Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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I had a picture of a gucci bag with the bag, care card, and the gucci shopping bag as my main photo... Tradesy retouched it and literally took away the actually bag and the main picture was only of the gucci shopping bag [emoji23] wtf!
Given their number of sales I would say they are legit. There is another account like this (I can't remember the name). They probably source their items in Europe.
I under your frustration. I'm sorta hanging there and waiting for investors to replace the whole team including founder. That always happens with VC capital, they kick out CEO-founder and team who don't diver.
It could have been already profitable if they hadn't acquired Shophers with tons of power seller and weren't flooded with returns as a result.
The 100% commission is too tempting. They set the price but you can adjust. My sales have all but dried out in Tradesy. I'm going to send in some bags and see how it goes. I'll report back if I sell anything!
Nope... In fact during last week "VIP" coupon sale I didn't sell a thing!
hope you will soon!
I sent 25 items last week. fingers crossed!
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Are you sending mostly clothing or also shoes, handbags and jewelry? This is for the luxe program, right, only designer labels?
I initially planned to use it for some Chanel and Hermes bags, but then I got scared off by the reviews. I have some designer RTW that I also wouldn't mind selling, but I mostly have shoes and bags.
I just called Tradesy CS....I have an escrow ending today at 11:05. (I have been receiving my payouts in 96 hrs, my last one was less) I'm now told the escrow time frame is 5 days, no longer 96 hours and that "I should read the Help Center for lots of new updates" I just don't know why Tradesy is so slippery with these changes! Never, ever sending an email to notify users that there are new policies. I was simply calling to see if a return was requested since you can not tell now. I was also told if you go on to a desktop and check your transaction details, there will be a drop down menu that will tell you the status of a sale (like the app used to) Tradesy really doesn't have much to offer these days....all the features that attracted me to their site 4 years ago are essentially gone. Low commission, great seller protection, not needing to accept returns.
I can only imagine things getting worse for us private sellers as time goes on. I came back to Tradesy very briefly so I could sell a couple things and didn't realize how much policies changed and not for the better. Hopefully I don't have to come back as my closet is once again, empty (thank god!!!), but if I was in the position where I had to sell more, I'd be too afraid to know what other "surprises" I may have missed all the time I was gone.
I can only imagine things getting worse for us private sellers as time goes on. I came back to Tradesy very briefly so I could sell a couple things and didn't realize how much policies changed and not for the better. Hopefully I don't have to come back as my closet is once again, empty (thank god!!!), but if I was in the position where I had to sell more, I'd be too afraid to know what other "surprises" I may have missed all the time I was gone.
I enjoy selling and have been a hobby seller for years. I started with Ebay when my daughters were infants, while they took their bomber three hour afternoon nap!! It was so fun back then! Fast forward 20+ years! I thought Tradesy wasvpushing us hobby sellers out but today was told that the pro sellers no longer get the old commission structure (which happened when everyone else was increased) nor do they get funds released quicker. The CS rep said all sellers have the same terms now. She may be uninformed or worse, fibbing to me but that's what I was told. I can't imagine high volume sellers wanting to pay almost 18% commission!?!? They may head back to Ebay....
I'm guessing if Tradesy does this it is because the power sellers are the ones who are responsible for the most returns (i.e., loss of money on Tradesy's end) and us private sellers can no longer cover the costs as there are fewer of us wanting to stay on Tradesy and we don't sell that much to begin with.
I hate having to come back to Tradesy, but so far it's been the only selling platform that has given me the most money for my sales. I've been pretty unsuccessful in other selling avenues, nor do I feel comfortable selling something high-ticket on Poshmark (which has a bunch of problems; might as well be an online Craigslist) and eBay.
This whole reselling thing has just made me much more selective of what I buy in the future, that's for sure!