Re the red, it sounds like this means you lose the extra protection you'd get by using a credit card to fund the payment, right? IMO, a c.c. is a great extra layer of protection, especially with an expensive and/or highly faked item.
Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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Of course I had to watch this item after it was returned to see what happened. Tradesy finally sold it last week for $2,000 less than what I paid. They labeled it as the correct bag this time but they still did not disclose that the original leather was entirely painted over. I emailed them once to say they should add that to the description, but of course it never happened. Tradesy also listed the color and leather incorrectly, but that happens frequently and is somewhat the buyer's responsibility to double check in my opinion. I think not informing the buyer that it was painted over is still SNAD, but it was so cheap maybe the person won't care.
Every time I log onto tradesy I get a bunch of popups for old listings saying lower your price to sell faster. I find it so annoying especially since tradesy just raised their price to me increasing their commission on what I sell. Besides my stuff is already at rock bottom prices and when I get time I should actually be raising all my prices at least by 10% to compensate for the higher commission. It is just that these huge sellers with stock overseas are listing thousands of items and multiples of items - some have a hundred thousand items - and they list them all over the place in categories they don't belong in plus every search you do - no matter what terms you do - these big sellers' items pop up featured. I'm not selling not because I need to lower my price but because Tradesy sold out the women who just want to sell a few items from their personally curated closets. Anybody else getting annoyed with these lower your price popups?
Every time I log onto tradesy I get a bunch of popups for old listings saying lower your price to sell faster. I find it so annoying especially since tradesy just raised their price to me increasing their commission on what I sell. Besides my stuff is already at rock bottom prices and when I get time I should actually be raising all my prices at least by 10% to compensate for the higher commission. It is just that these huge sellers with stock overseas are listing thousands of items and multiples of items - some have a hundred thousand items - and they list them all over the place in categories they don't belong in plus every search you do - no matter what terms you do - these big sellers' items pop up featured. I'm not selling not because I need to lower my price but because Tradesy sold out the women who just want to sell a few items from their personally curated closets. Anybody else getting annoyed with these lower your price popups?
Be very careful with Ebay and don't use the Make An Offer button - that is a big way for scam buyers to get in and change your terms. The mobile platform actually says TERMS and buyers will add things like 90 day return or free shipping. You don't even see it until you accept the price they offer and then their "terms" show up on the next page but few sellers catch it in time to cancel the sale. Then you are stuck with THEIR sale terms and the lower price. Every time you turn around on that site - they find another way to scam sellers. The only thing is that things do sell on Ebay that won't sell on Tradesy but you don't have the Tradesy shipping label and $8.50 postage so you have to be really careful about shipping costs. I am always surprised how much it costs to ship something USPS and nothing ever fits in their "flat rate" envelope - the next biggest size is $13 - and both Ebay and Pay Pal take commissions out of whatever you charge for your shipping. PLUS be very careful when you relist something because Ebay is always automatically checking off features that you didn't initially authorize and then they will try charging you for using them. You have to check every little thing very carefully because if Ebay and the buyers can take advantage of sellers in the small print - trust me - they do.
You should give them feedback on their searches. They have that option now, when you do a search.
I wonder if the big business sellers get those pop-ups too. It would take a lot of time to confirm those thousands of items for sale.
You are right and that's another big issue I have with Ebay because they require you give your phone number or they start blocking access to you relisting your listings but then if you read their terms of use - they are allowed to give not only your phone number but any of your personal information to any of their "business partners " basically, anyone who buys or sells on ebay. So they will give it out and in fact, it shows up on your paypal transactions. That's why some of those asian sellers sell things for 99 cents (or less sometimes) and free shipping. They don't care about selling that crap - they are data mining for lists they can then make their real money on by selling it to others. I changed everything - got a burner phone just for this online registration and use a Po Box now - it is worth the extra $200 a year having a separate phone and PO Box cost - just wish I had opened a free checking/savings in one of those Discovery Banks and used that as a shell account for registering.
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Oh I have. I get annoyed when I search for something and half the stuff coming up isn't related and the other half is already sold. Or when I search for something in a category like miscellaneous and I see hundreds of brooches, men's ties and men's shirts. NONE of that belongs there and Men's stuff shouldn't be there at all. I basically get disgusted after a short while and log out. I imagine that's what the buyers do too. It really is only useful if you are searching for a specific designer and a specific item like Olympia shoes. Then maybe you might find what you are looking for but I sell stuff that nobody is going to be looking for specifically. And that's how I buy too. I like to browse and when I see something unique or cool - then I get lured in. I like to use adjectives like colorful, trendy, art deco - depending on my mood. But their search feature doesn't work for browsers who don't really know what they want - they will only see very high end stuff from big sellers and that to me, is a turn off since I'm not in the - $1000 for a designer dress category.
I'm surprised that Tradesy didn't disclose re-dyed bag even after you asked them to. I also followed up BNWT bag that was returned to them from my closet and it was listed with a huge scratch in their closet, I called them on this and asked if Tradesy uses the items from return closets. They confirmed they do for photoshoots and events and said that they'd remove the picture with scratch (?!!!).
I think they did this with an item I returned a month or two ago. It was NWT but too small for me. It was missing from the site for 3+ weeks after they processed my return, then suddenly it showed up back for sale again from Tradesy's closet, still listed NWT. Hmmmmm.
I hate this too. A lot of the stuff I sell ends up in the miscellaneous category because Tradesy doesn't provide categories that fit. They really need a category for keychains and/or purse charms. I'm sure they would sell quicker if people could limit their searches to those items.
Surprisingly, a few months ago I sold a unlabeled purse - no brand name. I figure my buyer must have found it by sorting by lowest price.
I just talked to Customer Service about one of my orders that the seller still hasn't confirmed, and they said they will be rolling out a seller rating feature. Finally. I'm really sick of trying to purchase items only to find out 3-10 days later either the seller is a non-responder or never shipped the item.
It's a fair point about the credit card back-up-- I just prefer not to have the charge on my credit card for something I'm not even sure will get to me.
It's a fair point about the credit card back-up-- I just prefer not to have the charge on my credit card for something I'm not even sure will get to me.
Interesting.... I'm curious to know if they'll be buyer rating too. I certainly hope so, otherwise they're becoming too much like eBay.