Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?

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GemsBerry said:
Like they were holding funds to the max at the end of the year to improve the bottom line, now they eased it a little. I wonder if they met the goal to become profitable in 2017?
I know RealReal is doing really well, items are sold out in no time and lots of new inventory every day.
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That's sketchy that they were holding funds like that. I think it really hurt them PR-wise, there are raging complaints all over the internet about how slow they pay. It has become my least favorite place to sell now because of the slow payouts. I'd rather my items sell on ebay or poshmark, but I don't want to remove my tradesy listings because I'd rather have them sell there than not at all.

As for the Real Real, they are growing a lot but at least as of 6 months ago they hadn't hit profitability yet; they are focusing still on growth and taking in more venture capital.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/06/the-realreal-ropes-in-50-million-in-new-funding/
 
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whateve said:
Speaking of Mercari, I put a couple items on there, sold one within a few days, and had my money in less than a week. It was so easy! I don't like is that you can't do it on a desktop, and I don't like that you can only have 4 pictures. You have to have the app to set up listings. I had to spend quite a lot of time answering my buyer's questions before the sale - I don't know if that is common.
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Mercari is one of the main ones I haven't tried yet. I'm turned off by the disorganized garage sale appearance of the listings and I don't see a way to sort by brand? Maybe I should still try it if it will bring me more sales.
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
Mercari is one of the main ones I haven't tried yet. I'm turned off by the disorganized garage sale appearance of the listings and I don't see a way to sort by brand? Maybe I should still try it if it will bring me more sales.
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It appealed to me more than Poshmark. They have a shipping label you have to pay for but is still cheaper usually than it would cost to ship yourself. And they only charge 10%. All sales are final unless it isn't as described. The buyer has only 3 days to complain. They give you a review, then you give them a review, and your funds are released. It took only a few days for the money to make it to my bank. They don't have a paypal transfer option.

Your notifications include every time someone have liked your item. I haven't put anything else up and the two that are on there now aren't getting any traffic. I don't use a camera to take pictures, not my phone, so I have to transfer my pictures to my tablet in order to list, which is a pain.
 
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whateve said:
It appealed to me more than Poshmark. They have a shipping label you have to pay for but is still cheaper usually than it would cost to ship yourself. And they only charge 10%. All sales are final unless it isn't as described. The buyer has only 3 days to complain. They give you a review, then you give them a review, and your funds are released. It took only a few days for the money to make it to my bank. They don't have a paypal transfer option.

Your notifications include every time someone have liked your item. I haven't put anything else up and the two that are on there now aren't getting any traffic. I don't use a camera to take pictures, not my phone, so I have to transfer my pictures to my tablet in order to list, which is a pain.
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I need to try it. Posh was good for me, now it's just influx of lowballers who either want to trade their washed out tees or offer 30% for already discounted BNWT Chanel and Celine. Oh and there's a new thing there - to price match with a cheaper variation of the bag from the same line and/or of different size that they found somewhere (quilted leather vs plain, bi-color, vs plain, size small vs medium). "can you beat that?".:cursing:
 
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GemsBerry said:
I need to try it. Posh was good for me, now it's just influx of lowballers who either want to trade their washed out tees or offer 30% for already discounted BNWT Chanel and Celine. Oh and there's a new thing there - to price match with a cheaper variation of the bag from the same line and/or of different size that they found somewhere (quilted leather vs plain, bi-color, vs plain, size small vs medium). "can you beat that?".:cursing:
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Does Mercari not have an offer button or at least one you can turn off?
It doesn't do authentication though right? Less buyer and seller protection.
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
Does Mercari not have an offer button or at least one you can turn off?
It doesn't do authentication though right? Less buyer and seller protection.
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I haven't tried them yet. there are pros and cons for every platform.
low commission 10% = less protection (Mercari, eBay). Full protection, no headache at all at consignors = huge commission up to 40% (RR, Yoogis, FF).
I like niche in between, i do all the job (pics, description, shipping, answering Qs) and I get some protection for moderate commission (Tradesy, Posh).
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
Does Mercari not have an offer button or at least one you can turn off?
It doesn't do authentication though right? Less buyer and seller protection.
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I think there is an offer button. I haven't figured out if it shows on my listings. My buyer paid full price. I only bought one thing on Mercari. I couldn't find the offer button, although another person told me they saw it on the listing, so the seller adjusted the price for me.
 
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I guess it was a fluke that my funds were released on the 5th day. I reached the 5th day on another sale and the funds weren't released. It is under $50 so it can't be returned.
 
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whateve said:
I guess it was a fluke that my funds were released on the 5th day. I reached the 5th day on another sale and the funds weren't released. It is under $50 so it can't be returned.
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I also sold a wedding item, all of which are final sale, and it is now 5 days past delivery and they haven't released my funds. They are clearly using this is another way to delay funds release as well. The item was pristine, NWT so its highly unlikely the buyer found something to open a SNAD claim about.
 
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My last few sales I've had the money is in tradesy after 5 days but is taking forever for it to get to my paypal account...getting so tired of this crap.. If they can pay you in 5 days it should only take a day or 2 to be transferred to which ever account you want it to go to. Geesh...come on Tradesy your pizzin people off.
 
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