Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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#4,891
nicole0612 said:
Ugh, someone bought a Boy bag from me a couple of weeks ago and kept hounding me to lower the price. I was already selling it super low, and there was a promo code available at the time, so I told her that I would lower by $50 as a nice gesture, but no lower. Now I see that she is selling it (with photos that do not show any of the wear - minor wear, but still, there were a few scuffs on the edges that should be shown!) for $550 more than I sold it to her. No big deal about her reselling it for more money, that's just good business on her side, but I am SO glad that I did not reduce my price to $2100 like she requested, then $2200 which was her next request...
It is a good reminder to me that I should not reduce prices to the point where I would be annoyed when they are resold for more. As long as I get close to my asking price, then they can do whatever they want :smile:
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Yep! Sell for a price that I can comfortably let the purse go for to have no seller's regret. So, I keep it strictly business to avoid feeling cheated. As long as I get what I feel is fair from the bag, then I hope the buyer enjoys whatever he or she wants to do with it. I just have to say that it does not make me happy to see them misrepresent the purse to get more money to an unfortunate buyer. I find it shady. But boy am I happy they did not lie to try and return it. :biggrin: My opinion of the buyer changes to not trustworthy, but I remind myself it is what happens sometimes on the resale market. Their buyer might enjoy the bag, and it is not my sale.
 
#4,893
SweetDaisy05 said:
Yep! Sell for a price that I can comfortably let the purse go for to have no seller's regret. So, I keep it strictly business to avoid feeling cheated. As long as I get what I feel is fair from the bag, then I hope the buyer enjoys whatever he or she wants to do with it. I just have to say that it does not make me happy to see them misrepresent the purse to get more money to an unfortunate buyer. I find it shady. But boy am I happy they did not lie to try and return it. :biggrin: My opinion of the buyer changes to not trustworthy, but I remind myself it is what happens sometimes on the resale market. Their buyer might enjoy the bag, and it is not my sale.
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Well said! Keep it business in selling and avoid regrets in the future.
You know, the one upside of her misrepresenting the purse is that she did not reuse my photos. I have been quite surprised to see my living room rug show up in several Tradesy and eBay listings that were resales of my former bags over the last few months! [emoji849]
 
#4,894
whateve said:
I changed the first picture back to their cleaned image, replaced the removed picture, and added optional strap to the title. I hope it helps. Some people won't even look if they don't see a strap.
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Good idea. I was also thinking that you could include the strap in the title if you couldn't get it in the cover image. I agree, you need to make it clear immediately that there is a strap.
 
#4,895
nicole0612 said:
Well said! Keep it business in selling and avoid regrets in the future.
You know, the one upside of her misrepresenting the purse is that she did not reuse my photos. I have been quite surprised to see my living room rug show up in several Tradesy and eBay listings that were resales of my former bags over the last few months! [emoji849]
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Wow! I would have never thought people did this until I started selling. The one on EBay is not using my pictures, but the one on Tradesy is using my pictures. Since Tradesy allows it, I let it go. The one on EBay makes me laugh with original owner with tags (not new and original owner) because of the way I found out. When I first saw the listing, I was like it looked so pretty like the one I sold. I saw the receipt and I was like hey that's when I think I brought mines. Then I looked at the date code and it matched verified from my old listing. After that I noticed the name blocked out just like I did it before shipping it to the buyer on another receipt. No wonder why I was attracted to it. It was my bag. I looked the same as my pictures in my listing. :biggrin: I fully understand now why some sellers don't like to send receipts. That receipt can go to so many homes. All of our purses probably go to so many homes.:biggrin: I don't think many people in the resale community keep their bags forever or for a long time.
 
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#4,896
whateve said:
I changed the first picture back to their cleaned image, replaced the removed picture, and added optional strap to the title. I hope it helps. Some people won't even look if they don't see a strap.
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nicole0612 said:
Good idea. I was also thinking that you could include the strap in the title if you couldn't get it in the cover image. I agree, you need to make it clear immediately that there is a strap.
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Thanks for sharing the information. I did not know buyers shopped in that manner.
 
#4,897
SweetDaisy05 said:
Wow! I would have never thought people did this until I started selling. The one on EBay is not using my pictures, but the one on Tradesy is using my pictures. Since Tradesy allows it, I let it go. The one on EBay makes me laugh with original owner with tags (not new and original owner) because of the way I found out. When I first saw the listing, I was like it looked so pretty like the one I sold. I saw the receipt and I was like hey that's when I think I brought mines. Then I looked at the date code and it matched verified from my old listing. After that I noticed the name blocked out just like I did it before shipping it to the buyer on another receipt. No wonder why I was attracted to it. It was my bag. I looked the same as my pictures in my listing. :biggrin: I fully understand now why some sellers don't like to send receipts. That receipt can go to so many homes. All of our purses probably go to so many homes.:biggrin: I don't think many people in the resale community keep their bags forever or for a long time.
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Something similar happened to me on ebay once. I was looking at a listing, thinking those are nice pictures. The person was selling the same thing as me. I added it to my watch list. A few days later I looked at it again, thinking wow, those pictures look very familiar. Duh, they were mine! By the time I had reported it, it had already sold, and before I sold mine!
 
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#4,898
whateve said:
Something similar happened to me on ebay once. I was looking at a listing, thinking those are nice pictures. The person was selling the same thing as me. I added it to my watch list. A few days later I looked at it again, thinking wow, those pictures look very familiar. Duh, they were mine! By the time I had reported it, it had already sold, and before I sold mine!
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Thanks for sharing the story. It is hilarious.
 
#4,899
SweetDaisy05 said:
Yep! Sell for a price that I can comfortably let the purse go for to have no seller's regret. So, I keep it strictly business to avoid feeling cheated. As long as I get what I feel is fair from the bag, then I hope the buyer enjoys whatever he or she wants to do with it. I just have to say that it does not make me happy to see them misrepresent the purse to get more money to an unfortunate buyer. I find it shady. But boy am I happy they did not lie to try and return it. :biggrin: My opinion of the buyer changes to not trustworthy, but I remind myself it is what happens sometimes on the resale market. Their buyer might enjoy the bag, and it is not my sale.
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The plus side is Tradesy will release funds immediately before the 4 day hold expires if the buyer turns around and relists same item.
 
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#4,901
SweetDaisy05 said:
Wow! I would have never thought people did this until I started selling. The one on EBay is not using my pictures, but the one on Tradesy is using my pictures. Since Tradesy allows it, I let it go. The one on EBay makes me laugh with original owner with tags (not new and original owner) because of the way I found out. When I first saw the listing, I was like it looked so pretty like the one I sold. I saw the receipt and I was like hey that's when I think I brought mines. Then I looked at the date code and it matched verified from my old listing. After that I noticed the name blocked out just like I did it before shipping it to the buyer on another receipt. No wonder why I was attracted to it. It was my bag. I looked the same as my pictures in my listing. :biggrin: I fully understand now why some sellers don't like to send receipts. That receipt can go to so many homes. All of our purses probably go to so many homes.:biggrin: I don't think many people in the resale community keep their bags forever or for a long time.
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That makes me laugh because it is just what I have done too!
1. See a bag online and casually think "Oh, that looks cute..." 2. Click on the listing and think "Oh, wait, I used to have that bag!" (laughing at myself) 3. Look at the photos and realize "Wait, that IS my bag" (surprised!) 4. ...followed sometimes by "AND that's my LIVING ROOM!!" (shocked!)
I have seen maybe 3 or 4 of my bags relisted at some time, but I would not be surprised at all if there were more that I never saw. There would almost have to be. I agree, in the resale community, our bags are not going to their "forever homes" [emoji3] Maybe their 3-6 month homes!
Just at this moment I have the Boy that the buyer has relisted on Tradesy (though I think she is keeping the dust bag for herself...funny), also another Chanel that Tradesy is selling with my photos (and oddly with $30 shipping, when I had their $8.50 shipping! Can't figure that one out). My bag "ghost" though is the very first bag I ever sold, on Tradesy - the buyer said it was her dream bag. She kept it for 6 months or so and then I accidentally found it on sale again on Tradesy - with my receipt - and my living room rug, ugh. Maybe 6 months after that, I saw it on eBay from a different seller without my receipt but again with my living room rug! Just recently I saw it AGAIN on eBay from a 3rd seller, mercifully without my rug this time (but same date code).
 
#4,902
whateve said:
Something similar happened to me on ebay once. I was looking at a listing, thinking those are nice pictures. The person was selling the same thing as me. I added it to my watch list. A few days later I looked at it again, thinking wow, those pictures look very familiar. Duh, they were mine! By the time I had reported it, it had already sold, and before I sold mine!
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Wow, that story takes the cake!!! That's awful, but the sequence of events is so crazy that I am cracking up!
 
#4,904
Has anyone sold an item to a buyer in Canada, through Global Shipping? How long does the delivery usually take? It looks like the funds are released after the package is delivered to the final address, not the US address.
 
#4,905
EGBDF said:
Has anyone sold an item to a buyer in Canada, through Global Shipping? How long does the delivery usually take? It looks like the funds are released after the package is delivered to the final address, not the US address.
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Tradsey rep told me that funds for international orders are released four days after delivery to the shipping forwarding address.
 
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