Yes on posh people want to make offers. Sometimes I put stuff as price firm, and people don't want to buy. So now, for almost all of my items I just inflate the price a little to make room for offers. It's dumb, but it's all psychological, just like mall stores price their items way higher than they expect to sell them for so they can then advertise for 40-50% off all the time (ahem, Gap/Banana Republic). I still have a few items as price firm, but it's stuff I am really firm on and am not in a rush to get rid of. At least on posh, when a buyer makes an offer it is binding and payment is pre-authorized, unlike on ebay where people get away with offering and then never paying with a slap on the wrist.
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Yes, I have had someone repeatedly offer me like $350 for $1k NIB Valentino shoes and then when I look at their listings they are selling their own luxury items. It's ridiculously transparent--if you are trying to get stuff cheap to flip, at least get it from another platform. I ended up blocking that person.
Just the way it is. I've been on Posh for a few years and just ignore the lowballed or block them! I sell ok on there and just take it all with a grain of salt. And everybody wants a deal. I usually counter back with a couple bux off or ignore. Cost of doing business I guess. I sell more there than in my ebay shop. Unfortunately.
The more I use it, the more I think Poshmark needs to allow sellers to take away the "make offer" button. I've started on occasion to ask the seller if the price is firm. Some respond cheerfully with an invitation to make an offer and go from there. Others state the price is firm.
I do like the way Poshmark takes payment info so that if the seller accepts an offer, everything can move forward smoothly. Seems efficient.
I hate the automatic messages with party posts, updates to closets, etc. I need to figure out how to disable all that.
I do like the way Poshmark takes payment info so that if the seller accepts an offer, everything can move forward smoothly. Seems efficient.
I hate the automatic messages with party posts, updates to closets, etc. I need to figure out how to disable all that.
I have to speak up as a buyer only on Posh (altho I sell non-fashion on ebay so I know what it feels like as a seller). Dont take low offers so personally and respond even if it's just to decline. It's polite and it keeps the lines of communication open which is important. There have been times when I would have gone higher with my offer (I usually offer based on going price and what I think I can get it at) but if a seller cant be bothered to even respond, I just move on to the next seller who is nicer, even if just with a counteroffer that is the asking price which indicates that the price is firm. I'll uch rather work with that seller.
While I understand your thinking and of course, any buyer is free to avoid any seller for any reason, I want to make a couple of points.
1. Sellers who "can't be bothered" could be sellers who didn't choose to have a b.o. offer. Ebay often does that wihtout seller knowledge.
2. If an offer is too low, sellers sometimes ignore because they (rightly or wrongly) assume that the buyer doesn't want to pay a reasonable price. (For example, if the offer is 20% of the BIN and the seller wants 75% of the BIN, seller may assume the buyer won't go that high.)
3. Some sellers with b.o. on the listings make one counteroffer and don't want to play the back-and-forth game.
None of the above (IMO) mean that it's not a good seller. But again, do what's comfortable for you.
I don't sell on Posh but I sell on other platforms and I can't think of a single instance when I've received a lowball offer that the buyer came back to buy at a higher price. I'm always polite and always respond to offers even if the listing isn't set up to take offers. I often accept reasonable offers and often counter low offers. Most of the lowballers are rude and don't use complete sentences. Usually it is something like "$30?"
As a buyer, I do love the offer option on Poshmark. As a seller, it has helped me move merchandise, but there are also some buyers just out to get something for practically free. I have countered before and gotten another counter from the would-be buyer at their same initial offer or at $1 more. Those, I decline only so I can then block them. If I were a high volume seller, though, I can see how it's not worth the effort to respond to all of those that will typically not wind up in a sale.
It happens a lot. Like I said, I sell also. Just this week, I had someone PM me on Facebook for something that has been up a month with little interest. I am asking $150 but he started with "$25?" We went back and forth and he evetaully raised it to $75. Shrug.
Um, yeah? When I put something up for sale, I want to move it and I dont take things personally.
I think part of the nonresponse is that some items get so many offers. I recently listed an item that had 98 offers by the time I first checked the site on my lunch break. They ranged from ~10% off to ~90% off my listing price. I only had time to respond to the people who offered close to my listing price. This could be part of why buyers don’t get a response sometimes.
Wow, 98 offers is amazing. I think technically tho, the lowball offerers did get a response tho in that case. They got a notification that it sold. That is response enough.
That was a record. I think for high profile brands priced under $1,000 there is a huge amount of interest and offers (Chanel bags etc). It actually sold on another site, so I had to wait 24 hours to deactivate the listing due to the open offers. I wish there was an option to “decline all” offers
Well, some people just want to move things and get some sort of money for them, but there are other people who sell things for a living or for backup money or whatever, and put a lot of time and effort into sourcing and listing things (still at good savings to retail, or otherwise who would bother buying it in the secondary market), and to those people it's an insult to their time and effort to ask for something at 20% of the listing price. There are also people who may be selling their own items, but they are highly valuable items and it is cheapening and insulting when you ask "$1000?" on their listing for a brand new authentic chanel jumbo double flap (yes that happened to me). It implies either that the seller is so desperate as to take that amount, or dumb.