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I totally agree. If poshmark can negotiate this deal, why can’t Ebay? It really is a selling point on heavier items.
I still sell a lot of lighter items like hats and swimsuits, sometimes at full price/$6.79 shipping, sometimes with an offer to likers/$4.99 shipping. The shipping is always the same on Poshmark. You can offer a discount ($1.80 off or free shipping) to likers, but otherwise they pay $6.79. Buyers tend to like to buy multiple items as a “bundle” because of that shipping cost, so it pays to have a lot of items in your store. You just do better when you do because shipping is less onerous when the buyer is bundling several items together.
On the heavier items, poshmark shipping is actually a screaming deal. I find it to be especially good on heavy shoes, boots, coats, sweaters, bags, etc.
No not yet! I’m at right around $500-$700 a week now. I just looked and it says that I have 513 listings. I tend to go for very quick flips though. Since the buyer pays shipping, I’ll take pretty much any offer if I’m making at least $5. Another cool feature of Poshmark is that the app tells you exactly how much you will net from any given sale. It makes it easy to decide whether or not to accept an offer. I’m selling clothes and of course hats. Hats were my bread and butter on Ebay too. I get them from Goodwill by the pound and yard sales, so I have very little into most of them.
About half of my income last week came from Ebay. Those were some bigger sales from stuff that my husband’s office was throwing out in a move (sealed copy machine toner!!). I haven’t been listing much on Ebay at all. I don’t cross-post between poshmark and Ebay. I find Poshmark so quick and easy to list on that I just tend to focus on doing volume on there rather than spending time cross posting. The only stuff going on Ebay is stuff that I cannot list on Poshmark. I really need to try Mercari too still.
Oh wow. I’m so glad they caught Susan’s cancer so early. It’s fantastic that it can be removed with no chemo or radiation though! I hope that she has a very quick recovery and is back to feeling well in no time.
The fact that you work together well is a function of the fact that you have a functional relationship to begin with. Being able to communicate effectively, resolve differences, and share common goals are all vital to working together in my opinion. Not every couple has that down pat, so I imagine that working together isn’t possible for every couple.
I had to laugh about you guys bringing frozen food to NYC. Last year we scavenged the world’s cheapest trip to Atlantis ($287 for the entire week in a 1 bedroom timeshare unit due to a fluke with the timeshare trading company we use). Atlantis is SO expensive for food and we have 2 kids, so I was absolutely determined to bring ALL of our food with us. We don’t live very far from the Bahamas so I didn’t even use a cooler…I packed a suitcase full of food and drinks including perishables lol. We literally didn’t spend a dime on anything the entire time we were there. When we were checking out we saw a family with a food bill that was over $1000 for the week. No thanks, I’ll do it the scavenger way. If we ever head to NYC I’ll be the lady with the frozen packs of chicken in my suitcase!
As for my week, it was about $1300. I have shifted most of my business over to Poshmark at this point, although I do still sell some things on Ebay. Ebay really scared me off last year when they randomly suspended me for 30 days for selling “adult items” and then admitted that they made a mistake and immediately reinstated my account. They’ve never been able to tell me what triggered the takedown, so I’ve gradually moved almost my entire business off of their site. I’m almost at 70K followers on Poshmark now, and I like the platform more and more. One thing that I love is that when a buyer makes an offer and you accept, it’s done. There is no waiting to see if they pay. Ebay should have that feature.
The buyer pays the shipping on Poshmark. You can offer a shipping discount via a bundle or via an offer to buyer, but otherwise the buyer is paying the full shipping. I’m one of the people who now prefers Poshmark to Ebay. My method is to take Poshmark pics on my phone, list on Poshmark, copy the description, screenshot the photos and list on Ebay. I crop the photos in Ebay since they’re square and they need to be cropped once you screenshot them. It’s much faster for me to go from Poshmark to Ebay than vice versa. I don’t always (or even often) crosspost anymore though.
Also, that 5 pound shipping rate is good for an entire bundle up to 5 pounds so Poshmark is WAY cheaper for shipping if you are buying a bunch of stuff. This can be good for sourcing from Poshmark for resale.
We left MA for Florida 14 years ago due in large part to the high taxes and we’ve never looked back. We didn’t take a salary hit when we came here as engineers make about the same here as where we’re from, so it was a net gain to our family’s bottom line. My extended family has slowly migrated here also.
Our area has seen large influxes of highly-educated workers moving in in the past few years, but it has really picked up lately with large corporations in the area hiring engineers from out of state. We definitely feel the wave of people moving here from high-tax states. The thing is, these states are losing their high-earning, highly-educated taxpayers. It’s a net gain for FL but a net loss for those high-tax states IMHO. I don’t know what to think. This is driving up housing costs in our area bigtime, like to the level of the bubble housing prices and beyond. Hopefully it will all shake out.
Ebay has been SO SLOW for me lately. I’ve started mainly using Poshmark instead of Ebay because my items on Ebay don’t seem to be getting anything close to the number of views they normally would. This means that I’m selling more clothing which isn’t my preference. When I was promoting at the “going rate” my sales were fine. As soon as I pulled back to 1% my items stopped getting very many views and my sales really slowed down. I don’t really want to play this game. Like Ryanne said, you eventually start to wonder if you’re making any money when you’re paying Ebay fees, an extra “going rate” fee, paypal fees, etc.
Sure! Here are some photos. I put it on Ebay with the patina on, but I can definitely clean it and rephotograph if that would make more sense:
https://imgur.com/S8kEjXn
https://imgur.com/a/MOmP20I
https://imgur.com/a/3f99yo8
https://imgur.com/a/abbT0xfI’ll definitely make sure of that. I need to talk to the principal tomorrow to make sure I’m going about this correctly. She’s really great…I’m sure she’ll understand the unusual circumstances and won’t keep her from being promoted next year. I’m willing to bring my daughter in for testing too if need be.
We’re in Florida. I’ll join HSLDA and a homeschool group for sure. Thanks for those recommendations! My friend homeschools so I’ve already texted her that I’m going to need some help to get going.
Our daughter will go back to the town school in August, so this is only temporary. I’m just thankful that I have the flexibility to do this. I’m still reeling. I’ve never heard of a teacher randomly quitting during the school year. It’s not like he’s working at the mall or in an office something. I feel for the parents who don’t have the flexibility to suddenly become homeschoolers for the next 4 months.
Well, I have an answer for this question that I couldn’t have fathomed when I heard the podcast a few days ago. Reselling is supporting the fact that I now need to homeschool my 4th grader. She goes to our town school (which we love BTW), but her class has been growing increasingly chaotic for months. Something seemed wrong with her teacher, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. We really like him. He looped up with the kids, so this is her second year with him. Well, he QUIT. We found out this morning. He’s just fed up, and he’s going to an entirely different career.
They don’t know what they are going to do, and they’re scrambling to bring in a “permanent sub” but I don’t see anyone lasting in that classroom for more than a week. Reselling for a living means that I own my time so I don’t have to leave her there with sub after sub for the next 4 months. It means that I don’t have to scramble for a spot at a private school that doesn’t impress me. It means that I can homeschool her including bringing her to different homeschool classes during the day. This is all still really new for me and I’m still processing it, but thank goodness I had this option.
Yes I definitely do think I can replicate my Ebay income across the three platforms. I’m not fully giving up on Ebay, but I just don’t want to depend on it as my main reselling platform going forward. They really need to just redo the software instead of patching it periodically, and they need some new policies to eliminate situations like the one described above.
I’d say I have about a 75% success rate with the email request. Sometimes they will say they will send it and then they don’t so now I try to stay on the phone until I get a message/email. If they are going to do something that I should be able to see, I keep them on the phone until it’s done. I don’t want to hear that they will close a case in my favor and then find out subsequently that they didn’t do so and there is no record of them ever saying that. I agree, it must be a really hostile work environment, and I’d add that there must be tons of turnover because the reps generally seem uninformed.
BTW, I’ve had one rep tell me to refund the buyer only to find out that that caused them to not be able to refund me or find in my favor or whatever subsequently. Now I do not refund or even respond to fraudulent INAD cases. Even communicating back can work against the seller in my experience. I try to run out the clock and then call Ebay to escalate on the phone. Huge waste of time, but literally the only way to protect your account.
