Thanks for your help girls! I finally saw the message box thanks to Whereve's screen shot. I thought that was my outlook - I didn't realize it was part of Mercari's system. I think I finally got the Mercari thing working and I have to say - despite the reviews I've seen online - their customer service has really been awesome. They respond the next day and it is an intelligent response geared to my issue - not some canned reply. With my first sale, they just made my money available after they saw my own tracking showed a delivery and didn't make me wait for the buyer to rate me after I told them I couldn't message her. But now I know how to do that for next time. So I moved a bunch more things over from Ebay although I haven't sold anything else since that first week. Nothing sold on Ebay last month either though so ....
*Selling* on Mercari
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Moving stuff from Ebay but I got a pop up saying I'm limited to 100 items? Is that normal? I didn't see anywhere that it said there is a limit to how much you can post. I wish I knew that BEFORE I started listing and I would have listed differently. I tried inactivating a couple items to list others but that didn't work. Apparently the inactive ones counted as part of my 100 and I can't seem to delete them permanently. It said something about my limit being increased as my sales increase . Does anyone know how many sales you need before your limit is lifted and what the limit increases too? Thanks a bunch.
I have no idea. I imagine it isn't many. I started with just a couple listings. When those sold, I listed more. Now I'm pretty sure I have more than 100, and less than 20 sales. I haven't been able to delete my inactive listings for a few weeks. They changed something. It really annoys me because if I deactivate my whole shop when I go on vacation, I don't want those old listings being active when I return.
ETA: They seem to have fixed the inactive listing problem. I can delete them now.
Ok. I guess they do whatever they want then so I'm going to have to email customer service and ask them directly at what point I can list more items and what their policy is with that. I looked all over their website and they don't say anything about this or anything about them deducting $2 when you transfer amounts under $9 either. I learned that here. At least if I can delete some things now, I can list other things instead. Thanks for letting me know. Enjoy your vacation!
I just counted mine and I have 158 listings not including inactive listings. I guess they would raise the limit as you keep selling some. I like that Mercari doesn't charge listing fees. However, they have been playing around with the app since I can't search anything right now and also didn't get notification for incoming messages.
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I think they have been getting better about some messages. If you get a formal offer, you get an email. If you've sold something and the buyer sends you a message, you get an email. I don't have the app on my phone, just my tablet, and I don't get notifications if a potential buyer sends me a message unless I check the app. I wish they would send emails for those messages, but I can imagine that could be too many emails for some sellers. Sometimes I don't know about them for hours.
Ok thanks. I appreciate the no listing fees as well as the fair commission on Mercari but it would just be easier to sell more if I could list more. I sold one thing within the first few days of listing there but then nothing since. A bunch of likes on items and one question but no sales. The idea was to move them off Ebay as my 30 day listings all ended so I don't have remember and recreate the listings after the unsold disappear from Ebay since I won't be relisting more then 25 things there anymore with the mandatory GTC and eventually, nothing when they tell me I can't use paypal anymore and have to give them my social. Fat chance - LOL
While Mercari is better in some areas, eBay still has a larger audience. Paypal has my SS and I have been filing tax returns lately since they send 1099 for income over $600.
Mercari has been painfully slow for me in terms of sales. A few likes and views but that is it. It’s not much better than Poshmark.
It's pretty slow for me too, but every time I've made a sale, everything is so smooth and I get my money so fast, unlike Tradesy. I really wish it would take off so I could just leave the other sites.
I agree. I started on Mercari a couple months ago and thought I was starting off great with a sale a few days after I listed but then it came to a screaching halt and nothing has sold since. I even used the app - which I hate using mobile - but only to promote the items with the likes hoping those offers would result in a few sales - and nothing. The problem is I can only list 100 so if they don't sell - I have to delete them to put up different things and once you delete it - there is no retention so you have to remember your inventory and recreate each new listing again. That's really annoying. I like that you can use Tradesy as an inventory control because they keep items you remove for years on your removed list. Its almost worth listing everything on Tradesy - putting your closet on vacation - because under their new return policy - nearly everything I sell would be getting shipped back to me - and just using them as a webhosting vehicle - LOL. At least then you'd be getting back part of that hefty 25% commission fee we've been paying them . I do wish Mercari would increase its listing limits to at least 200 or 300. I like the limits because they keep out those drop shippers and overseas scammers and big box type sellers - but 100 isn't very much.
I tried again and now that I got the hang of the website thanks to this forum and Mercaris responsive customer service, I am loving the platform. So far it is now my fave to sell on.
Well now that I've made a bunch of sales - I don't seem limited anymore and I am moving my listings from Tradesy and Ebay over to Mercari. Actually, I have almost nothing listed on Ebay anymore and Tradesy I am just using as an inventory reserve since they refunded my last sale and lost my bag trying to return it to me without even emailing me first. So I put my closet on vacation - forever. I'll keep the closet up though until I've moved all the listings over.
As a consumer, Mercari is fantastic. I have received many beautiful items at fair prices, and so far all that I have purchased have been authentic. The selling side...err...has been tough. I haven’t sold anything yet. Maybe my prices are too high, I’m not sure. But I’d rather keep my items or give them away to friends than take them to a consignment shop where they give me practically nothing. It’s kind of a slap in the face doing local consignment in my area. The Clothes Mentor takes 70% and they give you 30%. I brought some items for them to look through on Friday. I’m going to pick them up today, but I have a feeling they aren’t going to offer me much and I’ll be taking my items back home and posting on Mercari instead. If they offer me less than $75 for my lot of stuff (2 pairs 7fam jeans, 6 pairs of various designer sunglasses, 1 pair J Crew shoes, 1 Coach and 1 Gucci bag) I’m going to be insulted. We’ll see when an get there I guess.
Yes I know what you mean. I have done well on Mercari - sold more on Mercari in the time I've listed then in a couple years total on Tradesy and for me, Poshmark has been a total waste of my time. 2 offers for things that were like 10% of the price I listed it for. Yeah - I'm going to give you a 90% discount! LOL. Mercari has become my favorite platform now that I learned how to use it a little bit more. The only criticism is that you don't have enough choices for shipping. I'd like to be able to choose flat rate shipping for small and medium USPS boxes because otherwise the options are $5.25 - $11 or $16 and many items fall inbetween those categories so I think if I could lower the shipping by $2 -3, then I would sell even more. I am off Ebay completely now - it just became too stressful. And I have seen some really good deals on Mercari - nice boots and bags that I would have bought but they seem to go really fast and the first time I see things is in the sold listings they float by so you see what sold in the last 10 minutes. For some reason, those Rae Dunn kitchen items seem to be really popular sellers too.