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Paying cash for your clothes since 1996

When owner, Beth Boline moved to Knoxville in the 90’s, she searched for a store like Planet Xchange. Somewhere to trade in your pre loved fashion items for someone else’s, or to sell outright for cash. Not only was there nothing like that around, there was nothing even close. It was either sort through stained, soiled and out of style items at local thrift stores, or go to the mall and pay full price.

After the end of a relationship (which got her to Knoxville in the first place), she decided to move back to Arizona, where she came from. She flew back to find a job and an apartment, but couldn’t shake the idea of what it would be like to open a store of her own. By the end of the flight, she had a logo drawn on the airsick bag, and a burning desire to do whatever it took to open what is now Planet Xchange.

A “For Rent” sign hung in the window of a storefront on the (now hip) 100 block of Gay Street. Boline rented the store for $300 a month, and lived in the store with her cat for the first year. Since then, the store has grown and moved several times. It has been in its current location on Kingston Pike in “the Gallery” since 2007.

Planet Xchange has become a Knoxville staple, and has proven itself to be viable in all kind os economic environments. “When the economy is good - people want to spend, and they can get alot for their money here. The same is true when the economy is struggling,” says Boline. “Fashion is, and always will be, a way to outwardly express who we are as individuals,” she added.

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