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Woo hoo! It’s my first listing win! I’d like to thank the bargain bin place from where I purchased an obscene amount of swimsuits that I then had to list as fast as possible while they are still in season. And the Pandemic, without which I would not have stayed home as often with nothing to do but spend time listing.
07/06/2020 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 470: How Would You Start Your Business Today? #79158ChristineR – as a sometimes Poshmark seller the flat rate shipping fee just kills me when I sell something like a bra that I would normally ship for maybe $3, but the buyer has to pay $7.11 postage no matter what. Of course I have the option to offer discounted shipping or free shipping but then that $7.11 comes out of my pocket. Poshmark will have to change something with their shipping soon now that they’ve opened up their platform to hard goods. The $7.11 flat rate applies to everything up to 5 pounds. There’s no way that can last.
46 listings – A productive week especially considering this is a hobby. I finally broke the 1,000 active listings barrier on eBay but it only lasted a few hours before 3 items sold and I was back below 1,000 again.
Thanks for link. Out of 998 listings, I found 1 that had just 1 photo but there are a handful that have photos under 500 x 500, which I don’t understand since Ebay doesn’t allow small photos to load – or so I thought.
There was a brief delay of just a few seconds for it to load, which is unusual but then everything appeared as normal.
I’m so glad you posted this because I was sitting here trying to get motivation to start shipping items so they’d be in the mailbox before the mail lady got here in a few hours. Now I can relax. 🙂
Maybe Poshmark’s hope is that the buyer will just turn around and resell the items that didn’t fit on their platform and thus they get another 20% fee out of it.
As a seller of swimsuits (historically HIGH rate of return item for fit), I always celebrate a little bit when one of my swimsuits sells on Poshmark instead of on Ebay.
Poshmark doesn’t allow returns for fit. You can only return if the item was not as described and so far, Poshmark tends to side with the seller when things escalate.
I have noticed what I’m calling “The Poshmarkification” of some eBay buyers. Lately I’ve been getting requests on ebay asking me to “bundle” some of my clothing items to sell to them at one discounted price. That’s a popular and easy feature on Poshmark – not so easy to do on Ebay.
Ebay used to be so simple to start but nowadays it has be hard for a new person to learn all of the rules and tricks. That’s why if anyone asks me about how to start reselling, I’m going to direct them to Poshmark. It’s a 100 times easier for a new person; streamlined listing template, no need to know anything about shipping since it’s a flat $7.11 & returns are almost unheard of. I’m still Team Ebay but man do they need to simplify!
31 for me. I listed more than I realized this week, I love it when that happens.
5 for me, not including items I copy and pasted from ebay over to Poshmark.
This week should be a good one listing-wise – I just received a 33 lb box of brand new inventory that I’m excited to listing. Starting on it riiiiiiiiggghhhht NOW!
My KLM Airlines Delft Mini House listing got taken down by eBay because it was still sealed and thus still had the alcohol in it. I guess I need to empty it so I can relist. I never heard of them before buying the one I found. They have a very interesting backstory.
I see how many I can fit into a USPS padded flat rate envelope and then that’s how many magazines I’ll put in each lot. They get too expensive to ship otherwise. Magazines are a consistent seller for me, they just take a long time to sell so it depends on if you’re willing to keep them in your inventory for the List It and Leave It long haul.
06/17/2020 at 10:42 am in reply to: The full 52-page FBI criminal complaint charging former eBay employees #78513The former CEO is a snake and sounds very much like Gavin Belson straight out of Silicon Valley tv series. The terrorism aside – the amount of money they spent to harass this couple: air fare, stays at the Ritz, new computers in order to hide their activity, one $750 meal while planning their next attack, etc. The complaint also mentions a vanity project of the CEO – building an exact replica of a certain NYC bar on the eBay campus at the time the company was laying off workers. And at the end of it all, after the Board was aware of what transpired they let him go with a $57 million golden parachute. Unbelievable.
06/16/2020 at 9:48 am in reply to: ebay execs accused of cyberstalking the Steiners (ecommercebytes owners) #78486Allegedly the former CEO is reported to have texted, “Take her down” in response to an article written by the blogger. As I’m sure he can afford the best lawyers, he’ll probably emerge relatively scot-free with just some reputational damage. That a CEO of a billion dollar company would even bother caring about one blogger to this extent is nuts. It reminds me of the HBO series Succession or Billions.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/ex-ebay-executives-are-charged-with-lurid-cyberstalking-campaign -
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