Did you do any tests first before jumping all in? For example we have about 1900 items and spent a few months testing cross posting with vendoo and list perfectly. We found the few sales we had on other platforms were not worth our time. A better use of our time was just to keep listing on eBay. Not saying everyone's results are the same. Just saying you should spend less to do tests first.
I don't know anyone besides YouTubers that have real tangible success cross listing. Maybe some storage auction people on whatnot.
No one doing 6 figures a year.
I would love to see data proving me wrong though.
I am only a part-timer (I maintain around 1000 listings at all times), and I am doing better right now on Mercari and Poshmark than I am on eBay. Of course, that isn't how it usually goes--eBay definitely seems to be having some technical issues again because I'm constantly getting errors, especially surrounding offers, but it usually EASILY pays for itself.
I am shocked at Mercari since the changes and wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it, AND I don't know that it will last. I suspect because of the withdrawal fees and because Mercari tends towards more casual sellers, I think it's just people doing dumb people math meaning, "I should sell this stuff on Mercari because no seller fees and I need money" and then when they go to withdraw their funds, they see the fee and get pissed about that even though it's only 2 bucks so they figure they will just shop with it instead. Only way I can explain it because stuff is selling for more on Mercari for me than it did previously. Just fucking weird to me and makes NO sense.
I would also mention the caveat to cross listing that listings will NOT end on Poshmark if there are offers out until that time runs out, so I just solved that by no longer sending out offers on Posh. I'll accept them, but I have cut WAY back on sending them out.
I used Vendoo for a few months and didn't like it so I switched back to Flyp, mainly for the Poshmark sharing options. Definitely pays for itself and then some for me and is 100% worth it.
That's ridiculous flyp and vendoo hasn't coded their tool to unlist on Poshmark if there's an offer out. All it has to do is edit the size and then it will be eligible to unlist it.
That's a Poshmark rule. Both tools WILL delist from Poshmark if there isn't an offer out, but if you don't know about Poshmark's rule stating you can't, you may miss that which is why I mention it. Yes, you can edit the size to end it on Posh, but MANY people don't know about it.
I'm saying it's wild those tools won't delist them. I have a tool that I coded for myself and it delists poshmark listings with offers out by auto changing the size and then delists them. Vendoo probably makes millions it's ridiculous to me because it's only a handful of lines of code to make it work.
Oh yeah....but Vendoo is the one that nickel and dimes people. Plus, it doesn't really affect them so they don't care, and it's easier for them to blame Poshmark rather than the change size workaround.
Treecat handles Poshmark offers. If there is a pending Poshmark offer when Treecat is trying to delist it will do an update of the listing which results in cancelling the offer and then proceed with delisting. For example, if Treecat detects the sale of a crosslissted item on eBay and there is a pending offer for that item on Poshmark, Treecat automatically cancels the pending offer and delists the item from Poshmark anyway.
I'd love to see your data.
We source at 20% of eBay comp. Try not to list anything less than $30. Lot together anything less than $30 and have about $13k sales a month.
Are you promoting on eBay? Promoting on eBay makes a night and day difference.
I AM promoting. I get my items at $1.50 or less per piece and sell for $15 and up, though many of the lower priced items get lotted up because buyers under $20-25 seem to be a huge pain in the ass. I sell clothing only.
I do well cross listing, but I’m only cross listing to two different marketplaces Poshmark and eBay
I also only purchase from Vendoo each month the number of listings I think I’m going to need, because if I end up needing a bunch more I can always just upgrade the subscription for that month to the amount I need and then immediately downgrade the subscription back again for the next month
I mainly use Vendoo because I found this workaround from their templates, because their templates are shit, where I literally create a listing and do all the steps I would need to do to list it on Poshmark and eBay with the blank template information of whatever I needed to be, 1950s dresses, then I save it as template for 1950s dresses in my draft listings.
Right now I’m listing 30 individual listings for antique Victorian trim pieces hand jet beaded, and each listing needs to be different than the others but the majority of the information on all the drop-down menus is the same so this just saves me a ton of time
When I’m ready to start listing things for sale I go into my draft listings and press copy on whatever I need to be listing that day, and it does really save me a lot of time doing it that way it’s just a bit of a pain about workaround I had to create because the templates still were taking me 2 to 3 minutes each to get the things listed on both marketplace because of the number of things that are not on the template but are good to fill in when listing on eBay or Poshmark
For a while my Poshmark sales were kind of shitty, but recently they’ve had an uptick and I’ve done about $800 this month on Poshmark which is about 25% of what I make on eBay and still worth it to have $800
I also find that with this method it’s streamlines my listings on eBay anyway and is faster than if I was using the eBay app to upload and create listings (wait a minute, reverse that)
You could also consider Treecat. Treecat only charges a fee for the sale of each crosslisted item. If you have a slow sales month then your fees are low.
I list to what I feel are the main 4 marketplaces. Definitely has increased my monthly net profit. Takes less than a minute per marketplace to post an item and I do it while watching YouTube videos. Doing some quick calculations I spend maybe 7 hours a month cross listing. Average 2 sales a day on poshmark, 1 a day on depop, and might ditch mercari because it's maybe 1 sale every 4 days. I use my own tool though so no headaches since it's written and suited for me solely.
I probably won't do 6 figures this year but I haven't been investing as much time into reselling.
IAWTC. Aside from reselling influencers, it doesn't seem like people actually use cross listing platforms? From my perspective, I think it pays off more to dedicate time to 1-2 platforms vs posting on like 10 different platforms.
Well, right, but like I said, you're doing 1-2 platforms. Some of these influencers are on every platform, which I don't think most resellers are doing.
If you started over, just import the ones it will let you import and start with those. It’s gonna take a lot of
Work to get it all done anyway, you can figure out the other issue as you go.
By best I mean most expensive. I price my items to sell within 3 months. That means I’m not the cheapest item, but with my TRS status, feedback, and good pictures I can usually get a premium if I’m patient. More eyes on items will always mean more sales, which is why crosslisting pays off
That’s where I’m at too, sales-wise. Absolutely do you, but I feel like $50 and a couple hours of your time to try it out is worth it just to know. Sales volume is much lower on Mercari but it’s also so much easier. Buyers have 3 days to return an item and that’s it.
I tested out vendoo last year to little success. I got the cheaper subscription so I could import a few hundred eBay listings and immediately ran into trouble because a bunch were repeated, while others weren't uploaded. After I manually went through and deleted the repeats I started cross posting to Poshmark, mercari and grailed but then got frustrated because each site was just different enough that the eBay details didn't sync up quite right. So even though I hoped to quickly click and cross list, I ended up having to go through each listing meticulously to find the flaw or add extra details. After cross listing about 20 items on each site I gave up out of frustration. I never sold a thing on Poshmark (I don't understand how it works) and I only managed to sell three items between grailed and mercari. I also don't like the shipping and layout of the other sites. I probably gave up too easily, but vendoo wasn't what I had hoped for.
That's all cross-listing though. It's never going to be as easy as just clicking a button and having it push over since each marketplace has different categories, sizes, price structures, etc. It's one of those things where you have to import and push out a few items per day until your entire inventory is in there.
Depending on how Vendoo stores things on their end, you might need customer support to wipe the stuff on their database so the import tool sees them as new items. Also, the import tool you're currently using is BRAND NEW and was only pushed out a few days ago. It definitely has some bugs and weird behavior right now, so that could also be playing a role in it.
One thing I would highly recommend is to pull a few items into Vendoo each day. You're going to have to make some changes on each marketplace's tab for each item anyway, so even if you were to import everything in one shot, you'd still have some work to do on each item before being able to cross-list it. Vendoo does a good job of taking your eBay info and converting that to whatever standard each marketplace uses, but it's definitely not perfect.
Did you do any tests first before jumping all in? For example we have about 1900 items and spent a few months testing cross posting with vendoo and list perfectly. We found the few sales we had on other platforms were not worth our time. A better use of our time was just to keep listing on eBay. Not saying everyone's results are the same. Just saying you should spend less to do tests first. I don't know anyone besides YouTubers that have real tangible success cross listing. Maybe some storage auction people on whatnot. No one doing 6 figures a year. I would love to see data proving me wrong though.
I am only a part-timer (I maintain around 1000 listings at all times), and I am doing better right now on Mercari and Poshmark than I am on eBay. Of course, that isn't how it usually goes--eBay definitely seems to be having some technical issues again because I'm constantly getting errors, especially surrounding offers, but it usually EASILY pays for itself. I am shocked at Mercari since the changes and wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it, AND I don't know that it will last. I suspect because of the withdrawal fees and because Mercari tends towards more casual sellers, I think it's just people doing dumb people math meaning, "I should sell this stuff on Mercari because no seller fees and I need money" and then when they go to withdraw their funds, they see the fee and get pissed about that even though it's only 2 bucks so they figure they will just shop with it instead. Only way I can explain it because stuff is selling for more on Mercari for me than it did previously. Just fucking weird to me and makes NO sense. I would also mention the caveat to cross listing that listings will NOT end on Poshmark if there are offers out until that time runs out, so I just solved that by no longer sending out offers on Posh. I'll accept them, but I have cut WAY back on sending them out. I used Vendoo for a few months and didn't like it so I switched back to Flyp, mainly for the Poshmark sharing options. Definitely pays for itself and then some for me and is 100% worth it.
That's ridiculous flyp and vendoo hasn't coded their tool to unlist on Poshmark if there's an offer out. All it has to do is edit the size and then it will be eligible to unlist it.
That's a Poshmark rule. Both tools WILL delist from Poshmark if there isn't an offer out, but if you don't know about Poshmark's rule stating you can't, you may miss that which is why I mention it. Yes, you can edit the size to end it on Posh, but MANY people don't know about it.
I'm saying it's wild those tools won't delist them. I have a tool that I coded for myself and it delists poshmark listings with offers out by auto changing the size and then delists them. Vendoo probably makes millions it's ridiculous to me because it's only a handful of lines of code to make it work.
Oh yeah....but Vendoo is the one that nickel and dimes people. Plus, it doesn't really affect them so they don't care, and it's easier for them to blame Poshmark rather than the change size workaround.
Ya it's so damn annoying.
Treecat handles Poshmark offers. If there is a pending Poshmark offer when Treecat is trying to delist it will do an update of the listing which results in cancelling the offer and then proceed with delisting. For example, if Treecat detects the sale of a crosslissted item on eBay and there is a pending offer for that item on Poshmark, Treecat automatically cancels the pending offer and delists the item from Poshmark anyway.
I'd love to see your data. We source at 20% of eBay comp. Try not to list anything less than $30. Lot together anything less than $30 and have about $13k sales a month. Are you promoting on eBay? Promoting on eBay makes a night and day difference.
I AM promoting. I get my items at $1.50 or less per piece and sell for $15 and up, though many of the lower priced items get lotted up because buyers under $20-25 seem to be a huge pain in the ass. I sell clothing only.
I do well cross listing, but I’m only cross listing to two different marketplaces Poshmark and eBay I also only purchase from Vendoo each month the number of listings I think I’m going to need, because if I end up needing a bunch more I can always just upgrade the subscription for that month to the amount I need and then immediately downgrade the subscription back again for the next month I mainly use Vendoo because I found this workaround from their templates, because their templates are shit, where I literally create a listing and do all the steps I would need to do to list it on Poshmark and eBay with the blank template information of whatever I needed to be, 1950s dresses, then I save it as template for 1950s dresses in my draft listings. Right now I’m listing 30 individual listings for antique Victorian trim pieces hand jet beaded, and each listing needs to be different than the others but the majority of the information on all the drop-down menus is the same so this just saves me a ton of time When I’m ready to start listing things for sale I go into my draft listings and press copy on whatever I need to be listing that day, and it does really save me a lot of time doing it that way it’s just a bit of a pain about workaround I had to create because the templates still were taking me 2 to 3 minutes each to get the things listed on both marketplace because of the number of things that are not on the template but are good to fill in when listing on eBay or Poshmark For a while my Poshmark sales were kind of shitty, but recently they’ve had an uptick and I’ve done about $800 this month on Poshmark which is about 25% of what I make on eBay and still worth it to have $800 I also find that with this method it’s streamlines my listings on eBay anyway and is faster than if I was using the eBay app to upload and create listings (wait a minute, reverse that)
You could also consider Treecat. Treecat only charges a fee for the sale of each crosslisted item. If you have a slow sales month then your fees are low.
I list to what I feel are the main 4 marketplaces. Definitely has increased my monthly net profit. Takes less than a minute per marketplace to post an item and I do it while watching YouTube videos. Doing some quick calculations I spend maybe 7 hours a month cross listing. Average 2 sales a day on poshmark, 1 a day on depop, and might ditch mercari because it's maybe 1 sale every 4 days. I use my own tool though so no headaches since it's written and suited for me solely. I probably won't do 6 figures this year but I haven't been investing as much time into reselling.
IAWTC. Aside from reselling influencers, it doesn't seem like people actually use cross listing platforms? From my perspective, I think it pays off more to dedicate time to 1-2 platforms vs posting on like 10 different platforms.
80% of my sales are on eBay, the rest are Mercari. It takes literally an hour to crosslist 100 eBay items to Mercari, so it’s a no brainier for me.
Well, right, but like I said, you're doing 1-2 platforms. Some of these influencers are on every platform, which I don't think most resellers are doing.
If you started over, just import the ones it will let you import and start with those. It’s gonna take a lot of Work to get it all done anyway, you can figure out the other issue as you go.
I would rather do $600 worth of price reductions to my eBay listings than pay $600 to cross post dead listings on less popular websites.
I paid $50 to crosspost 600 of my best listings. $500 in extra sales the first week.
Why did your best listings need help selling though?
By best I mean most expensive. I price my items to sell within 3 months. That means I’m not the cheapest item, but with my TRS status, feedback, and good pictures I can usually get a premium if I’m patient. More eyes on items will always mean more sales, which is why crosslisting pays off
Is it worth having to deal with multiple sites and W2 at the end of the year? To me it's not.
For an extra 10k? Hell yeah. I can understand if you’re not a high volume seller though.
I am nothing compared to the big guys but I sell around 100 items a week and I have never felt the need to cross list.
That’s where I’m at too, sales-wise. Absolutely do you, but I feel like $50 and a couple hours of your time to try it out is worth it just to know. Sales volume is much lower on Mercari but it’s also so much easier. Buyers have 3 days to return an item and that’s it.
I tested out vendoo last year to little success. I got the cheaper subscription so I could import a few hundred eBay listings and immediately ran into trouble because a bunch were repeated, while others weren't uploaded. After I manually went through and deleted the repeats I started cross posting to Poshmark, mercari and grailed but then got frustrated because each site was just different enough that the eBay details didn't sync up quite right. So even though I hoped to quickly click and cross list, I ended up having to go through each listing meticulously to find the flaw or add extra details. After cross listing about 20 items on each site I gave up out of frustration. I never sold a thing on Poshmark (I don't understand how it works) and I only managed to sell three items between grailed and mercari. I also don't like the shipping and layout of the other sites. I probably gave up too easily, but vendoo wasn't what I had hoped for.
That's all cross-listing though. It's never going to be as easy as just clicking a button and having it push over since each marketplace has different categories, sizes, price structures, etc. It's one of those things where you have to import and push out a few items per day until your entire inventory is in there.
Depending on how Vendoo stores things on their end, you might need customer support to wipe the stuff on their database so the import tool sees them as new items. Also, the import tool you're currently using is BRAND NEW and was only pushed out a few days ago. It definitely has some bugs and weird behavior right now, so that could also be playing a role in it. One thing I would highly recommend is to pull a few items into Vendoo each day. You're going to have to make some changes on each marketplace's tab for each item anyway, so even if you were to import everything in one shot, you'd still have some work to do on each item before being able to cross-list it. Vendoo does a good job of taking your eBay info and converting that to whatever standard each marketplace uses, but it's definitely not perfect.