I don't sell on Poshmark. I'm not up for all the socializing you have to do. I list on Mercari. I elaborate the flaws in the description box. I've never run out of room. You can't put much in a title and they limit you to 8 pictures, which makes it hard to show everything I want to show. Bonanza doesn't have a condition description box. I just add it to the item description. Even on ebay, where there is a condition description box, I add it to the item description. Many buyers don't see everything in a listing so it helps to have it multiple places.
Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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I have made about 9 sales on Tradesy, which have mostly been in the $200 to $300 range. Anything more expensive than that, I consign or direct buy. So far, I have not had anything returned that I know of. I gave up on eBay a long time ago when they started making it more difficult for small sellers to navigate through the scammers, lol. I like that Tradesy will handle returns for the most part. I also think that when someone buys knowing that they may only get store credit and will have to jump through more hoops to get a full refund, it may be more discouraging to them then it is on eBay. I have usually had the money released sooner than the 21 days stated. However, I do not understand why a transfer to PayPal should take 7 days.
I wanted to list a few more items on Tradesy but these non-stop sales and promo codes are making me feel uneasy...like they’re strap for cash or something hence the need to make quick sales with all the promos floating around. Any other sellers out there reluctant to sell? Am I overthinking?
I'm not worrying yet. If I made 5 or 6 sales quickly and had all that money tied up at once, I might be a little worried. My sales lately have been small and far apart.
this was several years ago....as I recall I sent it to her confirmed paypal address and it came back to me as undeliverable...she made some excuse and wanted to still buy it but I was uncomfortable with her
I’m inclined to say over thinking. They’re going after market share is my guess. I’m more worried about VC due to their lack of promotion, they seem to be hunkering down to slow their burn rate after throwing cash at ads on buses in London last year. I’m surprised to see some v high listing prices making the cut when I used to receive ridiculous counter offers from VC negotiations.
My sales volume has been steady and strong tbh. Tradesy has been cracking the whip, as they should, on sellers who post ghost listings without actual inventory. TRR looks like it’s on IPO path, VC is pricy European centric. Tradesy is the turtle that might surprise everyone else by keeping the head down and fine tuning their data metrics. Data always sell, ask FB lol.
Yeah - I'd like to get paid sooner but its not that big of a deal because this is found cash for me. I'm not depending on sales to pay bills or buy new inventory. I am only clearing out mine and my daughter's own disgards that we can't fit into or wear anymore so its this or Goodwill where we recoup nothing. (And Goodwill just turns around and sells it on Ebay anyhow so its not even going to help low income people clothe themselves). I sold more this year so far then in any other full year - but that's not saying much because I never sold much on Tradesy. When something did sell - it was a surprise like - Oh yea - I have a Tradesy shop! I missed a couple sales though because of emails not getting through so they weren't confirmed in time or I missed questions that had I answered might have led to a sale. I am thinking of opening a Poshmark store now that they started advertising on TV but I don't know how much information they require - I don't give out my social to ANY of these sites which is why Ebay will soon be a distant memory for me.
I'm thinking the same thing. I sell a lot of expensive items, so having so much money tied up in their account freaks me out. Tradesy has more than 4000k returns sitting in the company's closets, and most of them they will probably never sell. I'm scared one day I'm gonna receive an email from them saying they are bankrupt. Also according to Alexa, Tradesy's traffic score dropped significantly even compared to the last year. Unless everybody started shopping on their app, Tradesy is definitely going down.
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Well, I don't know what to say about the site drop off. My tradesy sales have been about even. As for 4k returns in the company's closet, that may not be that big of a deal. We'd really need to know how many sales tradesy does at a given time to put that number in perspective. There are individual ebay resellers/flippers who have stores with 3k items.
I'm doing better on PM surprisingly, but PM started collecting sales tax from April 1. I wonder if it'll bring more buyers to tradesy. all things given Tradesy doesn't collect tax yet and price can better here than on PM (~23% fees on Tradesy vs 20% fee plus 6-9% sales tax on PM) plus free returns for credit on Tradesy.