Thank you! It worked perfectly!
My items sold are all showing up now too!
My items sold are all showing up now too!
Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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Hopefully they are just waiting until Black Friday. My sales the past month are really low.
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my sales are also disaster. I thought October was the worst, but I sold ONE item in November (I used to sell 30 - 50 items per month on Tradesy). Don't understand what's going on
I finally had a sale after over a month! I have comparably quite low prices on desirable items, and my pictures are good so I was getting kind of sad about it. It was a crossover sale from Poshmark though.
It was one of those sales where everyone is happy. I had a Chanel item listed for $1200 that I recently reduced to $1000. She offered $750, and I agreed to reduce it to $850. She was nice, and respectful in her offers, so it actually makes me feel good to give her a such a good deal!
It was one of those sales where everyone is happy. I had a Chanel item listed for $1200 that I recently reduced to $1000. She offered $750, and I agreed to reduce it to $850. She was nice, and respectful in her offers, so it actually makes me feel good to give her a such a good deal!
It's been terrible for me too. DH says no one wants what I've got listed. That might be true for some of it, but it can't be true for everything. The things that have sold aren't the things I would expect to go first. I only sold 4 items on Tradesy in October and 2 so far this month. I'm doing better on ebay. If I needed the sales to live on, I'd be starving.
I am just trying to understand what is happening to Tradesy. I didn't increase prices (actually decreased many of them) and I post something new regularly. It worked good before. and now I wonder if they just have more sellers or less buyers in common? I wish I could see their internal sales statistics lol. anyway I hope they will do something to attract more sales, as they are growing and they had such huge investments recently, and bought shophers. I am sure they have ambitious development plans.
I think one of the things that hurts us as sellers is that we are competing against Tradesy's closets. They have a greater incentive to sell their stuff than to help us sell ours. The other major problem is the search. I think that most buyers don't find my listings by searching on Tradesy. They only find them if they are looking for something I'm selling and find it in a Google search. That makes it really hard to sell lesser known items or brands that no one searches for.
I made sales on Thursday and today. I hope it is turning around!
Great observation. It looks like their original business model doesn't work any more and they are on the brink of changing it (fee increase or returns to seller for any reason, not to Tradesy). meanwhile they focus on one thing only - to sell the stock that built up in their return closets.
also I doubt that they keep these returns on the shelves in dusters like Fashionphile. instead it's probably piled up in some containers. which would perfectly explain why all of my three returns appeared with substantial damage. I originally thought it's customer's fault, but 3 out of 3 point at Tradesy storage problems.
as I suspected, and now they actually confirmed it, they keep money for three days after seller sends deposit to her account, cash flaw issues?
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Well then, thank you! Or it might have been because my deposit was pretty small.
they said they would make changes to their system which I didn't believe, haha. I don't see any progress since they introduced Tradesy labels. that was the biggest improvement so far.
I totally agree on this point re how Tradesy maintain their closets. Over time and by circumstance they've become a retail business with thousands of items in storage, the sooner they address this issue the more sustainable their model becomes. The issue is they market themselves to investors that they're a data science company who collect data on consumers, brands etc and that by itself is very valuable and covetable data but they also got a burgeoning retail biz to tend to like RealReal. Listen it's not a bad side gig to be in as witnessed by the success of others but they have to treat, style, photograph their merchandise like they mean it and not as a weekend hobby. Until recently when they started doing their own photos, my returned items with my own pics have all been sold to the new buyers. Their setup is horrible with items placed on the floor instead of on a table/pedestal, harsh lighting, no consistency to how many angles to include and no close ups.