If you haven't checked out the app Poshmark yet, do it!
It only works on Apple products..Ipad, Iphone, and Ipod Touch, so that's a must. And it's optimized for Iphone 5.
What is Poshmark you ask?
Well, I'm glad you asked! Think Ebay, Etsy & the greatest Thrift Shop all blended into one.
As a seller, I had given up on Ebay, because the fees were kicking my butt. The auctions only last 7 days, and it took many auctions to sell my clothing items. At 25-30 cents per week x 200 or more listings to list it all + the fee they charge after the sale & paypal fees for accepting payments, it was really adding up!
Enter Poshmark!
List for FREE in your "closet", and it stays there until it sells. The only time you pay a fee is when your item sells. At that time Poshmark takes 20% of the sales price, and then they provide you with the pre-paid postage label that the buyer paid for.
The only draw-backs I've found so far are (1) Be careful that your item doesn't weigh more than 2 lbs. Otherwise, you need to make sure to figure in the extra $1.99/lb to the asking price, and (2) For purchases less than $25, Poshmark has decided to charge a flat rate postal rate of $6.99, as opposed to the $4.99 they charge for purchases over $25. So that discourages small purchases, and many buyers/sellers resort to off-site deals via Paypal. But Beware! I've been burned twice this week on Paypal deals. I'm trying to get a refund through buyer protection on 1 purchase, and the other was a "personal" payment, so I had no protection. Live and Learn :(
Other than that, it's been amazing. I've listed several hundred items in the past few weeks, and it's so super easy.
First, you download the app. Then you create a user ID, which will be the name of your closet / website they assign you. That will be your "closet" that gets shopped. Then you tap "sell", take up to 4 photos of your item, a brief title, description, price & save it. Voila! You're in business.
And searching for items to purchase is easy with the Poshmark parties & the "feed", which has a search feature for either items or people you're looking for.
For selling, I've been using the InstaFrame app to create some very nice photos that I then upload to Posh.
First I take a picture with my Iphone. Then, using the InstaFrame app, I can pull the photo off my camera roll, make it sharp and clear, add a pretty frame, and save it. Then when I go to "sell" on Poshmark, it has you select where you want to get the photo, either take a photo or get it from your camera roll. From my camera roll, I select the InstaFrame version I just saved. It couldn't be easier to upload professional looking, fun photos of my clothing, jewelry, shoes, handbags, etc. that I have listed in my closet.
Have a bunch of stuff lying around that you need to get rid of & you just can't bear to just give it away? Don't take it to the resale, where you only get 40% of what it's worth. List it on Poshmark.
People will make offers and perhaps ask you to bundle their purchase with several items in your closet, and it gets addicting, because it's all Live and instant, which is fun! When I was just selling on Etsy, if I sold 1 or 2 things in a week, that was a good week for me. Now I do more than that in 1 day on Poshmark. I can really see this becoming a big deal, like Ebay.
Check it out & be sure to Follow me there (like Twitter) - go to the feed and search people: I'm @Pookeysmom
Here's the web address of my closet: www.poshmark.com/closet/pookeysmom
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
I Love This Idea of Unconsumption!
http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/noted-what-it-means-to-unconsume/?ref=fp_blog_title
Noted: What It Means to Unconsume
As a kid, shopping with my father always ended in defeat. Such a consumer failure was no fault of mine — my dad’s frustration stemmed from his inability to find unbranded clothing. He’d pick up a shirt, shake his head and ask, “Do they have to put this Polo logo on the front?” Little did he know it would only get worse; once just a small detail, company logos are now over-sized decorative elements. I can only hope my father hasn’t seen Ralph Lauren’s new Big Pony Collection, in which the famous Polo logo has grown exponentially. Yet a look into almost any of our closets reveals something quite astonishing — we are overly branded. Sweatshirts emblazoned with “Gap,” Victoria Secret pajama pants with “pink” scrawled across the derrière and baseball caps bearing the famous Nike swoosh crowd our shelves. Sometimes, our eyes need a little visual rest; that’s when it’s time to unconsume.
Out of the dearth of unbranded goods comes Rob Walker, author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are and creator of Unconsumption, a Tumblr where creative reuse is encouraged and celebrated. Walker coined the term “unconsumption” back in 2006 when he wrote a column in which he wondered if getting rid of stuff will ever feel as good as getting it. In exploring how to build excitement around repurposing our old belongings, Walker realized that, for now, branding is the way we add value to our objects. In other words, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. “Branding has been one of my main subjects as a journalist, and for a few years I’ve pondered if there’s a way to borrow some of the tools of brand-making to advance an idea, but without actually creating products,” Walker said in an interview with Craft. With that in mind, Walker went to Clifton Burt, who designed the Unconsumption logo; the over-turned shopping cart, almost anthropomorphized through it’s wheel-eyes, is the logo of The Uncollection, or as Walkers puts it, “the first-ever line of goods consisting entirely of stuff people already owned.”
Created under Creative Commons license, the Unconsumption logo is available for download and Walker invites everyone to contribute to The Uncollection via their Facebook page. It is a brand without products, one that represents a desire to make the world a better place, each repurposed object at a time. Through branding our upcycled goods, we can reintroduce an object to the world as something newer and better.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I'm Listing Like Crazy on Ebay (mikenmelody92) - Vintage, Designer - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes!
Here's just a sample of what I'm listing right now on Ebay. I've got tons more to list...more to come daily...Ralph Lauren, Chico's, Coldwater Creek, Talbots, Ann Taylor, Levi's, Disney, Pendleton, Venezia, London Fog, Banana Republic, J Jill, Apple Bottoms, Vintage coats and jackets, High-end designers like Richard Tyler & Issey Miyake too! And you can't beat my prices - no way! Go to my Ebay page and click on the left side, Items for Sale: http://myworld.ebay.com/mikenmelody92
I'm listing up a storm right now, so check me out on Ebay: mikenmelody92
I've got everything from Apple Bottoms to Worthington....Vintage and Designer to Classic Casual and work clothing. Awesome stuff - if it all fit me, it would be in my closet right now! :)
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