Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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#9,211
domifreaka said:
I started posh closet in 2014 and I felt like all people wanted to do their was trade their stretched out Aeropostale t-shirts for my double flap chanels. This year I actually did a LOT of target following (following people that are interested in the brands I sell ONLY) and I'm putting all my effort into building my closet on there. This year I had maybe 7 returns and Posh denied 6, 7th was my fault (undisclosed cosmetic smell- I forgot my hairspray exploded in my bag once). Also the CS responds to emails within 8hrs or so. So looks like this will be my next "go to" after Tradesy.
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I second that. even though I haven't come up with "target following" :idea:
I figured out, you need to know how to say "no" and don't waste your time on blah-blah social media kind of thing there, many girls want to leave comments and to chat. starting with lowball offers is common, it doesn't mean you won't get a sale at a reasonable price, just keep counter-offering.
 
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domifreaka said:
I started posh closet in 2014 and I felt like all people wanted to do their was trade their stretched out Aeropostale t-shirts for my double flap chanels. This year I actually did a LOT of target following (following people that are interested in the brands I sell ONLY) and I'm putting all my effort into building my closet on there. This year I had maybe 7 returns and Posh denied 6, 7th was my fault (undisclosed cosmetic smell- I forgot my hairspray exploded in my bag once). Also the CS responds to emails within 8hrs or so. So looks like this will be my next "go to" after Tradesy.
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“I felt like all people wanted to do their was trade their stretched out Aeropostale t-shirts for my double flap chanels”

This exactly! Even though I have NO TRADES in my listing I still have ppl asking for trades on Chanel, Givenchy, etc. and they have used clothes and other non designer items on their closet.
 
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so coming back to thredup LUXE. I sent them 25 items. it took a week to arrive and 2.5 weeks to process them and offer prices. Now I see prices but have no idea what is what cause it's just a list of like CL Heels or CL boots, no style names no pictures. Pictures will appear when they post items online and I can't even adjust prices before it cause I have no idea what is what. Some offered prices are good and some are ridic low. I wish I could see at least tiny pics of the items for consideration before they post it. also they sell items without style names / models. just the brand and that's all. you can see they already have some luxe at their site. that's weird and wrong cause many ppl are looking for particular style not just the brand. I shared my thought with Luxe concierge service but I doubt they will change their whole system because of me:) well we'll see how it goes...
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
so coming back to thredup LUXE. I sent them 25 items. it took a week to arrive and 2.5 weeks to process them and offer prices. Now I see prices but have no idea what is what cause it's just a list of like CL Heels or CL boots, no style names no pictures. Pictures will appear when they post items online and I can't even adjust prices before it cause I have no idea what is what. Some offered prices are good and some are ridic low. I wish I could see at least tiny pics of the items for consideration before they post it. also they sell items without style names / models. just the brand and that's all. you can see they already have some luxe at their site. that's weird and wrong cause many ppl are looking for particular style not just the brand. I shared my thought with Luxe concierge service but I doubt they will change their whole system because of me:smile: well we'll see how it goes...
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I noticed that when Tradesy relisted my bag, they removed the style number from the title, and it isn't mentioned in the description, which is stupid because people often search by style number for Coach. They also rewrote the description, and neglected to mention that there is a zipper under the flap, instead saying that it has a "front flap with no fastening closures", which I think will make it more difficult to sell. People like this style because of the security of the zipper.
 
#9,215
re Tradesy strategy. it's sad, very sad and looks like agony together with this thing about opt in for sale items when they just bite their piece of your profit even if it wasn't for sale at those time. I so hope they will survive after this year:( no other place increases their fees so often and it seems really bad sign to me like they are very desperately want to reach breakeven point to show their investors that they have potential... tried to google for fresh financial news about Tradesy but didn't find anything interesting.. hope this bubble will not burst cause I'm really into them and regardless all the imperfections I still make good sales there and returns rate is very very law, I had maybe 5 - 7 returns during years and I managed to dispute a couple of them. and still it feels more safe than eBay. best of luck to them and it's not irony:(
 
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whateve said:
I noticed that when Tradesy relisted my bag, they removed the style number from the title, and it isn't mentioned in the description, which is stupid because people often search by style number for Coach. They also rewrote the description, and neglected to mention that there is a zipper under the flap, instead saying that it has a "front flap with no fastening closures", which I think will make it more difficult to sell. People like this style because of the security of the zipper.
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they are just not into the brand and don't care about such things sadly. same with thredup, they didn't sell luxe items before and they don't think style name matters. you can see they just have heels and boots in the headings:) https://www.thredup.com/products/women?department_tags=women&text=louboutin&user_search=true
 
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fashion_victim9 said:
so coming back to thredup LUXE. I sent them 25 items. it took a week to arrive and 2.5 weeks to process them and offer prices. Now I see prices but have no idea what is what cause it's just a list of like CL Heels or CL boots, no style names no pictures. Pictures will appear when they post items online and I can't even adjust prices before it cause I have no idea what is what. Some offered prices are good and some are ridic low. I wish I could see at least tiny pics of the items for consideration before they post it. also they sell items without style names / models. just the brand and that's all. you can see they already have some luxe at their site. that's weird and wrong cause many ppl are looking for particular style not just the brand. I shared my thought with Luxe concierge service but I doubt they will change their whole system because of me:smile: well we'll see how it goes...
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what's their commission rate? for instance in Realreal, it's about 40-50% and "up to 85%" for Birkins, expensive jewelry and watches.
 
#9,218
fashion_victim9 said:
so coming back to thredup LUXE. I sent them 25 items. it took a week to arrive and 2.5 weeks to process them and offer prices. Now I see prices but have no idea what is what cause it's just a list of like CL Heels or CL boots, no style names no pictures. Pictures will appear when they post items online and I can't even adjust prices before it cause I have no idea what is what. Some offered prices are good and some are ridic low. I wish I could see at least tiny pics of the items for consideration before they post it. also they sell items without style names / models. just the brand and that's all. you can see they already have some luxe at their site. that's weird and wrong cause many ppl are looking for particular style not just the brand. I shared my thought with Luxe concierge service but I doubt they will change their whole system because of me:) well we'll see how it goes...
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Thanks for the update. That must be nerve wracking, but it sounds like you are handling it well! Good luck :)
 
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I finally got the email that Tradesy changed their rates. Gotta love the fake giddyness that is in the message. :rolleyes:

I don't like how they keep emphasizing in the email that you "keep more than 80% of the selling price". Umm, no, you are lying, Tradesy. I get 77% of my earnings because I cash out everything. I don't buy anything on your site because the majority of it is worn out garbage from your business resellers, whom you seem to--for whatever reason--keep at the 9% commission fee.

As for payouts being "faster" due to "behind-the-scenes updates", there was no problem with it in the beginning; you just changed it on a whim this past year so that you could encourage your members to spend their earnings on your website. I guess you got too many complaints instead of increased sales on your end. Ha.
 
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BeenBurned said:
A small and newish website like Tradesy would presumably want to develop a good reputation in order to be able to compete with the bigger boys. So far, I'm still not impressed.

Instead of sending users here to sign up as "cheerleaders" for their site (and there have been at least 5 of them that I recall, now no longer members here), they need to do a better job of vetting authenticators, responding to reports of fakes, making rules that require sellers to use their own pictures of the actual items so buyers will know what they're getting, etc.

Although I've read a lot of posts here from buyers and sellers who have had good experiences, I personally won't patronize a site that I can't feel comfortable about. My discomfort with Tradesy is that they seem to mislead members by "assuring" them that they stand behind the items listed on the site, but unless a buyer, seller or reseller questions an item, fakes get sold, buyers get scammed and the cycle of selling fakes continues.

Instead of sending people here to tell how great Tradesy is, perhaps Tradesy should read the suggestions made and act on them. While no site is perfect, the type of occurrence as told by Jackylane and arfit60 should never have happened and if it did, it should have been resolved before their buyers had to go public with it. This type of thing makes Tradesy look even worse than it is.

And this was only one nightmare posted about problems with transactions. there have been many others discussed in this thread also.
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I made the above post (almost) exactly 2 years ago on October 2, 2015 and some of the points I made then are still valid now. It seems that the more Tradesy changes, the more they stay the same.

The only difference is that Tradesy no longer sends cheerleaders here to sing their praises!

In the intervening 2 years, they've raised prices/commissions twice while promising better service and better exposure, neither of which has happened.
 
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