Tag Exchange – Black Friday – EVERY DAY!

Here’s the situation:

You and your chick are shopping at your local Ross, money is tight, as always, but you need some sweaters for winter, and a decent coat. She’s dying for that Designer bag that costs twenty times what you two can afford. So you’re windows shopping, because you obviously can’t afford the stuff you want, or can you?

You can, because I’m about to put you on to, drum roll….. A SECRET.

Stores use tags, which consist of a piece of paper and a little plastic deal that connects it to the item. Have you ever thought, “That tag, should be on that jacket.” Let’s make it happen!

I’m sure you have an idea of how to get the job done already, but I’m writing an article here and I’m going to explain it to you. You shouldn’t worry about the physical changing of the tags, you should worry about the cashier, is she a label whore?

TOOLS NEEDED:
An exacto blade, or a sharp(pref. small) pocket knife
Balls

Ok, so now we know what we want, and we’re walking around the store checking stuff out. If you could find tags that are of the same brand, only cheaper – that would be nice. Also, if you’re shopping for profit, and you have a $400 item, you need a tag that is decent, like 23.99 not 4.99. If you’re shopping for yourself, you can put whatever price you want on there. I personally like my 15 dollar Dickies and my 3 for ten black Hanes shirts. I just get designer goodies for profit, or to get my girl some of the cooler things in life, things undeserving, spoiled, little label whores have, but she can’t afford.

Here are some of my recent Ebay auctions:

A nice ass Briggs & Riley Carry On – $33.00

Two Juicy Couture Jackets – bought for $18.99 each:
Juicy 1
Juicy 2
The second one was actually ended early for $250.00

Two Michael Kors Purses – around $12-15 Each
Kors 1
Kors 2

Note to Ebay: I bought all of these items at full price.

It’s pretty simple really, but there are a few tips I’ve learned over time. Get your items, you don’t need to hide anywhere or anything because nobody knows what you’re doing messing with tags, if you’re slow enough to have a bunch of people looking at you, you might not be cut out for this. In the beginning, look for some tags with prices you can afford, if they are the same brand, perfect. For example, a Juicy Couture wallet tag, to put on a Juicy Couture jacket, get it? I use the same style area, all purses are rang up as “Accessories”, while all sweaters would be, “Outer Wear”, see what I mean?

So gather up some tags, and find whatever you want to buy, I just do it right there wherever I find the item. Take your exacto blade(I wrap some electric tape around the bottom so I don’t cut my pretty hands)and make a small slice in the tag(s) you plan to put on your item(s), the other tag(tag you’re using) can just be ripped off because you don’t need to attach it. Tear the top of the tag on the item you’re buying, so you don’t bother the plastic that will attach your new tag. Now, you have a clean insert to put your new tag onto the piece of plastic, without making it look all fucked up, understand?

Now, you’ve marked down one or two items, or if you’re real stupid, three or four. I like to keep it around one or two because, for one item, you can say you found it like that, but if you have seven items all marked down to ridiculously low prices, well, you get the picture. Even if you do, the worst thing that has ever happened to us is an awkward, “Oh they’re THAT MUCH? Never mind then.”

You’ll be banned from the store forever.

Another thing is stickers, in places like Marshall’s, they have these red clearance stickers, the Briggs And Riley bag had one of those red stickers on it. There is an art form to grifting however, you can’t just be any tool off the street.

Some side notes: If you throw tags everywhere, you’re going to ruin the store, because they will realize what’s going on, and it will go out to all the stores, then you’ll be fucking me, and why would you want to do that?

It took 2 days to find the deals above, and 7 days to auction it off.

Conclusion:

A lot of cool stuff can be acquired this way, but you need to practice it as an art form, kind  of like that “Master Pick Up Artist” show. Grifting allows you freedom, but if you get caught doing stupid shit, you will lose that freedom. Don’t be a fool.

GOOD LUCK!