10 MISTAKES POSHMARK RESELLERS MAKE | Tips for new resellers, things I would never do again 

I also used to panic about shipping immediately, but what I do now is that I schedule a pick-up with USPS and they pick it up from my front door!

Postmark is full of impulse buyers. The decision-making time is HUGE. I measure and describe everything, plus put close-up photos of buttons, pockets, zippers, etc.

When it comes to shipping items I always ship next day. I found that it was easier to just gather all the sold items that day and send it out all at once PLUS that the buyer can not cancel the item. Since it’s past the 3 hour window. I almost had a close call on a rather expensive item where the buyer literally cancelled the order as I was driving to the post office.

I actually find sharing other people’s closets brings me sales when they share it back! At least my experience.

I just started selling on poshmark and I appreciate your video, honestly, you are the only video on poshmark that I actually sat through the entire video. Stay well and thanks so much.

Ummmm, so I’ve been in the reselling business for 7 years - 5 years on Poshmark - and I’m a very high rated seller with tons of knowledge & experience, and I make a lot of money (6 figures a year) selling on Poshmark and ... your advice was absolutely fantastic! I mean that. You really have such an understanding of this business, truly. Everything you said was so exactly right on. Seriously - I was nodding me head listening to you because all of your advice was the exact the advice I would give as well. You are going to do so well in this business - although it sounds like you already are.👍😊 Go girl! Happy Poshing, blessings, kindness & love, & have a wonderful day. 😊😊😊

I agree with all of these! I'm finding two of the best strategies (for me at least as a new part time Poshmark seller) are 1) have at least 1-2 new listings per day and 2) share my closet during the last Poshmark Party (10pm my time). I feel like I get way more traffic on my page in the evenings, because more people are shopping then and you get the west coast shoppers too. I'm like you, I only post items that I love/would wear, and I like having a closet curated to my style. This has been helpful for me because I've had repeat shoppers to my closet who like my style. Thanks for the video!

As a Poshmark buyer I cannot stress how important measurements are. I wear an extra large. An extra large bust size can go anywhere from 39 to 45 ". If I don't see measurements now, I don't buy. Also, people listing don't know whether it's a juniors or a woman's. There is a difference in sizing. The other thing is if someone has a 100% cotton shirt that they have washed and dried to list, the bust line will be smaller at that point.

That is the worst when you decline a decent offer and then it sits 😭

When you share someone's closet the hope is that they share yours back. This puts your items in front of new eyes is what I understand. For new people to see your items is always good. In my opinion, others sellers don't buy items from other sellers very much. Most of my sales seem to be made to people who are on the app as buyers only.

I always include measurements and would like to see more listings that have them. Another thing too often missing: a photo of the label, and the fabric. If it's silk but looks like polyester...

These are seriously all the mistakes I made when I first started out, great list! Thanks for being honest!

I’m a new college reseller on poshmark just started in the fall and I’ve completely stopped sharing other people’s listings completely! Even if people share mine, it’s just because of the way the algorithm works, honestly I just want my stuff to be the most seen, and sharing other people’s closets does nothing to benefit me:(

Thank you! I loved this video! I sell 1-2 items a day currently and I have definitely made these mistakes! I do find some more value with the sharing though I think. I feel like when I share more others share my listings and I get a lot more likes that turn to sales when this happens. That being said, I was out of town for a few days once and I still had some likes so who knows!!! I look forward to watching more of your videos.

FINALLY! You have been so honest about this 'sharing others closets' and 'following' routine that I just don't get! How can you follow someone's closet when you have 5 thousand closets you are following??? How can you even find them? Appreciate your candor. Thanks

I have been doing Poshmark for about as long as you, and I can definitely agree with these tips, they are spot on! Glad I found your channel, I did one video on my channel about reselling, but I really enjoy watching and making this kind of content...I'm thinking of doing more...your channel is giving me such inspiration!

I agree with all of your points! Also on the fast shipping thing, people can cancel their order within the first few hours. So not a good idea to ship super fast

I agree with most. The only one I don't agree with is sharing other people's closets. I do little experiments in my closet every once in awhile just to see what happens and when I tested this out I sold way more when I shared other people's items than when I just shared my own.

From your mistakes to your reactions over the mistakes… I felt ALL of it! Especially the one about accepting a few dollars below your lowest. OOF! Now I’m finding that sometimes it’s that low sale that brings on more sales. Activity brings more activity. I know this is one of your older vids but I really appreciate all the work and thought you put into everything. Very well done. Thank you!

This was super enjoyable! I cannot tell you how refreshing it is for someone to get right to the subject. Bravo!

Hannah! I’ve been selling on PM and ingesting RU-vid videos for tips like it’s my job, and yours is the first “mistake” video that’s actually helped me. So much so that I was embarrassed for myself while watching it. Ha! And THANK YOU for not being a repeater... holy wow some of these chicks can’t can’t a 20 min video going without literally saying the same thing 4-5 times in a row. I’m now a subscriber and can’t wait to watch the rest!

Great video! Back in the day sharing other people's listings and gaining followers was actually a real benefit to making sales as the feed was more utilized in the earlier days of Poshmark. But you are totally right that those things don't mean as much now. I would love if Poshmark just did away with the feed and turned that part of the app into something helpful or interesting. Maybe recommended listings or Posh Stories (the new video feature) - that would be super cool. Anyways, looking forward to more content from you - Subscribed!!

you are so pretty and easy to look at girl! Plus love your personality and poshmark tips

I only share closets if the person shared mine. But I won’t go out of my way. I also, only follow closets I’m interested in.

I do look at the feed, to SHOP. I also, only FOLLOW closets that are PLUS SIZE, because that is what I wear. So I totally agree with alot of what your stating. Sales have serious slowed since the pandemic.

Thank you for all this advise , I just started selling on Poshmark and needed this

Watching this after I shared a bunch of other seller’s closets 😂♥️ thank you for your video, it makes been so helpful ! ♥️🙌🏼

Totally agree with being a Posh Ambassador is overrated! Also I find listing one item a day gives my closet traction! I only do this part time and have another full time job so don’t have the time for anything more❤️💕🌸

This is one of the best videos i have seen! I subscribed to you today! You are the first posher i can understand and that i dont want to switch the video on haha!

this was amazing, thank you so much ! (begginning Poshing )

Thanks! Just started on Poshmark this helps a lot.

Thank you for your honesty. I am new to resale so this really helps me.❤️

Yes... and yes lol I started Poshmark around the same time and made these same exact mistakes. I'm still working on not sourcing fancy SOUNDING labels, and trying to learn what actually sells! Ive just made the realization about the relisting, and plan to start doing that regularly. I do wonder about the followers, though. I look at the people who make multiple sales a day and wonder if it's the number of followers they have or the number of items that makes the difference. I think it's also the caliber of items they have as well. I gotta find some good sourcing honey holes! Great list :)

I use USPS scheduler on their website to schedule a pick up, have to have one priority package to do it this way.

Thanxxxx very informative!!! Sounds like your doing just fine!!!! I like the straight forward approach ☺️😉

Thanks so much for these videos girl. I'm binging all of them right now lol

I am new to PM. This was very helpful info! Thank you!

Just found you. Love you! Thanks for sharing. I am new to Poshmark and this helps me!

BEST TIP EVER !!!!! THE MAIL BOX thankyou so much !!! I have one across the field from me and absolutely never would have thought of that 😁👍 it's brilliant !!!!

Thank you so much for the tips! I started selling on Poshmark a couple weeks ago & have only sold 7 items. These tips are helpful!

About the subject of sharing other closets...I’ve heard many say that it doesn’t help you and it’s a waste of time, but doesn’t it put your items in front of people that you couldn’t reach by just sharing your own closet? I mean, I kinda see what you mean but I also see how it can help too. I dunno, I’m probably not making sense because I’m constantly scratching my head over this issue. Nice video btw!

Thank you so much I’m new to poshmark and you have helped me greatly!!!

I am still learning and it is a lot of work. Thanks for your info.

Hey Hannah!! New subscriber here and also a Posh Seller + RU-vidr!! 😊 These are all great tips and I agree with them all!! Use that copy feature to re-list girl!!! (maybe you do now, or maybe you did then and I misunderstood). As long as the listing has been up for at least 61 days, using the copy feature to re-list it will make it come up as just-in :) Sorry if you already know that lol 😂 Anyway LOVED your style of editing and delivering this info- subscribed!! 💜 Can't wait for more.

You are so cute, so well spoken, and so clear when explaining your thoughts and strategies. Thank you so much for all the tips!

This video was super helpful, thank you so much!!

One thing I have found that when someone shares my closet I usually look to see what they have and have bought things out of others closets that I've liked and I figure others will do it to mine so I dont think sharing is so bad.

Lol im soi glad you understand about us ft resellers having to have a high end walmart instead of an appt only viewing lol..im a dork i hope that made sense...it did in my head! ✌💜😊

This was an amazing video so helpful. I have been successful buying and selling but through consignment shops. Nervous about Poshmark because I fear it will end up being full time. I don’t want to deal with EBay because of the mailing.

Sharing is helpful. You share somebody’s listing and then they share yours. 🤷‍♀️👍

The video was beneficial. I have been selling Real-Estate for 22 years. Same concept. Not the same amount of money. But NO ONE will call me at 11:00 P.M. to tell me that their dishwasher is broken. You would make a great Realtor and find a $10,000.00 check more rewarding. Now that I am totally burnt out and financially able to do Poshmark, I have so many items that I know will sell All the mistakes you said in your tutorial that you made are ones people make all the time in Real-Estate. Thanks for the mistakes made. FYI I never reject a low ball!

Appreciate your video. I am new to Poshmark and am clueless. I hear you should share your closet, make friends, follow as many people as possible. Wow this is nuts. I just want to sell a few things. Yikes!

So I know this is an old vid but I share things that I might buy later but I don’t want to like at that time (because then I’ll get reminders about it every time it drops in price and that annoys me even though it shouldn’t). So I just go back to my shares every so often and see if there’s anything there that I still want to bite on and buy if it hasn’t sold after some time. I use Poshmark very passively and I still make sales fairly often so I do agree the following, resharing others closets, etc. is a bit pointless. Thankfully there’s bots for that now but I’m still too lazy to download any of those lol. ANYWAY, great vid, even a couple years later. Thank you for it!

I just want to say I appreciate the advice about taking slightly less Than you wanted. I’ve sold items for two or three dollars less than I would have if u had not said it. So thanks.

I think you did an awesome job on this video!!👌 On target and to the point! Keep up the good work☺

I’ve learned the hard way about the measurements. One of my customers was so mad about a product it was considered a OS so I put up the measurements from the website. The return wasn’t approved but I felt d bad. I ordered measuring tape the next day.

Point number 9... this reminded me of my mom who did flea markets for many years where she also sold lots of clothes (mostly stuff that she got almost for free from house clearances etc) and I remember one time I saw her having sooo many suit jackets from Hugo Boss and I was like: Oh wow, these must get a lot of attention, how much you asking for them? - well, she didn't ask more than 5 Euro per jacket, sometimes even less, because... yeah... nobody wants them, haha. Which was such a surprise for me, because they retail for several hundreds... yeah.

I love all of your tips!

Thank you for sharing your experiences!

Thank you, gorgeous! Appreciate the tips 💗

I love that you mentioned the Ambassador comment. I have been on Poshmark since 2013 and I JUST got Ambassador. I had no idea what it was. I just focused on selling and making enough to pay for my wedding dress, which I did, but my wedding was cancelled. #covidbride

OMG the offer ones hit home!!

Loved your video. But I buy size 18;or w20. I am a size 10 so I can’t say I love these larger items but I know they will appeal to larger women, so while I could not buy an item I hat I do buy items that inwould not wear but I know it will appeal to someone else, at this point I have a lot of experience in what is selling.

Thanks with all the great tips!

Another very helpful video! Thank you!

Thanks for your videos! New subscriber and new fan, since I'm about to start my own poshmark account!

Very helpful. What do you do when you counter on someone's lowball offer and they come back with the very same lowball offer? Personally I never look at the feed, but I do look at who follows me and when I want to randomly browse, I click on a new follower's closet from my NEWS link. I actually do this more often than using the search. Thinking of the psychology of PM, when my phone is blowing up because some new follower is sharing a dozen of my items, I go look at their closet. It helps to think about how we use the app, how we respond to that stuff because anything that gets eyes on your closet is potential. The best tip from this video for me was the one about re-listing stale items. I have over 1k items and often leave the stale items for sharing about once a week. THanks!

Fantastic video, thank you!

Thank you!!! So useful.

Just started. Thank you!!!

Thanks for the wonderful tips!

So on point with the number of followers - as you stated it does not matter and those begging for followers or "follow cards or games" just get ignored by me and many others, ---- many people just shop and that is how I make sales and these shoppers are only on the app to find a specific item/s and not follow unless they find a closet they really consider a great match for things they need. -------------- Also, please do not get me started on "share groups" - what I have found is that these are people with too much time on their hands and have seen them go very negative, and a sort of sad social activity for those individuals, and to that I say, if you need interaction with others on that deep of a level go to Facebook or text each other: I am on Posh to sell and yes I like to find similar sellers and will share when I am inspired by a closet to do so, and have the time otherwise it really from what I have seen makes NO difference in sales. (i.e. my experience before I got out of that share group nonsense: one day in a share group I was one of the featured closets, and it was even a wk end so about 15-20 people shared 10 items to 20 items and NO SALES, No LIKES, NO NOTHING, in fact I wondered if it was jogging the algorithm in a negative manner somehow. The share groups I have seen again are little social clubs with too many rules and negativity and unneeded disparaging comments or negative comments - you are again correct on the sharing others items and I would especially state that "share groups" are a major time suck and can be full of negative energy.

Great video. Just started on posh mark

Hi, have you found if it’s better to lay the measuring tape out on the pictures or list the actual measurements? Thanks!

This was amazing!

hey- i have a couple of concerns, is there any app /tool that will allow me to save my listings in case of a catastrophic failure of any kind? i have hundereds of items listed and i dont want to lose them, let me be clear, i need to save descriptions, photos, titles etc etc. I even tried screen capture tools just to get started by cataloging what i am actually selling, but i cant find a capture tool that will scroll that far down to capture ALL my listings..thanks

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! Honestly, this is the second time I've watched this video and it's by far the most valuable advice I've found. Seriously..

When you relist the items, do you change the price and start of with the original price it was priced at?

Good information! Thanks a ton

I just joined PM, so thank you for this video! Do you know how to add "Meet Your Posher"? Do I need it?

I hate the newsfeed! I’ve never ever looked at it! It’s such a waste of space on the app! The poshmark team needs to take off the sharing function and get rid of the newsfeed portion!

I had something listed for 6 and the girl offered me 5. I literally declined it. There was nothing I could counter and I couldn’t accept 5, that 6 was like flat out the lowest making me like 3 dollars. Come on. I felt like it was ok to decline that.

I have a question regarding people who bundle and receive a discount already for their bundle, and then on top of that they offer something lower than what your discount already offers. Is it customary to accept their lower offer on top of the bundle discount already offered?

Followers actually do improve sales. Not by a super large %, but I’ve scrolled through the feed and have noticed a few things that I thought about buying. And I’ve experienced sudden bursts of activity from following people. There are tricks to followers that really help. There’s a reason those that are most successful have very large amounts of followers.

Great information- thank you

I have 420 active listings and some people come in every day and share ALL of them. I get nothing out of it and they waste time. Sigh 😔

wow, I'm like a month in and I will stop sharing others items lol thank you!!

Love the video! Where do you get all your items you sell on poshmark?

It might seem like a stupid question but I automatically thought this was a resale place but I've seen most closets have items that look to be from companies inventory like being an affiliate. how do they do this?

Thank you. I was trying to get my ambassador so I thought I had to share other Poshmark closets to get there.

Can you make a video on how to take measurements for different categories!

Thank you or this!!! I hate all the sharing..I wake up to 500 shares a day and I have to sort thru the offers and likes and its so time consuming. I wish there was a way to have no one share your closet hahah

Disagree with you about sharing. Almost all items I’ve bought was from someone that shared my listings. So I share theirs. I look at closet and buy

Great video...thank you!

Do you ever use Copy? It’s fairly new but when I copy, I get 2 more copies of the same listing. Come to think of it, when a potential buyer sees that the listing is a copy, they know it did not sell previously...

When I first started selling about 3 months ago, I declined an insulting offer and Poshmark notified me it was not the proper way to handle the offer. lol But I now do not counter-offer a substantial discount on a $35 item for $10 more like 10% off and they don’t usually respond which is okay, since I don’t think they would have accepted 20% off. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t have time to play games. Ps. I did enjoy the video.

I know many may disagree but I believe there is a computer algorithm at play on Poshmark. I've noticed if you decline, which I've done once or twice or if there is a delay shipping my likes & sales slowed down.

What do you do with the items that don’t sell? How long do you keep them listed?

Great vid. 🤗👍

Thanks for the tips..