Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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I don't think returns work for any of these commerce sites. Tradesy will probably move towards eliminating returns, if they want to stay alive.
I find the quality of buyers to be better on Tradesy than other sites. I sell more expensive stuff on Tradesy. I think my stuff gets lost on ebay- I'm not big enough for high rankings there.
Poshmark is the one that doesn't work for me AT ALL. Poshmark seems like a younger customer site - people with no money. And there is NO WAY to turn those lowball offers off. Tradesy does stuff for free that Poshmark touts as some sort of service- example if you lower your price, Tradesy will send an email to all likers, Poshmark makes a huge deal out of stuff like that. I'll probably leave Poshmark soon.
Mercari has the ability to send offers to likers, and ebay has just added something similar.
V true that returns have become a prolonged subsidy for Tradesy and understandably sellers aren’t happy with losing it. If all else being equal when sellers use multiple platforms to cross sell including those without returns then logically it translates that Tradesy with explicit return policy encourages negative behavior on the buyers’ motivation - buy on a whim and return out of remorse. There’s a huge cost for this and until now it’s been born by Tradesy. Changes are afoot, they’ve have grown up and so must buyers and sellers. I wouldn’t expect return to be eliminated altogether, just more or less what it is currently which is store credit for buyers and returns back to sellers. Mathematically, they can make money on this kind of money flow, and yet still retain some small variations of differentiation to stand out from others. It works more like Groupon when ppl go crazy for deals that either would expire or bought on impulse and then substitute with something else that is more appropriate after reflection.
Yes I agree with you that Tradesy enjoys a different customer segment than PM, more mature and higher disposable income. A couple months back I wouldn’t let a buyer cancel a purchase, instead told him it already went out and that he should return via Tradesy. Much to my surprise, he ended up keeping it after saying he had notified his cc of charge back, it was a brand new 1500 clutch. I’m sure remorse and refund policy played a role.
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For me personally, the site credit deters me from buying. Yes, I can buy and return, but being stuck with a site credit instead of my money back isn't good for me, as there aren't a lot of things I'm looking to buy. I'd rather buy from an ebay seller that offers returns, even if I have to pay to return.
the bottom line for me, not accepting returns and changing rules of doing so weekly without notifications is simply put false advertising of their services.
I'd never heard of Heroine.com prior to reading @laurie00 's post so I checked it out.
I put it to the test as posted here and I'm impressed! Unlike Poshmark and Etsy, I not only got a response but they did remove the fakes I'd reported. And they did it within hours.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...oach-fakes-here.824098/page-402#post-33064120
Sounds promising with 6% commissions plus PP fees, maybe an upcoming Tradesy? I always have faith that a competitive market place will bring about new blood and changes as such is life. Heroine is the female site of Grailed which is men centric that began with sneakers now branched out to other categories as well. Foot traffic isn’t the same as Tradesy’s, my loyalty is highly flexible as the saying goes.
I don't think there will be an upcoming Tradesy- the entire market is flattening out. We all complain about Tradesy selling fees, but I suspect they literally need that amount to stay in business.
The new model for e-commerce (fashion) seems like sellers will sell directly to buyers through social media with no middleman, other than PayPal friend and family fees. The problem with that is it assumes large sellers with loyal followings, ironically similar to a local brick and mortar store you know. Small time sellers like me would never have huge Instagram followers.
Plus I don't want to invest the time and effort to build up a customer base.
It's time for investors to change management and let Tracy and her clique go.
the only good business decision they made over last few years was hiring a PR agency that showcased toilet made of LV bags. that was a boost.
If we could combine the no returns and fast/reliable payouts of Posh with the higher end buyers/no lowball offers of Tradesy we'd have the perfect site as sellers. How do we do that? 
I'd never heard of it either until I started searching for an alternative to Tradesy. Good to hear your experience with them responding to fakes.
I wanted to update after having made a positive comment about Heroine dot com.
After being impressed by their prompt removal of several fake Coach bags, I reported a very obvious fake Dooney. That was over 24 hours ago and after 2 reports, it's still up. (And there's been no reply nor request for further details from "Wyatt" at Heroine/Grailed.
meanwhile almost bankrupt Neiman Marcus acquired minority steak in Fashionphile. FP now plugs in their partnership with falling NM everywhere. That I don't get.
Anybody has sold with Rebag?
Anybody has sold with Rebag?