Does anyone here list on Poshmark?

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BWT, that Eskandar that I bought like a year ago on Posh for $30? Recently was finally unloaded on Tradesy and I walked away with $123

So I am still investing my time in Poshmark... no sales for the third day. I know, I still have very few followers for something significant to happen. I really, really am determined. Because ebay's apparently on life support, if not dead completely.

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Just wanted to post a quick update on Poshmark in case anyone's interested. I haven't' sold anything in 4 days, but I was VERY actively sharing, following and gaining followers. At first I added 230 items total, but last night I decided that this is too much for how few followers I have (3.5K) and it's very hard to constantly share 230 items, takes a lot of time, so I deleted 130 of them and was left with 100. So... today I sold 3 things there, 2 of them are super stale druts that are priced for about the same on ebay and the third one was a $125 item... was bought without offer and I will net $10 more than I would have on ebay... so... maybe it has a chance of working out for me.

Because I think ebay is done for. My sales have simply died and I have no idea why.

[kat]

Makin, your closet is beautiful by the way and it’s so nice to finally see a picture of you and your birds.

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A tip for those who does Poshmark. Go to your profile and put exclamation mark before your name. This will assure that you appear in the list of followers of users who has thousands and thousands of followers. When people go to their profile to follow followers only 1K of those who recently joined is displayed by the alphabet. "!" ensures that you'll be in that list. I did that yesterday and gained hundreds today.
Hope this makes sense.

[jellybeanscloset412]

Jan 25, 2018 2:16:03 GMT @makinmagic said:

A tip for those who does Poshmark. Go to your profile and put exclamation mark before your name. This will assure that you appear in the list of followers of users who has thousands and thousands of followers. When people go to their profile to follow followers only 1K of those who recently joined is displayed by the alphabet. "!" ensures that you'll be in that list. I did that yesterday and gained hundreds today.
Hope this makes sense.

Thanks! I’ll try it.Right now I have 4757 followers before the exclamation point.

[chapeaunoir]

Jan 24, 2018 23:54:53 GMT @makinmagic said:

Just wanted to post a quick update on Poshmark in case anyone's interested. I haven't' sold anything in 4 days, but I was VERY actively sharing, following and gaining followers. At first I added 230 items total, but last night I decided that this is too much for how few followers I have (3.5K) and it's very hard to constantly share 230 items, takes a lot of time, so I deleted 130 of them and was left with 100. So... today I sold 3 things there, 2 of them are super stale druts that are priced for about the same on ebay and the third one was a $125 item... was bought without offer and I will net $10 more than I would have on ebay... so... maybe it has a chance of working out for me.

Because I think ebay is done for. My sales have simply died and I have no idea why.

I think the market in clothing is dispersing - it's one of those slow migrations.  The reason I say this is that I went through the same thing with vintage some years ago and this has all the same hallmarks. It's the 'personal' P2P that's going away because social media selling is gaining in popularity. My own selling on eBay is suffering the same thing - slow erosion. First my niche started dying, didn't matter what I did, then slowly I began losing my regular buyers - I now have two when time was when I had regular brisk custom from regular buyers, buying boxes of items. eBay changing the promos to the bottom of the listing page? That's pretty much another nail in the coffin because the impulse aspect is eliminated. 

So eBay is still viable but the landscape is changing. 

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Today while sharing/following people on Poshmark I noticed several sellers with exclamation points in front of their names. One seller had 3 of them!!!

Do the rest of you include thank you notes (or anything else) with your Posh sales? I've started doing that. Anytime I'm in a TS I buy whatever old/funky thank you notes I can find cheap and tuck one of those in with the item. I don't do the fancy gift wrapping some sellers do - honestly, I've received things that looked like birthday presents, which was kind of exciting but too much work IMO.

[kat]

I always pick up spools of cute ribbon at the thrifts and when they are almost done ringing me up, I ask if they will throw it in. I've only done this at my local places and it's not often, but they seem happy to include it.

Since I use eBay tissue for eBay, I now am finally using my hoard of after Christmas white tissue and it looks cute with the different ribbon. There are several Posh Facebook groups and one that I'm in a girl just recently got a low rating because she didn't wrap in tissue.

I hate the gift concept too. One girl posted a gorgeous picture of ribbon, a real feather, a sleep mask and some other gift attached. Unless they are losing money, they are overcharging buyers for things they probably don't want. Old Navy and F21 are the last clothing I ordered and I certainly didn't get tissue or a gift. I doubt these gift givers will migrate to eBay because they'd quickly realize that they can't cost effectively use a box on everything and include bars of soap or romance novels. 

I have a couple times included things I had that I'm not going to sell of the same size/style. (a cami with a sweater, a cute but cheaply made top that won't sell alone, etc.) I cringe if they mention it in the love note because I don't do it every time.

As far as cards, I print a sheet of six onto leftover scrapbooking paper. Just black since I use a laser printer without color. It has my Mascot telling them they have great taste with my closet name and email. On the back I put "You're Tea-rrific" and tape a sealed teabag to it and there's a tiny bit of room for a note. I made some with a blank back for people I don't want to give a teabag.
Once I'm out of ribbon, tissue and tea, their stuff might be going commando.

[chapeaunoir]

OMG - I can do the funky card with a "thank you" in it, but my stuff, particularly if it goes cheap, might just go commando, too. If it's over a certain price point they would get a tissue square and a flip bag.

I wonder if a lot of poshers aren't hobby sellers who are just thrilled to be doing social selling and swapping - we did this back in the late 90s on social media, and despite the younger millennials thinking this is something new, it isn't. It's fun on that level, though, and pretty cheap hobby that might make some money or at least pay for itself if you're buying and selling from each other. Then, too, there were all sorts of things included - I appreciated the thoughtfulness, but I was always kind of business orientated so it was tough to think of what I could do - I'd include a note card or something small, but not always.

[kat]

In the group I'm in, someone posted an article written by a very honest former reseller. Her friends and roommate had to have an intervention because she went from cleaning her closet to selling things she wasn't even ready to sell to putting thousands on her father's credit card when H&M and Balmain collaboration came out telling him she used the card for an investment opportunity. She lost a ton of money but was caught up in her Instagram fame and my favorite line in the article was her friends sat her down and told her, "high*heels*helen doesn't care about you like we do!"
A lot of girls commented that they could relate.
Around that same day, the convo about free gifts came up and so many proudly posted that they get a lot of great love notes (posh feedback) about it.

chapeaunoir For me it wasn't until the late 90s that I ever talked to anyone online and that was through ICQ. Even then connection lasted only about ten minutes at a time. That must have been like the wild wild west up there in microsoftland. In college we usually swapped our clothes with each other for free in person but dropping it off at consignment stores was where the money came in. I lived for those 2nd Thursday of the Month credits to be ready at ReRuns.

[chapeaunoir]

I started on what passed for the interwebz in the 80s (Bulletin Boards, etc.) but in the mid-90s it got a lot more fun with those flashing FAST 14440 baud modems and I flipped when I got a 28 lol.  Goth sites and Live Journal selling was already starting in 1996/1997. Poshmark remind me so much of those sites - even the kind of sometimes funky photos. It was a much smaller community. 

In the 70s, though, we traded and did consignments, too.  Two of us also dumpster dived. 

to putting thousands on her father's credit card when H&M and Balmain collaboration came out telling him she used the card for an investment opportunity.

That WAS an investment, just probably a really bad one - says the Wedding Dress Debacle person. 

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Jan 29, 2018 3:01:28 GMT @ahrncitygal said:

Today while sharing/following people on Poshmark I noticed several sellers with exclamation points in front of their names. One seller had 3 of them!!!

Do the rest of you include thank you notes (or anything else) with your Posh sales? I've started doing that. Anytime I'm in a TS I buy whatever old/funky thank you notes I can find cheap and tuck one of those in with the item. I don't do the fancy gift wrapping some sellers do - honestly, I've received things that looked like birthday presents, which was kind of exciting but too much work IMO.

Well, I am planning on using fancy packaging. I ordered some red tissue paper and I have golden heart shape stickers that say Thank You, so it's ll all cute and pretty soon. I also started including "gifts" - I have accumulated gigantic collection of free skincare/makeup/perfume samples (over 100) that I have no use for and I am including one with every package. I also learned how to make DIY ponytail holders and will be including those too when my Lilly Pulitzer fabric shows up. The cost of each is about 20 cents and I think it makes a memorable cheap gift. They'll look something like this only with matching band color.



I want to start thank you notes too, but my handwriting is horrendous.

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Jan 30, 2018 1:43:32 GMT kat said:

In the group I'm in, someone posted an article written by a very honest former reseller. Her friends and roommate had to have an intervention because she went from cleaning her closet to selling things she wasn't even ready to sell to putting thousands on her father's credit card when H&M and Balmain collaboration came out telling him she used the card for an investment opportunity. She lost a ton of money but was caught up in her Instagram fame and my favorite line in the article was her friends sat her down and told her, "high*heels*helen doesn't care about you like we do!"
A lot of girls commented that they could relate.
Around that same day, the convo about free gifts came up and so many proudly posted that they get a lot of great love notes (posh feedback) about it.

chapeaunoir For me it wasn't until the late 90s that I ever talked to anyone online and that was through ICQ. Even then connection lasted only about ten minutes at a time. That must have been like the wild wild west up there in microsoftland. In college we usually swapped our clothes with each other for free in person but dropping it off at consignment stores was where the money came in. I lived for those 2nd Thursday of the Month credits to be ready at ReRuns.

I'd love to read this article, do you have a link or copy/paste?

[kat]

Those ponytail holders are adorable. You could also use fabric from things you accidentally bought with flaws.
Here’s the article:
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/i-made-4-000-on-poshmark-and-1362376628887606.html

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Feb 1, 2018 5:09:56 GMT kat said:

Those ponytail holders are adorable. You could also use fabric from things you accidentally bought with flaws.
Here’s the article:
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/i-made-4-000-on-poshmark-and-1362376628887606.html

Yes, but it has to be really small scale for it to work Thanks for the link

[chapeaunoir]

I have a feeling I'm just not cute enough for Poshmark lol. I could make some stickers, though, heart shaped or something, slap 'em on the inner bags and maybe find some funky cards at the thrift. That I can do and it might add a bit of fun. I remember back in the day it was considered cute to put glitter and shiny confetti into packages - people thought it was so cool - oh GAWD - I remember opening packages and having that stuff fly into the air and get everywhere, and it would be months and I'd still be finding little bits of it.

[kritter]

I have a feeling I'm just not cute enough for Poshmark

I am definitely not cute enough for Poshmark.

I am not even cute enough for ebay.  I fold the item, put it in a plastic bagel bag, and then into the outside packaging.  I only use tissue if it is something like a Travelers that will move around and bunch up.

Bare bones, no cuteness involved anywhere.

[chapeaunoir]

I'm pretty basic, too - though I circle barb business cards onto everything - gotta flog all my other stores! "Cute' seems to be part and parcel of social media selling and has been since it started back in the 90s (I was not cute then, either).

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I'm not cute on ebay at all. Just clean and neat. But Poshmark buyers kinda expect that. I think it's stupid, personally, but I am willing to do whatever to get sales and hopefully repeat customers. When I look at feedback for big sellers, almost half of them mention packaging and gift and they get many, many repeat business, yet they sell nothing special - same old Anthro, J. Crew and Zara (all of which I have no shortage of). Maybe I will become like them one day.
Sold 2 more items there this morning, $31 and $30, made about the same as I would have on ebay considering paypal and ebay fees. 15 sales total since January 6th when I started (including 8 day vacation when I wasn't doing anything on the ap). I think it's not bad at all. $416 after the fees that I would not have otherwise and most items sold are stale, stale stock.

I also finally did my ponytail holder project because I found adorable cat patterned dress for $2 at GW today. Really cute.

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I've sold 3 items since I started about a month ago, have 390 listings transferred over from eBay. It doesn't take much time so I'll keep at it and hope things pick up. Love your closet Makin, I was already following you and didn't realize it.

I contacted PM about changing my ID to add a couple of !! to it last week but haven't hear back. Dumb question - my ID is Stephanie @ shopafrolic. should I have the !! put in front of Stephanie or shopafrolic?

[kat]

In front of Stephanie, and you can change that yourself.

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I got kicked out of Facebook Poshmark group yesterday Because I called an offer I got ($7 on $39 item BWT) "idiotic". HOARDS (like a dozen) of offended millennials immediately run to that thread to say how I am a horrible person for thinking I am above buyers and how my attitude will never get me sales, because buyers apparently can sense my attitude and how they all will never buy from me ever, because I insult buyers in their face. I responded to someone to the tone of "go and reread my message, I never called buyer names, I called their offer names etc" and this is where I got banned. Just WTF was that?

This is why I love this board, where we can talk garbage about nasty buyers.

SOld 21 iems so far, 90% of them are very old items that I couldn't move on ebay on Tradesy, so I am very happy. Apart from one 4 star raring and lots of insulting offers, I haven;'t had issue with buyers so far.

[jellybeanscloset412]

Can buyers see my rating on Poshmark? I got a one star rating today and then she says wonderful thanks, on a like new dress.

I can’t figure out how to contact her. And I can’t see my overall average rating. I never received one star and only received 2 four stars.

I found out that seller ratings are private. I guess that’s good. I think my buyer confused 1 and 5. But I blocked her because I’ll never know.

[kat]

I got a four star on a top I washed the night before I mailed because it had sat so long I figured I should freshen it up. The only comment was “cleanliness”. I blocked her. Utter nonsense.
Yes, it sounds like your buyer was confused. Was the comment in the rating or the Love note?
I contact the buyers on the actual item but I had another idea in case I ever need it. Since you can’t delete sold listings, I will create a mirror or my “meet the posher” listing and tag them in that.
Once the conversation is done, the whole thing can be deleted.

[kat]

Feb 8, 2018 20:01:36 GMT @makinmagic said:

I got kicked out of Facebook Poshmark group yesterday Because I called an offer I got ($7 on $39 item BWT) "idiotic". HOARDS (like a dozen) of offended millennials immediately run to that thread to say how I am a horrible person for thinking I am above buyers and how my attitude will never get me sales, because buyers apparently can sense my attitude and how they all will never buy from me ever, because I insult buyers in their face. I responded to someone to the tone of "go and reread my message, I never called buyer names, I called their offer names etc" and this is where I got banned. Just WTF was that?

This is why I love this board, where we can talk garbage about nasty buyers.

SOld 21 iems so far, 90% of them are very old items that I couldn't move on ebay on Tradesy, so I am very happy. Apart from one 4 star raring and lots of insulting offers, I haven;'t had issue with buyers so far.

I just came across that convo but it looks like everything controversial was deleted except for the post from that bratty girl that called you out. I cannot stand her. There was nothing wrong with what you said. I think she might be a mod with a little cheerleading squad cheering her on.

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Had a killer day yesterday on Poshmark. 4 sales! That's more in quantity and in $ than on ebay yesterday!
I price my old stuff that's been sitting for a while slightly higher than on ebay and new stuff a lot higher than on ebay (because offers).
29 sales so far. 20 out of them are VERY old things that I've had for at least a year (some over 2 years), so this is really really great.
No issues with buyers so far

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The downside of selling on Poshmark: I got a one star feedback today for an EF sweater. Buyer said it was shrunken and fit more like M than 1X. Even though ratings aren't nearly as big an issue on Posh (and the comments are only visible to me), I'm still frustrated that I can't respond:

a) I included bust and length measurements in the listing.
b) If it was shrunken the yarns would have been felted, which they clearly weren't in my photos. One person even asked how see-through the sweater was.

I know it's not a big deal, but it still bugs me.

[chapeaunoir]

Some people have size denial and they truly insist that they are NOT a size whatever, but two sizes smaller or something. I see it all the time in the thrifts with strained seams, and women squeezing into coats so they look like sausages and admiring themselves in the mirror.

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I just signed up for Poshmark. I don't know what I'm doing. How do I share.

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Feb 17, 2018 4:24:48 GMT @superiorquality4less said:

I just signed up for Poshmark. I don't know what I'm doing. How do I share.

Share your own items (all of them) several times a day, this bumps them up to the top of search. I also share from feed for 10 minutes several times a day while I'm listening to a podcast or watch TV. Find items that are the same or similar to yours, sold or active and follow/share everyone who left an interested comment. Go to the love notes of some big seller and share/follow their buyers.
What's your ID there?
It's a lot more convenient to share and list from the computer BTW.