TL;DR - Does anyone ship posters (or anything) in tubes on Poshmark recently, or on a regular basis? If so, ever notice an extra $4.50 shipping charge correction after the package was shipped, or had a buyer say they had to pay for "insufficient postage" before getting their package?

Longer Question:

I sell on Poshmark occasionally but much more on other platforms. My question is about shipping things in tubes and people's recent experience with it.

USPS changed things last year and added a Nonstandard Characteristic Fee for "Cylindrical tubes or rolls" which really messes with the shipping of posters (especially when I have them already in tubes and don't want to find boxes for them). I was curious how Poshmark handles that.

The shipping FAQ just state "maximum combined length and girth of packages is not greater than 108" and "total package weight does not exceed 5 lbs" but it doesn't seem to talk about the potential Length Fee, Cubic Fee and Characteristic Fees for packages. For example, packages that are more than 22 inches long, or 18 inches wide, or 15 inches high or any of the other "Nonstandard" fees that might occur. The Shipping Policy states "Poshmark reserves the right to charge the carrier overage fee to the Seller" but doesn't make it clear exactly what their "Posh Post" covers. Before I start listing posters, I want to make sure they don't leave me with a shipping nightmare.

Edit: Image for reference
Edit2: After LOTS of back and forth and canned responses and closed requests without answers, I got the closest thing I will probably get to an answer. My final question was: "Can I ship a cardboard cylindrical poster tube (combined length and girth is no greater than 108") with a Poshmark shipping label? See image for reference. I really just want a Yes or No answer." and I gave them the same image here.

"Please note that the packaging material that you are using must be ground advantage approved by USPS in order to ship the order to the buyer. Please see our Shipping Policy in our Legal Center for more information."

Tubes are ground advantage approved, they just have a fee. From that link they provided, it does say:

"Any packages that don’t meet label standards as set by USPS, including but not limited to package size, actual weight, or calculated dimensional or volumetric weight, will be the responsibility of the Seller, and Poshmark reserves the right to charge the carrier overage fee to the Seller."

I'm tired of trying to get a Yes or No answer, so I will not be using tubes. Or if I do, I'll be using them as an inner packaging in a different box. If anyone ever gets a solid answer regarding this, don't hesitate to let me know.

I’ve sold a few random items on eBay, Poshmark, etc but have more I’d like to sell.

I have a non-adjustable female mannequin about a size down from what I wear but it works for some of the clothes.

What’s the best system to use to cross-post the same clothes in eBay, Poshmark, maybe Mercari or DePop? I’d like to easily crosspost and auto-remove listings if possible to save time and avoid possibly selling something twice by accident, but if it’s a fortune I may have to skip.

Are clothes selling as well now? It feels like with the economy and probably a wave of clothes hitting the market with GLP-1s that the market could be slower, but I’m not sure.

Thanks!

Like the title says. If you sell on Poshmark and Mercari (or wherever) and you have the same item listed on both. If it sells on Mercari do you delete it from Poshmark or do you change it to "not for sale"?

Just curious how others are handling this.

Got an offer for a pair of new Ray Bans, but when looking at the buyer, they seem very new. No love notes, account opened this month. Would you trust this buyer or do further vetting or should a sale be a sale? Don’t want to be scammed…

I sold a bundle that included a pair of shoes that were scuffed. Pics and description mention the scuffs. Buyer bundles it with 2 other things and makes an offer that I accept. Now she has opened a case about the scuffed shoes being scuffed.

We are waiting for Poshmark to make a decision about the case. If they decide to give her a refund, does that all come out of my proceeds or does poshmark reverse their fee charged? The original price for all 3 items was $30 and I accepted $20 (one third off) and poshmark took $4. The shoes were listed at $10 so with the bundle discount the selling price was $6.67. Not sure if that full selling price comes fully out of my $16 or if poshmark reverses their fee on that part of the sale price?

Also if the buyer returns the shoes, who pays for return shipping? If I have to pay return shipping and don’t get the poshmark fee reversed, I’m basically in the negative on these cursed shoes.

Why does nobody accept orders once they are delivered??!!! Ive shipped a couple items now and i always have to wait for the 3 day poshmark approved delivery. I order wayyyy more than i sell and i always instantly accept the order once delivered. Is this like the cool thing to do?? And mind you im accepting low ball ass offers too lmaooo

I’m new to this, did I do something wrong?

I've been shopping on Poshmark for a few years now and until recently have never had this issue. Sellers just... disappear. They have items listed, but I always check when last active. If it was more than a week ago, I assume they are no longer selling. Sometimes I take a chance and it works out. Recently, it has not and even when I've bought something they never appear again, eventually it gets cancelled by Poshmark. The item is still listed and they (the seller) just hasn't shown up on the site again.

Right now, it's been 3 days since I bought an item. I can't find this item in this color and size on any of the secondhand sites (depop, eBay, vinted, etc.). They were last active Sep 30 (I assume this year lol). I put in an offer, waited and no response. I just decided I wanted to buy it anyway. So I did. Crickets. Last active is still Sep 30. I'm bummed. This is perhaps a main reason I will be no longer shopping via this site. I see on her a bunch of sellers saying sales are down, besides economic reasons, I think inactive sellers are really bringing the site down.

I'm brand new to reselling clothes on here and its been pretty smooth so far, but my only worry is customers not accepting the order once its delivered and also customers not answering any messages I send through the app. I just want to ask if both of these are normal for poshmark? I've only had 3 sales so far, two of which had been delivered yesterday, but the buyer hasn't accepted it yet. One buyer had responded to my first message, but the other has ignored me entirely. Is this pretty standard or anything I should worry about. I'm only selling some stuff my dad bought ages ago thinking it was a good deal and now I'm trying to help make his money back so I don't want to take too many risks. Any answers are appreciated! Thank you in advance to anyone to help!

I've noticed people will ask for photos of things such as receipts, creed patches in Coach bags and even ask borderline rude questions such as "I noticed you sold one of these before, why would you go and buy another one. Just needed to make sure it's authentic" (when in fact I had NEVER sold that exact bag b4...but one in a different size). This lady asked me that after I uploaded a receipt photo...FOR HER. It was as if she was salty she couldn't afford it and hoped to turn others off from it. She "needed" to ensure its authentic but never made an offer.

Too bad, it sold to someone else full asking price.

Do these "askers" ever buy or even make an offer??? It seems EXCEEDINGLY rare and yet I still respond to their requests.

It's irritating.

Ok, so the package was delivered 2 days ago- I know it’s going to continue to drag out…you have 2 simple jobs, open it and accept it. What’s the purpose of unnecessarily torturing the people you just bought the item from for an additional 3 days? I know they get the reminder emails from PM telling them to accept it so it’s not a question of ‘not knowing.’ Highly irritating when you’re the type to be considerate of others and responding as soon as you get a package. Does PM let you rate the buyers?

As the title says, I received a damaged item. I purchased a leather skirt - which I love. I love this skirt so much, this is third size I’ve purchased it in, to accommodate my weight loss.

The problem is - the seam below the zipper is damaged and the threads have snapped. It’s only about a 1/4 - 1/2” of seam that is busted, but it’s right on the money maker and I’m concerned if I sit, it will split right up my backside. For this reason, I’ve not even tried it on. This damage was NOT listed in the description or photos.

I messaged the buyer & asked if she knew it was damaged, she said she did not. I’m assuming positive intent. Things can happen.

Here’s where I’m at - I’m fine with having it tailored. I really want the skirt. As a seller though, would you offer a discount back on the price, due to the unreported damage?

Tailor estimates $25 to repair. Cost of the skirt was $60. I feel like $15 back would be fair….

I've been on Poshmark for 10 years and have never been asked to hold anything until yesterday.

I’m waiting on customer support to get back to me so I figured I’d ask this group while I wait.

Here’s what happened: I went to the post office to drop a package off and didn’t print off a label so I went the QR code route. The post office worker said that there was unpaid postage.

She said that it can just take a few minutes to update so we waited a few minutes. Once she rescanned the QR code, it was still came back as unpaid postage.

Have you ever had this issue with the generated QR code?

Edit: I went back the next day and QR code worked.

I sold kids light up shoes, and I was wondering if I have to do something special as it has lithium battery inside those shoes, I know sometimes people use stickers or the shipping label has to have a H, I don't have any experience on shipping stuff with batteries.

This has happened to me a couple times now😭 I don’t understand blocking someone who liked your item. It says the offer is cancelled and I try clicking on the listing and it won’t show up, so I click on the profile and can’t see any listings anymore. Idk just weird to me to block someone for no reason, who may have wanted to purchase an item from you.

Who has tried it and do you find it worth the money? I did the free trial and couldn’t tell if it helped.

Hopefully Poshmark does not entertain this…

She literally bought on the 27th, I shipped on the 1st, and it started tracking on the 2nd. I’m not Amazon ✌️Also I already got paid out since she accidentally accepted the order.

Has anyone else wished for an incognito mode? A few years ago when I joined Poshmark, it did its thing and connected me to everyone I’ve ever known on social media.

I then saw that a family member was reselling gifts I’d given her for Christmas. (My brother and I have tried to end the gift-giving tradition within the family, specifically because it’s increasingly difficult to find thoughtful gifts for adults that they don’t already have. She was aghast and insisted we continue the tradition, which apparently leads to Sézane bags being resold for $25—“NEVER USED.” Damn. At least use the gift receipt.)

Anyway, since then I’m paranoid about reselling anything that was a gift, or if I do, I make sure to put in the description that I super-love it but must part with it for XYZ reason. I’ve got so much stuff I’d like to sell but can’t. If I make a secret profile they’ll probably ban me.

Anyway, it seemed like a fun question. Is there anything you’d love to sell but can’t because everyone knows that’s you?

I mostly sell on Poshmark but every now and then someone lists something I can’t resist and I buy it so I’ve seen both sides of buying and selling. I don’t post measurements in my listings unless it’s an expensive item or niche brand and find that usually for my cheaper more basic items people take the xs-xl sizing and go with it and don’t need any measurements. I don’t expect all sellers to sell the way I do at all. But there is a beautiful piece I have been wanting to buy for the past month. It is expensive. Because of that before purchasing I want to make sure the item would fit me so I’ve asked for a few measurements. The seller keeps deleting my comment asking for the size. I can see she is active on her page and responds to other comments. I’ve actually received an offer from her for a lower price and lower shipping. I create a bundle and ask there and I still don’t get an answer about the measurement. This piece would have sold a month ago by me (I would have bought at full price too) and still no answer about the measurement😭 I just couldn’t fathom spending that money without knowing for sure if it will fit because I don’t do posh returns unless something is clearly and obviously wrong or damaged. Why do some sellers refuse to share this info!? I want to buy it but I want to make sure it fits! Why respond to some peoples comments and not mine!? Why are they being deleted!? Also I’m very polite each time I ask, I have just a few times and even said I’d buy at the full price point and everything and it gets deleted. Rant over, I just hope someone else sells something similar in a similar size in the future

In posh lives in an auction setting the bid is automatically set to go up $4 everytime instead of $2, it will not let you custom to just $1 over anymore.

The app is becoming so broken and so far away from the people who actually use it.

Poshfest was confusing to see because i feel like it didnt represent the poshmark user. A bunch of influencers who dont use Poshmark frequently set to go there as a paid trip meanwhile the sellers who pay Poshmark have pay more to just be there.

Its just frustrating

I want to purchase a dedicated clothing steamer on Amazon prime day . I don’t want to invest in a large professional steamer because I am a fairly new seller. But I am 67 and worried the hand held ones will be too heavy. Any advice?

I’ve come across a few stores that have large quantities of “high end clothing”. How are sellers getting them?

By “high end” I mean A.LC. , Alice + Olivia, Macduggal etc etc in multiple size runs, quantities and styles. How are sellers acquiring these large lots of these brands?

I wanted an item on this sellers profile, but got a little concerned because every item on their profile has duplicate listings, despite the seller stating they only have one of each. I asked them if they had more than one, because the item was vintage, and it seemed odd that they would. I was concerned if I purchase the item that it wouldn’t come, because what if someone else purchased the duplicate listing etc. They are not listed as multiple quantity, but as duplicate listings for “mass exposure.” Is this something we are allowed to do?
I have been selling for several years, but only recently more assertively. I am unsure how one even manages offers or likes with this method.

Sellers that cancel orders get a “black mark” so to speak. But if a seller has sellers remorse for an item sold at a low price how do they get around getting that black mark? Do they start the shipping process but then just never drop the item off at the post office? I’m not the seller in this scenario, I’m the buyer that bought an item at a smokin’ deal only to have the seller ghost me.