One I appreciate your effort to actually consider my point and respond but you are taking me out of context a bit and misunderstand my reasoning.
Because we're not talking about frugal, we're talking about what's more frugal and the fact of the matter is that cheaper quality clothes are arguably the much better investment all around.
I'd say i spent this whole thread showing you how its not on the ONE caveat that you put time and effort into it. So yes if you want to break it down that far to factor in the time and effort it could not be 'worth' it but worth is not measureable really so it just becomes an opinion at that point. I have mine you have yours.
Break it down by whatever metric you want. I think I've got like 130? now purchases/sales on grailed. Roughly 200 on YJP/Rak and I think my eBay account hit 400 feedback not too long ago. I'm willing to say I've got quite a bit of experience dealing with this. I've lost money and I've made money but I've never met a single person who has actually claimed beyond you. Now I'd honestly believe you if you've only sold a few things, it's not too hard if you're doing small flips here and there. But time + quantity means that at some point you're going to take a hit on something. I also have 200 grailed, and over 300 eBay. Of course i said i've taken hits, but by investing smartly you minimize those hits, and I promise you I'm overall positive. This is also because i actively flip clothing when i realized i had a really good knowledge being unused. All i said was my interest in clothing has only ever made me money, and that remains true.
But lets assume that you're 100% accurate and that as you state You don't buy anything you could ever possibly take a loss on.
I never said that, i said i either take a small less, none at all or make profit
That doesn't help the majority of people who come to MFA or even Reddit. People naturally want to try different and new things and the random requests people have means that one day someone will take a hit because they bought something "that wasn't a good investment".
This post was purely meant to express my thoughts as someone with experience with this phenomena/train of thought and possibly inspire someone to take a risk in buying the less frugal option in there mind because it actually could be more frugal. So in fact I'm trying to urge people who would be hesitant to buy the 'nicer' items to try something apart from the most typically cheap alternative.
So even if you were correct and you're infallible and you've only made it big kudos, what you're saying still wouldn't work for the majority of people and it'd be even less helpful for those who don't want to spend as much time researching prices and market trends on a used pair of shoes.
Im speaking to someone who has a passion and interest in clothing as I do, and perhaps someone who would be in a clothing subreddit works. Yes my post is not for everyone and theres nothing wrong with someone who's priorities are not a well invested wardrobe.
The worst part is I don't disagree with everything you're saying but the way you present yourself and your argument makes it hard to put any stock into what you're saying. And before you come in here complaining about how nasty reddit is I'd like to remind you that the first line of your first response in this thread was
See i respect the way you typed without sarcasm, with some actual form of debate and attempt to understand another viewpoint and present your own. I called that guy a mongoloid cause he was acting like one with his grippingly sarcastic yet ironically idiotic reply. I'll treat you with the respect and time you give others. Idiot guy got an idiot response, actually more then he actually deserved.
Not trying to prove everyone wrong, just enjoying some debate and exploring a train of thought. You made some good points too. Im not angry typing all of this lol i love talking about it its my hobby.