Wardrobe Oxygen<\/a> reminds us that it's still the Wild West in blogging and notes, \u201cthere's those who even find ads\/sponsorhips\/swags wrong for blogs, such variety out there in blog styles,\u201d while Beautifully Invisible takes a diplomatic approach saying, \u201cI think if you aren't abusing the trust of your readers\/companies use own judgement to sell\/donate.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMany larger blogs get around the problem by limiting gifted items to blog sponsors only\u2013insuring that they're receiving financial compensation for promotions on their site, while also receiving products.\u00a0\u00a0 This may be one of many possible solutions for bloggers as they look to building brand relations while paving a route to making their blog a paid, full-time job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
What are your thoughts on selling gifted, review, and promotional items?\u00a0 Is selling offline the path to happiness?\u00a0 Have you sold items before yourself?\u00a0 Do you feel firmly against it\u2013 I'd love to hear more great reasons as to why you feel it may be unethical (or feel it's totally okay!)!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last few weeks, the ethics of reselling gifted items has come up often. I’ve talked to bloggers who need to cull their wardrobe and feel conflicted or unethical about their desire to resell lightly worn review items . I’ve seen other bloggers list items in their blog-connected shop that I know for certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244708,"featured_media":177441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monetization"],"yoast_head":"\n
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