Shirt prices getting higher - this is why

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I disagree man. Its the crazy buyers who are throwing money around to blame here. As long as there is someone who will pay this crazy money, you can drive the prices as high as the sky.

Personally, i put a 70$ cut off on a single shirt and its the principle i go by. More than that...its not worth it. Its just a shirt after all. I'd rather buy 3 or 4 new shirts with good design that will become rarity in the next 10 years rather than buy one totally abused shirt.

Even if i can afford to spend 300$ on one single shirt, it breaks my own rule.

If i am to sell some of my rare shirts (i have about 10 to 15 90's rare shirts), i would definately put it up on ebay for 70$ or so and its the minimum i would take for it. I would be totally okay letting it go for 70$ as well.

I think we can show hatred towards people who sell shirts for 20 and ask 50 for shipping. There is a TRUE rip off right there.

Kun record-flipping ei riitä nii aletaa siirtyy shirt-flippingii :--D meno vitun nykyaika

Prices sre going crazy... ive seen lots of shirts going up to 200 usd... fuck!

There are longsleeves (particularly old Entombed, Dismember and Bolt Thrower) that can get up to $400, maybe even $500. I saw an original Dismember LAEFS tour LS go for like $600 on ebay earlier this year. Fucking nuts.I think a lot of shady or uninformed sellers have caught on to the fact that metalheads are nostalgic people and willing to pay a lot for original merch. There's other dudes who just simply have cash to throw around and there's nothing that can be done about that. And then there's idiots who think because Trey was the owner of this or that Morbid Angel shirt it's somehow worth more.

Yeah, I saw a Morbid Angel shirt get listed on ebay for $1000. And a Carcass shirt on etsy for OVER $2000, and the design on the shirt is fucking available on Carcass' webstore.

All comes down to pay what you're comfortable with. If you don't want to pay $200 then don't. It's fucked that they go for that but some one might have an attachment because they went to the gig and never had a chance to get it etc.

The World now and always had investor collectors, people buy when it's cheap and offload when it's high, I collect Magic The Gathering cards it's same thing, I got a booster pack for $7 and pulled a card selling for $50-$70 the market is full of them I'm holding onto it because I want to keep it, but later if I was desperate for cash I could flip it for a quick buck.

Pisses me off the amount of people that sell on hear and don't become patreons to help Doc / the site.

It's not only the shirts.. I've seen so many patches, especially on Etsy, being sold for insane prices. Those "businessmen", as you call them, buy them for 5€ on Ebay and sell them for 30€ on Etsy.. They are only about profit it seems. Resellers like that suck.. They always put "VINTAGE" and the year the patch was released in the title just to be sure that some clueless hipster will buy it

I have a pretty simple policy as a seller personally . I ask "what is it worth to you?" and then we will see if that matches my own ideas I had before. If not we can either find common ground somewhere in between or not . Yo me that's a very fair way to handle this.
But I agree , shirt prices can become ridiculous...

i hope its not full time job for these flippers too...realistically they dont make much money from doing it. Maybe 5 to 20$ a shirt? in my opinion, not worth the hassle of even going to the post office to ship it for that kind of money.

Why I like trading here if I can help it. I'll spend for what I really want, but I'm not gonna get fucked either.

I've paid 100+- a few times for shirts I really wanted, but prices are insane now. The old 90s shirts I have I either got at the time or bought on eBay in the early 2000s.

I bought a Marduk "heaven shall burn" shirt for $3.80 in 2004, sold it a few years ago for $200, now it's selling for $325.

Great topic...Ive bought a couple bm longsleeves for 200$ , and sold a few at that price with no problem....sometimes overnight. Some of my shit came from an actual band member....Got one in particular thats hard to let go, but need the cash. So I have it listed at a higher price, but if someone makes an offer, I'll always consider.... Almost positive I'll never see another one in deadstock condition again. But yeah, bad business choice to make if one outbids then re-sales higher. Had someone wanting to sell a shirt to me for $450 once,...I'll pass yeah!...

Yeah the prices can get crazy retarded now for shirts and patches. It's sad really fake greedy metal fans do this what's more sad is how much of a profit are they honestly making? Congrats you made $20 more than you bought something for maybe 10 after shipping, hope you have a real job. This is really the buyers fault if you think about it if people didn't pay hundreds for vintage shirts these fake fans in the scene wouldn't exist.

Reminds me how a while ago at a festival in Germany some dude bought several patches from us and later when we had sold them all he was outside trying to sell them for over 4x the price we asked for them, quick business mind at work there but I hope no one bought any from him.

The real problem is hollywood...everyone wearing metal shirts, and don't even listen to it.
Used to wear bm shirts when it was to set you apart from the"crowd", now its the thing to do?!?!....is why I never wear now, just collect

It's definitely getting a lot more expensive... but if it's a band that you really love and have a connection growing up with or a super rare mint deadstock item that perhaps you have been hunting for a decade, I don't see a problem with spending a little bit more.. but there's also a limit and the point of just plain insanity.. I've seen Darkthrone longsleeves (peaceville late 90s prints) go for some way above average $$ of late, same as older Marduk stuff go for some crazy, crazy prices. I remember seeing a Gorgasm masticate to dominate bloodletting tour long sleeve auction for over $500 earlier this year.. there's some hardcore fans out there.

I'd sooner buy a bootleg that spend more than €30 or so on a shirt. I need to cut them up to fit me anyway, I'm not gong to throw money at them.

Maanelyst, come along!