Poshmark Rolls Out Sudden Death Option To Drive Buying Urgency In Live Posh Shows
Poshmark's Sudden Death feature for Posh Shows rolls out to more sellers, helping drive buying urgency for livestream shoppers.
The feature was first introduced at Posh Fest 2024 and allows sellers to choice to run auctions with a timer that doesn't reset.
Liz Morton
Initially only available to a handful of sellers, Sudden Death has now expanded - but some users posting in the r/BehindTheClosetDoor subreddit are less than impressed.
There are rarely enough buyers in most Poshmark shows to make sudden death a necessary feature. It makes much more sense on other platforms. Poshmark keeps trying to shove live shows down our throats when it is not their forte.
Boooooo. Yet another example of them only giving AF about live shows. Meanwhile there are a LOT of buyers who hate shows and refuse to shop that way. Where are the app improvements for them?!
It’s good for .00001% of live users who have thousands of pieces from pallets so good for them. Still doesn’t solve the ‘there are very few buyers here’ I just have to say that in all the years I have been selling I usually had a dry spell for a few days.
Now it’s 10 days - no sales, no traffic. I have been posting very popular stuff at low prices etc etc. Sudden death is for whatnot and 1 live seller that sells bags and has huge shows on PM
The only people asking for this are making over a million a year in pallets and replica purses, nobody with normal volume would need this.
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I had a customer open THREE separate INAD cases back to back in Feb. She told a bunch of falsehoods in her comments on the case and refused to provide pictures to back up what she was saying, so I called her out on in it with proof that her statements were untrue.
Even though I knew she was trying to scam me, of course, I approved the returns [all 3] and provided a pre-paid shipping label.
She never sent anything back. I got 3 messages from eBay's system saying "We've closed your buyer's return because we have no record that they shipped the item back to you."
However, eBay's system counted all of them against me in my Service Metrics, causing my "Item not as described returns" rate to be: 0.98% even though the buyer was an obvious scammer and didn't return the items.
I didn't have to refund her since she never shipped anything back so there's not a problem there and eBay did remove her feedback, but eBay still counted the cases against me in my 'service metrics' percentage making me look bad in comparison to my peers.