Elizabeth Nguyen, is a university student living in Sydney with aspirations of becoming a secondary school teacher and works hard as a Tutor to build her professional character. Beyond the classroom, She loves shopping and is a low-key impulse buyer – but she’s working on that too.
Tell us a bit about you!
I love dancing and have taken salsa classes. People find me to be confident, intelligent, and it’s really the thrill seekers in life that are people who inspire me – in any field of work.
I discovered my aspirations of becoming a teacher when I encountered a teacher who helped me get through School. Her help was invaluable both academically and socially, inspiring me to also be more than just an educator when I eventually get there, but also a friend and helper. So really, it was seeing the person I wanted to become in other people that helped me to uncover where I was ted to end up.
Why did you start using Carousell? What lead you to selling your clothes?
I started using Carousell when I was given a few weeks to move houses. The abrupt change of location meant I couldn’t and shouldn’t hoard everything. So I started selling clothes that were no longer fitting to my sense of style. 
Have you had any interesting or notable interactions with the Carousell community? Any stories to share?
One of my most interesting chats doesn’t really look like a story with a happy ending from the beginning but it was definitely a worthwhile learning curve for me. It started with a girl I got pissed at for listing disjointed, nonsensical prices for lipsticks/makeup. I was being a little sassy and publicly messaged her questioning her prices, especially when “here it says this, and then there it says this, what is it???”.
Anyways, she commented back on my post, saying I did the same thing. (Dress was listed for $30 but in the comment it was stated $40). I laughed because I obviously didn’t update my own sale’s post after deciding to reduce it. (To put it more simply, I originally listed it for 40, but reduced it to 30 but forgot to edit the “extra details” section”.
Retrospectively, it was an experience that I haven’t taken for granted as it shed light on my own bitchiness/arrogance, allowing me to really look into the mirror and facing myself. It taught me that I should be more careful and thoughtful when I list on Carousell.
Got any hot tips for Carousellers starting of? Of any tips on how to get sales?
Carousell definitely is something that will reward when you put in the effort. And really it’s not much effort to begin with to take a decent picture, write up a description and then post! It has been a good source of side income for me when I posted more often, and took more appealing posts. My main Carousell tip is to take photos of the clothes ON so you don’t hassle yourself later on.
Make sure it’s at least two photos because girls/guys want to see it on different angles.
