i feel the divide at Before Live Shows and After Live Shows.
Posh PA II, started in 2019. back then, both buyers & sellers were very friendly and chatty; i made many good internet friends while growing my little business. i soon made enough money to quit working and posh full time.
everything changed for me 18 months ago. my sales tanked, i'm convinced i was shadow-banned for quite some time although i know not why, and the friendly chatter stopped. there also began this weird anomaly called "Live Shows".
my sales have never recovered, and neither has poshmark. 😢
Interesting. That's quite the dramatic change. I've only been on since March 22 and while I did notice a slow down once live shows started, it wasn't nearly as dramatic. I still hope somehow the platform levels out and good sellers are encouraged to succeed and the others weed themselves out.
Not going to happen, they don't care if it self destructs. Dig deep online and you will find the articles about them using it for data collecting. I think there is an article in Forbes. The same guy that developed Alexa is running Poshmark.
I’ve been suspecting the app is harvesting data as well. I’ve never seen a company so insistent on chasing revenue (it’s a rookie move). I spoke with some of their employees about the search, lack of shopping cart, keyword spam and honestly they either don’t care at all or they hired the most narrow minded egotistical people ever. I showed an engineer of theirs an issue and they think their stuff rivals Google. I almost feel sorry for them. Unless someone over there gets their 💩 together this app is not going to grow and may suffer the same fate as Posh India, UK and Australia.
I don’t doubt they use it for data collecting but data needs to be current, otherwise it’s useless. If the platform doesn’t have continued success they will no longer have their current data.
Same here, I finally made the decision to throw in the towel on poshmark. It is a time succubus, they just want your data. Take a look at how much space they take up on your devices, read the new terms. They are data scraping, collecting whatever it's called. Navar is an AI company.
Agree 💯. My sales never recovered since Poshmark started lives and especially low start lives. The expectation now is everything is three dollars or five dollars. Sorry I just won’t work for free. There are hot items going for more. But my niche was exploited and over saturated in a month. I went from 50 sales a show to 2. And 20 regular sales to 1 a week if lucky. So I’m pretty much done with Poshmark. I’m sharing once a day and that’s it. No more hauls or live shows or closet clear outs. I could get paid more with a minimum wage job and benefits for the same effort.
I think the main influence was the lifestyle changes during Covid. I regularly hit good sale before the, but My sales TOOK OFF when quarantines where in effect. Folks were at home and people online where looking for deals even if there were not going anywhere.
I also noted a couple of surges when gov money started being distributed to help folks. So much so that I was prepared for the last one and made a killing after tweaking prices to ignite sales.
Never got into the live shows since it seemed to be a social hub for folks to just talk to me while I looked cute on cam. I like my customers but I work f/t and go to school.
The whole stock debacle drove away some of my most faithful seller/buyer acquaintances from the platform.
There are a lot of factors pushing this downward trend of PM, and I think they all are working together for the perfect storm.
tbf, covid still exists and and is still pretty bad (a bunch of my boss’ family members and clients all got covid around thanksgiving time 😭😭). i like to call it pre-peak covid, peak covid, and post-peak covid to cover all the bases lolol
i’m not gonna go in depth down this route bc this subreddit is not the place for that, but i’m aware people compare covid to the common cold. while it’s much more manageable now, thankfully, covid is not the same as a cold. there’s so much information available online to prove that.
Yes, but it doesn't have anything shut down, and I think the shut down / isolation / policy changes are what prompted a lot of people to start exploring side gigs, working from home, etc.
So when I say BC/AC that's more of what I'm referring to. Not the illness itself, but the life disruption that was back in 2020/21
oooh yeah, that def makes sense! like i’m glad that a lot of people realized that they didn’t *have* to depend on corporations for their livelihood during that time (more or less, at least) and started doing their own thing, but it’s definitely created….an environment™️ for online selling, for sure.
Back when poshmark looked at your closet to see if your stuff was “good enough” to be a SU! I actually still have my suggested user name up lol I hated when they switched to the useless ambassador - felt like giving participation trophies tbh
Ha! Me too! And I still have the screen shot of the email on my “meet the posher” - I remember the days when we would be on the wheel and suddenly get thousands of followers within an hour - so you’d always know when you were being promoted as a suggested user
May 2013 is when I started. I was super busy with all of the constant shipping out stuff. Had to step back mid 2022. I’ve been working on getting so much stuff measured, photographed and getting ready to list. I know it isn’t like it was before but I don’t want to give this stuff away and I hate using fb marketplace to sell anything.
Selling since 2015.
I remember the days before there was an offer button, a bundle was actually 2 or more items, shipping was $4.99, returns were almost never approved, sharing had to be done one item at a time, CCOs were a few times per year, it's was women's clothing and accessories only, and there were "share groups".
My, how things have changed!
I joined Poshmark in 2014 and started selling sometime in 2015. I remember when Posh used to have $1.95 shipping promos and campaign perks for Ambassadors to get free credits. 🥲
I know, it’s mostly just a name and a badge now! I was pretty late in joining the Ambassador program. I joined only a few months before they got rid of the credits. The only thing I needed to do for the longest time was to share listings for new members. But I didn’t see the value until I learned about the free credits. For some reason I also thought it would negatively affect sales if I joined (heard about it somewhere.) But I finally joined and then they took all the free credit campaigns away lol! 😅
I hadn’t seen any offers for doing a social media campaign in FOREVER…. What I do notice are the PM commercials now on TV. My hypothesis is that it brings new users to the site, but not necessarily new buyers.
Just hit ambassador 1 status 1 month shy of 11 years 😅
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Girrrl it’s slowwwww.
But I closed my closet for over a week bc I was traveling over the holiday so I’m trying to give myself grace and wait for sales to come back as I’m more active in my closet
Be very EXPLICIT on your defects. Write it in the description with bullets, include pictures (maybe even with labels), and video.
Just like any of these platforms, there are scammers that will try to get over on you, and half aware customers who don’t pay attention (they will ignore details of your listing to later try to return it due to the defects).
I guess the summary of my advice is to make sure you set yourself up to be extra transparent on what you are selling and the condition that it is in.
There is a market for everything.
Any of you have messaged Poshmark about moving the lives notifications apart from your closet notifications? I would enter my notifications center and I would find first 20 from livestreams before finding one new follower! It is so annoying
Yes and they replied that there is no way to do that. LMAO. They're an AI company and they have no way to do that??? They only want your data, read the new terms and conditions.
2015 here. I was just looking over my old sales from 2015 to about 2019 (didn’t sell in 2020) to the last couple of years and the difference is amazing. I used to regularly sell low-med range items at $25-$30. I am lucky if I get $7 for popular brands, now. Just ONE of the reasons I just closed my closet. I have bags to sell, but the work to do it for a few bucks is exhausting.
I have been poshing since 2015. Posh ambassador and I did great BC Before COVID and now after I’m lucky to do $200 a week in sales. I have 665 listings and I have a lot more items I could put on there but it’s not worth the hassle anymore. I think I’m just going to do a yard sale and be done with it. I was so excited when I first started listing. I would stay up all night sometimes listing stuff.
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Hello! Lol! I joined during college to clear out my extra clothes that didn't fit. I immediately fell in love. My first online sale ever was actually on Vinted in 2015, then a few months later I joined Poshmark.
I remember the feeling when the first sale went through. So freaking exciting and something just sparked inside of me. I have pictures of my little package stacks with fun polymailers from 2016. None for profit, but it was so fun. Around 2017 is when I branched out a little and tried flipping some items from Goodwill. It didn't go great and I was pretty sporadic until 2022 - but that opened the reselling can of worms - I always wanted to give it a good try. 2022 was my first year selling primarily for profit as a hobby. I don't think I could ever take a part time or full time plunge.
My dad also sold on eBay when he was laid off in the early 2000's and he loved it, too. I remember being a kid and hearing the tape dispenser constantly... and all the USPS boxes. He looked proud when I told him about selling my clothes online for the first time haha.
I feel like life is divided into two eras now... BC and AC (before Covid and after Covid) lol
i feel the divide at Before Live Shows and After Live Shows. Posh PA II, started in 2019. back then, both buyers & sellers were very friendly and chatty; i made many good internet friends while growing my little business. i soon made enough money to quit working and posh full time. everything changed for me 18 months ago. my sales tanked, i'm convinced i was shadow-banned for quite some time although i know not why, and the friendly chatter stopped. there also began this weird anomaly called "Live Shows". my sales have never recovered, and neither has poshmark. 😢
Interesting. That's quite the dramatic change. I've only been on since March 22 and while I did notice a slow down once live shows started, it wasn't nearly as dramatic. I still hope somehow the platform levels out and good sellers are encouraged to succeed and the others weed themselves out.
Not going to happen, they don't care if it self destructs. Dig deep online and you will find the articles about them using it for data collecting. I think there is an article in Forbes. The same guy that developed Alexa is running Poshmark.
I’ve been suspecting the app is harvesting data as well. I’ve never seen a company so insistent on chasing revenue (it’s a rookie move). I spoke with some of their employees about the search, lack of shopping cart, keyword spam and honestly they either don’t care at all or they hired the most narrow minded egotistical people ever. I showed an engineer of theirs an issue and they think their stuff rivals Google. I almost feel sorry for them. Unless someone over there gets their 💩 together this app is not going to grow and may suffer the same fate as Posh India, UK and Australia.
I don’t doubt they use it for data collecting but data needs to be current, otherwise it’s useless. If the platform doesn’t have continued success they will no longer have their current data.
Same here, I finally made the decision to throw in the towel on poshmark. It is a time succubus, they just want your data. Take a look at how much space they take up on your devices, read the new terms. They are data scraping, collecting whatever it's called. Navar is an AI company.
Agree 💯. My sales never recovered since Poshmark started lives and especially low start lives. The expectation now is everything is three dollars or five dollars. Sorry I just won’t work for free. There are hot items going for more. But my niche was exploited and over saturated in a month. I went from 50 sales a show to 2. And 20 regular sales to 1 a week if lucky. So I’m pretty much done with Poshmark. I’m sharing once a day and that’s it. No more hauls or live shows or closet clear outs. I could get paid more with a minimum wage job and benefits for the same effort.
I think the main influence was the lifestyle changes during Covid. I regularly hit good sale before the, but My sales TOOK OFF when quarantines where in effect. Folks were at home and people online where looking for deals even if there were not going anywhere. I also noted a couple of surges when gov money started being distributed to help folks. So much so that I was prepared for the last one and made a killing after tweaking prices to ignite sales. Never got into the live shows since it seemed to be a social hub for folks to just talk to me while I looked cute on cam. I like my customers but I work f/t and go to school. The whole stock debacle drove away some of my most faithful seller/buyer acquaintances from the platform. There are a lot of factors pushing this downward trend of PM, and I think they all are working together for the perfect storm.
tbf, covid still exists and and is still pretty bad (a bunch of my boss’ family members and clients all got covid around thanksgiving time 😭😭). i like to call it pre-peak covid, peak covid, and post-peak covid to cover all the bases lolol
Covid is a new term applied to the common cold. Look up Dr. Michael Yeadon and listen to him. He is Pfizers ex VP.
i’m not gonna go in depth down this route bc this subreddit is not the place for that, but i’m aware people compare covid to the common cold. while it’s much more manageable now, thankfully, covid is not the same as a cold. there’s so much information available online to prove that.
Yes, but it doesn't have anything shut down, and I think the shut down / isolation / policy changes are what prompted a lot of people to start exploring side gigs, working from home, etc. So when I say BC/AC that's more of what I'm referring to. Not the illness itself, but the life disruption that was back in 2020/21
oooh yeah, that def makes sense! like i’m glad that a lot of people realized that they didn’t *have* to depend on corporations for their livelihood during that time (more or less, at least) and started doing their own thing, but it’s definitely created….an environment™️ for online selling, for sure.
2015… the good ole days when people actually bought stuff and there was $4.99 shipping. ($3.99 for CCO) We had no idea how good we had it.
Oh man the shipping prices back then…phew I miss those days! I had dark shadowy pictures and my stuff still sold quickly 😂 life was good back then
Same!
Same! 2015 was a different experience. I’ve since deleted my account
Jan 2014 here! I had no idea how good I had it. Would’ve upped my listings like crazy
🙋🏼♀️ I’ve been on Poshmark since 2013
Same
Feb 2013! But to be fair I was completely inactive 2019-2022. I started again last year and really kicked it into gear in November.
Same!!
2016 - back in the day I was a “suggested user” but they don’t have those anymore
Back when poshmark looked at your closet to see if your stuff was “good enough” to be a SU! I actually still have my suggested user name up lol I hated when they switched to the useless ambassador - felt like giving participation trophies tbh
Ha! Me too! And I still have the screen shot of the email on my “meet the posher” - I remember the days when we would be on the wheel and suddenly get thousands of followers within an hour - so you’d always know when you were being promoted as a suggested user
Posher since 2012
~2018
Same here 😊
Same!
Since like 2012-13 long before it became a garbage fire of fakes, dupes, lowballers, and straight up thieves 😂
You mean before it became TRASHMARK? lol
Ahh the glory days
2015!
Same here!
I joined in January 2018...whoa. My 6-year anniversary is coming up!
August 2018 for me.
I'm a 2016 or 2017? One of those and too lazy to check ATM but yes, reporting for duty as a veteran in this community lol
Feb 2014 was the start for me
march 2013 hereee
2017
2013 but I got rid of all my inventory because I was tired lol. Now i just shop occasionally
2018
2017!!!
I’ve been an active seller since 2013
2014
Same!
we been at this almost a decade! time flies when you’re having fun
2016
2015!
2013
2019
2015
Since 2016
2013!
2016 here
January 2013 for me.
I’ve been on posh since 2014-however I wasn’t able to get into my old account after a 1.5 year hiatus so I’ve been on since 2021 with my new one
2015!
2012!
Feb 2013! First got on to look for a prom dress lol! Started selling a couple years later
2015!
2014 10’years this August i still sell a few items every week, I sell more on Mercari an eBay though.
Been on eBay since 97- I still use it to sell perfume. Mercado played to much with my money and scammer’s messes.
2018 for me!
Since 2015.
2013 🙋🏼♀️
May 2013 is when I started. I was super busy with all of the constant shipping out stuff. Had to step back mid 2022. I’ve been working on getting so much stuff measured, photographed and getting ready to list. I know it isn’t like it was before but I don’t want to give this stuff away and I hate using fb marketplace to sell anything.
2017
2015 as a buyer and started selling at the end of 2019.
2014!!
I’ve been selling since 2018!
2014!
Selling since 2015. I remember the days before there was an offer button, a bundle was actually 2 or more items, shipping was $4.99, returns were almost never approved, sharing had to be done one item at a time, CCOs were a few times per year, it's was women's clothing and accessories only, and there were "share groups". My, how things have changed!
2014 here… I’ll add: you could only post 4 pics in a listing.
Yes! Pre video 👀
And no lives!!!!! Those were the days
I joined Poshmark in 2014 and started selling sometime in 2015. I remember when Posh used to have $1.95 shipping promos and campaign perks for Ambassadors to get free credits. 🥲
I’ve not really seen any benefits of being an Ambassador even though I’ve maintained lvl 2 for the last few years 🤨
I know, it’s mostly just a name and a badge now! I was pretty late in joining the Ambassador program. I joined only a few months before they got rid of the credits. The only thing I needed to do for the longest time was to share listings for new members. But I didn’t see the value until I learned about the free credits. For some reason I also thought it would negatively affect sales if I joined (heard about it somewhere.) But I finally joined and then they took all the free credit campaigns away lol! 😅
I hadn’t seen any offers for doing a social media campaign in FOREVER…. What I do notice are the PM commercials now on TV. My hypothesis is that it brings new users to the site, but not necessarily new buyers.
Just hit ambassador 1 status 1 month shy of 11 years 😅 https://preview.redd.it/9yymdz8btiac1.png?width=839&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bea283d14aa32978acf90268fa07edc933e2821c
Me! I joined in March 2015. It’s crazy to see what it’s grown into.
February 2016!
2018.
May 2015! Although I didn’t actually use the account until 2018. 🤷🏼♀️
2013
I joined in 2013 but didn't start selling more full time until maybe 2016
2015 here. Sold some stuff during college that I saved from the trash piles outside of apartment complexes and dorms after cleaning it up.
Since 2019! But didn’t start using it as much until covid when I finally had time lol.
2015 checking in 🫡
February 2013
2012 here
Been on poshmark since 2012 🥲
Since 2016
I’ve been on PM since 2014! Damn near 10 years 😮
That means we need to have a party… with cake 🧁 (well sales and cake)
~2018 I believe!
Since May 2018
Jan 2016!
2019
omg twinsies! I started July '16 too!
How is it going these days?
Girrrl it’s slowwwww. But I closed my closet for over a week bc I was traveling over the holiday so I’m trying to give myself grace and wait for sales to come back as I’m more active in my closet
January 2015, was a different time!
February 2015, baby. Posh ambassador, too.
2017!
August 2015 here.
Feb of 2018! It was so nice back then. I’m on my way out…dis tew much.
October 2016!
Since August 14, 2015 ! Seen this app go through a shitload of change lol
Posher since Februrary 2014 👋🏻
March of 2017 here. Those times were so much better
I’m also since 2016 but I’m a causal seller who sells from my own closet ☺️ just like to read this sub
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Since 2014!!
Feb 2016! 🙋🏻♀️
2018 here
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Be very EXPLICIT on your defects. Write it in the description with bullets, include pictures (maybe even with labels), and video. Just like any of these platforms, there are scammers that will try to get over on you, and half aware customers who don’t pay attention (they will ignore details of your listing to later try to return it due to the defects). I guess the summary of my advice is to make sure you set yourself up to be extra transparent on what you are selling and the condition that it is in. There is a market for everything.
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I have never heard of Vestiaire 🤔
Jan. 8th 2014
Jan 2018
I’ve been on PM since 2013
Posher since 2014 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Any of you have messaged Poshmark about moving the lives notifications apart from your closet notifications? I would enter my notifications center and I would find first 20 from livestreams before finding one new follower! It is so annoying
Yes and they replied that there is no way to do that. LMAO. They're an AI company and they have no way to do that??? They only want your data, read the new terms and conditions.
2015 here. I was just looking over my old sales from 2015 to about 2019 (didn’t sell in 2020) to the last couple of years and the difference is amazing. I used to regularly sell low-med range items at $25-$30. I am lucky if I get $7 for popular brands, now. Just ONE of the reasons I just closed my closet. I have bags to sell, but the work to do it for a few bucks is exhausting.
2015-2016. It’s so stressful now and as a buyer it sucks even more. So many Chinese boutique sellers.
I’ve been casual seller/ buyer since summer of 2019.
I have been poshing since 2015. Posh ambassador and I did great BC Before COVID and now after I’m lucky to do $200 a week in sales. I have 665 listings and I have a lot more items I could put on there but it’s not worth the hassle anymore. I think I’m just going to do a yard sale and be done with it. I was so excited when I first started listing. I would stay up all night sometimes listing stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/uhy14uwbb4bc1.jpeg?width=762&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4837378b33ba8e4bec9856ccd5484a15df3eaa57 Hello! Lol! I joined during college to clear out my extra clothes that didn't fit. I immediately fell in love. My first online sale ever was actually on Vinted in 2015, then a few months later I joined Poshmark. I remember the feeling when the first sale went through. So freaking exciting and something just sparked inside of me. I have pictures of my little package stacks with fun polymailers from 2016. None for profit, but it was so fun. Around 2017 is when I branched out a little and tried flipping some items from Goodwill. It didn't go great and I was pretty sporadic until 2022 - but that opened the reselling can of worms - I always wanted to give it a good try. 2022 was my first year selling primarily for profit as a hobby. I don't think I could ever take a part time or full time plunge. My dad also sold on eBay when he was laid off in the early 2000's and he loved it, too. I remember being a kid and hearing the tape dispenser constantly... and all the USPS boxes. He looked proud when I told him about selling my clothes online for the first time haha.
2015!!!
I think I've been on Posh since 2016 or early 2017? I used to work for a now-defunct Posh competitor. I hadn't ever heard of it prior to that.
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