Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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fashion_victim9 said:
I've never tried it, don't wanna lose any sales:smile: even if I'm away, there's always someone who can ship for me
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This is the first time I've ever considered it-I'm going to be gone 5 full days with no one to ship anything for me. I am thinking I probably won't, I know I've had sellers take longer than that to ship to me. And I would let any buyers know. I have such a small closet and haven't sold anything in at least a month, I just figured it's murphy's law that I'd sell something the minute I leave for the airport.
 
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whateve said:
Amazon had a big dispute with the state of California and eventually they capitulated. I pay sales tax when the items are fulfilled by Amazon or when the associate is in California. I don't pay sales tax when the seller is in another state. The New York legislation goes further than this, expecting the marketplace to collect sales tax for the state of New York even when the individual seller doesn't have a physical presence in New York. Ebay would be required to collect these taxes if they wished to do business with New York residents. The individual sellers wouldn't be involved.
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I pay tax on anything that is normally taxable in my state when I buy on Amazon. (For example, we don't pay tax on clothing here so if I buy shoes/clothes on Amazon, there's no tax.) Any other items, we're taxed no matter where the seller is located.
 
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ledobe said:
This is the first time I've ever considered it-I'm going to be gone 5 full days with no one to ship anything for me. I am thinking I probably won't, I know I've had sellers take longer than that to ship to me. And I would let any buyers know. I have such a small closet and haven't sold anything in at least a month, I just figured it's murphy's law that I'd sell something the minute I leave for the airport.
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I think 5 days is OK, 7 days or more and I would do vacation mode. If anyone purchases without sending you a message first, just immediately send them a message saying that you are out of town until XXX and you will ship immediately when you return and ask if that is OK. That happened to me a couple of fines when I was gone for 2-3 days (back when Tradesy was more active) and the buyer was always fine with it and said they were so happy that I updated them immediately.
 
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whateve said:
As I mentioned before, I sold two items to the same buyer, but not on the same day. The second item was delivered 2 days after the first. On the third day of the second sale, I noticed that the item was going to be returned as the "your earnings". The fourth day of the first item passed but my money wasn't released. Today, it has been 12 days since the first item was delivered and just now the "your earnings" disappeared from that sale. So it sounds like they allowed the buyer to initiate a return after the 4 day window passed. What really irks me is this buyer bought something from me almost a year ago and also returned that item. There is something fishy about this buyer. All her purchases from me were scarves, so it isn't like they didn't fit.
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I called Tradesy about my buyer and they weren't concerned. They said she buys a lot and returns a lot, but keeps more than she returns. After I got off the phone, my money got released.
 
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whateve said:
How does Maryland know about your purchases from the UK?
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For the package from UK, I actually purchased it from US site. it's UK brand, they didn't have the bag here and shipped it from warehouse in UK.
MD tax office picks info on international packages randomly, it just getting outrageous last year. the same with custom fees. one package had invoice and properly filled waybill attached for $405, JFK custom office "estimated" value to be $900 and sent me bill for $90. I had to send them letters with bank statement. It's ridiculous. I really get a lot of shipments, but there's no reason to pull out numbers from your you know what haha
 
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GemsBerry said:
For the package from UK, I actually purchased it from US site. it's UK brand, they didn't have the bag here and shipped it from warehouse in UK.
MD tax office picks info on international packages randomly, it just getting outrageous last year. the same with custom fees. one package had invoice and properly filled waybill attached for $405, JFK custom office "estimated" value to be $900 and sent me bill for $90. I had to send them letters with bank statement. It's ridiculous. I really get a lot of shipments, but there's no reason to pull out numbers from your you know what haha
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That's a total bummer, fingers crossed that NY remains highly inefficient indefinitely and won't start pulling shipment data. That said shipments via DHL/FedEx/UPS rely on invoices supplied by the merchants and in my experience JFK Customs use that to assess duty. I've never seen them used estimated value based on something else other than receipts. Often times I've been able to argue against their duties when my purchases come in below the $800 exemption before shipping costs. DHL is fantastic with this service, I can email their point person the itemized invoice and 24HR later they'll release the parcel without duty.
 
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jmc3007 said:
That's a total bummer, fingers crossed that NY remains highly inefficient indefinitely and won't start pulling shipment data. That said shipments via DHL/FedEx/UPS rely on invoices supplied by the merchants and in my experience JFK Customs use that to assess duty. I've never seen them used estimated value based on something else other than receipts. Often times I've been able to argue against their duties when my purchases come in below the $800 exemption before shipping costs. DHL is fantastic with this service, I can email their point person the itemized invoice and 24HR later they'll release the parcel without duty.
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It started at Federal level somewhere, I doubt that local MD tax office decided at lunch to pick up packages randomly and start charging sales tax on them. I hope these "creative" approach will stop, it looks like a desperate attempt to collect more money bending the law before administration changed.

so far Tradesy doesn't charge any sales tax, I wonder is they will.
 
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I wrote here before about shoes being returned to me not in the same condition. I sold brand new shoes without any damages, in box, and received them with scuffed soles without original package. Tradesy offered me to send them back to their office which I did and got paid. And I just noticed that they relisted them in Abbey R closet for $666, that's almost $340 more expensive than my original price!! they posted them as NWT, with my old pictures that don't show ANY sole damages lol what were they thinking??
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
I wrote here before about shoes being returned to me not in the same condition. I sold brand new shoes without any damages, in box, and received them with scuffed soles without original package. Tradesy offered me to send them back to their office which I did and got paid. And I just noticed that they relisted them in Abbey R closet for $666, that's almost $340 more expensive than my original price!! they posted them as NWT, with my old pictures that don't show ANY sole damages lol what were they thinking??
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I would email them and ask to update pics and description and unlink it from your closet. I addressed this issue to the head of returns department a couple of months ago, but nothing changed unfortunately.
 
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