Wasteland

Really unfortunate that a great store like this has such a «downer» staff. Came in here to sell and shop around. Sales people look like they’re on a thorazine drip. No greeting. No smiles. No eye contact. Very dead-​pan, closed-​off, and rude.
Will take my business elsewhere… perhaps to any one of the other 100 resale shops on the street and in the city.

First time attempting to sell and it was such a horrible experience I never want to step foot in this place forever LOL.
I read other people’s reviews about the bad attitude of their employees and it is all true how they are lazy, slow, do not want to look over your clothes, acting like they are doing you a favor for doing their job. I was not helped even tho the store was literally like a graveyard. I had to approach an employee for help, «disturbing» her online shopping sesh.
Store employees acting like they work at Chanel. Ironic that the shop is called wasteland bc that really is this case lol
Just go to buffalo exchange. At least they will buy ur items and are nice about it.

Great selection of Designer & Vintage thats decently priced for what it’s supposed to be! Also, employees are super helpful and fashionable when it comes to questions. Def my favorite 2^nd hand shop in the SFC!!!
Also smells hella good for being a second hand store, almost like the Sheraton.

Yaeesss this place was great!!!
This is one of my favorite shopping shots around the Haight Ashbury area. Other stores can run a little grungy/​worn down for my liking but this place has clothes to compliment all kinds of styles. I found some designer jeans here for $ 30 that fit me perfectly. My feet are also a bit too big (darn you size 11’s!), but they have a GREAT shoe selection, particularly if boots are your thing.

RIPOFF
Here’s an idea: Buy a bunch of cheap T-​shirts from thrift stores, garage sales, remainder sales, etc., put them through the wash a bunch of times to make them look older and raggedier, multiply their original (new) price by several times, and — voila! If you look carefully, Wasteland has five or six pairs of the same shoes that they are trying to pass off as unique or special. Some of the other vintage shops along this strip have much more genuine merchandise, at way better prices.

Wasteland is an interesting shop where they have gently used designer clothing, as well as vintage clothing as well. There are a lot of good labels here like Acne, Joie, Marc by Marc Jacobs etc. but as with all second hand stores you gotta come back frequently since inventory can vary.
I would say given the original prices of these brands the prices here are reasonable although not dirt cheap (this isn’t goodwill)! There were some gorgeous dresses and shorts but some of the jackets were a bit too trendy for me.

Shopping experience here is great, as long as you don’t expect any customer service. Selling experience is completely ridiculous. Note: I used to be a buyer for a fashion company, and while I prefer dressing unobtrusively, I own and buy nice stuff.
The one time I tried to sell here, here’s what happened:
The buyer looks me up and down and then puts my stuff on the counter. I leave to browse the store. 3 minutes later the buyer finds me and tells me they aren’t taking anything. I take my stuff and leave. When I get home, I see that my neatly folded clothes are completely untouched in the bags I took in.
If the buyers here are getting paid to judge ineffectively, they are nailing it. If they’re being paid to, you know, buy stuff, then Wasteland might want to invest in some new employees.

The worst thing you can do in a store like Wasteland is be rushed and not in the mood to do some serious sifting.
And even though I did exactly those two things I still had a pretty sharp experience here, enough so that I can guarantee my return when I have a need for clothing and have at least an hour to peruse and some expendable cash in my pocket.
This was yet another stop in my quest to find a ‘20s era costume, and though Wasteland is more resale than costume, they actually had a (sort of) dress that a little more than casually ripped and definitely 100% sheer and requiring a pretty heavy-​duty slip or under-​something, but in hindsight I probably should have bought because it was world’s cheaper than the costume quality dress I did get and it actually could have been turned into a pretty glitzy number if you had a needle, thread, and maybe an extra hour and half to sew some of the more tattered parts of the very delicate dress back together.
The dress I tried on was one I saw about 3 seconds after walking in on the first mannequin as you enter the shop. A guy behind the counter saw me eye some of the other personnel to inquire about the garment and came right over to assist me. He quickly took down the form, undressed it as I awkwardly looked on and then asked if he also felt weird about me watching him undress a rather shapely mannequin. He did not respond, so I can only assume that he either felt extremely uncomfortable or really really liked my peeping tom-​ness.
He set me up with a dressing room and I asked if I could peruse a bit more before going in… but that was before I realized that the racks are organized in kind of no particular order, era, or size, and that finding something else to fit my very specific needs for this shopping excursion might actually be harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
The dressing rooms are private and clean and though I opted not to get the dress due to its sheerness, I would come back in a heartbeat to not only spend some dough, but to totally swipe some their mannequin style because those inanimate models are actually pretty put together in a way that I some day hope to be.

vraiment, j’adore cette boutique qui me fait toujours dépenser de l’argent malgré moi. très bon rayon homme avec un choix très large de vestes en tout genre, chaussures, chemises, jeans, tees, les grandes marques cotoient les moins connues et les pièces uniques. une caverne d’ali baba pour tout shoppeur/​shoppeuse qui se respecte !
mais c’est cher, par contre !

This is easily one of my favorite consignment shops but sometimes a hit or miss…
Mostly everything is designer from Lanvin, Chloe, Marc Jacobs, etc for a VERY reasonable price. I’ve been to the one on Melrose but I prefer this location much more– I feel like there is a bigger selection of not only vintage designer, but you can also find really cool pieces that don’t have any name at all.
The space itself is really cool and open but is filled with so much merchandise that you would really have to take at least a good 30 – 40 minutes to go through everything. It is located towards the end of Haight. You can easily take a bus or Über from Union Square and it would be a 10 minute drive!