It’s time for props for another one of our favorite Ebay sellers for selling authentic designer denim. Today we are featuring The 7 Jeans Store’s Ebay Store, under Ebay ID BirdieTime. This seller is also a big supporter of the HonestForum.
The 7 Jeans Store of course sells 7 for All Mankind, True Religion, Affliction, Denim of Virtue, Paige Premium Denim and many more, in both men’s and women’s styles! Of course all items are 100% authentic!
So we all know and love eBay for our designer jeans - but do you know how to shop eBay safely and be an awesome buyer at the same time? A few tips you should know.
#1 - Make sure what you are buying is the real thing! There are a ton of guides on HonestForum that teach you how to recognize the real stuff from those ugly fake jeans. Do your research!
#2 - Alternatively - shop from our list of authentic sellers- do you know where it is? Look to the right hand side of the blog, at the very top of the blogroll - we’ve started a list of sellers who are known to sell only authentic jeans and we are very selective about those we put on this list. Go to the blogroll and if you click on these links, they will take you directly to that seller’s items on eBay! It looks like this:
#3 - Always pay with PayPal using a credit card. This gives you two safety measures - first of all you can file a dispute with PayPal if you don’t receive your item or it turns out to be a fake, and secondly - if you pay with a credit card, you can dispute the charge.
#4 - Leave the seller honest feedback. Since eBay’s recent fee increase, its more important than ever to Sellers to get positive feedback, so if you love your jeans, give the seller praise and a full five-star rating (those are important because eBay gives sellers with good detailed seller ratings a discount on fees!) And if you don’t love your jeans - give the seller a chance to refund you or work something out before leaving nasty feedback (unless, of course, they are obvious fakes!)
Now get out there and have fun shopping!
This is kind of neat! Check out Zafu.com. You can find the perfect jeans for you as it asks you a series of questions about what your favorite jeans fit you like. And then makes recommendations. It picked Joe’s Jeans for us - which is right on, they always fit us great! Love this site! We are so glad more retailers are doing this sort of thing because it helps us find a good fit and cuts down on returns!
This may be an unpopular and somewhat serious post, but we feel it needs to be said. This Friday marks Lee’s National Denim Day for Breast Cancer in which many of us wear our denim to work and pay $5 to go to charity for breast cancer. As many of you know, October is breast cancer awareness month. But haven’t some retailers gone too far? Everywhere you look companies have a pink product (think marketing, pink is sexy!) with some percentage, however tiny, which may go to breast cancer research. The Seattle Times says:
You can suck on a Tic Tac (79 cents) or feed your dog a treat (AvoDerm Dog Kookies, $3.50) from pink-ribboned containers. You can dress, vacuum, eat, even sleep for the cure (on a pink Serta mattress). But what you can’t do, in many cases, is know with certainty just how much your pink purchases are helping in the fight against breast cancer.
Ooooh, how about a pink George Foreman grill, anyone?
Our editor here at TheDenimBlog is a cancer survivor herself and knows first hand the struggle of dealing with cancer, and we totally empathize with all cancer patients and survivors. But with the amount of pink products out there, shouldn’t we have this thing cured by now? What about other forms of cancer? Do you see them marketing products everywhere? We feel that companies are going too far with taking a great cause (breast cancer research) and using it for their own personal profits. I mean who wants to lick a thousand Yoplait lids and send in the disgusting curdled milky lids? Ick! Why can’t Yoplait just donate an amount equal to the sales of this yogurt? How many people actually take the time to clean and mail in the lids?
The facts are that many other diseases such as heart disease affect more people in the world, but then why are corporations jumping all over each other to market “pink” products? The truth is that breast cancer is a great illness to exploit for profit because when we think of the breast, its feminine and pretty, and its easy to make the whole “pink” theme sexy for marketing. Do we really want to look at pictures of fatty hearts and clogged arteries when we shop for products like Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup, Yoplait, Estee Lauder Lipstick, Totes umbrellas, BMWs, Guess watches, or other products in which a purchase during October results in a donation to breast cancer causes?
All we are saying is wear your denim, but support your causes and favorite charities wisely. Don’t just buy into the marketing for a product because they donate 5 cents to research, send the charity a check directly instead - and research which ones donate a larger percentage to actual research, not just to marketing or admin expenses. You might be surprised if you ask your charity what percentage they actually send to research and how much is for marketing of their “brand”. We are all about brand names, but not when it comes to our favorite charity. Help the cause, not the company marketing it.
Read more about this topic on thepanelist.com
Of course we all know that the best way to find authentic designer jeans on Ebay is to read up on HonestForum.com to learn all the tips and things to watch for! But have you also heard about Toolhaus.org? Toolhaus is a great tool which allows you to sort a seller’s feedback by only the neutrals or negatives, and gives you a quick glance at the seller’s history. Although a seller’s feedback may be mostly positive, if you see comments that jeans are fakes, that’s a good indicator that the seller may not be selling authentics. Remember, if you are unsure, ask the experts at HonestForum!
One of the greatest websites EVER if you love to shop sales online is ShopItToMe.com. First of all, it’s free, and secondly, you can pick brands you love, and you’ll get an email whenever those brands go on sale. We absolutely love it and can’t even tell you how many designer steals We’ve gotten from it!
