I either interacted with folks that have drank the Poshmark kool aid and are delusional and in denial or folks that do recognize the deeply flawed issues about the company, but dont care enough to put any energy towards calling them out. Im finding some women are awesome and dont try to get you down too low and others like your things but they want it for $5. I would recommend starting your own Shopify store or selling on Depop. So I asked if I could please see photos of the actual jacket. Ive only had one person open a claim and Poshmark denied it. A punitive feedback system totally biased towards the buyer. Yet thousands do it every week on that app. Where do I begin? I dont like to ruin peoples good standing. This is because they realized there was NO $$$ in providing customer service. Got tired of receiving my good stuff back damaged! As someone who has been selling on Ebay for over 25 years, I just started selling on Poshmark in Nov 2021. I went out of my way to be nice to this buyer and she says that. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Obviously, sharing is key to making sales on Poshmark. Anyone know if I can file a complain? Best of luck and let me know how it goes! Second ship raise this year, also 20% is a huge chunk. Now posh gets back to me after 3 days asking me for more pictures and tells me the case is still under review and if I send it back on my own I wont get my money back. Press J to jump to the feed. Basically it states that due to unfortunate circumstances, I am now substantially photographing every purchase before I ship!!! I dont know why, but sellers on there are often just plain lazy. I guess they didnt notice over 1000 good reviews and complements Then on eBay they made a computer glitch and even admitted it Was their error,got shut down my shop as well even though I called three times they never fixed the problem.
Lowcountry's Closet (@my_poshboutique) | Poshmark My bank couldnt find the transaction so I had to wait to see where it landed then catch and re-route. But then I had a bad customer service experience with Poshmark that caused me to wonder if all the time I was spending on the app was worth it. People who offered reasonable prices were ostracized. Then when I said no way, major damage appeared. I could write a war and peace length description on eBay yet with posh only a couple paragraphs. Current Listing Price The current price of an item. I love having the control I have over my ShopStylaphile.com site. I video tape every single item as I am packing it for shipment to document the condition. Well notify you when the price drops on an item youve liked. Not familiar with Shopify. Besides all of that, I feel if a company/organization is legitimate, honest and upfront, then there would be an amazing customer service!! Also on her page I noticed she sells replica Louis Vuitton which is against poshmarks guidelines but again theyve done nothing. I sold a pair of boots. I feel like A. they buyer regrets their purchase or B. they are trying to pull some sort of scam. I have never bought anything online, ever. I put so many hours into PM for almost no outcome. For example, (real experience; comment section): Buyer name (myself): dhampyre I was starting to wonder if I was the only person who felt this way about Poshmark. I take a lot of photos including closeups of what I am selling. Im sad to leave as I have met some great people and made some needed cash but honestly it is such a relief to be walking away. I joined last October in search of something to purchase. They asked me for pictures which I sent.
New Seller Tools: "My Closet Stats" & "Not for Sale" - Poshmark Glad you found a better way loved your article!! It feels like Im being punished for having the nerve to request a return at all. Then suddenly my account was locked after emailing and waiting for the responsewhich was I had ties to an account that had been locked. Whoever these people are, no nothing about products! I say nothing about the other person at all. Id love to know how to set up a Shopify store! And yeah in the scheme of things in life, it is rather trivial. I actually block more people per day than I end up following because of rude behavior. No this is not common. The laundering care label on the side seam showed it was Forever 21. Again described, photographed, and noted ALL damage! And I no longer can post it as new. I still love what I do, because it is their decision to call me a name. All brand new with tags however I feel as if the items will stay there forever and the the mass population doesnt really buy designer but more so gently used clothing or they want your items for next to nothing. I would certainly recommend looking into BigCommerce (http://bit.ly/2pFg5Mt) to set up your online store or Shopify if you have some HTML coding knowledge. Create a new listing to be automatically entered to win. When I first started I loved it but now with the Low Ballers or people asking a million questions even if its the middle of the night, Ill reply ! Poshmark is kind of time consuming and I try to look elsewhere where I have more control and not having to deal so much with the buyer How can people see my items? Thanks for the comment Angelica! I Dont think making a $10 profit on a 10k while gold pink sapphire ring is anything to write back home to mom about. Well I am glad I came across this blog and disappointed in POSH. Anyway, if I sell it will be through the local consignment store because of the bad apple buyers that ruin online selling. Never had a case. I live in a smoke free, pet free home. NOTE I have been selling on eBay since my now 16yo was a baby and still sell there. Obviously, 1 is no binding commitment to actually ship advertised items to the buyer. I sometimes spend all day sharing and following other Poshmark closets trying to get a sale. They always protect me and I only lost 1 dress because I didnt understand, and etsy didnt tell me, China doesnt respect our tracking #s so it was delivered but no tracking proof so she, of course , knew this and filed a never received claim. I did write her a comment and called her out on it. I was very detailed in my descriptions as well and was referring to the people that continually ask questions without looking at the description first. PM has made me not visit the mall for a 3 weeks now, so it has made me save some money and get REALLY good second hand stuff. These are terms that imply intimacy and you dont know me!! They sided with her and refunded the money. I'm selling Makeup/Skincare, Everything I've tried to list is New. It was bizarre bc she kept writing to me..?! There is no way I can sell them now. Only at *this* time frame. Thats just a fact. I know I will one day. I even take photos of distressed details on jeans, even though that is the design. $270 for a dooney disney bag. I find I couldnt make a profit on a lot of items due to the item being $20 $30 dollar items and then if you add the $ 6.79 the buyer is now paying almost $30 $ 40 dollars for a $20 dollar item or rather not because they wont. I almost cried when I read this article online. Ialways took great care to make sure every piece I sold on Poshmark was in excellent condition. It was very cathartic to vent. I sent mercari several emails showing them my conversations with the buyer (even though I knew they could see it) but much to my dismay they approved the return. Uhm, this crap is par for the course in a retail environment. I blocked her and removed the entire listing ( since you cant remove the offensive comments) On the other flip of the coin I had a very sweet lady who had bought from me a few times in the past purchase several of my smaller items and tell me that although she didnt have a need for any of the items , she wanted to help. Posh happily accepts my 20% fee and wants us to Share the Love. (Rosegal etc trust me h know how those sites are) tell them to Google the damn garnets those sites are ripping pics off and what you actually get when they come in. 1. I closed my account, that had perfect feedback, and posted all my items to Ebay. I can hardly believe there are people who can sleep at night when they list these things for $48! If you stand up for yourself and dont allow them to rip you off, you get indefinitely suspended. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. And there is no customer support at PM! The item I got back was totally damaged and used and the other one was not in a new state anymore. Hi Diana! And I did. With eBay, Im having a similar experience, but Im still dealing with it and need some advice. The entire order. I was appalled as this had never happened to me before! There JUST IS NOT A MARKET, unless you want to work for $4 an hour. If you have vintage, those items seem to sale faster there. And a majority on here, due to their young age, havent even experienced life much less know how to conduct themselves with any decorum!! Note, this doesn't opt you into Poshmark-related emails. Im kind of getting tired of PM myself, and Im fairly new in there! And many of them are topless men and other men in inappropriate poses. Anyway I can go on. I would recommend not doing any more than 4000 shares in a day. So,I had weigh loss surgery in 2013,which worked out wonderful except for the fact of always having fine hair,I lost a lot more. It has built in capability to share your store on social media with things like shoppable pins on Pinterest and Instagram, so you can share with your social media following. Sad. I have come to the conclusion that: 1) they are run by bots and no real people work there, 2) if they DO have real people, they are all 20 years old and complete idiots, 3) Elon Must just bought them and 4) regardless of the preceding suppositions, their customer service by ANY definition absolutely SUCKS ROCKS. Again I contact poshmark to stop her from harassing me and ruining my image on poshmark. Also, I have the luxury of living in New York so I attend a lot of designer sample sales and shop at some of the best high-end consignment shops. Can you not give a bad review to the seller? Its the United States Post Office for crying out loud! I have a large following as well and have sold many items. Being spending hours listing sharing following to make $2.05. Someone told me how well they were doing and said I should give it a try. Ha! And half the time they dont respond so youre just wasting your time chasing after ghosts. That should have been a red flag. And I clearly listed the dimensions ::sigh:: Its exhausting dealing with rude people that dont care to read the description, like you mentioned. The seller then cancelled the transaction. posh is crap. Did you click on a market that you have no items listed in? And comments like this always make me wonder too if they are trying to convince themselves. I also have an ebay store. Note: To be successfully sent, the offer must be at least 10% below your lowest offer in the last 90 days. And I run into it often on Posh! Its that easy. I had the same issue. Upon deletion, any listings you have on your account will also no longer be available, nor will any saved items from other closets. Im new to PM, too. I have also been on Poshmark nonstop as well since starting my own closet. OMG!!!!!!! Im new to the site. A lady friend referred me to Poshmark. I am resigned to having a ding on my account so I just told her to contact Posh as I have no access to her payment and they are holding it. Jessica, youre not the only person that has happened to. Ive branched out to posting my items on IG, Im just nervous about making the leap to a full fledged small business. Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter, where she can be found most of the time, NOW WATCH: Why groundhogs are hard to get rid of, What is Poshmark? Click to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Im very grateful that I found this blog. Numbers of days listed Keep tabs on how many days your item has been listed and use Offer to Likers or price drop to increase your chance of making a sale by 80-90%. Do people not read that there arent returns of things that dont fit!!!??? At first it was slow but made $500 in June.. No problems & 5 stars on all buys. Honestly, graciously taking returns is good business, as is treating even low balling oddballs like they are OK (even if you dont think so.) Ive had a great deal of success on both. Like somehow, thats your problem and not the manufacturers? Until Chandra feels he is losing his big sellers on Poshmark by his terrible business practices, nothing will change on Poshmark. Did anyone else not know this or am I the only one? Hope everyone finds their happy spot. Hey,Ive been selling on posh (and buying) for about 4 years. Amen. Also, really hard to spot bad buyers as sellers cannot leave negative feedback (we used to be able to in the early days)! If you get it sent back video tape the moment you grab the package and open it and see whats in there. By the way, my real name is Ann. The sale frequently gets canceled. I know when I changed my password, it did not log me out of the app or ask for the new password. Heres the link: https://shopstylaphile.com/products/ebook-how-to-ditch-poshmark-and-start-your-own-e-commerce-business. I feel trapped! 2 3.3 oz/100 ml, Bond Perfector, Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate Large Full Size Trio, Redken Flashlift With Bonder Inside + Redken Pro-Oxide Developer, 3.3 oz./100 ml Olaplex No. Ive even started listing clothes and sold one of those items. Thank you. I got some $ back from the protection plan, but I hated that I had been scammed. I was so excited to try them on. One of the embassador Poshers bought my Burberry rain boots for $50 (a great deal), and later on filed a complaint saying that the boots smelled horrible and that they had stains and blah, blah, blah she even said that she wanted to keep them at no cost even though I asked her to return them for her money back. They shut my closet down Black Friday for a week. I also dislike the 20% that is taken out of each sale. Its going to be a big job moving my 250 items from Poshmark to other platform but I cant wait. It works both ways. If not, oh well. I shipped a designer handbag in perfect condition and the buyer opened a case stating the bag was ripped and torn. I now have 399,568 users and I am a top rated seller however, the sales have dropped significantly and the buyers have become more and more rude and downright nasty. Im probably going to start moving items to another site in the future. They are to savvy to purchase on Posh!! Low ball offers, creepy people (a man posted in a picture wearing a bra that kept pinging me), people who want fast service but would not release payment upon receipt. Posh does nothing dor its sellers and it is super time consuming. Is this normal? Good idea, I was actually going to record opening the box just so there would be some sort of proof. Then it seems as if only certain people share certain people items. The thing I like about Poshmark is the exposure and the fact that everything is handled with their 20% fee (except seller protection apparently!). She has yet to receive the items she purchased and I know shes going to write an awful review. I have this terrible feeling i will never get my bag back! Essentially, there are many Sellers that may have 1,000 listed items to Sell, yet lacks any real intention of Selling many of the listed items. From page 14. When i recieved it the blouse was clearly purposely ripped in multiple spots. People suck! Poshmark of course is siding with the buyer and then notified me that I was in danger of loosing my membership because of my response to the buyer telling her that this was impossible and completely rude.now that treat me like bully. I was so shocked when I received an email that my item was being returned because it was not as described in the listing. The young lady said there were teeny tiny black dots on the upper sleeve, which I knew right then and there I was being scammed. Also i feel we should be able to rate buyers as well. Thats wonderful but Im just starting in a very saturated market over there and I just dont have all day to dedicate. Yup, you heard it here. Hi. I appreciate your thoughts here. My friend & I actually buy posh labels to mail things to one another because its cheaper than it would be if we actually paid the post out of pocket! Last week I made four offers and they were all accepted. I purchased a name brand handbag for a very low price. and telling me that she knew where i got my stuff and that i shouldnt mark up so much and it supposed to be sold for cheap.. so I reported and blocked her. Thats AWFUL!!!!!! Ive tried 5 times to delete it, sent the code to PM that I received, and NOTHING. I had a very expensive new with tags flawless dress come back to me with obvious cat hairs on it and snags. Im on posh and dont have any complaints. Thank you sharing this! Im trying to get my money back and Ive warned Poshmark about the seller, but theyve not commented. Your email address will not be published. I dont have pets and the dress was stored in a hanging bag. Thanks. and zero reason why even after i would ask what the problem was more than once and to also let them know feel free to send it back free not to mention trade scamming the pervs and the please hold for me and then you do it and they dont answer you back when you ask them if they need more time or what the deal is! I started on Posh to pay my sons medical bills from this past summer and the only thing I feel Ive gotten from Posh are migraines, a stronger eyeless prescription and the feeling of being isolated from my family. Thank you for sharing your experience and I thank all the other people for sharing they bad experiences too. Now I found thus blog because I was severely harassed today for no reason by a random person. The BBB is of no use because people pay for memberships to the BBB and it is a seller not a consumer based system. & 17.75 oz./525 ml Olaplex No. Poshmark needs to shut down inactive closets and they need to penalize sellers for failing to ship. If I waited to share my items at 5:30 a.m., I missed PoshMarks prime time hour. I was working on my 10th listing when I got the "something went wrong please try later" message when I went to post. Thank you for sharing. After years of success buying and selling on the Poshmark app, I was done. I see that I have active offers, but I dont know how to accept them and how do I get paid? Thanks for sharing your experience with me and other Stylaphile readers. Size: M Eliza J. my_closet_bliss. You shared too much, and now Poshmark isnt letting you share your items. dhampyre @amking45 Bored or something?; Clearly a snide remark? I recently sold a cute brand new mind you, Gigham plaid Bodycon dress an all measurements were posted an I always said if you have questions before you purchase ask . Because that is another person who you have no control over. All offers expire in 24 hours! Through a lot of research, I found out that the seller, who had a decent rating, was something of a fake because he was on his third (at least) name and actually had a bad reputation. Now here comes what i think the biggest problem that i see as a seller on Poshmark!!!! I dreaded waking up in the morning and seeing all those notifications. There is a lot of work involved as far as driving people to your site via social media, blogging and adwords, but its well worth it because its YOUR site and youre not having to deal with the BS on Poshmark. Me and poshmark have a love hate relationship I love the fact that I can make money without all the footwork but the thing I despise is the fact they have full control over my closet. Im glad to hear that it worked out for you though! When I started to step away a little bit more my sales faltered. She ordered on 3/15, she RECEIVED the item on 3/19. katiax46@yahoo.com Is this new? I always wonder where people get the time to have 1 million shares. Yay! I would get up in the morning and receive offers that I couldnt even begin to describe what emotion I was feeling. The thing that gets me is, Im not Instagram savvy and Im looking for a way to reach that market. Here you'll find everything from Posh Tips to exciting new app updates. When the bag arrived dried and in perfect condition I replied back. (3) I sold $2,000 last month (April), all preowned items, and expect more in May. Im currently selling on pm And it can be time consuming sharing. I moved away from it a while ago, & now Im just deleting my account as well. I get a lot of traffic to my ShopStylaphile site through my blog, Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram accounts. With no real protections, its a huge risk for You and not to Poshmark or the buyer. Okay, I figure, this has happened a couple of times on eBay, when a promised discount wasnt calculate automatically. Obviously, someone was mad that I didnt give them the lowball they wanted and started flagging my comments, but Mercari doesnt care to actually research what is going on. At the same time, I do not have time to hunt through numerous platforms when I am searching for a vintage pair of Z Cavariccis or Betsey handbag. 3. Like you I do a thorough inspection & it was perfect. 4C Bond Maintenance Clarifying Shampoo, Olaplex No. Sellers continue to tie themselves in knots trying to figure out how to maximize sales on this platform, as everything about Poshmark is clouded in a mystery and ineptitude that keeps its users chasing. Sad it has to come to that! The others "Can't be found". Too much creepy stuff going on with technology.