It could be pointing out that you do same-day shipping, that you have over 500 sales, that youre a 5-star seller, or even a behind-the-scenes look at how you run your Poshmark business. Mind you she sends a photo an no disrespect ladies but she was more like a size 18-20 definitely not a junior large ! It works both ways. I recently found a couple of buyers that made me rush to send their packages, only to give me a 2 star rating because the item , in their opinion, wasnt as described. It happens all of the time. I havent been on Posh very long, only sold 13 items. My account was locked again, and I was told it wouldnt be reinstated. They shut my closet down Black Friday for a week. Ive had another rate me low because she said the pictures made the bag look bigger. I'm Arlene. So, putting it up to silver, it definitely wasnt silver and putting it next to something real gold, it wasnt quite that either. If the buyer doesnt like what they got, they return it to Tradesy and Tradesy resells it, so there is a lot more seller protection there. So I took all of my inventory and createdmyown online store calledShop Stylaphile. You definitely have a huge audience on eBay. *** By the way, I created this free Poshmark Sales Turnaround Checklist to track your efforts. hire me, I love everything you said. But if this continues to happen then I will have to find some other venue to self. Makes me ill and frustrated i cant do anything. As strictly a buyer, I cringe to hear these stories but always suspected that there are potentially steep challenges to selling items on these platforms. Lisa, Im hearing more and more stories like this, and I too, had my share of sales that were canceled by Poshmark because once I purchased, the seller never responded. Selling On websites has outlived its purpose in my life. She did not ask the percentage before buying. My in search of posts were idiotic.. i explaindd to her why we do it, she still kept calling me an idiot and after I was nice, she then goes on to call ME a bitch! So as of right now I am out around $100. I posted on her page and also on the thread on bag and said can you give me more info. Okay, I figure, this has happened a couple of times on eBay, when a promised discount wasnt calculate automatically. Given the high Poshmark fees that sellers have to pay, this is simply unacceptable. It was $20 for a pair of handmade Sterling Silver earrings posted at $38. Ive been doing this long enough to know which stores will likely buy what (every location has a certain taste or vibe or customer its geared towards so I try to go to the right locations for what I have e.g. can't list on Poshmark and don't know why : r/poshmark - Reddit Although the buyer had no postings or reviews, this person contacted Poshmark accusing my the item sold of fake. They advised me to purchase an American Express card at a sore ( or faster on line with the link they provided). Is there any advice for sales to new members on PM? I love having the control I have over my ShopStylaphile.com site. I bought it the next day, which happened to be Christmas Eve. Although its taking some time, I am moving the inventory, and due to Mercaris fees and shipping, Im making more than I ever did on PM and I spend very little time! I was told I NEED a Facebook shop first. . I am currently on Poshmarkbut have a hard time dealing with their promos. She said, no gurl.just send it as it is. I am OCD, hyper observant and work i fashion. I had regular repeat customers that were amazing, which is the only real drawback to quitting PoshmarkI loved these folks! Turns out this buyer is someone who resells the same type of item I sold herand Im wondering if she felt she couldnt get as much of markup as she wanted so she decided to claim it was used. So disappointed being I have strived to ship within a day only perfect items and have disclosed the tiniest flaws. The lady gets her money back an I get back a dress drenched in perfume An a snag in the brand new dress !!! Under Reason #3; Then there are the pervert trolls. It was a pinup dress. An app where you can load a pic and it will tell you if it can be located anywhere else on the internet. Also want to make a note about MERCARI: I wont sale on there bc i had a nbd experience ( although after reading her i see it could happen on PM too I had a girl buy an expensive designer swimsuit from me It was NEW NWT NEVER WORN, i tried it on twice realized it would never work for me so listed on PM- she found me asked if i could do it for lesson MERC. Most people would tend to think that I must have made a boatload of money, but NOPE. I had/have a $500 bag listed and the same buyer kept offering me $200 or less claiming it was reasonable which it obviously isnt and wanted to argue about it claiming it was too high and thats why I hadnt sold it. I get a lot of traffic to my ShopStylaphile site through my blog, Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram accounts. I was informed that I have to wait while they review the case. Is essentially new to Posh, aka, a buyer. Thanks for any advice! Thank for your comment Maggie. Im brand hew to Poshmatk. I sold $2,000 last month (April), all preowned items, and expect more in May. Im not spending countless hours listing stuff to only get offered pennies, if that. This article seems to bring to attention the Seller experience, but for myself as a serious Buyer, rather, there are too many ongoing occasions where the Seller accepts my offer and then 3 days later flippantly cancels with no cause for cancellation to the Buyer. I came across this blog because Ive been researching resale apps and Poshmark is one of the biggest when it comes to womens clothes. (two and a half weeks later, still no response from Seller) Smh!! I contacted posh support and without warning they shut my closet down again. I got a lowball offer, counter offered, but the buy stood firm to her low offer so no sale. Large Black Graphic Short Sleeve. Reason #1. And if you want to open up your own online store in the future, start building your social media following now. Another was a brand new rose gold watch she got next to nothing!! It is only $65.00 and I am glad it was not one of my very expensive items hat I have not listed. My family sees me running around trying to make a sale and decided to help me so we literally share ALL THE TIME and nothing, just some weeks ago I was having good sales but I have the feeling they have a way to control who sees you shares or how many people sees it. Jody, I am so sorry that you went through that on Poshmark! A lot of times I state please read my description after they ask a question that is listed in my description, along with a smiley face and then here comes Im a rude whore that needs to learn how to treat people nicer to make more sales LOL. An update on my situation, in case anyone cares.. the eBay guy was of course refunded his money. My guess is she received the shirt and tried to iron the rayon material and burnt it. Everyday Im getting tons of followers, likes, and shares a day but nobody buys. People on this site are crazy Ive seen it for 6 years!! I just got a response that basically said oh well. To have a damaged item thats not even yours returned to you, no questions asked, with no recourse for the seller? (2) Im going to carefully look at their closet and if its crap, I wont sell to them. blah. I am not a buyer so i dont care to even look at another poshers closet at all. Poshmark needs to shut down inactive closets and they need to penalize sellers for failing to ship. What are your thoughts? So I am finally at that point. it just seemed like one more time consuming event that I could not commit to so I didnt. I have not had a case opened yet. Yet another reason why I quit. I messaged them over 10 times now. Agree with Nelia and Karo above just started on pm and dont want to spend a ton of time on it (have already). Some have been able to raise money to stay afloat, albeit at lower or flat valuations. If youre going to start your own site, try BigCommerce here: http://bit.ly/2pFg5Mt. Im also happy to read the comments here regarding other sites because I dread eBay with all the waiting while PM seemed quick, but if I must, Ill go back there and try Shopify. My 5th sale was shipped within 12 hours and this was a brand new pair of Electric Yoga leggings that were ordered online. I believe I went googling just to find these experiences because Im doubting going on any further, What I found as so far is lowballer cheap skates. And I had no recourse at that point. She was so argumentative, rude, and unprofessional that I was almost happy that she blocked me from her closet. I just quit last night. Not familiar with Shopify. What are the fees for selling on Poshmark? The problem I have is I have not found a platform I like as much as PM, except for the time suck sharing issue. I decided to move to Instagram as Shopify is excellent but you need to know some HTML. And unfortunately without going into details, the garment came back to me damaged. That is steep. Im in the process of implementing a few of the above strategies right now. I see a lot of women offering to trade for each others items how is this possible, Hi Caroevelyn, See our FAQs on trading on Poshmark: https://poshmark.com/faq, My comment is in regards to closet stats and star ratings I am quite confused as to the rating system POSH uses for this. My bag was ripped by the buyer (maybe she regretted her purchase). Perhaps in your description you need to mention this is good quality and not the fake photos over seas sites steal that send you junk that looks and fits nothing like their pictures hence why their price is so low- youncan add this is not a bad quality replica as China sends and steals photos of. Unfortunately, there are just a lot of less-than-honest people out there who want something for nothing and have no problem cheating other people out of their money (or product). I hope they will get your money back for you very soon!!! I appreciate your feedback! Great post! If it is someone who lives in your area and wants to meet to transact (Ive done this and saved the individual the shipping fee), then meet in a public place where others are around and tell them it is cash only!!!! Its the norm now so go ahead and use it. Thats how Ive been able to increase my traffic. Heres the bad experience I had that was the impetus for my Poshmark departure. The buyer got me for $1000.00. So much has not changed. At this point, there is no customer service. She took another photo and it was the dress with a tag hanging down from a distance. This may be one of the worst Poshmark experiences Ive ever heard of. Too bad too because I loved shopping on there and there were some truly great sellers with fun wrapping & thank you notes- but Posh wont get a penny more from me. For clothes, this usually means switching between a flat lay, hanging clothes, putting them on a dress form or mannequin, and modeling them. If you like what you read, you can support the blog by buying me a hot cocoa. Anyway, if I sell it will be through the local consignment store because of the bad apple buyers that ruin online selling. Poshmark is kind of time consuming and I try to look elsewhere where I have more control and not having to deal so much with the buyer How can people see my items? I found it unethical that they let that Header on my news feed, because it basically deceived me into thinking I had free shipping. Its really gotten bad lately with 2 cases opened and 2 lost packages in the last 10 days. How do you get traffic and also how do you get followers? And no time suck as its not a social app. Luckily there are good people too, who hopefully outweight the bad. My frustration goes both ways, as a buyer and seller. Ive had to take half my closet down Bc of rude people ! She commented on the listing not sure these will fit, but willing to invest my offer. Am I the only one who watched the movie Mannequin as a child? I quit because of all of the points you noted with the primary issue being horrid customer support. The bonus items were worth more than the items you paid for. I have many complaints about poshmark, but lowballing for $7 shipping doesnt make sense(?!). The Seller and Poshmark ruined it for me! Your email address will not be published. I have written them down and will check them each time someone places an order. I also didnt like that the shipping was the same price no matter the item was. The short version. Then save and you're all done! I am getting tired already spending hours checking on PM for any sales, sharing and answering silly questions form buyers. But its over. Ive found some great deals on Poshmark, but I usually find my experiences on that site really frustrating and stressful. And how about the ones that give you a low rating because they didnt like the fit? Never before have I seen you could remove love notes. Im beginning to think it would just be easier to delete it. I like people to be sure an she said it will fit just mail it to me ! But, Im stuck. Im both an active buyer and active seller on Posh. Wed love to hear your feedback on this tool, Posh sellers! if someones going to give you their money I take that very seriously because I work so hard for mine. I am sincerely hoping that with the recently increased success of the customer service team, that we will be successful in getting our Poshmark back to the way it was meant to be with perhaps some more appropriate commission fees. What really upset me was that I had one buyer that did not like the lycra content in the jeans I sold her. Ive started cross-posting items so I can have a wider scope of buyers and most of the time, Im more successful on ebay. I just didnt have the strength to fight it, so I told Posh I would take the bracelet back. The reply I received after that was all you had to do was contact me directly. I doubt that there was anything that I could have done about it at that point, since I had already accepted the purchase and it was almost four days by the time I was able to contact her, so Im not sure what contacting her would have accomplished. If it was Ebay that wouldnt fly. Place your closet on a vacation hold to temporarily set listings to Not For Sale. Description: ** Thank you for considering our store! Ever wonder why theres no seller protection on PoshMark? Tradesy is great for High Designer Labels and only women clothing. I dont understand how they could do that when I sent them pictures and videos that it works. Whatever!! I sold a few things right away and was happy about that. I re-emailed them and informed them that I did everything as I was supposed tothat they chose to ignore me during the initial contactand that both these items fall within their return policies: 1) not authentic; 2) not as described. Posh Tip: How To Get Paid Selling On Poshmark Thats ridiculous. After reading your horror stories here, I gather I am better of finding another outlet to sell my things. Im going nuts. Sold by papishoes. Getting defensive that just makes one suspicious! Ok, I get it. The best way to drive traffic to your new site is with a blog, social media, and Google AdWords. on New Seller Tools: My Closet Stats & Not for Sale, My Closet stats gives you important information about your closet, your sales history, and the experience you are delivering to your buyers. Poshmark is so fortunate to have this base. Well, that is all well and good for you, but there are people who *do* want to make real money. The most recent experience is awful. No response!! You do have to pay a monthly fee to use Shopify and you have to know a bit of HTML programming in order to get your site set up the way you want it. I have an online store as well and have had one for over 12 years! Thanks. i am out of there. It does make you feel good when you always receive a good review with a 5-star rating it just makes you love what you do even more. I assumed they meant dont speak to her, which I avoided. Interesting how that works I thought you were innocent until proven guilty but on Poshmark you are Guilty until proven innocent . I am wasting a tremendous amount of time sharing from other closets just to get traffic to my closet. Hi Sherri. I used to do a flat lay with nearly everything I sold because I lived in a small place with no room for much else. Im working on a competitive app that will do just that and more! Hilary, so sorry that happened to you on Ebay. Do not try to justify it because there is no justification, and if you get shut down you deserve it. That way there is no dispute! Its like you said low ballers trolls and I had high end designer stuff with tags I felt like I had to lower my prices and those parties never got me any sales I am leaving too, You really hit it on the nose! If I get banned because of this comment. Once youve started a conversation, offer a genuine compliment if it fits the situation. I just received my electric yoga pants back today, and not only are there new snags on it that it didnt have when it left my possession, there are stains at the knees and the back of the pants near where your heel would be. My items are like-new cute clothing mainly for children as fair prices. How do you share your item for sale on tradesy? I have many issues with Poshmark myself,and I agree with everything you said,except for one in particular. As sellers we put allot of effort into the app. The support group way over exaggerated their sales, and gave young mothers the impression that they could do this and care for children and make 100,000-300,000 a yr. One little thing they dont like and the thriving business you been working the last few years at is gone! Then I came across a buyer. Never knew that cool! Well then she changed her story and only asked a store 7 hours away how to tell if a bag is a replica.
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