Confiscating the fakes is a horrible idea with Posh’s awful track record of being able to properly authenticate. They have called a lot of authentic items fake; I can’t imagine the headache of trying to recover your expensive authentic item if they confiscated it (and probably lost or destroyed it).
Does anyone use Poshmark?
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Confiscating the fakes is a horrible idea with Posh’s awful track record of being able to properly authenticate. They have called a lot of authentic items fake; I can’t imagine the headache of trying to recover your expensive authentic item if they confiscated it (and probably lost or destroyed it).
It has updated again and shows that the package is now in another city, close to where the buyer lives. It sat at her PO for 2 days before moving. I don't know what's going on! [emoji21]
From what I understand, you as a seller are covered as long as the shipment shows that it was accepted by the post office. Because Poshmark takes care of the shipping, they do not hold the seller accountable if USPS loses a package. That is one of the reasons why I prefer PM over eBay!
What a relief! Thanks so much for the info - I appreciate it!
The package is finally back in my buyer's city and is out for delivery. [emoji28]
I just sold an expensive item through Poshmark, it was sold on a Friday and I shipped the item on Saturday, when I woke up this morning(Monday), the order had been cancelled without any explanation. I got the tracking notice from Poshmark saying the item is now tracking. I am hopeful that I will get my item back because it was first going to be authenticated through the Posh Concierge. I find this practice of Poshmarks to be very unprofessional. For Poshmark to accept the order and payment, to provide me a shipping label, to have me rush over to mail the package...for them to cancel an order in the middle of shipping is totally unacceptable. Has this happened to anyone else? I have reached out to Poshmark's customer support but they're usless. I basically have no explanation, no item and no money. I just wanted to give people who are using Poshmark a heads up on how Poshmark operates.
of course they will send it back to you, don't even worry. I once had similar case, but item was under 500 and I shipped it directly to customer, and next day they cancelled. those buyer appeared to be fraud, and they refunded me since the order was shipped and it wasn't my fault that they let this transaction go through at the first place
So I bought a handbag using half available credit and half paypal. The seller never shipped the item so yesterday I cancelled the order and was going to use the available credit due back to me to purchase another bag yesterday. I cancelled the order yesterday morning and the credit still hasn't shown up in my account yet. I get the paypal taking a while to show up but credit?? I have an email into customer support but just wondering how long this is going to take....thanks!!
I bundled 4 items and she sent one item in a tiny box. I emailed poshmark that I didn’t receive all my items and the seller stated she did and put them all in this tiny box! Poshmark had me take a picture of the box and label. I got my refund. What’s wrong with these people??
I thought poshmark changed the rules so that orders can only be cancelled within a 3 hour window?
Oh no ;( thank god it goes to Posh to authenticate so I'm sure they will send it back since its been canceled. I've seen too much of it on Posh. The scam is that they will buy from your closet, hopes that you ship out ASAP and once they know you ship out - they turn around to cancel knowing that the parcel is in transit
I had it happen to me in the past but I was lucky to intercept it - costing me $$$ and a huge headache.
Been reading up on Poshmark and thinking about selling on there. I was hoping someone might be able to answer my questions that I haven't found the answer for (hopefully I didn't miss them!).
From what I've read they only authenticate past the $500 price?
If so is there anything protecting me as a seller if the buyer claims it's fake/not as described? I worry someone could swap out the real for a fake when returning to me. Not sure how often scams happen on Poshmark, but I have read about it on eBay.
Reading on their site it says "Please note that we are unable to cancel orders before 7 full days from the time of purchase" so this means anything I have read about sellers shipping then their buyers canceling hours later has been solved with that or do they make exceptions for buyers that could turn into a scam? I usually ship next day so I'm wondering if that's a bad thing on Poshmark.
I guess I'm a bit scared because I am so used to eBay (I like selling in person more but sometimes go to eBay when something doesn't sell). The thought of flat shipping/fee sounds very nice, not so sure about the sharing/etc aspect though but would definitely find time for that if it's easier then eBay/in person.
Only time I have ever used poshmark was in 2016 to purchase a bag and the whole thing was very odd. Seller responded weird/took a long time to ship, however I did get the bag eventually so I guess it could have been worse. It just makes me a little wary about it....but I guess the same could happen on eBay too.
From what I've read they only authenticate past the $500 price?
If so is there anything protecting me as a seller if the buyer claims it's fake/not as described? I worry someone could swap out the real for a fake when returning to me. Not sure how often scams happen on Poshmark, but I have read about it on eBay.
Reading on their site it says "Please note that we are unable to cancel orders before 7 full days from the time of purchase" so this means anything I have read about sellers shipping then their buyers canceling hours later has been solved with that or do they make exceptions for buyers that could turn into a scam? I usually ship next day so I'm wondering if that's a bad thing on Poshmark.
I guess I'm a bit scared because I am so used to eBay (I like selling in person more but sometimes go to eBay when something doesn't sell). The thought of flat shipping/fee sounds very nice, not so sure about the sharing/etc aspect though but would definitely find time for that if it's easier then eBay/in person.
Only time I have ever used poshmark was in 2016 to purchase a bag and the whole thing was very odd. Seller responded weird/took a long time to ship, however I did get the bag eventually so I guess it could have been worse. It just makes me a little wary about it....but I guess the same could happen on eBay too.
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Recently had a “posh friend” that sold a pair of 37.5 louboutin fully nude closed toe platform pumps with original sole and buyer opened a claim against them immediately that posh approved. The buyer returned a size 38 open toe pump with red platform and vibrams in very poor condition. The buyer swapped an obviously different pair, kept the good pair, AND got refunded. Seller ended up with zombie apocalypse shoes and no money and lost the shoes they sold. In fairness, there were some issues on the seller’s part how they handled the sale/return but I know that seller wouldn’t even own size 38 so that seller, issues aside, really is the victim in this transaction. In the photos the buyer provided to posh, they hid/attempted to hide all of the very obvious discrepancies that showed a completely different pair of shoes (no outsole photos showing size/vibrams, front of shoe showing peep toe/red platform cut off from field of view, seller’s damaged strap outside field of view whereas buyer pair doesn’t have same strap damage)
The pair returned to the seller is in much worse condition. Definitely a completely different pair.
supposedly this is true. Buyer can still cancel w/in 3 hrs (I think) so if you wait until next day to ship you should be ok.
I prefer buying/selling on eBay also but there are many times where I see something on eBay and I wish I could “share” it so I do believe that poshmark may have an advantage over eBay getting your item seen by people that don’t even know what they’re looking for it. Poshmark is definitely more social for me—I find out about things I wouldn’t know about otherwise. Sometimes it’s sizing info, styles I didn’t know I liked, or connecting with ppl that can help me. I would say in general I don’t have gripes against eBay and I definitely have lots of big gripes with posh but there’s enough good in posh that I use the app to buy. I don’t sell any longer. I refuse to compete with counterfeit merchandise & posh is extremely terrible in its enforcement
Thank you for the detailed answers! The story about your posh friend is very troubling, that totally stinks! I wonder if videoing boxing the item would be of any help? Such a shame poshmark sided with the scammer, from reading on their site it sounded like they were smart about cases. They could have at least compared the sizes! I suppose someone could do that on eBay too though. Poshmark seems kind of more wild west to me then eBay. I am still contemplating selling on there, I am getting fed up with all selling platforms. So many flakes and scammers wasting time, it’s annoying.
I’ll have to weigh what you said and think about it more, seems equal risks on both sites.
I also sell on poshmark and I've noticed that brands in the $100-200 range usually go really fast. It definitely targets a younger demographic that tend to lowball, especially with high end designer items. I've sold a Prada bag for a decent amount on poshmark, but I've received better luck on eBay. However, after reading a lot of horror stories on eBay - I just sell my stuff directly to fashionphile now.