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hey everyone
so in this week's video i'm going to
challenge myself to sell all the clothes
that i no longer wear
in a recent video i reorganized my
closet and i was able to get rid of a
lot of clothes
most of them i dropped off at my local
thrift store but a lot of them like all
of these right here
i think are too nice for the thrift
store and when i try to
drop them off and sell them at my local
consignment store
they actually didn't take any of them i
think they're becoming way too picky
so i'm going to try to sell them on my
own
i have no idea how this is gonna go and
if i'm even going to be able to sell
anything at all so if you want to find
out how many code i was able to sell
how much money i was able to make also
which platform i had the most success
with
make sure to stick around and watch all
the way through the end
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so the first thing i'm gonna do is i'm
gonna look through the bags
and determine which clothes i still want
to sell and which ones i might want to
keep or donate
because i haven't taken a look in a
while after that i'm going to be taking
a lot of photos of the clothes i do want
to sell and then i'm going to be coming
up with the pricing
by comparing similar items online
finally i'm going to be uploading and
creating listings on different platforms
and then i will wait and see what
happens if i'm not able to sell anything
for a while
my backup will be to lower the price
down until eventually something does
sell or all of them are sold so let's
see how this goes
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hello again so i have a little update
for you
i finished creating all my listings on
sunday
and i made my first sale yesterday which
was tuesday
and i made 20 bucks so 20 bucks is not a
lot but i'm so happy that i made the
first sale
basically i started with three platforms
i started listing on poshmark facebook
marketplace
and one called depop i had never used
depop before
i definitely have sold on facebook
marketplace and poshmark in the past
and so i knew what to expect with those
platforms but
deep up i actually did not like it at
all
first of all apparently it has a much
smaller audience than
both poshmark or facebook marketplace
and it also has a much
younger audience so more like teenagers
are interested in that app
and it was also very difficult to get my
listings
seen on the platform in comparison i
remember when i created my poshmark
account
it was very easy to get followers and
likes
and people are constantly active on that
platform
sharing listings and liking them and
following you
poshmark also has poshmark parties that
you can join to get even more exposure
whereas deep up i just listed things on
there
and i didn't know what to do with it no
one was really looking at my listings or
following me or liking my listings
i quickly you know eliminated that
platform
and decided to focus on just poshmark
and facebook marketplace
so my first sale actually came through
facebook marketplace
even though it could have easily come
through poshmark
because i got a lot of interest for that
same item on poshmark as well
and the item i sold first is the babiton
slash aritzia black bodysuit that was
actually
the item that got the most attention on
both platforms
and i think it's because eritsia is a
very popular brand in canada
so babaton is one of the ariza brands
and it's very easy to sell ariza items
secondhand when i was looking at buy and
sell groups on facebook to share my
items
i noticed that there was one group that
was dedicated to just arizia items
so that is one thing you can keep in
mind when buying new clothes
is to ask yourself what is popular in
your area in terms of brands
that way you can easily resell them if
you want to
so yes this was my first sale update
it was the bodysuit and it was on
facebook marketplace i could have gotten
more out of it but
the person who bought it actually
negotiated the price down
and i quickly accepted because i just
wanted to make a sale right after i
accepted her
offer i actually got a couple more
people on facebook marketplace
interested in buying the item at the
full listed price
so you live and you learn the reason why
i accepted the lower price
for this item on facebook marketplace is
because i also
received an offer for a much lower price
on another item
on poshmark that i did not accept and i
regretted not accepting
so yeah that was the first update for
the first item i sold on facebook
marketplace
and i'm hoping to have another update
for you very soon
much much much later hi everyone so it
has been a month
since i listed my clothes on different
platforms and i have another update for
you
so since i have sold the bodysuit on
facebook marketplace
i have sold two more items on poshmark
this
time the timeline has been a bit longer
than i thought
and the sales the results very
disappointing
but i am hoping that i will give you a
very realistic
view of what it's really like to be
selling your clothes online
so after i sold the bodysuit on facebook
marketplace
nothing happened for a long time over a
week but i was doing different things to
promote the listings
on the different platforms so on
facebook marketplace
and on poshmark i listed some items as
bundles
because i thought people would be more
likely to buy bundles than just
individual items and i also attended a
few poshmark parties and was sharing
people's listings so that people
would share my listings in return and
then about two weeks after i sold the
first item
i sold my second item but it was a very
disappointing sale
because i only made 89 cents from it
even though the person paid almost 20
dollars in total for it
so basically that item was the striped
blue and white sweater
i had originally listed it for about 15
and someone had liked the item and on
poshmark when someone likes your item
you can make
a private offer to them but the thing is
that poshmark forces you to
offer a certain amount of discount to
make it worth it for the person
so basically i offered the item
at nine dollars and i also had to make
an offer on the shipping cost
so since i had to cover some of the
shipping costs
and there was a poshmark fee i basically
only made 89 cents from that sale
so yeah after that sale i was super
discouraged
but then yesterday i made my third sale
and that was a week after
my second sale and i sold this set
of three victoria secret sports bras
that was the advantage of listing them
as a bundle so this set of
three sports bras i had originally
listed
for 38 dollars and then out of the blue
someone made an offer for them for 30
dollars and i immediately accepted it
and from those 30 dollars i earned 23.70
because there was a poshmark fee of six
dollars
but this time the person paid for the
shipping in full
which is really nice because i didn't
have to
cover any of the shipping costs so
overall when selling on poshmark you
should keep a couple of things in mind
first of all people are going to bargain
down your price
so put a price that is a bit more than
you want to get in the end
and also people are going to have to pay
a lot for shipping so take that into
consideration
when pricing your items i don't know
what it's like in the us but in canada
shipping is pretty expensive so
sometimes when the item is cheap it
might just not be worth it for them to
pay for shipping as well
so i am going to end this video right
here instead of waiting
who knows how long to sell more items
because
uh i just need to end this video and be
done with it already
but if you're interested in any of the
items that i'm selling
i am going to link my poshmark shop link
in the description below so make sure to
check it out and if you like this video
make sure to give it a thumbs up and
check out my other ones
i will see you in the next one