What To Know Before You Start Using Poshmark
Disclaimer: This isn’t a plug for Poshmark but Im seeing more and more ads and posts about it so I wanted to share my experience to help other people make more money from it and not fall into any scams.
Poshmark is an app meant to let you sell your old clothes with very little hassle. I started using Poshmark this month (1/30/2023) and have made 6 sales (about $100) at the time of this post. So here’s my advice and experience. This isn’t a complete guide and I’ll update as I go. If you have any questions or think something should be added let me know.
Poshmark has a lot of girlboss mlm energy. It’s not an mlm but a lot of people grind on this app like it is. There are a lot of features and notifications and can be overwhelming but if you keep your head down and just list your stuff, you’ll make some spare change. And if you’re like me $100 helps alot.
Making an Account:
USE A FRIEND CODE TO GET AN ACCOUNT. This gives you a $10 credit and free 2 day shipping. Most clothes aren’t over $10. So you get a free piece of clothing. I gave my wife my friend code and she was able to get a tomboyx compression bra for FREE. If you don’t have a friend code, you can use mine: EHWESSON. You can share your own friend code after you make an account to help out another person.
Use your email to make an account. DONT use google connect or link your social media UNLESS you plan on advertising on those platforms. Otherwise using a stand alone email is the safest way to not get locked out of your account.
The First 24 Hours of Making an Account:
The app is going to automatically make a post for you. It will show up on your “closet” titled: “meet the posher”. You can delete this but you cant opt out if it. It’s basically an introduction and uses your profile picture as the cover.
You are going to be flooded with follows, shares and comments by middle aged women and bots. When you share a new comers posts, you get share credits so a lot of people sit around and wait for new people to bombard them. This isn’t a bad thing, you get free followers and shares. I got 400 followers in the first hour. But it’s best you turn off your notifications for the first day or two.
The app automatically makes you follow 150 ish ambassadors. You can unfollow these people but you can’t opt out of it at first.
Poshmark notifications is all or nothing (at least for android). On my other selling apps I only have notifications for sales and messages but Poshmark only allows you see all of it or none of it. So I choose none and just check my email occasionally to see if I made a sale.
Make sure your shipping address and payment method are correct. There are a lot of one click buys (like when you accept an offer) and automated processes (like the shipping label being generated for your sales)
Listing Your First Item:
Take pictures of your clothes with the measurements. I lay my clothes on a plain background and lay a measuring tape on the waist and one from top to bottom to show the measurement in inches. I also take a picture of the tag with the size visible. Poshmark doesn’t allow returns for sizing. So if you can prove you had the measurements available, you’ll win the dispute.
Bundles. Shipping is $8 two day express usps shipping on every item. Thats mandatory for Poshmark purchasing. The seller is not responsible for the shipping cost, the buyer is. But that’s really expensive. So people usually opt in to do bundles. Where they can buy several items from your closet and only pay one shipping fee. When people make a bundle on your shop, you can offer them discounts to encourage buying. Bundling is a way poshmark tries to encourage sellers to list as much as possible to get more bundle sales.
Offering discounts. When someone likes your listing you have the option to offer a discount that expires in 24 hours. Poshmark takes a cut of all your earnings so plan accordingly while pricing. Discounts are a minimum of 10% and shipping is a minimum $2 discount. You have to discount both the price and shipping when you offer a discount.
Decline or counter all offers that have you losing or making very little money. If you accept an offer, it’s binding
First Sale What To Do:
Poshmark automatically sends you a pre made shipping label to your email after 3 hours. The 3 hours is a grace period for the buyer to cancel the order.
You don’t get your money released to you until the buyer rates you or it’s been four days after delivery. You have the option to message the buyer to please rate you but I just avoid it.
General Things To Note:
Redeemable balance is money you can withdrawal
Poshmark balance can only be spent on poshmark
Poshmark will encourage you to immediately spend your earnings back into the app, don’t fall for it unless you really need new clothes
Your closet is where it’s free to list your old clothes, a boutique is a paid service similar to Mercari. You pay to list items and have them advertised. Don’t sign up for a boutique.
Things To Avoid (As a Buyer and a Seller)
Lots (multiple pieces of clothing in one listing) of clothing for very cheap
Clothing that has been listed for long periods of time or has a ton of unanswered comments
Auctions, lives, comments from others begging you for shares
Avoid/block messages of people asking you specifically for photos of you in the clothing or asking for specifically used clothing (like underwear)
Posh Parties. You will get a notification for a new posh party every time you log on. These are great ways to get overwhelmed and buy things you don’t need.
Poshmark ambassadors. The people who grind on this app as a job. They will pull you under.
Thrift store lurkers. People with a ton of expensive nice vintage clothes listed that are all very different styles and sizes. These people will drive up prices like crazy and will just keep doing this.
I do NOT recommend this app for people with gambling or shopping addictions. It all can be very overwhelming and you can be easily swept away by the constant posting, notifications, “price drops”, sales, etc.
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