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UPtown Cheapskate will be opening very soon in the Raleigh, NC area. The store will be located above Bada Wings in Mission Valley. Wednesday May 25th they will start buying back your name brand like-new clothes. Uptown Cheapskate offers gently worn brand name fashion at a fraction of the prices paid in malls, department stores and specialty boutiques.

Uptown Cheapskate provides a new way to shop. We stand behind the tag lines “buy sell exchange” and “our cash, your clothes …lets trade”. Our concept is quite simple. We buy and sell gently worn like new items at prices that everyone can get excited about. Free People, True Religion, Roxy, American Eagle and Steve Madden are some of the brand names that they’re looking for.
Uptown Cheapskate pays cash on the spot for the items that we’re able to sale and offers to donate any remaining items that you bring in. The core customers are male and female between the ages of 13-35. Someone with a great fashion sense but that may be unwilling to spend tons of money on brand name clothing.

Uptown Cheapskate is a second-hand store without the usual grunge and clutter, with clean lines and well-organized racks of clothes -- topped by a funky selection of shoes, bags and accessories. But as with any second-hand store, the adventure is seeing what treasures are buried among the other stuff.

5/13/2011 10:31:45 AM

nice


its good to see someone moving in above bada, seems like a cool spot.

hope it works out!



[Edited on May 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM. Reason : obligatory BUY AN AD!!!!]

5/13/2011 10:35:00 AM

just when you thought "Plato's Closet" was a terrible name...

5/13/2011 10:35:40 AM

why is it called plato's closet anyway?

5/13/2011 10:39:13 AM

haha no idea but these people seem to really know what they're doing. It will be a lot more organized and cleaner than a Plato's

5/13/2011 10:41:39 AM

can't believe they finally have tenant for that space after all these years

5/13/2011 10:44:06 AM

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"Free People, True Religion, Roxy, American Eagle and Steve Madden are some of the brand names that they’re looking for. "

At least one of these things is not like the other.

5/13/2011 10:46:11 AM

i was hoping for something better in that space. oh well.

5/13/2011 10:59:06 AM

MISSION VALLEY IS IN NO WAY UPTOWN. DECEIVING NAME IS DECEIVING.

5/13/2011 11:13:53 AM

wasn't there supposed to be a huge sports bar opening in that space at one point? And whatever happened to the Kroger?

5/13/2011 11:35:36 AM

the problem with that place is there is no running water or plumbing hookups.

5/13/2011 11:49:23 AM

I hate these kinds of stores, mostly because I have no sense of style so they don't want my old stuff. Also I'm not 16 anymore so I have no use for sleazy clothes.

5/13/2011 2:44:59 PM

hey so now when my work shirts are still wet in the dryer i can just show up anyway and run upstairs real quick


awesome


in all seriousness though i'm very excited that something is finally going in that space so i can stop fielding questions about it. got to the point i was just making shit up because i got so sick of "the real reasons" of which i only had a vague idea to begin with

5/14/2011 1:43:49 PM

owners are extremely cool people. true story.

5/14/2011 2:16:16 PM

whats the rent for that place? I've heard its ridiculously overpriced

5/14/2011 4:14:08 PM

I always thought it would be a kick ass place for a gym...but the whole "no plumbing" thing ruined that

in slightly related news -- my friend who works for Sheetz corporate said they're looking in to buying the old Blockbuster and the Burger King and setting up a Sheetz there

5/15/2011 12:17:09 AM

Uptown is proabably a relative term. It's opening by the end of this week.

5/23/2011 1:58:21 PM

I really don't see the MV owners giving the green light on a gas station, though it would be nice and a pretty lucrative spot

5/23/2011 2:32:13 PM

How is uptown a relative term? If you consider Raleigh as a town, then geographically "uptown" would be north Raleigh. North Hills would be mid-town, and the city center with all the big buildings would be downtown (as it is already rightfully called).


lol, "uptown"

[Edited on May 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM. Reason : h]

5/23/2011 3:46:48 PM

People seem to think "uptown" is somehow classier. My sister gets offended when people refer to downtown Charlotte as "downtown" rather than "uptown". I'm pretty sure it's still downtown though certainly correct me if I'm wrong.

5/23/2011 3:53:32 PM

Uptown was born of the fear that telling someone you were "going downtown" indicated an imminent act of oral sex.

This is common knowledge.

5/23/2011 3:57:15 PM

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"The term uptown often refers to a specific portion of a city in contrast with the local downtown area. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. The uptown neighborhood or neighborhoods, separated from the city's lower or central business district, may often be residential, sometimes with particularly upscale or fashionable connotation. Such uptown areas may not necessarily be located to the north of or at a higher elevation than the downtown, regardless of designation. In addition, the name Uptown has multiple meanings: Neighborhoods or regions in several cities United States Charlotte center city ("Uptown Charlotte"), North Carolina "

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"Uptown/Downtown"There is much confusion brought about by the use of the terms "Uptown" and "Downtown" for Charlotte's center city area. These terms do not reference different areas of town and are thus interchangeable. The history of the dual names is contested, yet prior to the mid-late 1980s, the term "Downtown" was used by residents, media and city leaders for the center city. During the 1980s, after the release of Uptown Girl by musician Billy Joel, first released in 1983, a massive campaign was launched to revamp the image of the downtown area and the term "Uptown" was introduced to the general public. On February 14, 1987 the Charlotte Observer began using the term "Uptown" as a way to promote a more positive upbeat image of the center city area.[3] School teachers were provided with "historical" documents justifying use of the term to teach to students.{Proclaimation designating central shopping and business district as Uptown Charlotte by City of Charlotte Mayor John M. Belk on September 23, 1974} Though many feel that the term "Uptown Charlotte" is a new term in the last 10 years, local residents from three or more generations past will attest to having called the center city area Uptown their entire lives.[citation needed] This is due to the main intersection in the original center city, Trade St. & Tryon St., having been the point of highest elevation. When people would come from outlying areas to the city, they would say they were going 'up to town', a phrase that was eventually shortened to 'Uptown'. "

5/23/2011 4:04:54 PM

Nice find, wikipedia is blocked here

5/23/2011 4:18:19 PM

Quote :

"i was hoping for something better in that space. oh well"

5/23/2011 5:33:49 PM

They're starting buy backs today. Take your clothes in and make some money!

5/26/2011 10:01:49 AM

Quote :

"The history of the dual names is contested, yet prior to the mid-late 1980s, the term "Downtown" was used by residents, media and city leaders for the center city. During the 1980s, after the release of Uptown Girl by musician Billy Joel, first released in 1983, a massive campaign was launched to revamp the image of the downtown area and the term "Uptown" was introduced to the general public."

Further proof that southerners just don't get it.

5/26/2011 1:56:05 PM

The point of the post wasn't to discuss birth of the term "Uptown" but thank you for your Google detective work. We're all far more enlightened than before.

5/31/2011 1:00:49 PM

they turned that one around nice and quickly, only submitted the design for permitting like a month and a half ago. guess they were pretty serious about getting this up and running asap.

5/31/2011 1:05:32 PM

^^that discussion was much more interesting anyway

5/31/2011 5:23:59 PM

one time I was at Mission Valley, I think around the Blockbuster, and saw some fat homeless black lady stop by a tree and just take a shit, then keep walking

5/31/2011 6:20:18 PM

bump

6/7/2011 10:52:00 AM

it is one thing to post an ad thread (you know...instead of just buying one). It is another to bump it when there has been next to no discussion on the store.

if people have clothes to sell and/or cheap, they will find it.

6/7/2011 10:58:50 AM

no u

6/7/2011 4:31:48 PM

bump bump

6/7/2011 5:33:57 PM

i'm one of the people that says downtown charlotte to subtly annoy charlotte people

6/7/2011 6:14:33 PM

when does this shit open?

6/7/2011 6:58:01 PM

^^if i hear someone say they're going Uptown I assume they're going to the Cabaret

6/7/2011 8:12:23 PM

I like brunch there

6/7/2011 8:42:11 PM

everytime i read this thread title it makes me want cheesecake

6/7/2011 8:43:27 PM

oreo cheesecake from the cheesecake factory?

6/7/2011 8:55:29 PM

im more of a fruity cheesecake person

6/7/2011 9:00:59 PM

strawberry cheesecake from the cheesecake factory?

if you haven't had the oreo, go try it...you'll run it off later

6/7/2011 9:02:52 PM

They're open to buy clothes back now. They'll open to sell at the end of July. Yum, cheesecake.

6/27/2011 5:45:12 PM

anyone have success here? i have a pair of shorts i bought out of state at gap awhile ago but when i tried them on again back here at home i didn't like them as much as i did in the store. i was thinking about taking them there so i'd at least get something for them.

6/27/2011 6:00:14 PM

I want them to open now I need some new threads

6/27/2011 6:01:13 PM

out of state? wtf just take them back to any gap

it's a corporation, thats part of the benefit of shopping there-- you can return stuff at any store

6/27/2011 6:03:51 PM

i don't have the tags on it or receipt and it was from an outlet. i'd rather drive to one of these kinds of places than drive an hour to an outlet.

[Edited on June 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM. Reason : ]

6/27/2011 6:04:56 PM

ah, yes. then you're stuck

6/27/2011 6:08:08 PM

It's officially opened and has some great stuff. Worth checking out.

7/29/2011 5:34:50 PM