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I’m going to relive childhood and flip through Sears Wishbook 1985! Thanks for the link Amatino.
Do not reply. There’s no point in continuing to communicate with this type of buyer. At this point he just wants to argue and no matter what you say or what you sell to him, he will not be happy. In the past, after blocking a person like this I’ve temporarily removed whichever item the crazy person was interested in and relisted it several weeks or months later. By then I assume he’s found it elsewhere or forgotten about it. If you leave it listed and he opens a new ebay account to get around the block, and purchases it – you can sometimes tell it’s the same person based on address or similar sounding username. Some sellers have called eBay on those cases to let them know it’s the same guy and eBay has allowed seller to cancel.
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.
ChristineR – 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.
