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sdkitty said:
you don't like PP?
is that the general feeling here on the PF?
everything I know about selling bags I learned here and PP was the preferred payment method back in the day
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Most sites are now processing payments inhouse so as a seller almost nothing comes into paypal. I used to use paypal for shipping but they've made it difficult to use.

I used to pay for all ebay purchases with paypal so I would have an additional level of protection, and sometimes I used paypal credit so I wouldn't have to pay all at once. It was easier to do that when I had money from sales coming in to cover my payments. I might use Paypal again if I make a big purchase that I want to split into multiple payments, but for just regular items, even on resale sites, I'm comfortable just using my credit card.
 
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I feel the same way. I can't believe my funds were already deposited into my checking account. My second buyer on PM just accepted my item yesterday and my funds showed up this morning. Less than 24 hours!!! So much faster than Tradesy!!!!!
 
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I don't know if anyone can give me some advice on posting pics on PM. I'm terrible in trying to adjust the size of my pics. I have an Iphone 12. I'm getting so frustrated. I have spent an hour trying to change the size of my pictures so they will fit on PM. PM only lets you post tiny pics. I have beautiful long Burberry Trench coat and it will not let me post the whole length of the coat. Does anyone have any tips?
 
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Gennas said:
I don't know if anyone can give me some advice on posting pics on PM. I'm terrible in trying to adjust the size of my pics. I have an Iphone 12. I'm getting so frustrated. I have spent an hour trying to change the size of my pictures so they will fit on PM. PM only lets you post tiny pics. I have beautiful long Burberry Trench coat and it will not let me post the whole length of the coat. Does anyone have any tips?
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The photos turn into a square, so it makes them shorter than they are, I just back way up when I’m taking photos. You can always zoom in to crop them on Poshmark, but you cannot zoom out.
 
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nicole0612 said:
The photos turn into a square, so it makes them shorter than they are, I just back way up when I’m taking photos. You can always zoom in to crop them on Poshmark, but you cannot zoom out.
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Thank you so much!!! I was standing way too close to my pictures. I will try standing farther away. It's so frustrating, because on Tradesy you have to make your pics so big and PM is the opposite.
 
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Gennas said:
Thank you so much!!! I was standing way too close to my pictures. I will try standing farther away. It's so frustrating, because on Tradesy you have to make your pics so big and PM is the opposite.
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It isn't the size of the pictures, it's the aspect ratio. I don't have an iphone but on my Samsung I can change the aspect ratio on the camera. You want 1:1. It took me a long time to figure out why my photos were always cropped. Backing up doesn't really help unless you crop them to a square before you post them.
 
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nicole0612 said:
The photos turn into a square, so it makes them shorter than they are, I just back way up when I’m taking photos. You can always zoom in to crop them on Poshmark, but you cannot zoom out.
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Gennas said:
I don't know if anyone can give me some advice on posting pics on PM. I'm terrible in trying to adjust the size of my pics. I have an Iphone 12. I'm getting so frustrated. I have spent an hour trying to change the size of my pictures so they will fit on PM. PM only lets you post tiny pics. I have beautiful long Burberry Trench coat and it will not let me post the whole length of the coat. Does anyone have any tips?
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I either take pictures while in PM adding a listing on my phone (then when done with pics, I hit cancel and save as draft so I can finish the listing on my computer) or if I'm just taking pictures to upload later, I update my iphone camera setting to "square."
 
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whateve said:
It isn't the size of the pictures, it's the aspect ratio. I don't have an iphone but on my Samsung I can change the aspect ratio on the camera. You want 1:1. It took me a long time to figure out why my photos were always cropped. Backing up doesn't really help unless you crop them to a square before you post them.
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Thank you so much. I will see if I can figure out where the 1:1 ratio is. I liked my older Iphone camera better. There are so many options on the Iphone 12 camera. I'm also not technical at all.
 
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Bales25 said:
I either take pictures while in PM adding a listing on my phone (then when done with pics, I hit cancel and save as draft so I can finish the listing on my computer) or if I'm just taking pictures to upload later, I update my iphone camera setting to "square."
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Thank you!!! This is great advice. I never knew about updating my iphone camera setting to square.
 
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whateve said:
Most sites are now processing payments inhouse so as a seller almost nothing comes into paypal. I used to use paypal for shipping but they've made it difficult to use.

I used to pay for all ebay purchases with paypal so I would have an additional level of protection, and sometimes I used paypal credit so I wouldn't have to pay all at once. It was easier to do that when I had money from sales coming in to cover my payments. I might use Paypal again if I make a big purchase that I want to split into multiple payments, but for just regular items, even on resale sites, I'm comfortable just using my credit card.
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good to know
but as a buyer, you don't pay any fees, right? so wouldn't hurt to use PP credit rather than your credit card?ust
thank you

back to Posh discussion. I'm finding that a lot of sellers don't know what they have - as far as the specific style names, etc.
Sometimes that can be a good thing because people who are into bags and feel they have something special will price higher. But when a seller says a bag has gold HW and the pics show silver, IDK what to think. Maybe it's not her bag, she's selling for a friend and just didn't look at it carefully maybe
So I try to ask questions and hope I get answers
 
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sdkitty said:
good to know
but as a buyer, you don't pay any fees, right? so wouldn't hurt to use PP credit rather than your credit card?ust
thank you

back to Posh discussion. I'm finding that a lot of sellers don't know what they have - as far as the specific style names, etc.
Sometimes that can be a good thing because people who are into bags and feel they have something special will price higher. But when a seller says a bag has gold HW and the pics show silver, IDK what to think. Maybe it's not her bag, she's selling for a friend and just didn't look at it carefully maybe
So I try to ask questions and hope I get answers
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Buyers don't pay any fees. If you use Paypal credit, you won't be able to do a credit card dispute if you have a problem so I feel it is a little less safe. With a paypal dispute, you don't get shipping fees back.

I'm finding that more sellers know what they have which makes it harder to find a bargain. There are still a lot of people who don't have a clue; like they will sell a recent Coach and claim it was made in the US, having never read the creed or any of the labels.
 
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whateve said:
Buyers don't pay any fees. If you use Paypal credit, you won't be able to do a credit card dispute if you have a problem so I feel it is a little less safe. With a paypal dispute, you don't get shipping fees back.

I'm finding that more sellers know what they have which makes it harder to find a bargain. There are still a lot of people who don't have a clue; like they will sell a recent Coach and claim it was made in the US, having never read the creed or any of the labels.
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oh, I hadn't thought of that about not being able to file a credit card dispute when using PP
 
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