How To Sell A Dumpster Divin Makeup

Women are using Facebook and online trade venues to sell well-known cosmetic brands at disbelieve prices, but buyers may not be getting what's printed on the characterization.

East Valley mom Brittanie Masters is auctioning designer cosmetics out of her living room on a Facebook group, and she'southward making a pretty penny.

"Girls are crazy about the stuff," Masters said. She said she'south made up to $450 in one day. Some of what she's selling is 100 percent profit because she pulled it from a dumpster. On her posts, Masters said she uses the abbreviation DD to indicate the makeup came from dumpster diving, but she said buyers tin can't be sure who is selling what online.

"People want to endeavour information technology earlier they actually buy at total toll," Masters said. "It could've come from 100 people and and then came dorsum to me, only they don't really ask."

Several websites including Glambot, Mercari, MUABS, and Facebook groups allow the auction of used cosmetics.

"It's not as crazy to me anymore considering people volition sell the stuff and brand a lot of coin, and if something is discontinued, they could jack up the cost twice the corporeality of retail," Masters said

Masters and other sellers are too inspired past YouTube stars, who make videos about dumpster diving for cosmetics.

YouTuber Jessica Casler said she fabricated videos to enhance awareness about waste in the beauty product manufacture. She said some retailers throw abroad customer returns and makeup testers, as well as products that are damaged, expired, or discontinued.

Casler thinks some of these products could be donated instead. Casler also said store employees volition endeavor to destroy products to prevent them from ending upwardly on the blackness market place.

"I've been told not to do it simply by a thing called souping, which is when employees of these places volition put bleach, or shampoo, or foundation, or any information technology is, to mess up the production to deter dumpster divers from taking the products," Casler said. Casler said she simply cleaned and sanitized the "souped" products herself before using or selling them.

"There was a point when I was doing those online sites, similar Poshmark and Depop, where I was selling them," Casler said.

Ulta Beauty is one of the dumpster defined' favorite spots. A company spokeswoman told ABC15, "We strongly discourage the retrieval of discarded items no longer fit for sale." She stressed "wellness and safety is a top priority."

Police force in Scottsdale, Mesa, and Chandler tell the ABC15 investigators that dumpster diving is also illegal in their cities.

"It is unsanitary and unsafe," Scottsdale Sgt. Ben Hoster said. "We don't desire people getting in at that place and getting cut, being injured, or getting infected by some illness."

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Law officers in several other cities warn dumpster divers could be stopped for trespassing.

Masters said she had been briefly stopped by the police one time, just she only got a alarm. She said the thrill the hunt keeps her going.

"It's fun to come up home and encounter what you lot got," Masters said.