VC increased their commission. For a while in the US, their rate was 12% with no transfer fee, I don’t know how long they’d been doing that, maybe another poster can chime in. Tbh their rates used to be even worse, around 25% maybe 4-5 years ago, I stopped selling with them a few years back so lost track of when rates changed. Just this month VC implemented a transfer fee of 3% while keeping commission @ 12%, bringing their all in rate to 15% for both retail and pro sellers. You’re right, under this scenario there isn’t a clear benefit to be a pro seller. The obvious question is will VC change their structure going forward? My guess is unlikely as eBay is keeping theirs at the same level as well. That said the days of 25% commission are long gone in such a competitive resell market.
Anyone Ever Buy and/or Sell on Tradesy?
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I just moved a ton of listings over from Tradesy to VC. Whoa this really makes me appreciate Tradesy.
Does VC have any user experience designers?
Questions for all,
- How do you search within your closet on VC, say I moved 10 pair of Levis and I want to check that they are all there, the VC search just shows all Levi's people are selling - I want within my closet.
- Is there any kind of closet branding, like can I name my closet "Purple People Eater Closet" or something because all I see is the name on the profile and then it says it changes the shipping address.
- Nice that VC allows offers but it appears these do not carry through to your personal email? Everything seems lumped under their "notifications" which includes a bunch of noise like "lower your prices now".
I had a good closet on Tradesy and a lot off people who bought from me over the years and on VC I feel completely lost with no branding.
Does VC have any user experience designers?
Questions for all,
- How do you search within your closet on VC, say I moved 10 pair of Levis and I want to check that they are all there, the VC search just shows all Levi's people are selling - I want within my closet.
- Is there any kind of closet branding, like can I name my closet "Purple People Eater Closet" or something because all I see is the name on the profile and then it says it changes the shipping address.
- Nice that VC allows offers but it appears these do not carry through to your personal email? Everything seems lumped under their "notifications" which includes a bunch of noise like "lower your prices now".
I had a good closet on Tradesy and a lot off people who bought from me over the years and on VC I feel completely lost with no branding.
Are you a pro seller? If so you can use Catalogue Management function to search within your closet but it’s only available on website not app. Most important thing to keep in mind is VC app and website version are riffed with discrepancies, sadly been like this for years now. Their programmers can’t seem to be bothered.
I don’t believe catalog function is available to retail sellers
I’m afraid no such branding continuation is possible in VC, pretty much limited to your name or initials in your handle though you can and should say more descriptive in your bio page saying something like “Formerly known as Purple Rain’s closet on Tradesy”
I find it annoying too, especially since buyer’s messages get mixed up in this clutter mess unless I constantly check the app. Really I only care when buyers message me and don’t want to miss those but unlike Tradesy when I used to get text messages, it’s a lot harder to wade through and no way to know instantly.
Years ago VC used the same notification system SMS but maybe it got too cumbersome but they’ve stopped. Now I’m forced back on VC but Tradesy was way way better as a platform. Lots of ppl may disagree w me but from a structural pov Tradesy managed to develop a superior infrastructure over the past few years.
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Bittersweet to acknowledge this fact isn’t it? I rue for those Tradesy days too, warts and all. VC platform is vibing AOL speed dialup era. Hopefully now with post merger Tradesy programmers will take a stronger lead. VC culture isn’t interested or vested in user experience, they never had to since those founding days. This plays a huge part as to why VC never really took off in the US after all these years. Their success in Europe could be attributed to mainly a captive audience - eBay or the alternative, and with first mover’s advantage, they got home turf but their success didn’t translate elsewhere.
I give VC credit for developing a strong back office infrastructure, not easy at all setting up shipping logistics with duties on a global scale. So unable to conquer America, VC acquired Tradesy instead.
no not a "professional seller" - whatever that is. I guess I will apply for that.
I moved my listings to VC yesterday and I am shocked about the functionality of this website.
You can't edit your listings after they are listed, and all price drops are PERMANENT? What if a buyer messages you about dropping a price to buy, you do it, and they decide not to buy?
I can't even search my own listings? What?
On your account page you can see your removed listings - they brought this over from Tradesy, but you can't access the listing itself, just see a tiny picture of something you sold or removed. You can't retrieve the text of the sold listing. Yikes
Like I said VC struggled in the US cuz user experience isn’t part of their ethos. It’s rather appalling that their platform is worse than eBay, takes a lot for me to say this!
You’d end up recycling listings over and over for all the reasons you mentioned, prices lowered but buyer didn’t follow through, unable to edit listings etc. their platform is extremely rigid.
I really really wish I had read the comments from this weekend before I switched over today. I have 1100 listings and only 800 transferred over. From what I can tell there's no way to see what didn't transfer. And what I read above, there's no way to search within your own closet so if you sell something somewhere else you can to go thru all the listings to find that item on VC to remove it. I'm not sure I'm long for VC --- as others have said, Tradesy had lots of flaws but seems so much better than VC with their website.
I have been messing with this all weekend and it has been a nightmare. The worst thing is this is Oct 30. All of this should have waited until Jan if possible. My guess is Tradesy sellers will have maybe 10% of their typical Holiday sales this year.
As far as moving things - it APPEARS that Tradesy has turned the closets back on for those that transferred items. This just happened today, I could not see my closet yesterday, it took me right to VC. TODAY, my closet is back so I can see my listings and when I click on the item, it takes me to VC.
The things that didn't transfer are in your "Removed" tab at the bottom of your closet.
The next issue is the moved listings and how there is NO WAY TO EDIT THEM.
My transferred listings appeared to guess at new with tags, excellent, good etc condition. Most of mine are wrong on VC. But I can't change anything. And then, the pricing. I need to tweek the VC pricing but cannot.
In this day an age, what retail site allows NO CHANGES after listing?
I read that the Tradesy CEO will become the new COO and do all operations out of LA. Thank GOD for that.
DO you know what the actual commission for VC is? According to their help page, commission should be $12 for anything under $100, and 12% over $100 which would be ok, but it looks higher, the under $100's are $15.
The other problem after moving from Tradesy is the offers, which I like but if someone offers 30% below my Tradesy price that is too low because I assume no offers on Tradesy.
Again the problem comes up that I cannot change any prices after listing and if I delete the item I moved from Tradesy, just to create a higher price - the link from my Tradesy closet is gone and nobody will be able to find the item.
To add insult to injury, it looks like VC doesn't do any keyword search with google so you can't use google to search for specific items in Google shopping - which works with EVERY commerce site ebay, Etsy posh etc.
Just looked this up last night because I wasn't understanding either. Under $100 it is $12 plus $3 transaction fee. Over $100 it is 12% plus 3% transaction fee
And I agree about the offers. 90% of my sales on Tradesy were full price. I have only received low offers on VC -- it's like Poshmark!! And I would have to go in and make all new listings with higher prices to deal with all those low offers. I'm just declining one after another since the price I had transfer from Tradesy was the price I wanted.
I really really really wish I hadn't made the transfer until I had to in 2023. Warning to anyone who hasn't done it yet.
yeah normally on posh if somebody makes me a 70% offer, I take it. Also I don't have expensive designer bags on posh, commission is too high and the posh user community skews young.
Somebody messaged me on VC to buy a New with Tags Longchamp Cuir for 60% of my ask. You've got to be kidding!
I will now need to recreate all bags listings for $100 more over there.
Yeah I cost myself a lot of money by moving my listings before Christmas. Hopefully people see this.
VC website info is outdated, their current commission structure is 12%+3% or 15% all in. it used to be that with Tradesy, their 3% transfer fee wouldn't apply if ppl use Tradesy cash to make purchases within the platform, however, that's not the case with VC. good or bad, you always have to to use your own separate funds to pay for purchases on VC.
I've turned off the offer button in my closet, prolly best thing I ever did. I do negotiate with my buyers, but just like before on Tradesy, (my experience was remarkably similar to yours), only some buyers do this, gotta be honest, the majority of the times, they paid my list prices. I do keep pricing v competitive, and my inventory did move briskly so I wasn't just listing my stuff for display only.
was anxious about going rogue with no offer button, but my instincts proved right and while my sales have slowed down during this migration transition, I achieved my targeted prices for things I sold during the past month. I've been selling on Tradesy for 6-7 years so I had customer data to back up my instincts. my focus is on primarily US buyers, couldn't careless about the European buyers unless I have a rare special item. when non American buyers attempt to negotiate with me, I always point out the obvious but little understood fact that they have to pay for import duties/customs that VC charges during check out. 99% of the time, they abandon the purchase.
I do get a strong impression that Tradesy buyers fail to convert to VC new account holders once they clicked on the links. There's reason why the VC interface didn't take off with American buyers even though VC have been around in the US just as long as Tradesy had. the sooner VC management acknowledge this vulnerability, the quicker they can address the elephant in the room and pivot accordingly.
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