Settling secondhand sales
Pricing symbolic items in an emergent online marketplace environment
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5614925 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ryan Fajardo (0009-0003-1341-1925, Department of Sociology Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 260-277 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.13168 |
| PMID | 39551649 |
| OpenAlex | W4404455470 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 46 |
How do sellers on online marketplaces determine agreeable prices? This question is a theoretical concern for sociologists but a professional one for secondhand clothing resellers. Thousands of resellers across the United States purchase items from physical secondhand clothing sources and then resell them for a profit on sites such as Depop, Etsy, and Poshmark. They confront two pricing challenges: secondhand clothing items are aesthetic items of non-standard, uncertain quality, and online marketplaces offer limited explicit institutional support to back pricing claims. I analyze interviews and fieldwork to theorize how resellers price items for sale on online marketplaces. Resellers gain knowledge of secondhand community values and online marketplace technologies via immersion into offline (local reselling networks and secondhand sources) and online spaces (social media and the marketplaces themselves). Resellers selectively draw on these sources of pricing knowledge to deploy similar but varied pricing practices. These situated valuation practices reveal how resellers rely on reselling community structures and reflexively invoke pricing displays on marketplace interfaces to price secondhand clothing. These practices increase confidence in exchange as resellers can suitably justify the prices of material goods to online marketplace participants with varying levels of knowledge and experience
Business · Clothing · Economics · Microeconomics · Pricing strategies · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Marketing
Pricing Beauty
Valuing the Unique
Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs
Calculation, qualculation, calqulation
The Organization of Markets
Trade and Transformations of Secondhand Clothing
The Aesthetic Economy
The Price of Art
Online Sales and Business Model Innovation in Art Markets
The work of shopping
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces
The political economy of price and status formation in the Bordeaux en primeur market
Where do prices come from? Sociological approaches to price formation
Network embeddedness in illegal online markets
Price as a Market Device
Conceptual limits of performativity
Towards a unified theory of market prices
Price display technologies and price ceiling policies
From Goodwill to Grunge
Vintage, the First 40 Years
Brick-and-Platform
Subordination and Legitimation of Self-Publishing
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
The Social Characterizations of Price
A Status-Based Model of Market Competition
The Meaning of Price in World Markets
Revisiting marketization
Economization, part 1
Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices
The economy of qualities
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets
Strategies of valuation
The social order of markets
Knowledge and valuation in markets
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |