Vancouver Spruce / Wings & Horns Sale

As you may know, the Wings & Horns end-of-season sale is on now, with Spruce, W+H, and W&H stock over 70% off. Hoodies are going for $35 CAD and jackets for $80 CAD. As a long-time SF lurker from Vancouver, I thought I'd jump on the opportunity. For those questioning my credentials, here is my mom's eBay account, with 100% positive feedback. I'll also be using her paypal account, dragonfly3@telus.net. I will be charging $70 USD for hoodies and $120 USD for jackets, with shipping to be determined on an individual basis (I plan on going with FedEx). Currently, I only accept cash payment via Paypal, but I'm working to get credit card up and running before the sale is over. How it will work is, you'll request a piece, preferably more than one option since they don't have an overabundance of stock available, and paypal the money to my account. If any of the pieces you requested are available, I'll ship. Otherwise, I'll paypal the money back to you, minus any transaction fees Paypal charges. All sales are final. Anybody interested may post or PM me. Please include a picture of whatever it is you want, unless you trust your verbal description and my interpretation thereof - bearing in mind that I must have seen at least five different shades of green alone. If you like I'll also take phone numbers, and inform you of availability as I'm in the store. That may require you to get up in the middle of the night, though - Vancouver is Pacific Time. Whew, what a way to introduce myself! Never having done anything like this before, I'll be updating this post as I resolve the details. Edit 1: Changed jacket price from $150 to $120.

I think you're misunderstanding: I'm requesting payment before I ship the item, just like eBay, 2000db's venture, or any other working sales system I know of. Yes, that means you'll have to trust me. I'll be updating the eBay profile linked to prove it's connected to the paypal account given, if that's what's bothering you. Absolutely, but it's been two days and nobody else has offered their services. I'm not willing to go much under $70, since there is a lot of work involved. If anybody else wants to undercut me, of course I can't stop them.

Well, it's true that I'm motivated by profit. This forum's name is buying & selling, I don't see why that's so wrong. In fact, in the W+H end-of-season sale thread, someone offered to pay $80 US for a hoodie. But, to give you my perspective, here's the math I'm using: Ordering from their site, a Loopwheeler LW05 (the pullover hoodie) costs ¥15,000, or $129.50 USD according to this (believe I'm doing my converting correctly). 2000db is charging me $185 USD shipped for that hoodie - 2000, I hope it's okay that I'm repeating your quote... Anyway, I'm assuming shipping to Canada is nowhere above $25 to canada, which puts his profit at at least $30 USD. Now, I'm paying $31 USD and charging $70. That's a $40 USD markup. I believe your issue is that I'm marking it up so significantly percentage-wise. You seem to be expecting me to charge less for my time and travel simply because I'm paying less for the product. I'm not willing to charge much less than $70 because I have to charge that much to cover for my time and travel (I have no car). That's how much my time is worth to me. If somebody else who lives right beside the location wants to take over and charge $40 a hoodie, I wish they would, but that's not really an option for me. polyrock - I'm using my mom's eBay account because I don't have my own. I'm underage and have never had any need for one. If there are any other questions of course I don't mind answering them and trying to defend my offer. Oh, and by dint of my own logic, I'll be changing the jacket price down to $120, marking it up $70 IS rather opportunistic. For now, however, the hoodie price stands.