Poshmark Rolls Out Sudden Death Option To Drive Buying Urgency In Live Posh Shows

Liz Morton
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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.

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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.

Source: Reddit

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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Avatar PlaceholderConcerned3 days ago
It is Slowwwwwww and is more expensive to the buyer. In the past items I have ordered will sit at the hub for around 2 weeks. I avoid ebay unless I cannot get it elsewhere.
Avatar Placeholdermarks30473 days ago
Hi, I have a friend who had an interesting experience recently that fell under this issue. They sold an item, packed and dispatched to the UK Ebay hub, this was midway through the period as the pause occurred. They then received a message from the buyer that they had checked tracking and discovered that the item had disappeared on ebay, no advice. It then turned out that the tracking had been fudged and the package was with them but not forwarded on to the USA. A few hours of to and fro to get the answer that it was due to the tariff dilemma. NO fault of the buyer(who had paid) or the seller ((who had been paid) and a strange response that the item could not be delivered. The buyer would be refunded in full, the seller would keep payment and the item would not be returned. Strange, Ebay must be hurting paying our both sides of the deal+
Avatar Placeholdercwi4 days ago
  1. Start building out the brand and promoting the heck out of Canadian sellers to our domestic market. Work with Federal/Provincial level governments in the push to build a strong presence here in Canada.

  2. Add other calculated shipping options than Canada Post UPS/FedEx for domestic shipping - partner with couriers nationwide, leverage agreements and software integrations with courier reseller platforms such as Stallion Express. Build out a crowd sourced network using national/regional retail locations as drop points for rural regions, leveraging transport networks to move packages to courier pickup points, akin to the UK courier model but adapted to the Canadian realities.

  3. Create a centralized international shipping clearing house to aide micro businesses with affordable shipping rates and customs clearance to avoid pitfalls and complexities (akin to US eIS).

  4. Bring features forward to the platform from other localizations, such as prepaid best offer acceptance, etc.