Tradesy is "becoming" Vestaire

[frakinfashion]

Well, it's finally happened. Tradesy was bought. By Vestaire, a European group. I once tried to sell a man's coat on there. Meh. Bleah. Endless entreaties to drop prices. Not happy. Here's hoping my last check from Tradesy comes through. They do have a VIP status that will move all your listings en masse. I don't know. I may just have to look for a new place finally.

[denise15601]

I'm not sure what to do there. Yesterday the site on my cell kept telling me to update but it wouldn't do so. Today it says to click to learn more. But nothing happens.

[frakinfashion]

I'd just wait it out. I clicked to get a "VIP status" so that they would transfer my listings over. Try looking on the website rather than using the phone app and see if that helps. I'm going to go look at Jeremy's posts about the site he uses to multi list as I don't think that Vestaire will sell much for me. Etsy is already a dud. So I need new pastures. Also Vestaire only takes certain brand names--a lot of them--but it has no facility to list vintage jewelry so that's going to be very restrictive for me. (Sigh...)

[denise15601]

Thanks Frak....darn. I was posting all kinds of brands on Tradesy.

[sunsetpainter]

I saw this today but didn't have time to check it out. Does this mean all my Tradesy listings will go poof? I don't have much high end stuff.

[denise15601]

Sunset-it looks like Tradesy will send our listings over there. No idea though.

I was trying to navigate the Vestaire site and they do let us list Chico's. So there is hope that some of the other brands that I offer will be allowed.
They really do push the high-end brands though.

I think that I am already scheduled to be transferred eventually.

[denise15601]

I got the email that I can switch to Vestiaire today. So I did; just took a few clicks. They dropped some and listed 331. I have no idea how many items I had before on Tradesy.

Kept trying to use the same name that I had before, but they keep making me use Denise and a lot of numbers after it.

[chapeaunoir]

I've been off Tradesy but supposedly have a coupon - I went shopping and even the cheap stuff was way overpriced, so I haven't been back.

[denise15601]

I had cheap stuff listed on Tradesy but Vestiaire won't accept the cheaperr items. Like a Chico's tank for $20. You can still order through
Tradesy for a while.

[sunsetpainter]

Oct 25, 2022 12:25:53 GMT denise15601 said:

I had cheap stuff listed on Tradesy but Vestiaire won't accept the cheaperr items. Like a Chico's tank for $20. You can still order through
Tradesy for a while.

I had over 400 items listed on Tradesy and they only transferred 54 of them!  I'm not impressed with Vestiaire AT ALL!  You cannot edit a listing after it goes live.  I don't think I'm going to stay with them.  I never really did any good on Tradesy, So I think this will be a big time waster for me.

[denise15601]

Ugh. I haven't listed anything new on there yet. Tradesy was great for selling high-end stuff for me. I don't like the tiny pictures of the items.

[sunsetpainter]

Oct 25, 2022 16:52:33 GMT denise15601 said:

Ugh. I haven't listed anything new on there yet. Tradesy was great for selling high-end stuff for me. I don't like the tiny pictures of the items.

Just make sure you double check everything on your new listings before you make it live.  Some of the stuff that transferred over from Tradesy wasn't 100% accurate, but I could only work with what options they gave.  For instance, in skirts and dresses I could only select mini, midi, or maxi.  Nothing Knee length.  I also listed an nice Denali reversible coat NWT and they had to check it over to make sure it was up to their standards, and THEN send an email when it went live.  Took a few hours for that.  I don't like it and probably won't stay with it.

[chapeaunoir]

"Midi" seems to have elided into anything within striking distance of the knees.

[denise15601]

Not eager to check over 300+ listings. Ugh

But thanks for the warning!

[denise15601]

I just got a $30 off coupon from Vestiaire. But it has to be an order of $150 or more. Seriously, not.

[sunsetpainter]

Oct 25, 2022 23:12:12 GMT denise15601 said:

I just got a $30 off coupon from Vestiaire. But it has to be an order of $150 or more. Seriously, not.

Yeah, me too!  NOT!!  lol

[denise15601]

Does anyone know about the shipping? It says that they ship for free? And I don't see when listing an item, any place for shipping.

My second listing that I tried, Coldwater Creek jacket-type top, was rejected since they said that the first picture can't show the item being worn.
Yeah, it was worn by my flat manni, not me. But since I didn't want the body parts to show (open front) so I put pants on the manni.

That will be the day when I am the size 4 of my manni.

[sunsetpainter]

I gave up on both Tradesy and Vestiaire. They both gave me a headache and I never did any good with Tradesy anyway.

[frakinfashion]

Tradesy gave me some nice sales; not a lot of them but when things sold they weren't the type of things that sell on eBay so easily. Vestaire is a more luxury site as well. A lot of lookers and likers but not so many buyers. I've sold 3 things in the last month of so there. They are very oriented around price reduction. Bleah. Yes, they seem to pay for shipping. Mostly they provide a label-- that I can't figure out how to print on my stickie labels so have to tape them on the package--and it goes to their hub mostly. I had one that went directly to the buyer and two to the hub to be checked? but all 3 had their label. I can't tell who pays but there's no free lunch so probably the buyer. There is no "closet" to speak of, like on other sites, so you get this teeny, tiny list to scroll through. Awful. We'll see how it goes. Tradesy was my second site. Mercury is dead, haven't sold one thing, and Poshmark sold a couple of pieces and is now very dead. Awful. I should probably use this post to pray to the eBay gods to smile upon me as things are truly terrible and it's the holidays.

[chapeaunoir]

Poshmark has all but fallen off the perch. A lot of people are complaining.

Mercari, you can't print thermal labels, either. I have to print them on the laser printer and then stick them on with tape. There *is* a work-around, but it's a lot more trouble than the laser printer and tape method.

[sunsetpainter]

Poshmark has been dead for a while but I just sold 2 pairs of winter boots there yesterday.

[denise15601]

All sites are dead for me. Zero sales this weekend from 9 sites!

I don't get a lot listed per day since I cross-post to 9 sites for each item.

[frakinfashion]

denise, if you aren't selling anything then something is really wrong with the e-tail universe. I can't even...

[denise15601]

Right. I can't blame it on just one site. On a few days last week, I made about 4-5 sales in one day, then some days...nothing.

AFA Tradesy, I made a lot of really nice sales on there and will miss it. I think the best one was $150 for a Geiger wool coat. It was priced at $90 on 3 other sites.

[frakinfashion]

Yep. Tradesy is a big loss. Vestiaire just wants to race to the bottom with constant price reductions. And there's no way to customize your listings array. It's a very badly designed place for sellers.

[denise15601]

There's no way to search through my own listings, that I can see. I did get an offer on a Saks jacket which I accepted. But it timed out.

LOL that they email me with "This was listed 5 days ago and hasn't sold!" Well, I have had it listed elsewhere for 17 years, so I am not going to panic.

[denise15601]

I made a sale on Vestiaire!!!

It was a long-listed RL Polo Velvet blazer...for $30. My profit is $15, which is okay. I had it priced elsewhere for $18.

[frakinfashion]

There is no more Tradesy now. This thread should be renamed Vestiare. But I'd keep the comments that have been here about Vestiare already.

[denise15601]

Tradesy is a lot easier to spell. I had an offer on a Burberry top this morning which I accepted. But I haven't heard back yet.

[frakinfashion]

Unlike eBay, Vestiare folks are not required to actually buy what they make an offer on. It can just time out. That is infuriating. I hope you have good luck with yours.