As Chi says, second-hand shops were already seen as another sales avenue overseas, as well as providing shopaholics somewhere to offload some of their stash. But in Taiwan, where the market for big names was still in its infancy, it was still unclear if there would be a market for these same brands second-hand.
齊亞汎表示，當時在國外，寄買二手商品早被視為很平常的銷售管道，也讓一些精品大戶能消化自己的戰利品；但對於名牌市場尚處於貧乏狀態的台灣，有多少人能認同二手名牌價值，還是個大問號。