How we find luxury that's actually worth your money.
Merino is not a search engine with better filters. The pieces that make it into our catalog have been through a five-stage evaluation — and the vast majority of what we look at doesn't make it. Here's exactly what that looks like.
Hundreds of searches.
Around the clock.
We monitor eBay continuously, running queries across every brand, garment type, and size combination we track. The goal at this stage is simple: breadth. We want to see everything before we start dismissing most of it.
Each query returns up to 250 listings. Across all garment types, that's tens of thousands of candidates entering the pipeline every sweep cycle.
Most listings fail
right here.
Before anything reaches our AI, every listing runs through a set of hard filters. Brand signal must be confirmed — in the title and item specifics, not just inferred. Condition must be pre-owned good or excellent. Size must fall within the accepted range for the garment type.
Roughly 90% of listings are eliminated at this stage. No AI calls, no false positives, no wasted time on your end.
Valuation first.
Price second.
The first thing our model does is set the listed price aside completely. Its only job is to answer one question: what is this piece actually worth on the secondary market?
It works through a strict signal hierarchy, from most to least reliable. If it can't find a real comparable, it says so — and the confidence score reflects the gap. A null is always preferable to an invented number.
Scored against
where things actually trade.
With valuation locked, a second pass asks: how good is this deal for a buyer who follows this market closely?
A 40% discount off retail sounds impressive until you know that piece consistently trades used at 55% below retail. You'd actually be overpaying. Our score reflects the secondary market reality — not the sticker.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Every deal that makes it through gets four things alongside the score. No urgency copy. No countdown timers. If a deal scores an 8, you'll understand exactly why — and whether it's actually right for you.
Hundreds of searches. Around the clock.
We monitor eBay continuously across every brand, garment type, and size we track — tens of thousands of candidates entering the pipeline every cycle.
Most listings fail right here.
Brand confirmed, condition verified, size matched. Roughly 90% of listings are cut at this stage — before any AI is involved.
Valuation first. Price second.
The listed price is set aside. The model works through a hierarchy of signals to determine what the piece is actually worth on the secondary market — and flags honestly when it can't find a confident answer.
Scored against where things actually trade.
A 40% discount off retail means nothing if that piece consistently trades used at 55% below retail. The score reflects secondary market reality, not the sticker.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Every deal that makes it through gets four things. No urgency copy. No countdown timers. If it scores well, you'll understand exactly why.
The deals that
didn't wait.
The best measure of whether something is worth owning is whether someone bought it. Every week, Merino users claim deals that scored 6 or higher — real buyers, real prices, real secondhand luxury — before they leave the pipeline.
These aren't page views. Browse what's sold to see what the pipeline catches.