Nifty.ai: one month of use

I sell mostly vintage electronics.  Overall I consider my experience with Nifty.ai to be positive and good- more on that shortly- but first, a couple of important ‘gotchas’ that I wish I had known before starting.

– Be careful listing to Poshmark if you have items that weigh more than 5 pounds!
Poshmark’s shipping system in not like eBay’s, and does not offer UPS or FedEx. Even if you buy the ‘max weight USPS label’ they offer (which is 15 pounds), there is no official way of shipping of any item that weighs more than that as Poshmark does not let you use your own shipping service. I suppose you could ship however you want & message a tracking number to the buyer, but Poshmark offers no way to make that the actual shipping tracking number for your package.

– Depop does not currently seem to allow any electronics on their platform (except cameras), and will send warning messages about possible account suspension if you try to list electronics. “Copying” listings over from eBay to the other platforms can be pretty fast via Nifty, which is how I discovered Depop doesn’t like electronics (after I had tried a few in quick succession).

Now for the good (hopefully there will be a couple of images embedded below as I cover some points).

Part of this Nifty experiment forced me to finally create accounts for Etsy & Depop, so I could see what they were all about. I have only listed a portion of my eBay store on each target store, here’s quick breakdown of my current inventory count for each store:

eBay – 1271 (My main focus. It feeds the other stores).
Etsy – 402 (they only allow appear to allow manufactured items that are over 20 years old. Still have more to list there).
Poshmark – 308 (their shipping policies aren’t compatible with some of my inventory, and clothes seem to be a big thing over there)
Mercari – 273 (I have not yet had a sale there yet).
Depop – 8 (I just don’t sell many clothes. No sales there yet either.)

Nifty dashboard screenshot:

The time span is exactly one month from when I started, to now (today).  I am paying for (the maximum?) plan- Bundle Plus- at $69.99 a month.

It’s fair to say that I had $768 of sales on new platforms directly because of this Nifty test. For eBay, some of the $2.4k number includes a few hundred dollars of sales that happened because Nifty automated some (10%) offers.

It’s worth mentioning that:

– Nifty handles offers on the platforms that offer it. I never really dealt with automated offers before, so sales were definitely made because of that (even though I made 10% less on those since they were offers).

– Nifty does all manner of following, sharing, etc. on Poshmark (and maybe other platforms). I really don’t have any desire to understand Nifty’s automated ‘self-shares’, ‘community shares’, etc. It’s not something I’d ever want to do myself, but if it’s helping, great.

– Crosslisting requires manual intervention for every listing, but I don’t really mind having to pull the trigger for each listing to go live. You can move through doing a crosslist of a single listing to a target platform in a matter of seconds once you get the hang of it.

– Nifty’s “sell somewhere & it gets de-listed everywhere else” capability has been mostly good. In the past week I have noticed some glitches (it didn’t catch eBay sales a few times). That’s not great, but it does make it easy to manually sync sales from other platforms, and always corrected itself after I did that manually.

I’m going to continue on with Nifty for now. For what it does (enabling cross-listing, offers, de-listing, decent reporting & overviews, etc.), it seems to be worth paying for.  I am someone who is not a fan of subscriptions or otherwise ‘renting’ software in general, for what it’s worth.