Advice on buying used gown!
- Thread starter Kiana
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Oh well, more money for lessons.
bia
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Good news update 
Since craving that dress got me all ready to buy, I followed up on a thought I'd had in the back of mind for a while. There's a good dancer who I'd admired at comps and noticed that we're the same height. So I found her on facebook and sent her a message that if/when she had a dress to sell, I was potentially interested. And she did, and it's lovely, and our measurements are darn near identical, and we've agreed on a price, and I'm going to have my first "real" dress very soon! 
(So, yeah, who needs money for lessons 
... At least this one is domestic, so no worries about customs.)
Since craving that dress got me all ready to buy, I followed up on a thought I'd had in the back of mind for a while. There's a good dancer who I'd admired at comps and noticed that we're the same height. So I found her on facebook and sent her a message that if/when she had a dress to sell, I was potentially interested. And she did, and it's lovely, and our measurements are darn near identical, and we've agreed on a price, and I'm going to have my first "real" dress very soon! (So, yeah, who needs money for lessons ... At least this one is domestic, so no worries about customs.)
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TakeTwo
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Good news update
Woohoo! So exciting. Hope you love it.
flying_backwards
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OK bia you inspired me to finally go ahead and buy the gown I had tried on. It will need some alterations, but is close to fitting. What I like about it is how it MOVES. The skirt swirls out with a puff of underskirt in even a mild pivot. And it is not too heavy. And the price is less than a rental. So soon I will own my first real gown. Yeah!
bia
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Sounds great! I love how we all enable each other
singndance
Forum Master
Bumping this thread - question for those of you who have sold and/or bought a used dress. How do you handle the try-on if you have to send out the dress? Do you ask for payment up front and offer a refund if the potential buyer sends it back to you? Do you ask for a down payment in earnest money? Do you send your dresses out for a try-on just on faith?
I am going to be selling some of my dresses soon, and am just curious how you have handled this. Thanks.
I am going to be selling some of my dresses soon, and am just curious how you have handled this. Thanks.
scullystwin42
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I have asked the person to friend me on facebook, and then have them pay for shipping for the try-on if it's a DF'er. For ones sold on the FB groups, i usually ask for the money up front. and then refund if it doesn't work.
wahoo_foxtrot
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I bought used dresses before. For example, the vendor would ask to pay $100 (which covers the shipping) no matter whether I decide to keep the dress or not. If I'd like to keep it, then I pay the negotiated price on top of the try-on fee $100. If I do not, then I ship the dress back to the vendor out of my pocket.
ProgressNotPerfection
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For a dress that the seller was asking $1,000 for, I offered to Venmo her a $300 good faith deposit (refundable if I ended up returning the dress to her), since she didn’t know me. She sent me a picture of the UPS receipt showing the cost of shipping ($29.98, which included insurance coverage for a value up to $500 and signature requested at delivery), so I also Venmo’d that amount to her. If the dress had not worked out, I would have shipped it back to her the same way, and the $60 in shipping costs would have been all I paid. As it happened, I kept the dress, so the $300 deposit ended up being a down payment on the total price.
If the buyer is someone on DF, I’d feel more confident about sending a dress out for a try-on just on faith, but I think @scullystwin42 ’s practice of friending the potential buyer first on Facebook is a very good idea.