Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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Hi Everyone
Lots of great info here, thanks!
I skimmed thru this forum so apologies if I missed this question :
Has anyone here ever listed the same item on eBay and Tradesy at the same time?
Is that an OK practice in your opinion?
I had that experience once as a buyer and had mixed feelings about it. (I put a bid on a bag and was immediately informed by the seller that it had sold already; the bag was then removed from eBay and I saw that it was sold on Tradesy. )
I am just starting to sell and was curious what people think.
TIA!
Lots of great info here, thanks!
I skimmed thru this forum so apologies if I missed this question :
Has anyone here ever listed the same item on eBay and Tradesy at the same time?
Is that an OK practice in your opinion?
I had that experience once as a buyer and had mixed feelings about it. (I put a bid on a bag and was immediately informed by the seller that it had sold already; the bag was then removed from eBay and I saw that it was sold on Tradesy. )
I am just starting to sell and was curious what people think.
TIA!
I list things in both places. Some things sell better on one site than the other. I've never had anything bought in both places. As soon as I know about the sale, I remove it from the other site. I don't do auctions on ebay, just BINs. If I had an auction set up on ebay, I don't think I would list it on Tradesy.
Lately, I'm not making any sales on Tradesy.
This seller https://www.tradesy.com/closet/2494683/ has this statement in her closet: USE PROMO CODE "GIFT25" TO GET $25 OFF YOUR FIRST TRADESY PURCHASE OVER $199
Is that valid? Who pays for it?
Is that valid? Who pays for it?
It's just a Tradesy code for first-time buyers. I have never bought anything on Tradesy, and it's a small banner at the top of my page whenever I look at other listings.
Just registered - my first post on purseblog - I was selling on Tradesy when suddenly it seemed like hundreds of thousands of brand new, duplicate items started showing up. Previously it was mostly one of a kind things from people's actual closet - very much garage sale style. But now men and actual businesses are dumping merchandise on here like Amazon and Ebay - what is happening? Then over the last couple of days I noticed they are separating out the selling price from the shipping price - is this to give those big box shops a selling advantage because they can ship free or take advantage of big commercial postage discounts that ordinary sellers can't ? I am so angry Tradesy has sold out its base of women selling to women to clean out their closets. I refuse to favorite or follow any of these big time sellers pushing out those of us just trying to recoup some money from unused items around the house and now Tradesy is no different then Ebay or Amazon except they still have much bigger traffic. And is Tradesy still going to take its commission from both price and shipping and will buyers understand that we have to mark up actual shipping cost because of that? I always used my own shipping and my own labels and took everything to the post office but now with their new policy, I feel I have to raise all my prices and lower my shipping and maybe will have to start forcing Tradesy to send me their shipping kits. Not that any of my stuff is visible. When I search I see repeats of the same garbage - same dress or whatever in different colors and sizes posted a dozen times when my one unique vintage dress that nobody else has doesn't even show up or shows up on the last page. What is everyone else doing? I can't wait for the next new "Tradesy" to come up. Seems as a small seller I just keep getting bounced from website to website after I help make their owners rich by signing on early. Sigh.
I feel your pain. I'm not selling anything on Tradesy lately either. When I do a search, all I see are these large sellers. Usually the smaller sellers have better prices but it is very hard to find their items. You should really consider using Tradesy's label, not their shipping kit. For most items, it is cheaper to use their label than your own postage and you don't get charged fees on it. I think that separation of shipping price out was a glitch. I'm not seeing it.
Thanks for the info whateve!
I may be misremembering about it being an auction; it may have been a BIN and that I just had really bad timing in deciding to buy that bag at that moment.
Thanks everyone for the insights about Tradesy.
I have some vintage clothing I was going to sell on that site rather than eBay (because of the returns policy), but for many reasons I may need to rethink that....
Have you considered etsy? It doesn't get much traffic but it attracts a different type of buyer. I have had very few problems over there, although I have only sold 44 items in 3 years. I've sold more than that on Tradesy in less than a year. I haven't seen much interest in my vintage items on Tradesy. For example, I have one vintage purse that has 4 loves on Tradesy (it's been on there for over a month), 9 favorites on ebay in one month, and 16 favorites on etsy in just the last week. (I don't know why no one has bought it yet!)
No, I didn't. The vintage clothing I want to sell is more like 90s leather motorcycle gear - like pants etc. (from the days when my husband & I rode - ahhh youth!) From what little I knew of Etsy I didn't think they'd be the right venue. But I just checked it out and was surprised to see that people list that stuff there! So thanks for the tip.
I have been checking Tradesy out for vintage bags - also because I have a few to sell.
I found it hard to easily find just vintage. Tho sounds like people found your bag, just aren't buying, how frustrating... The bags I'm watching on eBay don't seem to be selling either.
Thanks again - good to have more choices!