My brother stole the majority of my clothing and sold it online so that he could build up his online

thrifting business. And now, after losing thousands of dollars worth of clothing, I'm now demanding

that my brother pay me back for the clothing that he stole from me, because right now I am incredibly

frustrated and I don't know what to do. Here's what happened. I'm a 28-year-old female, and when I

moved back to my dad's house after losing my house last spring, I brought the majority of my clothing with me and stored it in my room. I left everything in my room, and I packed one bag to travel across the country for a work opportunity in the summer. When I came home at the beginning of this year, my bedroom had clearly been picked through, and my 26-year-old brother told me that he cleaned it for me. When I asked where all my clothing was, he told me that he'd stored them in the attic, and I had no reason not to trust him, although I couldn't understand why he would do that. I had immediately launched into another job that dominated my time, and I knew a lot of my stuff was still in a storage unit,

so I really didn't think about it. I told myself it was either in the attic or still in the storage.

Well, I cleaned out my storage unit and realized that I had actually brought most of my wardrobe back.

At the same time, my brother moved out. I asked him about the stuff in the attic over text messaging,

and he told me he thought

more stuff was in there than there was, and then apologized to me. And at this point, I realized

that he had lied to me. I knew that he had an online thrifting business spanning across multiple

platforms. I couldn't find most of his accounts, but I found one, and he was actively selling

several things of mine. And I could see in the history that he had been selling things quite soon after I left for

my seasonal job in 2003.

However, the history was only of items where the buyers had left reviews.

I confronted him in person and he doubled down and said he donated many of my items

that I had previously left behind when I was in a stage where I was

moving often for school or storing things in my bedroom. He claimed he had not touched anything

since 2022 and had no idea where any of these newer items were. But it's incredibly obvious that

he's lying. He never admitted to selling anything online and gave me his account info for websites he would sell stuff on all much later in the evening.

Now, at that point, I saw he had removed the items from eBay he was actively selling that were mine.

So I'm sure that he did that for the other websites he sells on too.

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