Vintage Market Pulse Check + Bidstitch App Rant - Podcast

Now let's talk about where the world of vintage is at right now.

So I'm seeing stores close.

I'm seeing stores continue to close.

The summer was pretty good.

I mean, in my stores, the summer was good.

Like, we may have been, like, flat from last year, but that's not shocking to me because we, like, weren't actively buying as much, like, high-end product.

So, like, based on the product mix that I put in those stores, us being totally flat on par with last year, I was pretty happy with, to be honest.

We switched the Squamish store to a thrift store, like I said, which is starting at five bucks all the way to 40 bucks, and, like, that's doing well, doing way better for my small town because I feel like the small town that I'm in, Squamish, couldn't really support, like, a vintage store.

Like, not everyone's out there shopping vintage per se, like, all the time, but they are-- everyone's out thrifting all the time.

You know, if you cl- look at the secondhand market in general, like, there is probably 100 times more money being made in the thrift world than in the vintage clothing world.

Now, that's not to say you should all go jump into being thrift stores, but, you know, it's something to think about.

So, you know, that brings me to kinda like one of my thoughts lately on the vintage world is like bangers be banging, okay? High-end shit is gonna sell.

People are always in need of high-end.

We see like the world of Rolexes keep going up.

True Vintage denim keeps going up.

Like the upper echelon of vintage tees keeps going up.

So the bangers keep banging.

That high end is continuing to rise the ceiling, and I don't see that changing ever because there's always gonna be collectors.

There's always gonna be people that wanna like stunt on people.

There's always gonna be people that want the rare of the rarest shit, okay? Never gonna change.

What I, what I'm seeing-- A- a- and I-- and the low end is banging, right? The low end is doing really well.

Like if you can get-- If people can get good product at good prices, they're gonna buy it.

Doesn't have to be like vintage, just good brands at good prices, they're gonna buy it.

Like go listen to my podcast with, with Thrifty Beaches.

He's like, "I'll sell any good brand and I'll sell it cheap." His, his average price in his store is 15 bucks.