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I don't really agree with this. The second hand market is dying in general, outside of major hype brands. Stuff just isn't moving, especially the Japanese heritagey stuff these days. It used to be that the second-hand market was very hard to get into-- i.e. You had to search through forums like sufu and sf and such. Proxying was still in its baby stages (remember when you had personal proxies and not a company doing it for you?), and in general, it was easier to find great pieces because you were often one of a few scouring to buy. These days you can find E.G. Everywhere, like eBay, rak, yahoo, grailed, and the good stuff gets snagged up because it's so much more accessible. And all you have left is the stuff that's trash at relatively low prices, and then people see one of your "nice but not grail" pieces and think it's overpriced. If anyone has tried to sell on the second-hand market these days, I think they'd understand why it's ******* dying. It feels like a second job sometimes answering entitled and needy demands, even after the item is sold, let alone dealing with the tons of bs you deal with just to sell your piece at 60% of your asking price.
Sometimes I'd rather just keep my **** than deal with that. Or many people go the way of consignment.
I think E.G. Still puts out really stellar stuff. There's always a few stand out pieces every season, and I definitely don't see how someone can equate it to sports/lounge wear. The construction and quality have stayed the same, the only difference is price. But everything has continued to go up (remember yearly ToJ price increases?), and that's not something we can help. To say E.G. was going to die out 2-3 years ago is asinine because FW14 was by far one of the best seasons in the history of EG. This fall's is looking really nice, too.
