craft 6650 (Best for Quilting)
- Janome 3160QDC (Alternative)
- Brother HC1850 (Best for Computerized)
- Brother XM2701 (Best For Protable)
- Brother SE600 (Best For Embroidary)
- Brother SE1900 (Advance Embroidary)
If you’re looking for a versatile and user-friendly machine, the Brother CS6000i is a fantastic option. It comes with 60 built-in stitches, 7 styles of one-step buttonholes, and an automatic needle threader. Plus, it has an LCD display and adjustable sewing speed. It’s perfect for a variety of sewing projects and includes a bunch of accessories, which makes it a great deal.
- Features: 60 built-in stitches, 7 styles of one-step buttonholes, automatic needle threader, LCD display, adjustable sewing speed.
- Pros: Versatile, user-friendly, affordable, includes many accessories.
For those just starting out, the Singer Start MX231 is a solid choice. It’s got 97 stitch applications and is super lightweight and portable. This machine is known for being easy to use and quiet, making it ideal for beginners who need something reliable without all the extra bells and whistles.
- Features: 97 stitch applications, lightweight, portable.
- Pros: Easy to use, quiet operation, reliable.
If you’re working with thick fabrics, the Singer Heavy Duty 4423 is your go-to. It features 23 built-in stitches, a sturdy metal frame, and a powerful motor. This machine is a workhorse and can handle heavy-duty projects with ease. It’s fast and durable, though it can be a bit loud and has fewer stitch options.
- Features: 23 built-in stitches, heavy-duty metal frame, powerful motor.
- Pros: Durable, handles thick fabrics, fast stitching speed.
For the quilting enthusiasts, the Janome Memory Craft 6650 is a dream. It has 170 built-in stitches, an automatic thread cutter, and a large workspace. It’s reliable and perfect for complex quilting projects. It’s a bit on the pricey side and heavier, but the features make it worth it for serious quilters.
- Features: 170 built-in stitches, automatic thread cutter, large workspace.
- Pros: High-quality stitches, reliable, ideal for complex quilting projects.
Another great option for quilting is the Janome 3160QDC. It offers 60 built-in stitches, 6 one-step buttonholes, an automatic thread cutter, an extension table, and a drop feed for free-motion quilting. It’s lightweight and packed with features, but there might be a bit of a learning curve for beginners.
- Features: 60 built-in stitches, 6 one-step buttonholes, automatic thread cutter, extension table, drop feed for free-motion quilting.
- Pros: Excellent for quilting, lightweight, lots of features, high-quality stitches.
The Brother HC1850 is a versatile computerized machine with 185 built-in stitches, 8 styles of one-step buttonholes, and monogramming capabilities. It has an LCD screen and adjustable sewing speed, making it great for both sewing and quilting. However, it might be a bit overwhelming for beginners and isn’t ideal for heavy fabrics.
- Features: 185 built-in stitches, 8 styles of one-step buttonholes, monogramming, LCD screen, adjustable sewing speed.
- Pros: Versatile, user-friendly, great for both sewing and quilting, includes many accessories.
If you need something portable, the Brother XM2701 is a great pick. It’s lightweight and has 27 built-in stitches, 6 included sewing feet, and an automatic needle threader. It’s perfect for basic projects and is easy to carry around, making it a reliable choice for those who need a portable machine.
- Features: 27 built-in stitches, 6 included sewing feet, automatic needle threader.
- Pros: Lightweight, portable, easy to use.
For those into embroidery, the Brother SE600 is a fantastic choice. It comes with 80 built-in embroidery designs, 103 built-in stitches, and a 4” x 4” embroidery field. It also features a color touchscreen, making it easy to preview designs and adjust settings. It’s great for both sewing and embroidery, and it’s user-friendly and affordable for its features. The only downside is that the embroidery field is a bit small, so it’s not ideal for larger projects.
- Features: 80 built-in embroidery designs, 103 built-in stitches, 4” x 4” embroidery field, color touchscreen.
- Pros: Great for both sewing and embroidery, user-friendly, includes many accessories, affordable for its features.
If you want to take your embroidery to the next level, the Brother SE1900 offers even more advanced features. It has 138 built-in embroidery designs, 240 built-in stitches, and a larger embroidery field. The LCD touchscreen is easy to use, but it’s more expensive and might be a bit much for beginners.
- Features: 138 built-in embroidery designs, 240 built-in stitches, LCD touchscreen.
- Pros: Versatile for both embroidery and sewing, large embroidery field, user-friendly.
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2024.05.15 03:59 In-All-Sincerity Montreal Bachelorette Favors!
I’ve wanted a Cricut for years, and my best friend's bachelorette trip to Montreal was the perfect excuse to finally make the plunge (plus a helpful redditor on this page who alerted me to a super sale on Explore 2 machines that Target had last month!). Since it's in Montreal, I tried to add French touches, with the overall theme being ribbons, pearls, bubbles, etc.
Used Cricut Explore 2 to make the projects in these pictures: Hangover recovery kit, wine charms on tags cut/drawn using Cricut, HTV for custom koozies, letter sign (will punch holes to hang from string), and shadow text monograms on permanent vinyl for personalized pool bags.
I learned a lot on this project through a TON of trial and error on each of these projects, so please feel free to AMA! Materials used below.
Hangover Kit: Siser Easyweed Vinyl, bags from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQRC6JR?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Wine Charm Tags: 110lb card stock, and a 1pt black marker to draw (but left it on the fine point pen setting to keep the text thin.
Koozies: Siser Easyweed HTV, neoprene koozies from Amazon (quality was good not great, might try a different brand next time:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S9LZH1L?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Letter sign: Cut two layers and pasted together, one on 110lb white cardstock base, and one on 275g gold cardstock:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRYYJ4JW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Pool bags: Siser Easyweed Permanent Vinyl, on Waterproof Mesh Zipper Bags from Amazon:
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ASRV White Compression Pants M | 🖼️ | $30 |
ACCESSORIES/BAGS - PRICE/SIZE AS MARKED
Name+Size | Picture | Price |
Ess3ntials Crossbody Black | 🖼️ | $35 |
Ess3ntials Crossbody Tan | 🖼️ | $35 |
M@rc Jac0bs The Tote Black | 🖼️ | $45 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Trio Messenger Black | 🖼️ | $60 |
0ff White Drawstring Black | 🖼️ | $10 |
0ff White Drawstring White | 🖼️ | $10 |
G0yard Bag Medium Red | 🖼️ | $35 |
G0yard Bag Medium Green | 🖼️ | $35 |
G0yard Bag Green Small | 🖼️ | $30 |
Lac0ste Bag + Wallet | 🖼️ | $30 |
Gucc1 Mini Side Tote Bag | 🖼️ | $35 |
Gucc1 Mini Side Pouch Bag | 🖼️ | $40 |
C@rtier Love Bracelet (No Diamonds) + Packaging | 🖼️ | $40 |
C@rtier Love Bracelet (4 Diamonds) + Packaging | 🖼️ | $50 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #1 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #2 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #3 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Bracelet #1 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Chrome Heart Bracelet #2 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Chr0me Hearts Bracelet #3 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Vivi3nne Necklace #1 | 🖼️ | $30 |
Vivi3nne Necklace #2 | 🖼️ | $30 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #4 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #5 | 🖼️ | $40 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Space Bracelet | 🖼️ | $40 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Monogram Bracelet #1 | 🖼️ | $30 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Monogram Bracelet #2 | 🖼️ | $30 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Monogram Bracelet #3 | 🖼️ | $30 |
L0uis Vuitt0n Cuban Chain Bracelet | 🖼️ | $45 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #6 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #7 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Necklace #8 | 🖼️ | $40 |
Chr0me Hearts Bracelet #4 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Chr0me Hearts Bracelet #5 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Chr0me Hearts Bracelet #6 | 🖼️ | $35 |
Vivi3nne Necklace #3 | 🖼️ | $30 |
Vivi3nne Necklace #4 | 🖼️ | $30 |
OTHER - PRICE/SIZE AS MARKED
Name+Size | Picture | Price |
Supr3me Blimp (A new one) | 🖼️ | $25 |
Tiff@ny Spalding Basketball | 🖼️ | $80 |
Supr3me x LV skate deck | 🖼️ | $120 |
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2024.05.14 22:33 In-All-Sincerity Montreal Bachelorette Favors - First Project!
| I've wanted a Cricut for years, and my best friend's bachelorette trip to Montreal was the perfect excuse to finally make the plunge (plus a helpful redditor on this page who alerted me to a super sale on Explore 2 machines that Target had last month!). Since it's in Montreal, I tried to add French touches, with the overall theme being ribbons, pearls, bubbles, etc. Used Cricut Explore 2 to make the projects in these pictures: Hangover recovery kit, wine charms on tags cut/drawn using Cricut, HTV for custom koozies, letter sign (will punch holes to hang from string), and shadow text monograms on permanent vinyl for personalized pool bags. I learned a lot on this project through a TON of trial and error on each of these projects, so please feel free to AMA! Materials used below. Hangover Kit: Siser Easyweed Vinyl, bags from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGQRC6JR?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Wine Charm Tags: 110lb card stock, and a 1pt black marker to draw (but left it on the fine point pen setting to keep the text thin. Koozies: Siser Easyweed HTV, neoprene koozies from Amazon (quality was good not great, might try a different brand next time: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S9LZH1L?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Letter sign: Cut two layers and pasted together, one on 110lb white cardstock base, and one on 275g gold cardstock: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRYYJ4JW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Pool bags: Siser Easyweed Permanent Vinyl, on Waterproof Mesh Zipper Bags from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Z2JKGQC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details https://preview.redd.it/hr0lrx2scg0d1.jpg?width=1266&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e07d592c45afbe952090b6e708aef62e72748d https://preview.redd.it/zvokxqetcg0d1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1645efe982b7d731b62f51ec8cf06adcbcc9306 https://preview.redd.it/00kc4qetcg0d1.jpg?width=1033&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01dd28d49a85fc88c4a6ad5b5c0f3932a635a436 https://preview.redd.it/de0t6retcg0d1.jpg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c23f0296f2ec1243763495c7212f250560c1817a https://preview.redd.it/qiyt2setcg0d1.jpg?width=1251&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6f9ab0a4e07d0feda022840979c3684cb748035 https://preview.redd.it/248hotetcg0d1.jpg?width=2025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc1247fb059077e281caf8ac04d498a5bbfb11f8 https://preview.redd.it/jg59uretcg0d1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d853854ce60cd528070798fbb089d8ffa81ad02b https://preview.redd.it/4h7u9tetcg0d1.jpg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67abb0f78c2944e61dce348826a3fe97fdc63ba0 submitted by In-All-Sincerity to cricutcrafting [link] [comments] |
2024.05.14 20:47 Educational_Claim742 Rehome: AUTHENTIC GUCCI Monogram Heart GG Charm Pochette $300
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2024.05.14 09:34 Pimasterjimmy Tales of Zippy and Friends: Katniss the keeper of pens. (Boomer tries to get me fired for Handing her a sticker)(tw: suicide)
My last post went over surprisingly well, that said you should check out my new subreddit
Talesofzippy for more content, because I'm definitely going to posting in more places around reddit and I'll be cross posting them in the tales sub for more people to enjoy!
With that, I don't remember any good stories about Zippy, but the place I work at is fucking filled with loonies, so tonight I'm going to introduce you to Katniss.
Katniss is about 63, tiny, and absolutely loved to talk about how good her guns are, even if she can't shoot or generally understand how they work. She tried to tell me that her Girsan was a high quality gun because the barrel is pinned in place.
I'm a competitive shooter, I grew up shooting and learning about guns.
When a pistol fires a round, a floating barrel will be pointed at an upward angle at the end of the stroke, while a pinned barrel doesn't. The floating barrel doesn't effect accuracy in any meaningful way because it is held in place by several seers, and doesn't begin to move until well after the bullet is out of the gun.
I tried to explain that, she didn't listen. She also can't shoot. Katniss.
She also wears boomer shirts about "snowflakes" and shares memes about the good old days when you could say whatever you want and be offensive.
This gets funny later.
Katniss and I worked together running gas pumps, and we generally got along great, in fact for a year I considered her to be a friend.
And then my dad killed himself.
I got the call at work and got a ride home as quickly as possible. Katniss was on shift with me and Yawn, who is the most chill person you can imagine.
They were incredible, Katniss broke into my apartment (at my request) and took my shotgun for safe keeping. She also took my keys and made me wait for a family friend to pick me up.
I called the night manager and told him I was going home and why, He offered me a ride.
I came into work three days later and stuck my head into my boss (Elk Daddy's) office. He simply said "how long do you need?"
"Two weeks."
"Okay."
I mention this because Anything less than this is a cancerous work environment. If a manager tries to negotiate with you when you've experienced a true tragedy, they're not a manager, they're a slave driver.
I had severe PTSD, nightmares, the whole shabang, for months I would stand at the desk and hear my mom's voice telling me my dad was dead, the first night back at work I witnessed some dumb janitorial drama (not zippy) and I started smelling the sickly sweet smell of human brain before I ran home and had my first panic attack.
(I'll tell the story of Elk Daddy, and make good on a promise I made my dad as a bonus at the end.)
Six months passed, my PTSD wasn't even beginning to heal, and she pulled me aside.
"Okay. It's time to stop now."
"Stop what?"
"This, you're in a rut, and you need to get out of it. It's high time you moved on and stopped being sad and moved on. See my sister was in a car accident and went into a coma when I was about 20, and I had a dream about her getting up and walking out of her hospital room and saying "it's about fucking time." The next day her heart gave out and she finally died. It was this freeing thing for me, because I felt like she was finally free of the broken body and the pain."
"Katniss I just don't feel like I'm... There yet. I'm still hurting, and I really don't feel like I'm ready to let him go. Things aren't that easy."
She didn't like that answer.
At the time I just felt broken, and just laid there and took it, but today I'm genuinely angry about it.
I was hurt, and now that I've rebuilt myself I realized how truly broken I was as a person.
She had no right to say anything to me about how it was time to stop. I'm still healing four years on.
That was when we stopped being friends.
Last year I was going through stickers for our local pride, the second one our community has ever had! I had come out as bi the year before, and had a side project that had grown large enough to have a booth at the local event. I was showing off some cool and funny stickers to Yawn, another cashier.
Yawn is great, he has no blood pressure, everything is just really cool and chill, and he really just wanted to be friends with everyone.
Genuinely nice person. I always get him a Christmas gift and he's always grateful, no matter what it is.
I turned around and handed a sticker to Katniss that said "be gay, so crime" with a little picture of a fabulous criminal goose on it.
She took one look at it and just went "No" rather forcefully, so I just backed off and moved on.
The next day my boss, Elk Daddy, calls me over.
"Op, you handed Katniss a sticker yesterday, and I just want to tell you. Stop talking to her. Please. For me."
"She really complained about that?"
"No, she threatened to go to HR because you "assumed her orientation" and tried to give her a sticker."
It is at this point that I'd like to add that Elk Daddy is gay. Like... Really gay. Him and his husband both donate their time and money to pride, and have been instrumental in making it happen. They are the gay uncles that stepped up to be dads for their nephews when Elk Daddy's brother couldn't.
He knows Katniss, and both of us know her HUSBAND.
So. We didn't talk outside of necessary conversations, and haven't really said anything to each other for any reason.... Until I transferred to my current department and ran out of pens.
I walked over to the cashier desk "hey Katniss, can I get a handful of pens? I ran out."
"I gave three to morning shift last night, what happened to those?"
"I don't know, and it doesn't matter, can I get some?"
Yawn walked over to the drawer where we keep the pens and opened it, while Katniss sighs and opens up her drawer and drops a pen on the counter.
"Come on Katniss, I need more than that."
"I don't have that many pens, they're not giving them to us, here, this is all I have."
She angrily throws down two more pins on the counter as Yawn retrieves an entire box of pens from the drawer and begins walking over. She sees him and motions for him to stop."
"Don't fucking bullshit me Katniss, I see Yawn with the box. Just give me some pens."
She drops six more down on the counter, I take them and walk off. "Thank you."
Ten minutes later she comes over to the deli and slams a box of pens down on the counter for me
"Don't ask me for pens again."
"Wouldn't have it any other way."
She then told the MOD that I cussed her out. I told my side, and several people in the management chain pointed out that she wore tee shirts under her uniform that said more offensive things, one of them even saying "don't fucking bullshit me."
She is no longer allowed to wear her tee shirts.
She's also had it pointed out to her that she says "don't fucking bullshit me" all the time, and management has gently reminded her that she should not swear.
A few weeks ago she very dejectedly told me that she was done trying to help people, and I had to bite back a "good, we don't need it."
And here we are... End of another post about the weird boomers I work with.
BONUS STORIES!
As for Elk Daddy.
My boss has only ever taken his husband out hunting one time. When they did, they ended up trekking across the country on deer trails and through the brush. After 12 hours of being dragged through the brush and not shooting anything, his husband said something to the effect of "I hate this. I can't keep up with you and you just disappear all the goddamn time." He took my boss's phone, logged in, and yells "in fact HEY SIRI, FROM NOW ON CALL ME ELK DADDY."
nickname earned. He has it monogramed on his wallet.
And finally, my dad, who was another Boomer, used to love taking me out camping.
He was an electrical engineer, and was most certainly on the spectrum. He was brilliant in his own way, but absolutely unhinged when it came to teaching things.
A lecture from my dad could cover cleaning the stove (with diagrams on proper wiping techniques) to the finer points of building and firing a nuclear weapon. (With math included. No mercy.)
He tried to teach me calculus when I was six. It didn't work.
Anyway, on this particular camping trip he pulled me aside and said "op, I want you to make me a fire using nothing but two sticks, your knife, a match and the chainsaw"
Now. I knew where he was coming from, he wanted me to make a fuzz stick. I knew because he had only brought up the topic of making a fuzz stick every night for the past three days of camping. He then very helpfully added "and the chainsaw is a distraction."
Uh huh. Okay dad.
I Start cutting up the wood and making a teepee fire, and I hear a little "hmph" I look up and I see the smile. The grin he used to get as he started planning one of his little lectures. He was picking out the right words, deciding if he needed to demonstrate or just use a pen and paper.
I then opened up the gas tank on the chainsaw, dumped in a tablespoon of gas, lit the match and "whoof"
Fire.
Then the argument began.
"I said you couldn't use gas!"
"You said I could use the chainsaw, that includes the gas tank!"
"The chainsaw was a distraction!"
"Still gave it to me!"
"You cheated!!!"
"How?"
Long pause.
"I won, admit it. I beat you in a way you didn't expect. You will never live this down. I'll tell this story at your funeral!"
And I did. Three years later I tore up my hastily scribbled notes and told a group of the friends, neighbors and coworkers that he knew and loved about the time I finally beat him. We laughed.
I think he'd be proud, and a little indignant.
I miss you dad.
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2024.05.14 09:29 Pimasterjimmy Tales of Zippy and Friends: Katniss the keeper of pens. (Boomer tries to get me fired for Handing her a sticker)(tw: suicide)
My last post went over surprisingly well, that said you should check out my new subreddit
Talesofzippy for more content, because I'm definitely going to posting in more places around reddit and I'll be cross posting them in the tales sub for more people to enjoy!
With that, I don't remember any good stories about Zippy, but the place I work at is fucking filled with loonies, so tonight I'm going to introduce you to Katniss.
Katniss is about 63, tiny, and absolutely loved to talk about how good her guns are, even if she can't shoot or generally understand how they work. She tried to tell me that her Girsan was a high quality gun because the barrel is pinned in place.
I'm a competitive shooter, I grew up shooting and learning about guns.
When a pistol fires a round, a floating barrel will be pointed at an upward angle at the end of the stroke, while a pinned barrel doesn't. The floating barrel doesn't effect accuracy in any meaningful way because it is held in place by several seers, and doesn't begin to move until well after the bullet is out of the gun.
I tried to explain that, she didn't listen. She also can't shoot. Katniss.
She also wears boomer shirts about "snowflakes" and shares memes about the good old days when you could say whatever you want and be offensive.
This gets funny later.
Katniss and I worked together running gas pumps, and we generally got along great, in fact for a year I considered her to be a friend.
And then my dad killed himself.
I got the call at work and got a ride home as quickly as possible. Katniss was on shift with me and Yawn, who is the most chill person you can imagine.
They were incredible, Katniss broke into my apartment (at my request) and took my shotgun for safe keeping. She also took my keys and made me wait for a family friend to pick me up.
I called the night manager and told him I was going home and why, He offered me a ride.
I came into work three days later and stuck my head into my boss (Elk Daddy's) office. He simply said "how long do you need?"
"Two weeks."
"Okay."
I mention this because Anything less than this is a cancerous work environment. If a manager tries to negotiate with you when you've experienced a true tragedy, they're not a manager, they're a slave driver.
I had severe PTSD, nightmares, the whole shabang, for months I would stand at the desk and hear my mom's voice telling me my dad was dead, the first night back at work I witnessed some dumb janitorial drama (not zippy) and I started smelling the sickly sweet smell of human brain before I ran home and had my first panic attack.
(I'll tell the story of Elk Daddy, and make good on a promise I made my dad as a bonus at the end.)
Six months passed, my PTSD wasn't even beginning to heal, and she pulled me aside.
"Okay. It's time to stop now."
"Stop what?"
"This, you're in a rut, and you need to get out of it. It's high time you moved on and stopped being sad and moved on. See my sister was in a car accident and went into a coma when I was about 20, and I had a dream about her getting up and walking out of her hospital room and saying "it's about fucking time." The next day her heart gave out and she finally died. It was this freeing thing for me, because I felt like she was finally free of the broken body and the pain."
"Katniss I just don't feel like I'm... There yet. I'm still hurting, and I really don't feel like I'm ready to let him go. Things aren't that easy."
She didn't like that answer.
At the time I just felt broken, and just laid there and took it, but today I'm genuinely angry about it.
I was hurt, and now that I've rebuilt myself I realized how truly broken I was as a person.
She had no right to say anything to me about how it was time to stop. I'm still healing four years on.
That was when we stopped being friends.
Last year I was going through stickers for our local pride, the second one our community has ever had! I had come out as bi the year before, and had a side project that had grown large enough to have a booth at the local event. I was showing off some cool and funny stickers to Yawn, another cashier.
Yawn is great, he has no blood pressure, everything is just really cool and chill, and he really just wanted to be friends with everyone.
Genuinely nice person. I always get him a Christmas gift and he's always grateful, no matter what it is.
I turned around and handed a sticker to Katniss that said "be gay, do crime" with a little picture of a fabulous criminal goose on it.
She took one look at it and just went "No" rather forcefully, so I just backed off and moved on.
The next day my boss, Elk Daddy, calls me over.
"Op, you handed Katniss a sticker yesterday, and I just want to tell you. Stop talking to her. Please. For me."
"She really complained about that?"
"No, she threatened to go to HR because you "assumed her orientation" and tried to give her a sticker."
It is at this point that I'd like to add that Elk Daddy is gay. Like... Really gay. Him and his husband both donate their time and money to pride, and have been instrumental in making it happen. They are the gay uncles that stepped up to be dads for their nephews when Elk Daddy's brother couldn't.
He knows Katniss, and both of us know her HUSBAND.
So. We didn't talk outside of necessary conversations, and haven't really said anything to each other for any reason.... Until I transferred to my current department and ran out of pens.
I walked over to the cashier desk "hey Katniss, can I get a handful of pens? I ran out."
"I gave three to morning shift last night, what happened to those?"
"I don't know, and it doesn't matter, can I get some?"
Yawn walked over to the drawer where we keep the pens and opened it, while Katniss sighs and opens up her drawer and drops a pen on the counter.
"Come on Katniss, I need more than that."
"I don't have that many pens, they're not giving them to us, here, this is all I have."
She angrily throws down two more pins on the counter as Yawn retrieves an entire box of pens from the drawer and begins walking over. She sees him and motions for him to stop."
"Don't fucking bullshit me Katniss, I see Yawn with the box. Just give me some pens."
She drops six more down on the counter, I take them and walk off. "Thank you."
Ten minutes later she comes over to the deli and slams a box of pens down on the counter for me
"Don't ask me for pens again."
"Wouldn't have it any other way."
She then told the MOD that I cussed her out. I told my side, and several people in the management chain pointed out that she wore tee shirts under her uniform that said more offensive things, one of them even saying "don't fucking bullshit me."
She is no longer allowed to wear her tee shirts.
She's also had it pointed out to her that she says "don't fucking bullshit me" all the time, and management has gently reminded her that she should not swear.
A few weeks ago she very dejectedly told me that she was done trying to help people, and I had to bite back a "good, we don't need it."
And here we are... End of another post about the weird boomers I work with.
BONUS STORIES!
As for Elk Daddy.
My boss has only ever taken his husband out hunting one time. When they did, they ended up trekking across the country on deer trails and through the brush. After 12 hours of being dragged through the brush and not shooting anything, his husband said something to the effect of "I hate this. I can't keep up with you and you just disappear all the goddamn time." He took my boss's phone, logged in, and yells "in fact HEY SIRI, FROM NOW ON CALL ME ELK DADDY."
nickname earned. He has it monogramed on his wallet.
And finally, my dad, who was another Boomer, used to love taking me out camping.
He was an electrical engineer, and was most certainly on the spectrum. He was brilliant in his own way, but absolutely unhinged when it came to teaching things.
A lecture from my dad could cover cleaning the stove (with diagrams on proper wiping techniques) to the finer points of building and firing a nuclear weapon. (With math included. No mercy.)
He tried to teach me calculus when I was six. It didn't work.
Anyway, on this particular camping trip he pulled me aside and said "op, I want you to make me a fire using nothing but two sticks, your knife, a match and the chainsaw"
Now. I knew where he was coming from, he wanted me to make a fuzz stick. I knew because he had only brought up the topic of making a fuzz stick every night for the past three days of camping. He then very helpfully added "and the chainsaw is a distraction."
Uh huh. Okay dad.
I Start cutting up the wood and making a teepee fire, and I hear a little "hmph" I look up and I see the smile. The grin he used to get as he started planning one of his little lectures. He was picking out the right words, deciding if he needed to demonstrate or just use a pen and paper.
I then opened up the gas tank on the chainsaw, dumped in a tablespoon of gas, lit the match and "whoof"
Fire.
Then the argument began.
"I said you couldn't use gas!"
"You said I could use the chainsaw, that includes the gas tank!"
"The chainsaw was a distraction!"
"Still gave it to me!"
"You cheated!!!"
"How?"
Long pause.
"I won, admit it. I beat you in a way you didn't expect. You will never live this down. I'll tell this story at your funeral!"
And I did. Three years later I tore up my hastily scribbled notes and told a group of the friends, neighbors and coworkers that he knew and loved about the time I finally beat him. We laughed.
I think he'd be proud, and a little indignant.
I miss you dad.
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2024.05.11 02:16 Gold-Eggplant-7498 My first Louis Vuitton bag- should I keep or sell?
| I bought a preloved Speedy 30 in monogram as my very first Louis Vuitton bag. It’s in beautiful condition but I never carry it! I’m so worried I’ll mess up the vachetta handles, so it’s basically a piece of what I call “closet decor” just sitting on a shelf (along with my Keepall Bandouliere 50 that I’ve used twice in five years). I’m debating on selling it to get the Speedy in Damier Ebene because I love the Speedy but think it would be nice to have something more free from worry. Also, I have several other monogram bags (just got the Sac Shopping Tote and I am in love!) and would like a little bit of variety. My issue is I just can’t manage to sell my first LV bag! Is that silly? It’s such a classic, iconic bag and I was smitten with it when I purchased it. Will I regret selling it? Or should I just bite the bullet and buy something that I’ll use more? Photo of my Speedy 30 for tax! submitted by Gold-Eggplant-7498 to Louisvuitton [link] [comments] |
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2024.05.05 13:03 pillowcase-of-eels [Music/Book] Emilie Autumn's Asylum, pt. 4 – The Great Biographical Bamboozling: a fanbase's quest to systematically debunk their idol's fantastical claims
🫖 Welcome back to the Asylum write-up. This is where you live now.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In this installment, we finally take a closer look at how Emilie Autumn's hyper-loyal fanbase gradually started losing faith in her as, among other things, it became more and more apparent that she... wasn't exactly a reliable narrator – in her semi-autobiographical book, or in general.
HOW IT STARTED: A WOMAN OF MYSTERY
Willow, weep for me Don't think I don't see This life I'm living in two But still it's something I must do I'm not unique in this Nor am I special, sweet, or kind I court a thousand smiles Yet I keep my own to hide behind (“Willow”, 2004 🎵)
I've previously referred to EA as an “expert vagueposter”, and this is relevant here.
For an artist who built her brand on a pledge of raw, rats-and-all honesty, EA has always been quite guarded about the specifics of her personal life. (Until her current partner, for instance, she always danced around calling anyone a boyfriend, even when the nature of the relationship was pretty obvious.) Her whole angle is telling “the truth”, but through whimsical fantasy. As early as the fairy-themed Enchant era, she had her own world, her own vernacular; she spoke in metaphors, in-jokes, and quirky anachronisms. Taxis were carriages, her electric keyboard was a harpsichord, she always capitalized Time and Art like Shakespeare does. On the Asylum forum, automatic word filters would change “fan” to “muffin”, “fairy” to “faerie”, “bra” to “teacup holder”, and “responsibility” to “ratsponsibility”.
She's a chatterbox who loves to share memories and funny anecdotes, but she usually keeps them short and sweet,
Snapple-facts style. 📝 She's great at painting by touches in her storytelling,
revealing just enough to let your imagination auto-complete the rest. 🔍 Even the most banal tidbits are very artfully told, very “on brand”, often dense with symbolism and foreshadowing – but also very abstracted.
She is especially elusive when it comes to her background and formative years. See
the way she catches herself in this interview 📺📝 while describing her “favorite scar”, which is from an eel bite: “My – well, someone I knew... [gasp-laugh] had it as a pet, and...” (She was about to say “my sister”.)
In short, the way EA talks about her life is often very personal, but not all that
candid – and sounds more like it's meant to provide a curated, coherent backstory for Emilie Autumn the character, rather than Emilie Autumn the person.
I'll tell the truth, all my songs Are pretty much the fucking same I'm not a fairy but I need More than this life, so I became This creature representing more to you Than just another girl... (“Swallow”, 2006 🎵)
In the beginning, this guardedness naturally contributed to the mystique. It made it all the more special when, once in a while, she would briefly drop the theatrics to share something earnest and relatively unfiltered. Like
this composed, but vulnerable post from 2004 📝 about her father losing his battle to cancer, and her attempts at closure over their tense relationship. Or
this 2012 anti-bullying campaign thing 📺 in which she opens up about being a target of intense physical bullying in elementary school, to a point that contributed to her being homeschooled at 9.
Fans in the early years were curious about her backstory, of course – but not too prodding or invasive, to my knowledge. I think there was an understanding that EA, like many performers, wanted to come across as human and approachable, while still cultivating an “aura” and retaining some privacy. But obviously, when she announced that she was writing a Tell-All Memoir in 2007, everyone was dying to read it. TEA TIME!
HOW IT'S GOING: A WOMAN OF... MALARKEY???
LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! (“Liar”, 2006 🎵)
As we've learned, the original 2009 release of EA's book was highly anticipated, but somewhat tainted by a bunch of shipping delays and unfulfilled promises. From the start of her career, EA had always cultivated a close parasocial involvement with her audience; many fans had as deep an attachment to her, personally, as they did to her art. So, for instance, when EA tweeted about all the personal dedications she was lovingly writing in overdue books, only for the books to arrive many months later and unsigned with no tangible explanation, it wasn't simply frustrating: it was betrayal amongst kin!
Really, it wasn't so much about fans not getting what they paid for – it was about the lack of clear communication or genuine accountability. This is pure speculation on my part, but the poppycock that EA tweeted about signing the books strikes me as the panic-lie of someone who hadn't realized just how many
heartfelt, personalized dedications she would actually have to write when she came home from tour. And then she just couldn't do it, because she was overworked, paralyzed, distracted, depressed, procrastinating, whatever. Which... you know... is unfortunate, but probably not unforgivable. Especially for a touring performer who is open and vocal about their mental health issues.
I'm confident that most fans would have been happy to tell her that her well-being meant more to them than an autograph, or something along those lines. Instead, EA's cagey and avoidant demeanor around this issue left fans very salty – and newly suspicious of their favorite artist's word.
Which was regrettable timing for EA, because they had just received their copies of her
memoir.
Here's a cursory look at some key biographical points that didn't hold up to scrutiny when more and more vexed fans, over the years, started looking into them.
Content warning until end of post:
family estrangement, death by fire, worsening physical health issues, mention of disordered eating / weight loss / thinspiration, and LIES! LIES! LIIIIIES!
“EMILIE AUTUMN LIDDELL (BORN SEPTEMBER 22, 1979) IS AN AMERICAN SINGER-SONGWRITER...” (Wikipedia)
Every fandom has its Holy Grail. Because a number of EA's early releases were limited pressings put out through now-defunct record labels, the EA fandom in its heyday was
a collector's wonderland. 📝🦠 At the height of her popularity, the original
Enchant jewelcase (the one with the puzzle-poster) could easily fetch around $500 dollars on eBay, unsigned. The
handwritten lyrics of an Opheliac B-side went for $940 in 2009. Don't even ask me about the hard copies of her two poetry books: those never even popped up over the five or six years that I had various alerts set up for all EA-related listings.
But the true crown jewel of EA rarities is the untitled promo version of her (also virtually unfindable) 2001 instrumental debut
On a Day... No one knows how many copies exist. The darn thing is so rare that it's not even listed on Discogs. For a while, the only picture of the elusive “Violin” promo CD that was circulated online was
this one.🪞 Go ahead, click the link. Notice anything odd? That black box where one composer's birth year should be?
I'm not sure why the notorious hyper-fan who originally shared this picture on the forum in the early 2010s took it upon himself to censor it before posting. I wasn't able to pinpoint when or why people started questioning EA's age, but clearly, something had already transpired to let him know that not redacting said birth year might, uh... cause an upset. In any case: at some point, people started digging – and eventually, the unredacted version of the “Violin” tracklist (as well as public records and literal receipts from eBay auctions) would be brandished as one more piece of damning evidence that EA was indeed (gasp!) two years older than she claimed to be.
“Okay, and?” you shrug. “What's the big deal?” I'm shrugging too! What can I say? People don't like realizing they've been fooled, even about something stupid. I will note that EA's fall equinox birthday (hence her middle name “Autumn”, yes) had been somewhat significant in the fandom. Over the years, EA's birthdays had been marked by online release parties, Q&A's, community events, special merch sales... A number of fans liked donning her trademark cheek heart on September 22. It felt a bit uncanny to realize that she had been announcing a false age on those occasions. It wasn't “a big deal” so much as it was incredibly odd.
Other than being appalled that Self-Proclaimed Staunch Feminist EA would give in to the cult of youth and not cop up to her real age, many fans were just plain bewildered: who would commit so stubbornly to such an inconsequential lie? What was even the point of lying by two years only? Why did she think anyone would care that she was 28 rather than 26 when
Opheliac came out? What was she possibly getting out of this...??
My completely speculative theory is that, whether it was her idea or her then-manager's, the lie originated as a marketing strategy early on in her career. The “Violin” demo was recorded in 1997, when EA was 19-going-on-20. Per
the liner notes of On a Day... 📝, which came out when she was 22, the demo's purpose was to be “a sort of calling card in the classical music industry”. Evidently, that didn't work out; EA claims, in the same paragraph, to have walked out on a classical recording deal at 18 because they wouldn't give her enough creative control.
Talented and unique as she was, she was trying to break out in a notoriously elitist and innovation-resistant milieu – and unlike her, most of the 22-year-old classical violinists she was in competition with had actually graduated from their prestigious music schools. But you know what sells better than an ambitious college dropout in her early twenties? Tweaking the truth
just so to market yourself as an unconventional wunderkind, barely out of her teens! Any rendition of a complex, learnèd musical piece sounds more intriguing and impressive if you think it was played by an especially young (and beautiful) person. 20 was plausible, close enough to her real age, barely a lie at all, and such a nice, round number for a debut album.
Notice how much of the
On a Day... liner notes, linked above, center on her precociousness, her uniqueness, and her savant-like dedication to her craft – a focus that seems absent from the promo version (from what I can decipher in those potato-quality pictures, anyway). These talking points would provide the basis for a lot of her early self-promotion and budding stage persona in the Enchant years. Even though the EP failed to make EA a household name in the classical world, the wunderkind narrative was her “in” to grab the attention and heart of a broader audience.
And I guess she's been running with it ever since.
“MY ANCESTRY IS POSITIVELY LITTERED WITH LUNATICS AND GIRLS WHO FALL DOWN RABBIT HOLES ... MY NAME IS EMILIE AUTUMN LIDDELL. YES, THAT LIDDELL.”
Oh, come on. Much as a fan may want to believe, isn't that a little on the nose? The anglophile with an obsession for tea, clocks, and madness... is literally related to
Alice in Wonderland? 🔍 Curiouser and curiouser indeed.
EA came out as Emilie Autumn Liddell in The Book – of course – in a passage where she describes
an interaction with a nurse. 📝 Note how she stresses the authenticity of her name, and how not-chosen it is (and the Alice connection, which just comes up organically) by disclosing it in a scene where she's filling out paperwork.
I'm pointing this out, because it would be tempting to allow room for creative license (and the slightest cringe) in a work of creative fiction based on personal experience. Buuut... TAFWG was not marketed as fiction. The main narrative in TAFWG, according to EA, is an actual fac-simile of the journals she kept during a harrowing stay at a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. This is something that EA has stressed from the inception of the book (and throughout all subsequents re-issues, even as the main narrative was altered and reworked), even claiming that a legal team had advised her to redact some names to avoid potential lawsuits. So, no, she's not doing a bit there.
When, after it made the rounds a few times, it became apparent that
the claim didn't really make sense 📝🔍, reactions were mixed. Some older, diplomatic fans downplayed it as a somewhat embarrassing, but harmless self-mythologizing – similar in nature to her insistence on calling her electric keyboard a “harpsichord”. Devout EA apologists (commonly referred to as “bootlickers” in an increasingly polarized fandom – oh, don't worry, we're getting to that!) invoked the “life as performance art” defense: when she said it was literally her first name, she meant it metaphorically, duh! And either way, she probably had her reasons.
But others took offense at the boldness of the lie, or simply became curious. Was Liddell even her name at all?
If you've checked the link just above, you already know the answer. Per the public California birth log (a somewhat demented invasion of privacy that could well have been avoided by... not repeatedly drawing attention to a name that someone
in the book calls “right out of a movie”?) : yes, no, kind of.
EA was born Emily Autumn Fischkopf* on September 22, 1977. The name came from her father, a first-generation immigrant from Germany. Her maternal grandmother's maiden name was Liddell (but no, not
that Liddell, or so remotely that it doesn't matter). EA may have had it legally changed at some point in the last decade, but as of 2012, based on the public log of foreign visitors to Brazil (where she toured that year), her passport still bore the name “Emily Autumn Fischkopf”.
*No, EA's birth name is not literally “Fischkopf”. It's a non-silly German name that begins with an F. I know that it's ridiculous to clutch my pearls about EA's peace of mind now, but triggering new and disquieting Google alerts for a name she clearly wants nothing to do with (and that you don't care about) just feels... distasteful? I don't know. That info has been floating around long enough, the point has been made; this write-up is not about EA's last name, but about the fiends we made along the way! So Fischkopf it is.
Let's track the evolution here! It appears that she went by “Autumn Fischkopf” for at least part of her formative years, if we are to believe the credits from
Mark Ruffalo's middling film debut 📺 (she was the child actor's violin-playing body double) and
this random article about a Nigel Kennedy performance in 1997. 🔍 (That last link – possibly her first ever mention in the press? – is a niche favorite of mine. Violin superstar Nigel Kennedy calls her a “talented fiddler”, which suggests that she did have some cred and promise in the classical milieu at a young age, and that there is at least some truth to her claims of being a wunderkind. It also cracks me up that, out of all the things she's reiterated over the years, “I was born in '79” was a lie, but “I was attacked by a pet eel” was fact-checked by Nigel Kennedy.)
At some point in her late teens, she dropped the Teutonic surname and adopted the French ending of her given name (she made it a “LIE”! how poetic) to form the moniker “Emilie Autumn”. I assume that's also when she started privately going by Emilie / EA for short.
So there you have it. The damning evidence. A performing artist...
changed her name. To her
grandmother's name. Riveting stuff!
And to think that her fans could have carried on naively believing “Autumn” was her last name, or assuming it was a romantic
nom de scène she picked during her Ren Fair phase. Or perhaps, even, not thinking much about her name at all,
like normal people.
But nooo, she just had to poke the hornet's nest by making a whole
thing out of it.
“MY ENTIRE FAMILY DIED IN A FIRE.”
If you've never encountered a method-acting con artist or a person who struggles with pathological lying (I'll let you decide for yourself which of these, if either, applies to EA), you probably believe that you'd spot them a mile away. And in my experience, that's exactly why you wouldn't! Whether it's compulsion or calculated strategy, successful fibbers rely on people's natural social cues (like their assumption of good faith, their confirmation bias, their empathy, their desire for validation, their fear of awkwardness, ...) to subtly direct the flow and tone of the conversation. This allows them to short-circuit potential questioning of their claims.
One such strategy, for instance, I call the “I-will-not-further-speak-about-the-incident maneuver”. Out of the blue, you drop a graphic and incisive one-liner about something horrific that happened to you, in a curt or flippant tone that throws the listener off and usually shuts them up – thus sparing you from having to back up your claim with any convincing specifics. I'm not saying that every person who does this is a liar. Horrific stuff does happen to people, and I'm not here to police how they're supposed to disclose it. I'm just saying that if you wanted to fabricate an obvious Tragic Backstory™ and smuggle it past otherwise rational, discerning and reasonably intelligent people, that would be one way to do it. Full disclosure: it does work better in person than it does over the internet, especially when you've kept a blog.
When EA curtly dropped this bomb on Twitter (in response to an innocuous fan question that mentioned her parents – the receipt has sadly been X'd out of existence), and every subsequent time a new fan found out about her family's tragic demise (“I had no idea!”), the response was typically one of shock and sadness – and, in a few heartbreaking cases, commiseration from other survivors of family-annihilating events.
Many fans already had a hunch that
something was up with her family, of course. She hinted at neglect and possible abuse in her book and lyrics. A number of her fans also came from dysfunctional households, so her not wishing to elaborate on the topic would probably have been a non-issue. But now she's saying they're dead? All of them? In a FIRE?! Holy macaroni! And you know it
must have been awful, because EA – the same woman who got a dozen bangers out of a three-month-long toxic relationship, and based over a decade of her work on one bad hospital stay – had never, not once, felt called to share a song or poem about how it might affect a person to... lose all of their entire immediate family to a fire. Hmm. Meanwhile, the handful of older fans who had been following her since Enchant and
remembered her dad passing in 2004 gritted their teeth and rolled their eyes. “Do your research. That's all I can say.” (We'll get into the culture of
censorship free speech regulation on the Asylum forum in due time.)
Before more and more embittered ex-fans started compiling and circulating the receipts in the early-mid-2010s, investigating the whole “dead family” thing was a lonely journey – a coming-of-age expedition for the critical-minded Plague Rat, trawling through free background check websites and old Wayback Machine archives, until you went “Welp, there it is, I guess” and suddenly felt older, stupider, and a little bit hollow inside.
Although I don't remember how I personally made my way to The Truth (lol) back in the day, I still have a vivid memory of the moment I found the Facebook profile of EA's Very Much Non-Deceased Mother. It was mostly posts about her costume design work. A few candid pictures with EA's siblings and their kids. Christmas, birthdays, a wedding. Just... aggressively normal stuff. It was bizarre, looking in on this family of cheerful strangers with familiar cheekbones. Knowing that, somewhere out there, was an estranged eldest daughter, who had run off years ago to become a fiddle-wielding rockstar – and was now passing them off as having all died a gruesome death, while her fans secretly stalked their family photos. (Because I know you'll be asking in the comments: yes, EA's family is aware. Her mother once posted a picture of young EA and her siblings on Pinterest, sarcastically captioned
“After most of us were killed in the fire.” 📝)
Again, it's tempting to discount EA's remark as a metaphor for family estrangement, taken too literally by neurodivergent minors who just didn't understand performance art. Well. First of all, even as a metaphor... let's admit, once again, that that 2000s edginess has aged like fine milk. It's a little crass to make a “metaphor” out of a plausible, life-shattering trauma that other people actually have to live with. (
Veronica lost a beloved house to a literal fire 🔍 during her tenure as a Crumpet, for instance; no one died, but that alone seemed pretty rough.)
But, more to the point, evidence suggests that EA also told this to real people in her real, off-stage life – such as her Trisol manager, who
backed the claim on the official Asylum Forum in 2007. 📝 When questioned about this post on a renegade forum in 2013, he had this to say:
I was the fool in this case. EA made that up of course. It’s just one thing on a long list of things she made up. Let’s agree she’s very creative with facts if she wants people to believe a story. (...) I once had a short chat with [EA's mom] and I got the strong impression she wasn’t dead at the time. Haha.
(OK, dude, but did you or did you not sell fake EA tickets on a scammy website in 2008? Because we never did get the skinny on that.)
Fifteens years on,
EA continues to insist, unprompted, that “the fire” destroyed her childhood drawings and baby pictures. 📝 This more recent Instagram post is like a Greatest Hits of her most notorious yarns, to a degree that's either premeditated trolling or a subconscious call for help. She casually, yet pointedly mentions her age in relation to a specific year... and specifically draws attention to the signature, one that she used well into the Enchant era. In doing so, she made me notice, for the first time, that
the A blends into an F. As one could expect from an artsy, Renaissance-obsessed teenager, her OG signature was a freaking monogram for Emily Autumn Fischkopf. It's like “The Tell-Tale Heart” for the digital age!
AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THIS?? 🦠 A BIT O' THIS & THAT: MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS
Just for fun, here are other sundry “citation needed” facts that EA has claimed over the years. All are originally from the book unless sourced otherwise. Some of them may have been jokes, some of them might even be true! Whatever that word still means!
ELECTRIC VIOLIN: UNPLUGGED
You know how whenever a musician starts behaving obnoxiously, old sages will come down from Mount Wisdom to advise disgruntled fans to “simply ignore [behavior]” and “just focus on the music”? Well, in the Asylum, “just focusing on the music” won't always preserve you from EA's shenanigans. This “claim” is a little different, but I've decided to include it because it is so odd, emblematic, and ultimately tragic. I also count it as “biographical”, because it involves a key tenet of EA's character sheet: the violin.
Being a kickass fiddler is one of EA's trademarks, and has always been central to her narrative; as of 2024, “world-class violinist” is still the first claim to fame she lists in the “Story” section of her official website. Which beggars the question: why won't she play it? And why won't she acknowledge that she's not playing it?
We got our hopes up in 2020, with
that one post 📝 about her iconic 1885 Gand & Bernardel getting refurbished by a luthier – a thoughtful birthday surprise from her boyfriend – but despite the promising “More to come...” at the end of the caption, that turned out to be a false alarm. In truth, it may well have been over a decade since anyone has witnessed EA draw a single note from her cherished instrument.
The fact that Lord Autumn was able to sneak it out during lockdown without the Lady noticing tends to confirm that she hadn't been playing much behind the scenes. She seems to be under the impression that
e-violin manufacturer Zeta is no longer in business (
they did close down in 2010 🔍, but reopened under new management in 2012), which suggests that she hasn't been keeping up with the violin scene for a while. Besides,
the fingernails don't lie. 🐀 As the live shows veered more theatrical with the release of
Opheliac, the extended violin features from the Enchant era were cut to two main appearances per concert: “Face the Wall”, a seven-minute-short, Hendrixesque take on Arcangelo Corelli's “La Folia” – and “Unlaced”, an arpeggio-ed frenzy that was originally paired with a stilt-walking and ballet performance by the Crumpets. These two instrumental tracks remained a fixture on four successive tours. And on four successive tours, “Unlaced” was... well...
clearly dubbed. 📺 She was holding her e-violin, her hands were playing the notes, but what was coming out of the speakers was indubitably the studio version.
There were possible explanations, of course. Some sound buffs pointed out that “Unlaced” has multiple violin layers, and that
a live violin solo would have sounded harsh and unbalanced over the supporting tracks 🔍 – but then, why pick an unplayable song as a staple of the show?
The violin-miming wasn't even very hush-hush, she didn't try that hard to hide it – it was just never addressed or acknowledged. On “Unlaced”, Veronica was usually summoned to “play” the keyboard – and we knew
that was make-believe,
they had a whole skit about it. 📺 Ditto when EA would play the intro to a song, then get up from the keyboard as she started singing, and the harpsichord track just kept going. It was part of the theatrics, the suspension of disbelief; live playing just wasn't the focus.
Still, because playing two songs should have been in her wheelhouse, EA's choice to stand on stage and mime along with her own world-class violin skills was puzzling. We knew EA was capable of playing “Unlaced”: “Face the Wall” was proof enough that
she could still shred like nobody's business, and some lucky fans got to hear her
nerd out about pitch standards and rock some Bach at VIP showcases in 2011 (though it was always the same piece, and reportedly not always on point:
“she made beginner mistakes, like weird jaw, wrist, elbow placement and tension...” 🐀). And sure, “Face the Wall” was an intense piece, but... it was one of two in the show. The same two, always. She was supposed to be classically trained...!
As EA's fabrications became more common knowledge among the fanbase, people took increasing issue with this odd staging choice – particularly after “Face the Wall” was retired partway through the 2011 tour, leaving only the pantomime,
with nothing else happening on stage to distract from it. 📺 People started fixating on her constant and inexplicable tweaking of the truth. Fake name, fake age, fake promises, and now she was fake-fiddling and making a grand show of it? Was she outright mocking her audience, daring them to call her out? Milking a skill she had grown bored with, in the lowest-effort way possible, knowing that goo-goo-eyed fans would still pay to see it? Playing them the world's saddest song on the world's quietest e-violin?
The release of new album
Fight Like a Girl in 2012 did little to soothe the Plague Rats' fiddle blues. The violin was much less prominent on FLAG than it had been on
Opheliac and
Enchant. There were almost no solos, which provided fewer opportunities for playing
or miming on stage. “Unlaced” was retired from the touring setlist. One night in Texas during the 2012 tour, due to being on vocal rest,
EA played the melody line of “Liar” on the violin. 📺 And that was pretty much the last time world-class violinist Emilie Autumn was heard playing her instrument, on stage or in recording – to the dismay of many fans who had loved her for it.
Can someone please grab this woman by her hand, lead her across her livingroom/bedroom/study, and point at that lonely forgotten dusty violin in a corner of hers so she remembers that she actually owns it? (🐀)
It was yet another bizarre, glaring inconsistency in EA's narrative that fans seemed expected to ignore. Another elephant in the padded room. (Personal anecdote that I don't have a receipt for: in early 2012, when I asked if there was a possibility of EA playing another baroque set for the VIP events on the upcoming tour, her then-manager responded that that wouldn't be possible because venues didn't have the proper acoustics.)
Through some her posts over the years , attentive fans pieced together the likely truth of EA's effective retirement as a violinist. It's actually quite sad, and may cast a different light on EA's artistic shift.
The 2011 tour was initially scheduled for late 2010. It was postponed because EA had been neglecting a jaw injury for years, and needed emergency surgery
to avoid “serious and irreversible damage” to her one violin-holding jaw. 📝 She had the surgery early in September; in late November, she performed all over Latin America for six nights straight, and by January, she was back on tour. The same tour during which she made “beginner's mistakes” on the Bach partita, and retired “Face the Wall” for good after a few shows.
She underwent jaw surgery again in 2018, after three years of orthodontic treatment which she said had “prevented [her] from performing”. It was the first anyone was hearing of this (she said she hadn't been touring because she was writing the musical!), and it's as far as EA ever got in terms of half-addressing the obvious: that after dedicating a third of her time on Earth to her craft, after years of pushing through the pain night after night, rushing through recovery periods, and making compromises so the show could go on... she may not be physically able to play concert-level violin anymore.
Once again, something that should (and would) have elicited empathy and support from most fans turned into a point of frustration, speculation and mockery,
for years – because EA continued to favor pretend-play and fantasy over the sobering, unglamorous truth. Well, at least everyone's unhappy.
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2024.05.02 02:58 jimmythecollector [FS] [USA] Sizes for All! - B0und2 Y33ZY Work Jacket, Lor0 P1ana Summerwalks, Cr33d Av3ntus Cologne, St0ne Island Ghost, Ga11ery Dept, 0Ff-Whit3, Gucc1, N1ke x CPFM Shoes, Cel1ne, Herme$ Belt - N1na, G1venchy, Pa1m Ange1s Teddy Bear, Br0ken Planet, Monc1er Idil Down Puffer, LV Belts, & More!🏷️💲
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Clothes:
$38 - Di0r x Saca1 Logo Tee - Fits Medium - From Cloyad and was pretty pricey. Lightly used and high quality tee. $29 - P1easur3s “A Girl is a Gun” Tee - Fits Medium - Amazing quality and lightly used. Faint stains from storage but should come out in wash. Best batch available. $13 -
Retail LOVE Uniq1o MoMA Art Tee - Small - Amazing design and lightly worn.
$89 - B0und2 Y33zy Season 6 Work Jacket - Medium (See Imgur for Measurements) - B0und2's quality speaks for itself and this jacket is pretty much on point with retail. Aging and fit is amazing and has been lightly used. The left sleeve button is slightly ever so loose so might need easy stitch reinforcement. Extremely pricey batch and took forever to deliver, take for a steal. $82 -
G1venchy Cardigan Logo Sweater - Fits XL - Best batch out from 8Billi0n (who’s a Tao reseller). Blank is extremely plush and thick while the embroidery is very clean. Fine with holding so priced as is but still cheaper compared to buying from Tao and waiting the ~1 month.
$225 (FINAL DISCOUNT) - Monc1er Idil Puffer Jacket from JIEYI2 — Size 2 (Fits Boxy Medium) — Cost $285 from Tao (Jacket is $219.13 + $65 on Shipping). Brand new and only tried on. Take for an absolute steal. This is the best batch out and the cleanest design that Monc1er makes for a puffer IMO. Comes with bag as well to protect while on the clothing hanger. This is an extremely high-quality jacket and on point with retail. Added QC pics from Taobao as well. $36 - Ga11ery D3pt Logo Tee - Fits L-XL - Best batch out from Cl0yad. Never worn before and just took off tags to wash on cold temp. Extremely similar to retail. $38 - LV 3D Monogram Chain Tee - Fits Boxy Medium - From Cloyad and was pretty pricey. Lightly used and high-quality tee. $35 -
Balenc1aga Pride Tee - Fits Small - From Cloyad and was pretty pricey. Lightly used and high quality tee.
$35 - Suprem3 “The Killers” Graphic Tee - XL but Fits Medium - Extremely accurate graphic compared to the other budget batches. Vibrant text and quality blank as well although fits smaller than tagged sizing (see imgur for measurements). $32 - Chr0me Heart$ “Modera Future” Pink Tee - Large (Fits Oversized) - Amazing quality and lightly used. Extremely similar blank to retail and print on front/back has correct texture and on-point quality. $39 - Celin3 Bead Logo Tee - Fits Medium-Large - From Cloyad and was pretty pricey. Lightly used and high quality tee. $14 - Fend1 Black Small Logo Tee - Fits Small - Nice and simple tee perfect for daily wear, lightly used. $38 -
Balenc1aga Paris Jersey Apparel Tee - Fits Medium-Large - From Cloyad and was pretty pricey. Lightly used and high quality tee.
$89 -
Y33ZY Season 5 Lost Hills Sports Jacket - Fits Medium - In like new condition and extremely rare rep from 2019, haven't seen one posted since. I have rarely used and I’m not in a rush to sell it cause this is most likely the first and last one that’s going to be posted on here, hence the price.
$36 - 0FF-Wh1te Unfinished Tee - Fits Medium - Lightly used and best batch out from known seller Jas0n. $49 - N1ke Center Swoosh Tan Hoodie - Fits Large - Extremely plush and comfortable blank. N1ke logo is extremely clean as well. Take for a steal. $29 -
Pa1m Ange1s White Tee - Fits Medium - Amazing quality but has stains on front and back even though I only used a couple of times. Priced accordingly, haven’t really washed since so might be able to come out with wash but no guarantee.
$78 -
St0ne Isl@nd Olive Ghost Crewneck - XXL (Fits Large) - Best batch out from BS as TS dosen’t offer this model. Inside is extremely plush and it such a comfy crewneck. Has tonal badge and tags on point as well.
$36 - G1venchy Logo Tee - Fits Medium - Best batch out from 8Billion. Never worn before and on point with retail. $59 -
Br0ken Plan3t “Into the Abyss” Blue Hoodie - Medium - From Hotd0g and one of the nicer designs from this brand IMO. Lightly worn and in amazing condition.
$55 - Gucc1 Blade Sweater Red/Black - Small (Fits Slightly Oversized) - Best batch out from 8Bi11ion and lightly used. Quality is amazing and blank is spot on with retail. Shoes:
$125 -
Prad@ Monolith LeatheRenylon Pouch Booths - Fits 8-8.5 Mens - Extremely light and look to be on point with retail. Such a beautiful boot with extremely clean badges on pouch.
$57 - N1ke Vap0rmax CPFM Cactu$ Flea Shoes - Tagged 8 Mens - Lightly used and in amazing condition. Really solid batch from middleman but too small on me so take for a steal. $99 or Trade - L0ro P1ana Tan Summer Walks - 46 but fit 45 (Insole: 29.5CM) - Brand new with packaging and box. Has incorrect wording on packaging but shoes are on point. Bought for my cousin but he has other colorways that he wears. Quality is pretty on point and feels extremely comfy. Also willing to trade for any 8.5 Mens Shoes. $29 -
Black/White Penny Lug Loafers - Fits Mens Size 7.5-8 - Used once and in amazing condition. Saw Jeff Goldblum wear similar model and he pulls them off great but too small on me.
$23 -
Ultraboost$ Oreo 3.0 - 10 Mens (Fits 9-9.5 Mens) - Best batch out from Lin. Used but flash really accentuates flaws, they still have a lot of life.
$36 -
N1ke Dunks Curry - Mens 8 (Fits 8.5 Mens) - Used on the baseball fields but as you can seen from the bottoms they are still in amazing condition and once cleaned up will be perfect.
$15 -
Retai1 Brown Dress Shoes - Mens 8.5 - Worn a few times and quality is amazing, take for a steal.
$38 -
Ultrabo0st 4D White/Green - 8.5 Mens (Fits 8.5-9 Mens) - Bought a while ago from deadlink, used around 3 times and in amazing condition.
$89 OBO -
Retail N1ke Air Max 1 Premium Hangul SE - 8.5 Mens - Brand new and only tried on. Paid 140 for them, take for a steal.
Accessories (Wallets/Belt/Bags/Cologne):
$46 -
H3rmes Belt Black/Brown with Silver Buckle from N1na - (Adjustable / Waist: 28-31, Includes Belt Hole Puncher to Adjust Sizing) - Lightly used and in amazing condition. 100cm in length and Nina’s quality speaks for herself.
$24 (Only as Add-On) - J3welry Box for Watches and Accessories - Holds multiple watches, rings, and other accessories. Take for a steal. $12 (Only as Add-On) - Cre3d Aventus from ChezPierr3 - Ch3z is known as the goat for rep colognes. Smells really nice but have too many colognes. As you can see their’s only about 35% left so selling as is. $16 (1 Left!) -
C@rhartt Corduroy Black Shoulder Bag - 1 Left - One Size - Brand new with tags. Perfect for fitting phone, wallet, keys, portable charger, and more. Has zipper pocket and inner pocket as well.
$14 -
Cart1er Tank Strap from G33ktime - Strap for smallest size of Cartier Tank (I think it’s small?). Nice but I replaced mine, take for a steal.
$22 (2 Left!) -
Stu$$y Camo Waist Bag - One Size - Brand new with tags. Perfect for fitting phone, wallet, keys, portable charger, and more. Amazing quality and IMO 1:1 with Retail.
$23 (1 Left!) - Moncl3r Cream Tonal Knit Beanie - One Size - Brand New with plastic bag. $22 (2 Left!) - Arc’t3ryx White Shoulder Bag - One Size - Brand new with tags. Perfect for fitting phone, wallet, keys, portable charger, and more. Has zipper pocket and inner pocket as well. $34 (3 Left!) -
Loui$ Vuitt0n Checkered Brown/Gold Belt - (Adjutable / Waist: 28-34, Includes Belt Hole Puncher for Waist Sizes under 28) - Brand New. 110cm long. Using personal for around 6 months, leather is supple & belt is very durable.
$38 (1 Left!) - Loui$ Vuitt0n Checkered Black/Silver Belt - (Adjutable / Waist: 28-34, Includes Belt Hole Puncher for Waist Sizes under 28) - Brand New. 110cm long. Using personal for around 6 months, leather is supple & belt is very durable. $18 -
Bap3 Camo Green Wallet - One Size - Brand New with papers and bag.
$18 -
Aap3 Black Wallet - One Size - Brand New with papers and bag.
$16 -
Palac3 Tri-Ferg Black Wallet - One Size - Brand New with papers and bag. Misspelled papers, but wallet is spot on.
Jewelry (Rings, Pendants, Necklaces, Keychains):
$25 - Chr0me Heart$ Rings - Adjustable Opening (Sizing in Imgur) - Brand New & lead tested, have sold many with good reviews. Been using my personal ones daily for over half a year. 925 sterling silver plated and have used in water without issue. Can be adjusted using force to make smallebigger due to opening, I can adjust mine to fit all five of my fingers no issue. Available Models: $25 -
Chr0me Heart$ Pendants - OOS - Brand New & lead tested, have sold many with good reviews. I’ve personally used most models for 6+ months daily along with an Amazon-bought chain. Pendants have nice weight/quality and always get compliments. 925 sterling silver plated and has been used in the gym without issues. Available Models:
$23 -
Chr0me Heart$ Silichrome 20th Anniversary Cross Necklace - One Size Fits All (26 Inches) - Great alternative to paying CH’s wild retail price of $160, this rep is extremely accurate IMO (.95:1). Available Colors:
$22 -
LV Keychain Black Checkered - OOS - Brand new and in plastic wrapping.
$22 -
LV Keychain Brown Checkered - OOS - Brand new and in plastic wrapping.
$20 (1 Left!) - LV Essential “V” Bracelet Brown Monogram - OOS (Fits Wrist Size Up to 6.5 Inches) - Brand new and in plastic wrapping. Saw this in the stores and bought a few on Tao to daily. Above average quality and overall a nice daily flex bracelet. $25 -
Retail Gue$$ Blue/Black Watch - Fits Up to 6.25 Inch Wrists (Has additional clasp to expand to ~6.5 Inches) - Paid 120 shipped for this, take for an absolute steal. Movement is stuck so might need new battery, selling as is.
$22 (Add-On) -
Culture K1ngs Cap CarrieStorage NFS - OOS - Exclusive item not being sold; need to buy 3 hats to receive. Take at a great price.
Beanies/Hats:
$28 (1 Left!) - Chrom3 Heart$ Horseshoe Monogram Beanie - One Size - Brand new in bag. Very stretchy and breathable to fit most sized heads. $32 (2 Left!) -
Chrom3 Heart$ “Big CH” Beanie - One Size - Brand new in bag. Very stretchy and breathable to fit most sized heads.
$20 -
Canad@ Goos3 Beanies Various Colors - One Size - Brand new with tags. Very stretchy and breathable to fit most sized heads. Models:
$25 -
Retail D0dgers A-Frame Trucker Hat N3w Era - Adjustable - Brand new and never used. I think this is a European exclusive as I see no US sellers have this. Take for a steal price.
$22 -
Vuj@ De “VD” Black Hat - One Size (Adjustable) - Brand new and never used. Clean embroidery and nice quality blank.
$22 -
Prad@ Badge Black Hat - One Size (Adjustable) - Brand new and never used. Clean embroidery and compared badge to SurvivalSourc3 keychain and looks 1:1.
$22 -
Acn3 Studio$ Ice Grey Knit Beanie - One Size - Brand New. Embroidery and quality of beanie are spot on with Retail.
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