7 for Someone Else

Last week in my favorite thrift, they rolled out a new rack just as I was going to check out -- I detoured and thought I had hit the jackpot. There were not one or two, but 5 pair of 7 for All Mankind jeans, all new with tags. A bit fishy, right - but hey I've pulled Prada shoes, new Coach bags, Escada suits and more from these same racks. The fabric felt a bit light, but I thought it was worth a try for $15 bucks.

So far I've never knowingly sold a fake (and no one has complained of getting one either), so I wasn't going to list them without some due diligence. A quick search brought up a killer eBay Guide that briefly raised, then quickly dashed my hopes for big profits -- thanks a lot jenuine_bruin (no really). Everything was good until I got to the part about the top part of the 3s on the size labels not being rounded and the undersides of the rivets - all marked with 7s - not being flat. That's how good the fakes are now -- all the hardware is stamped - even the tags are the same.

My next dilemma was what to do with the 5 pair of worthless-to-me jeans (you know my butt wasn't squeezing into them). I felt like a dweeb taking them back to Goodwill (they do have a 10-day return policy) -- "These jeans I paid $3 a pair for are not real designer jeans, boo hoo." But I swallowed my shame -- hey $15 bucks is $15 bucks!