I had to laugh at the "70% of their list price." I have literally seen items selling for $895 and when I submit the EXACT same item for a quote I get an offer of $250. Their offers are terrible. What are they offering 70% on? Obviously not the brands I'm selling.
**Buying from Fashionphile** shopping experiences/questions
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I have sold 15/25 items to them. So I have accepted roughly 60% of the offers they have given me. Some of the offers I have accepted were… $3200 which they sold for $4150, $1250 which sold for $1750, $1400 which they sold for $2000, $385 which they sold for $550, $1100 which they sold for $1450, $200 which they sold for $275, $220 which they sold for $550, $550 which they sold for $700, $300 for $550. Some of the offers I rejected… $1500 for a brand new Dior Small Book Tote, $600 for a brand new Medium Neverful, $1000 for Like a like new/excellent Micro Celine Luggage, $100 for a brand new Louis Vuitton bandeau/twilly, $100 for brand new Fendi Velvet Pool Slides.
Fashionphile offered me $1625 for my unused Pochette Metis a few weeks ago. I laughed and ignored that offer. Ann's Fabulous Finds offered me current full retail price and now has the bag listed for $2900 on their site. I paid hundreds less than AFF's offer, so it was a no-brainer. FP has been insultingly low lately.
Does AFF do buyouts? I use Fashionphile when I would like to sell my items ASAP and not wait for it to sell.
Sometimes, yes. I've submitted four or five items to them and received only two offers for direct buyout. I accepted the one for the Pochette Metis and declined the other, although it was a great offer (90% of current retail for a small LV item). Rebag has been great for offers on LV too.
I've never had success with AFF doing a buyout, and the items were brand new Hermes, which they list often. I think they'll buy the lower-priced items and consign the higher priced ones. And you have to answer a boatload of questions about your items and submit lots of photos - AFF was a hassle to try and do a direct buy with. I've used AFF to consign and the process is much easier, but the stuff takes forever to sell. AFF has a tiny audience of shoppers compared to FP/TRR/ Yoogis, and she overprices everything, even worse than FP!
I haven’t submitted anything for quotes to Fashionphile in a couple years but submitted two bags last night just to see where they’d offer. Not 100% sure on selling yet. One they offered exactly what I paid retail for it three years ago (Hermes leather Garden Party rarely carried). And an Evelyne I bought from them a couple years ago they offered 60% of what I paid. Honestly both were higher than I expected given some of the recent comments. Also, I got the quote within 12 hours of submitting.
I start to think the person quotes me dislikes me, sent in several more items and the quotes came back are so low make me wanna cry, and these quotes are like 1/3 to 1/2 prices of other consignments had quoted me, so either that person somehow dislikes me or FP becomes so big they took majority of the market of people sent items to them.
I have felt the same way. Try Yoogiscloset. Their quotes are consistent and appear to be based on value and sellability. At least I don't feel like they're giving me bad quotes out of vindictiveness.
My guess would be someone else bought it and after 3 days they still hadn't shipped it so the buyer decided to cancel the purchase.
Just a follow up on this - the bag FP offered full retail on, Ann’s declined outright purchase (just consignment) and Yoogi’s offered 1/3 of FP. On a few accessories though, Yoogi’s offered double FP.