“Dior bag for sale. Still in gift packaging. Recommended for those looking for a gift for their wife or girlfriend.”
“I need to sell the diamond necklace my boyfriend gave me as a gift. We broke up so I need to sell it quickly.”
“Lion’s tooth for sale. It was a gift from my grandfather. It’s an antique.”
These days, I’m searching through the second-hand market, looking for a ‘Dior bag’. Then I realized that people live by giving and receiving gifts a lot. I guess there are many people who give ‘Dior bags’ and diamonds, saying, ‘It’s a small gift!’ When was the last time I gave or received a gift? For a moment, my face turned white as if I had looked straight at the sun. A gift. Another thing missing from my life. By the way, I wonder how the person who gave me the lion’s tooth, the foreign seller who wants to sell it for 290 million won, will explain to my grandfather the circumstances of how he ended up selling that precious gift for a Korean ‘carrot’.
In the ‘Carrot Universe (a new world of second-hand trading including digital and offline),’ the selling price of expensive items is determined by the presence or absence of ‘proof of authenticity’. If you can hand over all kinds of evidence showing that you shopped at an official boutique, you can get the full price of the new item, and sometimes even ‘fee’ (premium). Here, ‘proof’ includes a certificate of authenticity (guarantee card), labels, receipts, invoices (import certificates), envelopes with the brand neatly engraved, dust bags to prevent friction and dust, square pieces of paper wrapped around the product, boxes and silk ribbons that seem like they could be used as safes, and shopping bags (if they’re not wrinkled, they can be traded exclusively at Carrot for 10,000 won).
The engraving on the product and the certificate of authenticity must match. There was a dealer who was caught selling a fake watch with a real certificate of authenticity. He probably bought a genuine product for himself, and he knew that the ‘evidence’ he received at that time was the key to the price of second-hand goods, so he ‘inserted’ the fake watch with the certificate of authenticity and sold it. Although it varies depending on the brand and product, the engraving on the product is used to confirm the authenticity and to provide information necessary for repairs. For example, if a request for repair of a bag with an engraving date of 2024 comes in, the manufacturer will repair it with the same leather produced in 2024.
In fact, these are useless ‘evidences’, but they greatly affect the price. They affect approximately 10% to 30% of the product price. If there is no certificate of authenticity, receipt, box, etc., the transaction price is significantly lower. But what about gifts? Usually, you don’t give receipts with gifts. With the exception of moms who always try to get a refund, you tear the wrapping paper hard on the spot, open the gift, and spread it to express your utmost gratitude. It means, ‘I will keep it forever without exchange or refund.’ So, when there is an explanation that doesn’t necessarily need to be given in a second-hand transaction, ‘This is a gift,’ it often means that there is no ‘evidence’ of genuine purchase, such as a receipt. Or it could mean this, so be careful. ‘This item may be fake, but I want to sell it at the genuine price. I sold a real gift, so it’s not my responsibility even if it’s fake.’
Anyway, gifts are really contributing a lot to the activation of the second-hand market. You can see this just by looking at how many hand creams that are the most sold in the ‘Gift Giving’ section of the shopping platform appear in the ‘Sell Gifts’ section of the second-hand trading. It feels like a collaboration product between ‘Gift Giving’ and Carrot Market. If gifts become ‘carrots’ right away like this, can we call them ‘gift gangs’?
What if you want to give a gift that can’t be traded or ‘shared’? Give a book as a gift. Write your gratitude and name inside the book. Then, used book stores won’t accept it. Even in the used market where everything is sold and bought, books are ugly ducklings. You either keep the books you receive as gifts or throw them away. However, gift sales on used markets may decrease in the future. The Fair Trade Commission has started sanctions against Carrot Market for not collecting information on traders. If the seller’s information is disclosed, some people will be reluctant to sell gifts. I really want to get a Dior bag, though.
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