Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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I've put nearly everything on ebay except for a few of my more expensive items. I still hope they sell on Tradesy rather than ebay. I recently sold some jeans on ebay that were returned because they didn't fit. I really wish they were sold on Tradesy so I wouldn't have that problem, but for clothes I think buyers need to be able to return for fit.
The search is still terrible. Sometimes mine doesn't appear at all when I use the exact words of my title but something else without those words does.
Every so often I'll make a sale of something I've had listed forever. I have no idea how my buyers are finding them.
Exactly. Their search function is not very good at turning up relevant results. I have had the same experience as you have in doing a search for the exact name of a bag I'm looking for and it not being one of the first search results, but is in there somewhere among thousands.
Same glitch here at least for a couple of days now. Tradesy have been doing a lot of upgrades to their platform so something always goes haywired. Have you also noticed that photos uploaded via app will be re-cropped/sized? It took me a while to figure out that it was happening on the app only while desktop version is fine. I've noticed some new listings by others where they weren't aware of what was happening and their photos look too zoomed in and missing the big picture. I tend to be a heavy app user since I take photos on my iPhone and it's more convenient/faster to upload via app.
Are your pictures semi blurry (pixelated) when you upload them via app? Mine always turn at not crisp so I've been creating listings strictly on desktop. But even on desktop, Tradesy has been cropping everything except my main item and zooming in, making it look like a some stock photo stolen off google (semi-blurry image). Before, when I had things like the dust bag/cards/booklet, they would only crop out the background and leave everything else, now they remove everything except the main item.
I totally agree!!! The best way I've found to search is to put in one unique key word then use the left filters from there.
Like if I want a pink Michael Kors Bedford wristlet, I'll only search on Bedford. Then I'll use the left filters to only check MK as the brand. Then I'll click Accessories on left, and finally click on pink.
I find the search function treats the words you enter as an 'or'. So if you searched for Coach Poppy you get anything with Coach and anything with Poppy which leads to thousands of listings!
Thanks for the explanation. I wonder what genius programmer thought that would be a good idea.
+1 I always use just a single word in searches and find the results to be much more effective or meaningful. Likewise when I create listings I keep the same thought in mind and try to think of the one word most associated with an item and go from there. Whatever you do don't use a phrase or you get 7,000 results. Primitive I know but it's how I adapt and make their system work FOR ME vs agains me.
Yes I used to experience pixelated photos but that was a while ago and it hasn't happened to me since. For reference I use Mac OS for desktop and iPhone and iPad. Here's my shortcut, if I can find a stock image of my item for sale, I use that. Let's face it once cleaned up even my own photo looks like stock image anyway. The second short cut is my photo showing dust bag, tags, accessories with the item always goes as photo #2, never the cover photo to avoid the problems you've been having which is getting cropped, photoshopped etc. Tradesy doesn't clean beyond the cover photo so best to save pics with your own identifiers after the cover.
I should have been more clear earlier that although I use the desktop version of Tradesy I'm still on iPhone or iPad. I typically only edit listings or create drafts on my laptop. I find it more seamless to upload photos using iPhone or iPad, for some reason photos don't sync on my laptop as quickly as I'd need them. The photos take on iPhone maintain the same size and resolution when uploaded via desktop Tradesy on iPhone.
Crazy I know of how much workaround I have to create to put up a decent listing but such is life lol. Another quirk I have to deal with is uploading pics via desktop on iPhone means I have to do one pic at a time if I want the order to appear correctly cuz guess what on iPhone I don't have the ability to move pics around with my finger!! In a nutshell I constantly juggle between app and desktop on my iPhone to finish a listing, until recently I could stay within the app from start to publish before photo sizing got messed up. Maybe things will go back to normal again, sigh... This is what happens when you have developers who are not product users, they rarely are according to my startup friends. They can code until the cows come home but I bet you anything they've never tried to search for a Coach bag or create a listing and successfully sold it. In order words they can't talk and walk in high heels at the same time.
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Ok, that worked!
They really really need to fix that though. I think people (myself
) are used to google and eBay searches, and all of those extra steps to narrow it down are tedious.
Here's a neat little update for Tradesy. You will now receive emails from them when the buyer requests a return. You still won't know what the reason is until you call in, but at least now, you're not left in the dark until you check the transaction page. I got an email from Tradesy this morning that a return request was initiated. I called in to see what the problem was and they said the buyer just wanted the item to be authenticated. While I know my item is 100% authentic, I also know AF (-_-) will be the ones doing the authentication so I'm still holding my breath until my funds are released.