{"id":890018,"date":"2026-10-21T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890018\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:52:12","slug":"the-real-real-doesnt-just-want-to-sell-you-things-they-want-to-teach-you-how-to-dress-in-its-new-book-real-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Real Doesn’t Just Want to Sell You Things\u2014They Want to Teach You How to Dress In Its New Book, \u2018Real Style\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you think The RealReal can be unfairly made fun of? For example, once I sent in a wrap skirt to consign that got styled on the mannequin as a poncho. It sold quite quickly, though. Do you have a sense of humor about that stuff<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s definitely something we laugh at, and we\u2019ll send things around when we see them. We alert the teams, but also laugh about them. I have someone who works on my team who uses them as screen savers. We work really hard to minimize the amount of error. But the thing is, our rate of mistakes is under 1%. We process 1 million individual SKUs per month. What really blew my mind when I started working there was just the sheer human scale of the thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been to the New Jersey warehouse, and it\u2019s wild how big it is. Do you have favorite stories that people tell you?<\/p>\n

I always love the stories when a friend walks into another friend\u2019s party and the friend is wearing whatever shirt, and the other friend goes, \u201cDid you buy that on The RealReal?\u201d And the friend says, \u201cYeah.\u201d And the other friend goes, \u201cIt\u2019s mine.\u201d The other thing that happens, and though I can\u2019t name names, though I have some really funny ones, is the amount of times that, like, you really may be buying Kim Kardashian\u2019s Birkin<\/a> or whoever\u2019s thing.<\/p>\n