I just wanted to add my experience about Julia Rose. I fully believe that everyone has the right to share their experiences. But, it's important to keep in mind that even the best businesses make mistakes and have the occasional unhappy customer. And people are more likely to leave a negative review, understandably because they are upset and want to vent, than to leave a positive one because everything went well as it should. So, I hope ppl consider that when seeing the negative to positive review ratio on this thread. Not discounting anyone's negative experience at all though. I started consigning with Julia Rose in 2020. And for the person who said she only seems to care about / pay attention to bloggers, influencers, or people who sell / spend on super high end handbags, I haven't found that to be the case at all. I'm a regular person with like 600 followers on IG and the bags I consigned were in the mid-level designer range, all pre-loved. Most of them in the $2-3K range. I never felt like I was getting less attention because I wasn't considered "important enough". Her and her team were almost always pretty quickly responsive in communication whenever I emailed with questions. I will admit, once or twice there were frustrations when it came to payouts and feeling like it was taking longer than it should and required me to follow up, but to be honest, I never felt like they were trying to evade me or anything shady, it just felt like the company had rapidly expanded and they weren't quite prepared for this business boom and some things were falling through the cracks. With that being said, when I did email about that (or anything else), they always responded quickly and gave me updates. Even then, I've sold 4 or 5 bags with her now and it's never taken me longer than 2 weeks to be paid (sometimes within a week), which seems like a long time, but The Real Real takes 2 weeks at a minimum and up to 6 weeks to payout depending on which day of the month you sold. Tradesy takes like 3 weeks to payout. I also follow Julia Rose's IG stories and there were times over the last year where it felt like a couple of my bags weren't being shown often enough, when I reached out and asked for my bag to be featured again, I was always met with a quick email response and within a few days, my bag was featured again, including styled in an actual post on their main feed once, which was really cool. I get it, any time you spend a huge sum of money on a bag, or you send a high valued bag off to someone to sell, it can be SO nerve-wracking because the designer resale industry is rampant with frauds and people with bad intentions, BUT I've never once felt like Julia Rose or her team were shady or not to be trusted. In my experiences, I've always found them to have integrity and when they mess up, to admit their mistakes and apologize for them. Sorry, for the novel lol! Just wanted to give a full account. Lastly, for the person who asked how they are able to get so many new bags for pre-order, i.e. the new camera bag, I can't say for sure as I have no idea what their actual connections are. BUT, I will say that Julia Rose is based out of both Boston & London, and this next part I could be wrong on this, but I believe I saw that at one point prior to starting her business, she worked for a high end designer. Naturally, all of this comes with a lot of connections. I'd be willing to bet she has trusted SAs in Boston, London and all over the world. So, that doesn't feel as strange to me. I think she has quite a few avenues to source from. But, that's just my two cents!
