u/Icy_Aside_6881

I had a person offer me $56 on a nwt quilt set that I had listed for $139 (Retail was about $190, I believe). I countered with $122. I think not long after that, another person liked the same set, so I figured I should send that offer to everyone who liked it, not just this low-baller. So I did, and one person countered at $115, and I accepted. All within minutes of the lowballer sending their offer. I just can't help hoping they saw it get bought and the price. lol. Yes, I'm petty.

Yesterday I had someone make an offer on a set of NWT linen sheets. Listed price was $149, she offered $125. I countered with $135. A few hours later she declined, which wouldn't have been a big deal, but she gave me a sob story about how she is on a fixed income of $1000/month due to a cancer diagnosis and if I ever discount the sheets, to let her know.

I just ignored the message because it felt like pressure to me and I wasn't sure if it was a scam. This morning I wake up to her making a new offer at the $135. Now I feel like I don't trust her. It just feels weird. I mean I can't be the only one selling sheets in that price range. Why not go offer someone else?

Do accept her offer? (also, these are heavy so I have to upgrade shipping label. If she opens a case to return, who pays the extra cost to ship them back to me?)

I just saw another message asking me if I accept it to use the Mastercard. Uh, what? Maybe she's just new to Poshmark? Online buying in general?

Earlier in the summer, my husband and I sort of planned a road trip for next week. We requested our PTO in my case, and he took a few days unpaid. (he's partially retired, so no benefits anymore). However, we had some unexpected expenses early in the summer that depleted our savings, so stopped planning the road trip, but hoped some funds we were expecting would arrive in time. Well, they did, so road trip is back on, only now we haven't made any reservations. Is it too late?

Originally, we were going to drive from Milwaukee to South Dakota, see the sights there. We are planning Monday-Monday. However, we are not absolutely tied to that area of the country. We went to North Carolina a few years ago, and just did a loop around Wisconsin last year. Had a trip to Las Vegas in the fall, but other than that, haven't really been anywhere between Las Vegas and eastern Minnesota. (spent a few nights there as part of our trip last year).

Husband has some mobility issues so we are not going to be hiking anywhere. Everything has to have easy access. He can walk okay, but he's slow and not great balance. (stroke survivor) Last year when we visited some small waterfalls around Wisconsin, there were some he couldn't venture down the paths too due to tree roots and such. Even I had some trouble and I'm pretty nimble. lol

Also, I would love to see a dark sky. I wanted to last year too and hoped to but too much wildfire smoke blocked out the stars.

I thought about asking Chatgpt to help plan, but I would like real people to give a few ideas.

I know you can't answer because of HIPAA, but you know if he's alive or not. The RTs always know...hehe.

Seriously, no real responses here. Just humor. I have just been thinking ever since the speculation began that if I was working at a hospital where something like that happened, how hard it would be to keep something like that quiet! OMG! The pressure! Thankfully, I only work at a small community hospital where nobody famous ever ends up. Whew!

So I have a ton of Quince stuff now. In fact, I re-sell some of it, but I also have about $100 in credit on the website when I returned a couple of items. I was going to use it for a specific handbag, but I don't think I will now as I already have that bag in one color and got a deal on another color on eBay. (although I really wanted the merlot, I'll live). Anyway, I had just learned of Quince a year ago so I don't know if they drop a lot of new items in the fall or they just will it be pretty much what they have already? Maybe just with added colors? I want to hold off to use the credit for something I can't get on eBay or Whatnot yet.

If anyone knows what their usual fall practice is for new items, let me know if I should hold off or it'll be pretty much the same. Thanks!

I'm still so new to this, only a few months in and what is the etiquette to declining low ball offers? Like the offer is only about 50% of the asking price. I am thinking of countering but I really don't want to now. I had already answered a question this person had, very quickly, so even that small exchange makes me feel less like they are a stranger, silly as that sounds. Even though they totally are a stranger.

I'm pretty new to PM. Sold about 5 things so far and have 21 listings. Anyway, I listed several bags on Saturday and sent offers to likers today. Received a counter offer on one that was reasonable so accepted it--but their payment method failed. I hope it'll get resolved. I'm bummed for me and for the potential buyer. I've had it happen where my card was expired and I wasn't home and didn't have the card on me, or frantically digging the card out of my purse to update everything. Its a PIA plus there's that little bit of panic, like, why is it rejected? It's a sucky feeling. I know eventually the bag will sell. It's a good brand and nwt. And if it doesn't, then I get to keep it! lol. (does anyone else secretly hope some items don't sell so you get to keep them, or is that just me?)

I got an XS in this, from a reseller, but it is new with tags. It is freaking huge! I normally wear a medium but figured a small would fit me. I don't think I realized it was xs until I opened the package, but I can't imagine how huge it would be if I had gotten a small. Since the seller gets returns from Quince, I wonder if this was mislabeled and maybe that was why it was returned? Does anyone have the XS? I'm just curious about measurements. I might try to resell it and don't want to mislead anyone, but if this is how it is supposed to be, then obviously I don't want to misrepresent that either.

I've been watching a lot of Whatnot Quince shows and buying way too much. lol. There are some sellers that get so upset when the auctions don't go high enough. Sometimes I can understand their frustration, but watching one recently where the person is just repeating the cost in this tone of disbelief even when the price is inline with every other whatnot seller of these items. They have to realize they aren't going to get new prices on them. Especially when the buyer is paying almost ten bucks for shipping and don't get to return anything.

Just saw someone complaining about getting $27 on an item that is only 52 new. Once the buyer pays 9.21 shipping and it's in a ragged, torn plastic bag, and sometimes items have minor flaws, they are not much better off than buying new, where they can return if they don't like it or it doesn't fit. Or if it's meant as a gift for someone, you can't give the person a gift receipt, so there is also that to factor in.

Don't get me wrong, I've gotten a lot of great deals on Whatnot, but I've also paid near full price on some.

When I first uploaded to Poshmark about 6 weeks ago, I had 3-4 sales pretty quickly and I was really excited so I listed more items. Most of my items are NWT or NWOT. Everything is in excellent condition. They are listed at quite a bit of savings from new retail, obviously.

I had a few offers on one of my NWT items but both were low ball and I'd have lost money so I counter offered. Those were ignored or one countered with only a tiny increase.

It's a nice dress that I would honestly rather keep and gift to someone than lose money. It's in season too, so not like a winter dress in summer.

I have sent offers to likers but nothing. Is it the time of year? What? The price isn't outrageous for any of the items.

I have more items to list but wondering if I should even bother.

So I'm in a show right now and the seller doesn't seem to know the retail prices of the items so she is getting discouraged when people aren't bidding on many of her items. The thing is, she's starting the bidding very close to the price of the actual price on the retail site, and the retail site has free shipping and returns, so of course nobody wants to pay retail price plus shipping with no chance to return.

I want to tell her, politely, but afraid I'll get banned.

A package with two items arrived at the Wisconsin Oak Creek facility, about 30 min from me, and usually the last stop before my local post office, 3 days ago, early in the morning. Normally it would then go to my post office next day for that day's delivery. It didn't happen. Didn't arrive yesterday either. I look at the tracking and it's still sitting in Oak Creek with nothing happening. Meanwhile, I've had other packages ordered later move through there and be delivered or are arriving today. So where is the one package that is just sitting there? Ugh. I hate Oak Creek. It's been over a week since they were shipped so I filed a lost package thing. Does anything actually happen from that?

Update: I went ahead and canceled since it won't hurt my buyer status. Thanks everyone who responded.

I bought some shoes from a seller who was doing a sale that didn't have bidding. They would put items up and have the price and how many they had. I saw some shoes that were my size so I bought them. I have an excellent rating on Whatnot. The only cancellation I have was at the request of a seller during a show when they made a mistake and asked me to do a quick cancellation that they would approve. I did, which was fine. I didn't think anything of it.

But now I have this other seller telling me days later that they ran out of the item I bought. I said fine, just refund my payment. They want me to submit a cancellation. I want to ask you guys, who know more about it, will this hurt my rating as a buyer?

It drives me nuts when people come to the shows and ask the host if they have some particular item. Especially the shows where the seller pre-loads their shop so everything is there to search. Like just go look and quit distracting the host or slowing things down while they are responding. They hosts do say to check the shop but in shows with no pre-loaded shop, the hosts are in a tough position of trying to accomodate while also still trying to keep the show going.

I never ask what they have. I like the surprise of what is coming up next and I'll sit with my phone app running while I'm on my laptop and glance over and listen to the description. I mean, obviously I do this in shows where I am interested in the brand/item they sell. I don't sit in random shows.

I have to hand it to all you sellers who have so much patience because I'm over there just shaking my head and thinking how rude of them to barge in and think it's all about them.

I'm just a buyer, not a seller. I was at my one of my two favorite seller's shows today and he was really upbeat, which he usually is anyway, but especially so today. At some point, somebody tipped him$5 or so, then someone else, and before you know, everyone was tipping him. $1, $5, $10. He was so overwhelmed and the more overwhelmed he became, the more people tipped him! lol. He was trying to tell people to stop and eventually did a really good giveaway. He might have done two of them but I had to leave so I'm not sure. I didn't even get into the giveaway, although I did tip, because I already had a couple of the items he was giving away and it's not something I needed more of. I hope whoever got it will put it to good use. (It's an item that retails for about $140)