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PSA: Soft Tags

Some days I can clean out Sephora in under 5 minutes without any problem and the SAs thank me for coming in while I walk out with hundreds of dollars worth of product

Other days I get some SA who decides to stalk me even when I don’t act sus and they’ll be up on me like a police officer on a donut and I can’t even snag a lipstick

Bring your laptop, notebooks, highlights/pens, or something to look like you will be there a while.

Order a drink or snack.

Sit down and eat and browse your phone or something. Look non-sus and like a normal customer.

Leave your stuff at your table (but keep an eye on it! Don’t want your stuff stolen) and browse their cups, snacks and stuff like that.

Here’s the beautiful little thing about this method: it’s not stealing if you bring what you want to your table. pick what you want up and bring it to your table. If someone confronts you about it say that you were gonna pay for it when you left. Remember, you haven’t committed a crime there yet so they have no reason to do you like this. But if someone does this, especially an employee, I’d recommend not going through with it. But if it’s just a nosy customer wait for them to leave and finish your heist.

Stay at your table a bit longer, act like a normal customer and all that jazz. Then, put your goodies in your bag like you totally paid for them and aren’t stealing them and then leave with your new cups and/or treats 🙂

but I don’t recommend taking snacks. they usually want you to pay for them the minute you pick it up

Bring your laptop, notebooks, highlights/pens, or something to look like you will be there a while.

Order a drink or snack.

Sit down and eat and browse your phone or something. Look non-sus and like a normal customer.

Leave your stuff at your table (but keep an eye on it! Don’t want your stuff stolen) and browse their cups, snacks and stuff like that.

Here’s the beautiful little thing about this method: it’s not stealing if you bring what you want to your table. pick what you want up and bring it to your table. If someone confronts you about it say that you were gonna pay for it when you left. Remember, you haven’t committed a crime there yet so they have no reason to do you like this. But if someone does this, especially an employee, I’d recommend not going through with it. But if it’s just a nosy customer wait for them to leave and finish your heist.

Stay at your table a bit longer, act like a normal customer and all that jazz. Then, put your goodies in your bag like you totally paid for them and aren’t stealing them and then leave with your new cups and/or treats 🙂

but I don’t recommend taking snacks. they usually want you to pay for them the minute you pick it up

Small accessories haul 

Kxte Spade watch $97

Nxdri thick bracelet x2 $300

Nxdri thin bracelet x1 $25

since theres a 50/50 chance we might get deleted or flagged or whatever, yall should move to PEACH!!!

“aw that’s kinda cute but you shouldn’t feel bad!!! me and my dad steal all the time. he hates corporate greed.” 

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I figured I’d make a part 2 to my old boosting tips post because that post is old (but did SO well. It’s still circulating a year later) and I have more information now! The things in this post will be stuff a bit more nuanced than usual boosting tips and things I only learned after a year of boosting now. So hopefully these will help you put your best foot forward even if you’re just starting out!

1. Choose the cover photo WISELY. I know this sounds obvious, but it goes a little deeper than just making sure it shows the product without being blurry. It’s important to know which photo of the item will work best depending on what it is. For example, if the packaging is ugly, but the inside of the item isn’t, post the inside as the cover photo! Even if people don’t know what it is, a pretty photo of the inside will make them click and look further. Once, I was selling an Smashbox palette that had relatively plain/ugly packaging and I was using the packaging as the cover photo and it hadn’t sold. Once I changed the cover photo to a pic of the inside, where the pans of shadow were big and sparkly, it sold within a few days.

2. Separate yourself from the pack. The best example I can use for this is Instax cameras. There’s TONS of Instax cameras for sale on Posh/Mercari/Ebay and all of the listings are relatively the same. I make my Instax’s sell faster than others by including an extra set of film with it, even if it’s just a 10-pack. It’s even better if the film is the colorful/black and white kind, because this is unusual. Make sure both the camera and the extra set of film are BOTH in the cover photo. Another tip for this is trying to lift a unique color (the light greens go FAST and are hard to find). If you’re selling a palette during Christmas time, try to drop the price by $5 from the rest of the listings and take a photo of the product with some Christmas lights or something. This makes yours the one everyone’s eyes go to when they search for that specific palette and a billion similar listings show up.

3. Make bundle discounts and advertise it by making it a separate listing. I see people on Posh do this all the time. Download a text on photo app, make a pic of text that says, for example, “bundle any 3 $20 items and receive an offer for all for $40!” and post it to your page, then share it enough to keep the post at the top of your closet. Make posts that say you’re having a closet clear out and all offers will be considered (even if you don’t plan to consider all offers).

4. Try not to get offended by lowball offers. Lowball offers at least let you know that people are interested, and if you counter with your lowest offer (even if the offer is a lot higher than their lowball offer) sometimes people still accept it because they only lowballed you to see how low you would go. The more items you sell and the cheaper you sell them for, the more offers you will get. The more offers you get, the more exposure you get. The more exposure you get means eventually you’ll sell most of your things for face value.

5. Write in the description of the item what it comes with. Even if it’s just a palette, write, “comes with box, plastic protective sleeve over shadows, original brush,” etc. Also, utilize the term “still in original packaging” as much as possible.

6. Make a theme on your page just like you do with your Instagram. Either make a set-up for your photos where you take all of the pictures of your items, or make sure the lighting/color tones and schemes are similar. This might sound silly but it makes your page more appealing to the eye, which in turn makes people more inclined to scroll down it to see all of the items you have to offer, not just the things you’ve recently listed/shared.

7. Similar to that ^, try to make your listings cohesive item-wise (but not so cohesive that they’re all the same and you have no variety.) For example, if you’re selling an Instax, pick up some film too and in the description of the camera listing write, “check out my closet for separate deals on film. Bundle & save!” If you lift a Urban Decay lipstick, try lifting a lipgloss/liquid lipstick in the same or similar shades. These lip products are in the same vein and will make people more likely to bundle or, ifthey see the lipstick and think to themselves, “man I wish they had this but in lipgloss instead of lipstick,” you’ll have that too.

8. The best times to list/share your listings seem to be Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. Also lunch breaks during weekdays (11pm-1pm). Saturday and Sunday are when people are most inclined to buy because they’ve recently been paid, and lunch breaks are when most people are on their phones scrolling aimlessly.

Holiday bills are creeping up, so I hit up a couple of drug stores, Winners, and Sephora for some boosting goods (and maybe a couple items for myself 🤷)

At my mall, we have trees with felt ornaments with both needs and wants of local children who are in need. And something drew me to it today and I grabbed an ornament from a 13 year old girl who’s only requests were a sports bra and hygiene items as needs, and art supplies as a want. Something hit me in the heart and i knew I had to spoil this girl

I didnt take pics or do a price thing because I’m lazy, but I will at least lift what I’ve gotten for her

2 p!nk sports bras (she listed just D but no band size, so I got mediums since they fit me and I’m DD)

2 p!nk boyshort panties

A big water bottle

A unicorn umbrella (rains a lot here, always nice to have)

A five pack of Steven universe ankle socks

A babw rose shower gel

A babw love rose and vanilla body cream

A bubble face mask (I have the same one and I love it)

A vanilla lip balm

So here’s someone else’s caught story

This time one of the girls was with a different friend. I recognised the first girl’s purple hair streak instantly though. My manager already knows about them

Her friend kept looking up at the ceiling for cams, even though purple streak been here before multiple times (seriously, memorise your blindspots).

I told my manager they’re in the store and to check her bag when she left (I really didn’t know at that point if she stole this time or not, I had to serve other customers too) but the girls took their time

When they finally stepped out the door giggling (seriously learn to be subtle) my manager asked to check their bags. Purple streak’s friend said something like “sorry we have nothing!!” and ran for it lmao. The police must’ve been called bc they were rounding the corner. Purple streak probably saw them bc she didn’t run and surrendered her bag. She had two scented highlighters and a keychain, very palmable items and was all “I’m so sorry it was a dare from my friend”. I told her we “may have cam footage of you taking stuff in the past as well” (a lie, our cameras don’t work) and she went all quiet. Then HER FRIEND, WHO COULDVE GOTTEN CLEAN AWAY, CAME BACK. SHE CAME BACK AND WAS LIKE “[name], lets go!” Bruh. You literally walked back to the police.

I went back to serve customers and as my manager was talking to the police, who had both the girls now. at some point purple streak started crying.

My manager later told me the girl confessed she’s taken stuff before.

I would’ve felt bad but if purple streak hadn’t been making stupid racist remarks about me and my appearance last time, I would’ve let them get away with it

They would’ve also gotten away with it anyway if they hadn’t taken 20 minutes in the store. Probably if they both ran too.

like, do you lift sistas have excess of anything just kinda sitting around but you can’t throw it away bc it’s still useful?

for me it’s sheets, pillows, jojoba oil, coconut oil, dog shampoo, urine remover, phone chargers, wireless mice, toothpaste, mouthwash, body wash, toilet paper, and paper towels. like.. they’re gonna be useful eventually hahah. but i have backups for my backups mainly bc i’m crazy so.

You guys OMFG . Okay so I read a tip from a fellow lifter on here (sorry I forgot who it was if anyone knows who please give them credit) anyway I read a tip on here that a girl CALLED her local Sephor@ pretending to want to work for the store as LP

I myself decided to try this so I called my local Sephor@ and pretended to be looking for a job in LP at their store

Not only did she tell me that they don’t have LP but she also told me which stores DO have LP in the mall I go to. ✨✨

I WAS SO SHOOK. 😵😵

Not only that but I pretended to be looking for a shade of foundation that always seems to be out of stock (when I go) so I asked when do they normally get shipments in and she told me right away with no problems .

In hindsight I probably should have asked if there was a lot of theft in the area . But oh well I’ll call back another day and pretend to be someone else and ask.

Anyway I HIGHLY recommend doing this for your store .

P.S while there are great tips on here about Sephor@ u NEED to learn the in and outs of ur own Sephor@ . Just because someone’s location doesn’t have LP doesn’t mean yours won’t .