Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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alwayscoffee89 said:
I still can't fathom people's inability to take a decent picture of their purse they are trying to sell. I see this all the time all over Tradesy. Pictures are lopsided, their dark, their blurry, they are cut off, they sometimes even have a picture of someone in the background picking their nose. It should be a prerequisite, do you really think you are going to sell that purse that you put NO effort into listing? It's stupid.
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i think this is done purposely. then, if you buy it, they can say it was pictured and you just didn't see it accurately. these items do sell, b/c the pricing is usually too good to be true.
 
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bernz84 said:
Lol, I've had a seller offer me a lower price without prompted, too! :lol: Like you, I think she was desperate to sell!

I don't mind answering questions. Really, I don't. And I always tell buyers they can and should in my listings. However, I hate getting a lowball offer after I answer a ton of questions and provide more pics. I find it so tacky and that tells me you couldn't afford the bag in the first place. I don't mind if someone asks me upfront in the beginning, "is price firm?" At least they're honest and I'll tell them I'll consider lowering the price if the bag sits long enough.
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Every time someone asks me specific questions, I expect something bad. Like if someone asks is there any smell or do zippers work well, I am not surprised if that will be the fake reason for return. it may not work with Tradesy as they receive the item and compare it to my post in person, but it works well on eBay. recently one lady bought a bag from me. she had a bunch of questions about it's color, like is it warm or cold, is it pinkish or yellowish etc. she said she's a designer and it's very important to her. my pictures were close to life and I told her to refer to pictures, the color is warm beige. when she received it, she opened a case and her reason was that the color is different. she sent me several pics of the bag that did look more pink than at my pics. needless to say that her pics were very far from reality and she used filters. I compared it again when received the bag back and made sure that my pictures are honest. and she said like "I will not leave you negative feedback as I know how hard it is to show the color. like she did me a favor.
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
Every time someone asks me specific questions, I expect something bad. Like if someone asks is there any smell or do zippers work well, I am not surprised if that will be the fake reason for return. it may not work with Tradesy as they receive the item and compare it to my post in person, but it works well on eBay. recently one lady bought a bag from me. she had a bunch of questions about it's color, like is it warm or cold, is it pinkish or yellowish etc. she said she's a designer and it's very important to her. my pictures were close to life and I told her to refer to pictures, the color is warm beige. when she received it, she opened a case and her reason was that the color is different. she sent me several pics of the bag that did look more pink than at my pics. needless to say that her pics were very far from reality and she used filters. I compared it again when received the bag back and made sure that my pictures are honest. and she said like "I will not leave you negative feedback as I know how hard it is to show the color. like she did me a favor.
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I think you could have won the case on ebay. It depends on which way the wind is blowing. In one case a seller lost because the label said "acqua" and the seller said it was aqua, but the buyer said it wasn't blue enough. In another case, the seller had misidentified the color, with the wrong official color name, and the buyer asked to confirm if it was one color or the other because she was specifically looking for the color the seller said it was. When it came, it was the other color. It seemed like an obvious easy return but ebay decided in the seller's favor. So I guess you were smart in accepting the return.

I had a buyer ask a bunch of questions, mostly about if there was verdigris on the hardware, as that is a known problem with the style. My bag had no verdigris and I told her that. Once she got it, she found a 1 inch section of the edge coating that was slightly bumpy and a broken thread, that was never seen in any of the photos. I'm pretty sure she broke that thread, and the bumpy edge coating is so minor that most people would not notice. The bag was in fantastic condition for its age but she wanted to make sure she didn't have to pay my restocking fee. Now my bag has a broken thread that I can't fix.
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
Every time someone asks me specific questions, I expect something bad. Like if someone asks is there any smell or do zippers work well, I am not surprised if that will be the fake reason for return. it may not work with Tradesy as they receive the item and compare it to my post in person, but it works well on eBay. recently one lady bought a bag from me. she had a bunch of questions about it's color, like is it warm or cold, is it pinkish or yellowish etc. she said she's a designer and it's very important to her. my pictures were close to life and I told her to refer to pictures, the color is warm beige. when she received it, she opened a case and her reason was that the color is different. she sent me several pics of the bag that did look more pink than at my pics. needless to say that her pics were very far from reality and she used filters. I compared it again when received the bag back and made sure that my pictures are honest. and she said like "I will not leave you negative feedback as I know how hard it is to show the color. like she did me a favor.
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I think going forward I'll take this into consideration. My worst transaction ever was from someone who asked a ton of questions and ended up lowballing me. I hated that I sold my bag to her and I wish I never did. Thankfully she never reached out and bought any items from me again.

She also wanted to play herself up as an LV "expert" despite the fact that she asked a ton of questions and only started buying 5 years ago. I've been buying LV since 2006, and while I don't claim to be an "expert" of whatever sorts, I know when a bag is real. :cursing:
 
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whateve said:
I think you could have won the case on ebay. It depends on which way the wind is blowing. In one case a seller lost because the label said "acqua" and the seller said it was aqua, but the buyer said it wasn't blue enough. In another case, the seller had misidentified the color, with the wrong official color name, and the buyer asked to confirm if it was one color or the other because she was specifically looking for the color the seller said it was. When it came, it was the other color. It seemed like an obvious easy return but ebay decided in the seller's favor. So I guess you were smart in accepting the return.

I had a buyer ask a bunch of questions, mostly about if there was verdigris on the hardware, as that is a known problem with the style. My bag had no verdigris and I told her that. Once she got it, she found a 1 inch section of the edge coating that was slightly bumpy and a broken thread, that was never seen in any of the photos. I'm pretty sure she broke that thread, and the bumpy edge coating is so minor that most people would not notice. The bag was in fantastic condition for its age but she wanted to make sure she didn't have to pay my restocking fee. Now my bag has a broken thread that I can't fix.
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yeah, sometimes it's easier to accept the return than prove something to someone who doesn't hear you
if they want to return the item, they always find a fake reason for it unfortunately.
another story about questions lol. I've listed LV bag recently and in 5 mins I had a message like "please confirm there's no smell or damages inside". I went to see those ebayer's feedbacks and saw that she left many negs to sellers and every time something was wrong like smell, some invisible damages etc. I blocked her and told that I don't feel any smells but she must understand that the bag is preowned and her feedbacks show that she has very high standards for preowned stuff. the bag was sold in another 5 minutes, so lucky she didn't buy it lol
 
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BeenBurned said:
What I neglected to mention was that when that listing with the naked guy in the mirror was posted, it was up a few days before it was "caught" so the listing remained with full frontal nudity until ebay decided it was inappropriate and pulled the listing.

But it wasn't removed before it had been saved and circulated ---- WITHOUT the black band censoring the body part!
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I've seen the original "dining table/mirror reflection" listing - he wasn't exactly David Gandy, either! [emoji15][emoji13]
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
Lol I've recently removed a picture from my listing when I saw that in the reflection of the metal part of the shoe I was sitting in t-short and panties with my iphone, it's wasn't that visible but still funny
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Since I take most of my pictures outside in my front yard, I make sure I have clothes on before pictures are taken.
 
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whateve said:
Since I take most of my pictures outside in my front yard, I make sure I have clothes on before pictures are taken.
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LOL yes it's very important to make sure you have something on before going outside
nicole0612 said:
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Otherwise we could be posting a photo of you in your panties on this thread right now!
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at least I WAS in panties, comparing to those guys in the mirror or kettle I looked decent haha
 
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