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serybrazil said:
I've been using Posh since 2012, while I do have a lot in my 'closet' I'm mostly a buyer. But the 5 years I've been on Posh, I've seen a lot of scammers easily sliding through the cracks :sad: I've almost been scammed only twice but that was enough for me to stop trying to sell my luxury purses and mostly just clothes and shoes. However, I do love to shop on it, 9x out of 10, I can find something that I really wanted gently used :smile:
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What kind of scamming? If you sell a purse over $500 it goes to posh for inspection first so the buyer can't claim it is fake or NAD. I like that much better than Tradesy, which only inspects if the buyer requests a return and then it has already been in the buyers' hands. The dilemma is there are more high price buyers on Tradesy than on Posh. :(
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
What kind of scamming? If you sell a purse over $500 it goes to posh for inspection first so the buyer can't claim it is fake or NAD. I like that much better than Tradesy, which only inspects if the buyer requests a return and then it has already been in the buyers' hands. The dilemma is there are more high price buyers on Tradesy than on Posh. :sad:
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This was before they were brought on Posh concierge but a buyer bought an older LV from me and was really, really excited to receive it and asked that I ship out ASAP and confirm with her that I did ship it, me being just as excited about selling, shipped it out right away and notified her, and about a few hours later got a cancellation notice that the seller emailed Posh staff to cancel it because it was "an accidental purchase" so she had them cancel it after I had dropped it off! Poshmark obviously didnt care because they cancelled it on their end, she got her $$ back but here I am freaking out so I paid $40 bucks to intercept the package, and it was theeee biggest headache EVER. Because I was on the Westcoast and the scammer was on the eastcoast so time difference played a HUGE factor but I was able to have the purse re-routed back to me. But, even to this day, scammers are finding other ways to scam by doing transactions off Poshmark, and it sucks because we all want a good deal but sometimes scammers are just really good at what they do :(
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
What kind of scamming? If you sell a purse over $500 it goes to posh for inspection first so the buyer can't claim it is fake or NAD. I like that much better than Tradesy, which only inspects if the buyer requests a return and then it has already been in the buyers' hands. The dilemma is there are more high price buyers on Tradesy than on Posh. :sad:
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The sentence in red would make sense if PM had a proven history of accurately authenticating items. But in fact, their "experts" have misauthenticated obvious fakes (as genuine) and authentic items as fake in more than one case. And in several instances, the ripped off buyers who got fakes sent their items in to Poshmark for a "second confirmation" and again, even in person, Poshmark got it wrong.

As such, based on PM's history of poor response to claims as well as their lack of response to reports, I don't recommend Poshmark, will not authenticate their listings and would NEVER do business on that site myself!

JMHO.
 
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serybrazil said:
This was before they were brought on Posh concierge but a buyer bought an older LV from me and was really, really excited to receive it and asked that I ship out ASAP and confirm with her that I did ship it, me being just as excited about selling, shipped it out right away and notified her, and about a few hours later got a cancellation notice that the seller emailed Posh staff to cancel it because it was "an accidental purchase" so she had them cancel it after I had dropped it off! Poshmark obviously didnt care because they cancelled it on their end, she got her $$ back but here I am freaking out so I paid $40 bucks to intercept the package, and it was theeee biggest headache EVER. Because I was on the Westcoast and the scammer was on the eastcoast so time difference played a HUGE factor but I was able to have the purse re-routed back to me. But, even to this day, scammers are finding other ways to scam by doing transactions off Poshmark, and it sucks because we all want a good deal but sometimes scammers are just really good at what they do :sad:
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Wow, what a mess! I think the cancellation window is now 3 hours so that should help somewhat.
 
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BeenBurned said:
The sentence in red would make sense if PM had a proven history of accurately authenticating items. But in fact, their "experts" have misauthenticated obvious fakes (as genuine) and authentic items as fake in more than one case. And in several instances, the ripped off buyers who got fakes sent their items in to Poshmark for a "second confirmation" and again, even in person, Poshmark got it wrong.

As such, based on PM's history of poor response to claims as well as their lack of response to reports, I don't recommend Poshmark, will not authenticate their listings and would NEVER do business on that site myself!

JMHO.
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Not defending bad authentication, but pretty much every big site such as Tradesy, TRR, etc has been accused of this so when you are buying pre-owned there is always going to be a risk; best to also be backed up by paying by cc or Paypal and doing a chargeback if you need to. I don't think the misauthentication is by any means the majority of the items on these sites, or the balance would tip and they would be out of business.
 
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MyAwesomeFinds said:
Wow, what a mess! I think the cancellation window is now 3 hours so that should help somewhat.
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Yes, Posh has taken scamming a lot more seriously but I still see honest sellers being scammed - but sometimes they are not sticking to Posh guidelines. But I now wait 1-2 days to ship out if I end up selling some of my nice, expensive items, just to be on the safe side :) I do love Posh, I found some great boutiques/closets on it.
 
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I’ve been doing more experimenting. I bought an obviously fake listing for $500 (seller originally wanted $650 and her listing got removed so when she relisted she dropped the price, probably hoping someone would offer under $500... but I had been keeping track of which fake listings were appearing again, so I swooped in and bought it for $500)

Concierge correctly identified it as fake and canceled the sale. My money should be refunded in a few business days. They didn’t state why; the status just said canceled and my payment was refunded.

The listing was removed. Sellers can’t remove sold listings. So I tried searching for her username but it says username isn’t found. However, I can still access her closet by tagging her on any listing and then clicking her tag. Then, it still displays at the top banner the number of listings she has (had) but the bottom frame says she doesn’t have any listings yet... confirming she’s on the naughty list for selling a fake.

I don’t know whether it’s temporary or permanent. And she could just make a new account. But now I know how to weed out some sellers, one $500 transaction at a time
 
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Well, this is a new one. I just got an empty package.

Seller shipped me an empty envelope* on the 7th day of the sale. It was an inexpensive $10 shirt, but now I have to dispute it etc. it would’ve been easier for both of us if she had just cancelled! [emoji849]

*Luckily my mailman wrote on the package that it was received empty, so should be easy to dispute with PM. Let’s see!
 
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tiffCAKE said:
I’ve been doing more experimenting. I bought an obviously fake listing for $500 (seller originally wanted $650 and her listing got removed so when she relisted she dropped the price, probably hoping someone would offer under $500... but I had been keeping track of which fake listings were appearing again, so I swooped in and bought it for $500)

Concierge correctly identified it as fake and canceled the sale. My money should be refunded in a few business days. They didn’t state why; the status just said canceled and my payment was refunded.

The listing was removed. Sellers can’t remove sold listings. So I tried searching for her username but it says username isn’t found. However, I can still access her closet by tagging her on any listing and then clicking her tag. Then, it still displays at the top banner the number of listings she has (had) but the bottom frame says she doesn’t have any listings yet... confirming she’s on the naughty list for selling a fake.

I don’t know whether it’s temporary or permanent. And she could just make a new account. But now I know how to weed out some sellers, one $500 transaction at a time
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Fight the good fight! :)

I'm surprised she didn't just cancel the sale rather than send it in for authentication. I've heard of a lot of fake sellers doing that.
 
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tiffCAKE said:
Concierge correctly identified it as fake and canceled the sale. My money should be refunded in a few business days. They didn’t state why; the status just said canceled and my payment was refunded.
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I misspoke & I’m unsure how to edit posts now that my app updated—anyways... posh did send me an email that they canceled the sale bc the item couldn’t be authenticated. I hadn’t checked my email yet. Within the posh app, it just said canceled.

Annoyingly, their email says they’re returning the item back to the seller. I really think that the problem would significantly diminish if they confiscated the fakes. Getting their closet shut down (maybe only temporarily) is a hassle but it doesn’t stop them from making a brand new account and trying to sell the fake again, at $499 or less (since you can’t offer more than the list price)
 

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#3,464
I'm a little worried about a recent sale... I accepted an offer on 3-11 and I shipped the item on 3-12. My buyer lives the next state over from me, so it should have been delivered within 2 days. Yesterday (3-15) the tracking showed that the item had arrived in her city. When I went to check it just now, all the tracking updates had disappeared. The only thing that shows now was that the label was created and accepted at my PO. I really hope nothing has happened to the package. [emoji30]
 
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GirlieShoppe said:
I'm a little worried about a recent sale... I accepted an offer on 3-11 and I shipped the item on 3-12. My buyer lives the next state over from me, so it should have been delivered within 2 days. Yesterday (3-15) the tracking showed that the item had arrived in her city. When I went to check it just now, all the tracking updates had disappeared. The only thing that shows now was that the label was created and accepted at my PO. I really hope nothing has happened to the package. [emoji30]
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You can call the post office and ask them to look up the tracking number.
 
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