LOL - well I'm not giving up my personal financial information so if you can't withdraw to a bank or debit card - which frankly - should verify you since only you could do that or the bank would be putting out a fraud alert - how do you get the money? I'm getting concerned now about what is going on over there. I had trouble logging in and now I come here to catch up and I see more and more crud the further back in the posts I am looking and everything I am seeking is causing the hair to stand up - Oh well. It was fun while it lasted but unfortunately - Tradesy has become just another luxury box retailer.
Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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Here is the problem with pay pal - you are subject to using pay pal's rules and terms of use. The problem is that pay pal allows returns up to 6 months. So you can sell a bag, a coat, a suit - and 6 months later - the buyer will say not as described and open a claim with pay pal and they can then just withdraw the funds for a refund from whatever account you have linked to pay pal for the transfer - and if there isn't enough money - pay pal can take legal action including putting a freeze on your account to get paid the refunded amount - 6 months is a long time to be kept on edge. Plus Tradesy will still take their 2.9% commission out for using Pay Pal. And you still have to wait for Tradesy to put the money into Pay Pal then you have to have Pay Pal transfer it to your bank then wait for Pay Pal to do it. So they are forcing you against a wall.
I don't believe that works the same with a Tradsey transaction, the buyer pays Tradsey originally not you, you then have the funds from your Tradsey account transferred to your pp account but you didn't actually sell the item through a pp transaction.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with tPF, but here's a good place to start (and it's free
):https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-louis-vuitton.926508/
Perhaps you are right - I will have to look into that a little more closely then. Thanks.
I use Paypal to get my money. Tradesy is a lot quicker about transferring to paypal than to a bank. And paypal is pretty fast about transferring to a bank, so I think you end up with the money in your bank in about the same amount of time.
I agree. The money comes in like someone sent you money. It isn't associated with a transaction that can be disputed. On my paypal page, it looks completely different from sales, which have a shipping address and state whether they qualify for seller protection. There is also no way to refund the money like you can on a sales transaction.
Yes exactly. That's why I changed to using their labels - even though I know most of my stuff could fit in a legal size, flat rate envelope that mails at $6.80 or whatever it is now - I've been charging the $8.50 so I don't have to pay commission on it. Now I am going to just raise my prices 20% across the board - if it doesn't sell - I guess I will have to try other avenues - maybe find some outdoor flea markets or start doing yard sales or home parties!
Did you leave it? I left mine. I figure if a single item sold - I could remove the bundle but I left the bundle too. And every now and again I email the buyer - hey remember that bundle you wanted? Its still there - LOL. But mostly these buyers asking these questions and for these specials - I think they are one offs and I never see them again - and their accounts are not active either.
Ok well apparently I had too many restricted items listed which really pissed me off because if you do any kind of search for any of those miscellaneous items - books, cosmetics, etc. there are literally thousands of them - and they are favorited and selling too. LOL. I mean, I am very pleased they got back to me so quickly - but I would appreciate help in reporting these other postings now because if they're going to suspend my account for have a dozen or so listed in a sea of a few hundred non-restricted items that I also listed - I think they shouldn't allow anybody else to post them either - I don't like feeling as though I'm being picked on. Especially when there are thousands of men's items listed in miscellaneous - children's, music, DVDs - I can go on and on with all that I see and those accounts are still active. I think they need a category for all these gift ideas anyway because not only does everyone list them - but people are buying them.
I did for about a week, but then I sold one of the items so I took it off.
Well that was good that it sold.
And I would like to know why they target certain accounts - while they allow other power sellers to list literally hundreds of men's ties that are also not allowed - and that's ALL they have listed - whereas 5% of my listings might be other miscellaneous things not specifically allowed but I found around the house and found it easier to list on one forum then go to Ebay for those things. Plus what really aggravated me the most - was they suspended the account - they didn't just remove the items or have the common courtesy to contact me first and ask me to remove them or flag them - I never once had a problem with them before this. So now of course, I don't trust the forum at all. I am going to have to keep copies of everything I list on my own computer. I basically used them as a storage house since listings last forever there. I will create the listing there and later - cut and paste from Tradesy to other online platforms or just use to remind myself of things I want to get rid of - now I can not trust them for that either. And I will never leave money in Tradesy. As soon as it clears - it transfers. They are getting to be too unpredictable, too untrustworthy. I am still waiting for the account to become re-activated too - it is really annoying.
What drives me NUTS is that when they increased the shipping price it also change the "last update xx days ago" tool from the listing. I was more likely to accept reasonable offers on items i had listed over 60 days...
They are going downhill fast. First they started going international - they always said it was going to stay USA based. Lie. Then they bought shophers and recruited shop owners from ebay with lousy feedback but tons of mass produced, oversees items - got way too big too fast and unfortunately filled the site with junk sellers and big box retailers which was totally not their niche market and contradicted their original platform - which is what made them successful enough to lure in investors. Hired morons. Got money hungry - became completely insensitive to their initial client base of buyers and sellers and became fairly non responsive, unaccountable and lost control of their mission and direction. That said - the last update box is useless - aggravating and does nothing. I have told them if they are going to do that - they need to have a tool that sellers can change all their listings at once - increase by 20% or add a line that they no longer accept offers or are charging $4.00 handling to overcome Tradesy new charges for shipping and commission etc. One at a time is stupid.
I know I've posted my complaints and concerns about Tradesy but really, I'm on the fence about them 'going downhill fast' or not. I hate the commission increase, lack of good communication, they sometimes are inconsistent and unprofessional, but the reality for ME is that I've never had a bad transaction (knock on wood, I hope I'm not giving myself bad luck here!!!lol) and I've had returns that have always gone into Tradesy's closet w/o a problem for me....and lately my shoes have been selling pretty good. People seem to return shoes more often than bags. If there were a better alternative for ME, I would completely leave Tradesy. the Bay is better for me for some items, right now Tradesy better for other items (for me, anyways)