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By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (July 19, 2011) – Baguio’s famed “ukay-ukay” (second-hand or pre-loved clothes and commercial items) is enjoying hundred-folds of brisk business via internet. With just a digital camera and a Facebook account, “Mitch”, who has since gone on-line to sell her “ukays” gets as high as P20,000 profit a day.…

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com There’s more to ukay-ukay than the democratization of fashion. The industry that sprouted out of second hand clothes generates millions in income for sellers, and saves millions more for the people who buy from them In a thesis titled Economics of Secondhand Retail Trade: An Analysis of the Market…