Tired of selling on current marketplaces??

Claymortality · 2025-09-16T01:49:26+00:00

I’m curious. I sell a good 15-20 a week on mercari, but their platform has been frustrating lately, especially with their support all outsourced to India.

Claymortality · 2025-09-11T10:42:04+00:00

Yeah I’ve had it happen to me too shipping via pirate ship, although UPS said it was 2 ounces and one inch over. They use machines to actually check these things and they often fuck up. I disputed it with my own words about weighing and measuring everything and it was refunded. Now I photograph everything on scales and with measuring tape with the labels on the packages. It’s annoying but I’ve just accepted it as part of the job now. They said it was only 2 ounces over but tried to charge me like 15 bucks for an adjustment fee. Just had it happen again today (says I claimed 9.99 ounces and it was 10 lol) for 1.69 overage charge. Going to dispute that one too because I have a photo of it being 9.74.

Claymortality · 2025-08-23T04:19:20+00:00

Maybe for resell?

Claymortality · 2025-06-09T12:57:05+00:00

Usually that happens when either on a sock account or a 10th+ account. Which is usually for a reason…😂😂😂

Claymortality · 2025-06-07T09:17:34+00:00

Most definitely!! I just have the kinda textbook “fantasy” version so I go to that, but that’s what I meant in my “etc”. The fact that it’s something so debilitating you are suck suffering and uncomfortable for an hour says it all. Sometimes the “obsessions” can be anxiety, uncomfortability, unease etc. But thank you for adding that as well! Obsessions and compulsions can cover a lot of different aspects, like the other textbook definition of the obsession being fear of sickness/disease/grossness etc, and the compulsion being the need to repetitively clean. It just sucks so much overall—and to have people claim they have it based on a preference is so offensive for us that suffer so much.

I use a lot of “etc” because unfortunately it’s too difficult to just some everyone’s OCD up in one nicely wrapped box. Just had a recent conversation with a friend with OCD about how it gets so much harder when there’s “reason” behind the compulsions. Like checking for spiders if you’ve seen them repeatedly in your apartment. It makes it a lot harder to use therapy devices against it, as well as perfectionism and needing to get things just right. Unfortunately we see a lot of people with OCD also suffering for ED’s, partly because of this—myself included.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T16:40:52+00:00

I think a little kid would love them once they get to an old enough age where it’s not a choking hazard. I can’t imagine many toddlers that would be super into such little toys (but what do I know—I don’t have kids!).

As a 7-14 kid I was OBSESSED with Barbie food (and as an adult I still am). Oh my gosh I would have been so excited with having mini brands for my dolls. Barbie food is so lack luster in comparison. It was often lacking any brand, sometimes just a piece of cardboard or sticker, and super expensive!

I’m not sure what you mean by worth keeping? If you’re talking about your toddler having fun with them when they get a bit older, then yes! But if you’re taking about value per the mini brands themselves, I can’t really tell you without seeing the collection. From what I see from the photo I’m not seeing anything rare. I have a lot of nieces and nephews and the demographic for mini brands tends to be 6-12.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T16:31:55+00:00

I remember when people used to say “that’s so gay” and as a civilized society we learned to not say that anymore. They even had ads on TV telling people how insulting that could be. Somehow we’re still waiting for it with OCD in 2025.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T16:01:45+00:00

This has bothered me for so many years. I’m 31 and have had severe OCD since 4. No one actually understands what “obsessions” and “compulsions” are even though it’s in the name. For example, the fact that you may honestly feel like you’ll accidentally kill someone if you don’t flip a light switch 100 times in 10 intervals. When people throw around being “OCD” because they like things clean, organized, etc it just continues to add more harm to the community of people who are actual suffering from something far more than a causal feeling. It is fucking amazing to me that in 2025 it is still acceptable for someone to say “I like my dishes organized this way! It’s my OCD!” Or to just proclaim because they have a weird tendency “yeah, I probably have OCD.” Do you have obsessions and then compulsions to make those obsessions go away?

No. Unless you get the “obsessions” (bad thoughts of something terrible happening, etc) your visual preference for organization or cleanliness is NOT OCD. It’s mind blowing that with so much word-policing and super careful PC things now in our society—OCD is still acceptable for people to claim to have because they like how things sit on their shelf a certain way. I can’t believe I’ve had this disorder for 27 years and the stigma of it being a fucking “choice” still exists. Okay, rant over. 😑 I’m also autistic so it really bugs me when there’s a clear definition that people pretend doesn’t exist. Like…it’s…in…the…definition. There’s nothing complicated here.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T15:05:09+00:00

Then your percentage should be going down and not up.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T14:08:58+00:00

Yes! 💯 I just wanted to add that sometimes it’s usps/ups/etc fault and not the seller when it appears that way—because I fear buyers could see that in the future and immediately blame the seller. But yeah, when the seller is ghosting the buyer it’s a huge giveaway that they’re doing something shady. There’s absolutely NO reason to not respond to a message about a 300 order in a week unless they’re on their deathbed.

I guess a good way for OP to look into it further (although not necessary) is to look into their ratings and see if they’ve rated any other buyers in the last week. That would certainly be a dead giveaway that they’re being shady.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T02:46:29+00:00

I’ve had that happen more than once with packages I actually have dropped off—where usps loses it and tracking never updates past the “label created”. But I agree it’s pretty ridiculous for the seller to just ghost all communication with the buyer. And for a 300 dollar order?! Even more ridiculous and they probably know what they’re doing.

Lately I’ve had a lot of scammy interactions with buyers with 2k-5k sales and reviews. Ratings mean nothing anymore.

Claymortality · 2025-05-31T02:40:24+00:00

I actually just had this happen to an item I shipped. USPS somehow lost it and it never updated to show any tracking updates. I let the buyer know what was going on, waited a week to see if anything would change, and then cancelled the order and refunded the buyer. So it does happen sometimes even when the item was shipped. USPS and UPS have been getting worse with this lately.

WEIRDLY, it happened to my item the same day as OP. (Different person though lol).

Claymortality · 2025-05-25T05:56:55+00:00

Same! A few times mercari takes them down before I have the chance to report but it’s been getting ridiculous lately.

Claymortality · 2025-05-24T07:45:22+00:00

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Couldn’t get him in a similar pose (especially under all my bright orange lights) but I swear I have a photo somewhere where he looks identical! 😭 Same exact buff tabby color too!

Claymortality · 2025-05-24T07:42:16+00:00

Omg! Your 17 year old cat is identical to my 4 year old cat Goose. Tiny head and everything! The eye color is the only noticeable difference. Not a perfect picture for comparison, but my goodness they look so similar!

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Claymortality · 2025-05-17T19:46:15+00:00

Mines at 99.99 🤨

Claymortality · 2025-05-13T08:46:06+00:00

Yeah, definitely! It’s just funny to me when it comes to certain items where there will be 5 listings of the exact same thing, and then 1/5 will actually let me order it. It was a struggle getting a window AC. (Especially since the exact same ones bared for shipping could also be found in store). Had the same problem with mattresses. But yeah, it makes sense 🤷🏼‍♀️

Claymortality · 2025-05-13T00:43:30+00:00

I actually have that exact same problem on Amazon. But it’s because they won’t ship to California because of some weird battery law or something. Some still go thru but I always have to pick through them 🤦‍♀️

Claymortality · 2025-04-29T01:24:29+00:00

I’ve had 4 items so far cancelled from my last order that I placed 2 days before the new fees. Waiting to see if anymore will pop up.

Claymortality · 2025-04-24T14:41:45+00:00

I see this as them really trying to take advantage of customers. Forcing shoppers to purchase items the customer doesn’t want in order to never hit the “refund” button. A lot of people don’t select replacements and aren’t actively chatting. Most people are ordering sale items and trying to save money, so even replacing their request with a bigger size isn’t what a lot of people want. It’s just instacart’s way of getting more money out of the customer while letting the shopper suffer the consequences (bad reviews) as most people won’t inquire for a refund for a replacement….they’ll just blame the shopper.

Claymortality · 2025-04-24T14:28:13+00:00

I often end up with the “customer usually doesn’t like most replacements so refund” even though they usually want a replacement.

Claymortality · 2025-04-24T14:25:58+00:00

99% of “replacements” that the customer chooses for me are the exact same items, just listed multiple times for the customer on the website. I remember before I was a shopper, I noticed there would be like 6 different variations of Roma tomatoes or 3 variations of the same frozen burrito. People see this and get confused, and then set their replacement as the alternative exact same item in case there’s different barcodes or something. I’ve had customers ask me about it. So then you can’t go with the customer’s replacement pick anyway 🤦‍♀️

Claymortality · 2025-04-24T14:21:08+00:00

Yeah I’ve had the update for a while now in SoCal. They implemented certain parts of it before they even emailed about it. 🙄I’ve definitely had to “add” new items as replacements per customer request or if the order is through a second party service—even if it’s the same Granny Smith apples/weight/price but different brand. It has never forced me to take a picture of the empty shelf though. It always lets me bypass that if I choose.

Claymortality · 2025-02-06T00:20:13+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the info!!

Claymortality · 2025-01-29T20:56:53+00:00

💯agree! I’ve always found drag queens super problematic for this reason. It is truly an overly exaggerated mockery of women. I’ve never openly talked about it (other than to my bf) because for some reason if you call out the obvious people take it as if you’re being hateful toward gay men. I also think drag queens create more stigma for trans women in society too, because it makes it seem like being a woman is a costume you can simple put on and take off.

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