Thredup Sourcing and Selling

Thredup is an easy way to sell items and sourcing online.

We’ve all heard the hysteria about thredup. Especially now with resellers sourcing online. What gives?

Months ago, I sent in about 4 boxes of stale inventory to thredup. The process is easy. Sign up for an account online, request a kit and send it in. You can request a bag, take a couple of weeks, or print a label and use your own boxes. Consignment does take a while and the payout is very little, depending on what you send in. I sent in blah items-got blah pay. I will continue to sell as I gather stale items that are not selling anywhere.

With the credit I did have, I was able to source items for my reselling stores pretty cheaply. Everyone’s offers will be different. My first purchase was half off, free shipping, new items. Score!!!! There are tons of items available and shopping can take a while. Use your search filters wisely.

Have you been wanting to try thredup? Use my code below to save on your first order!

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Mexican Shredded Beef in Instant Pot

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Quick Mexican shredded beef to use in tacos, burritos, nachos etc.

Prep: 10 min

Cook: 1 hr 30 min

Ingredients:

1 tbsp chili powder

2 tsp salt

2 tsp cumin

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp dried oregano

1 tsp pepper

2 pounds boneless chuck roast

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1/2 chopped onion

1/2 cup water

1 tbsp lime juice

Directions:

Turn on Instant Pot and set to saute.
In a large container combine all seasonings. Cut roast into 4 large chunks. Roll chunks into seasoning, rub in and use all of the mixture.
Add vegetable oil into pot for a couple of minutes, add onion and stir.
Place roast chunks into pot and sear for a couple of minutes, turn, repeat until all sides are seared.
Pour in water, cover and lock lid, make sure to set valve to seal.
Set pot to pressure cook and set timer for 40 minutes.
When done, set valve to vent, remove lid carefully, place beef chunks into a serving dish or large bowl, shred with 2 forks. Pour lime juice into broth, stir and pour over shredded meat.

Copycat Twix Bar Recipe

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This recipe is almost as good as the candy bar at the store!

Yield: 48 bars

Prep: 20 min

Bake: 20 min

Cook: 10 min

Chill: 2 hrs

Crust Ingredients:

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup powdered sugar

Caramel Ingredients:

3/4 cup unsalted butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup corn syrup

1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

Chocolate Topping:

11.5 oz milk chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F. Line bottom and sides of a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. You can also use a 7×11 or 8×8 pan, this depends on the thickness you like.
In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, vanilla and powdered sugar. Add in flour until well mixed. Press into the bottom of pan and flatten out, covering the entire bottom. Bake for 20 minutes, 25 for 7×11 and 8×8 pan.
Begin to make the caramel when crust has about 10 minutes left to bake.
In a medium saucepan, add butter, sugar, corn syrup and canned milk. Cook on medium-low heat until all ingredients are dissolved. Increase heat just a little, stirring frequently, bring to a boil, then reduce heat back to medium-low heat, stir frequently and cook for 8-10 minutes. Caramel will be thick and begin to pull from the sides, do not let this burn, stir frequently.
Pour caramel over the cookie crust and spread evenly. Let cool for 10-15 minutes.
In a medium sauce pan, melt chocolate chips on low heat, stirring constantly, pour over caramel layer and spread evenly. Chill.
Cut into desired sized squares or bars.

Cross Listing Made Easy

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Are you a reseller? Just getting going? Selling on only one platform?

It’s time to cross post. Cross posting is a must in the reselling business. The more exposure for your items means a better faster chance at sales. It is highly recommended that you branch out and explore other platforms in you reselling journey.

Start with adding one more platform. Get to know the basics, cross post your items and learn the platform. When ready, explore others and add listings. This will get tedious, fast. Especially if you also work full time.

There are several services that can make the cross posting easier. I highly suggest budgeting for the service you choose. I myself sell on 3 platforms and cross post myself.

Bonanza and Trugether are other services to use when cross listing. Since I am not familiar with these, do some research and learn the specifics of these services. They may require different software and a change of where the final selling fee is distributed.

A VA, Listperfectly, Poshmarksharer and Vendoo are popular Cross Listing services to use. These will have a monthly fee.

Depending on the size of the inventory to be listed and cross listed, one of these services is a must.

Do you any of these services? Have a favorite? I’d love to hear from you!

Easy Candy Bar Cookie Bar Recipe

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This recipe is easy and can easily changed up. I usually will make these bars with leftover Halloween candy or leftover bars from my husband’s meetings.

Yield: 36-48 bars (depending on size)

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter-softened

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

2 cups of any filling you want or have on hand. Chocolate chips, chopped up candy bars or mini bars, Kisses, Cups, Rolos, M&M’s anything will work, this recipe is easy, just chop up your candy and mix in.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar. add in eggs and vanilla.
Add salt and baking soda. slowly add flour and continue mixing. Add in chopped candy of your choice.
Spread evenly onto baking pan.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
Cool on wire rack before cutting into bars.

Picture on the left is with Rolos and topped with sprinkles. Picture on right is made with chopped up Hershey bars.

Have you made this recipe? What filling did you try? Let me know!

The best way to get return shares on Poshmark

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Are you constantly doing community shares with no results. Do you feel like no one is returning shares? Many don’t share. Many use VA’s and focus on self shares. This is great if you have a lot of followers yourself. If not, you need to do the grunt work, which is to share and follow others.

It took me a while to figure this out and this is best way to get return shares.

In my previous post I showed you how to follow active sellers giving you the best potential to gain more followers.

Now, if you go back to that same way of finding the active sellers, these are the ones to share. Whether you follow them or not, these are active on the app Roth now. I choose the closets with a lot of shares, these have the tendency to reciprocate shares. I will not bother to follow or share closets with many items for sale with little followers and shares. Some are smaller closets only selling personal items and those tend to not follow or share. I also avoid the closets with 5,000 community shares. These closets tend to have done the minimum work to achieve Ambassador status and are no longer interested in community shares or follows.

Have you tried this method, has it worked for you? Let me know.

Managing all your sites – Linktree

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Linktree

Whether you are a blogger, model, artist, or a run a small business, having one place to lead followers to is key. Linktree makes it easy to place all your social media accounts and sites into one location.

I myself am a stay at home mom with some reselling on the side. Even though I use the name name for EVERY thing on the planet, having 1 link is nicer. I currently use Linktree to load all my selling platforms and social media accounts. Having just 1 link that can be placed anywhere makes things more manageable for me. A much easier way to keep and direct traffic to your content.

Do you use Linktree? Have any questions? I’d love to hear.

https://linktr.ee/

Why you should complete Poshmark Campaigns

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Poshmark gives you credit for completing campaigns.

Earlier this year Poshmark began allowing their Poshmark Ambassadors to participate in Affiliate Campaigns and earn extra $$$. These Campaigns can easily be completed to earn either credit to use on the app or be applied towards their redeemable balance.

A simple post to Facebook or instagram that includes hashtags and links is all it takes to begin racking up the $$$.

Some Poshers may be weary of posting such pictures with hashtags out there for everyone to see. Don’t worry, get out of your comfort zone and start earning extra $$$. You don’t have to have 100k followers and each Campaign pays differently.

Once you become an Ambassador, check your profile for a menu of available Campaigns. Each will give a description of what is necessary and what platform to post on. Be careful to read the entire details before accepting the Campaign. You may only complete one at a time. Some may require you to post new items to your closet in a certain market as part of the Campaign. There are also deadlines, be sure to choose the correct one for you.

Sounds easy right? It can be. My experience however has not been so easy. The 1st went fine, got my credit and redeemed it right away. The 2nd, 1 week later back 4 months ago was in limbo for that long. There were a lot of emails, instagram posts and tweets with no help from anyone. I had given up. Then, I had someone ask me via instagram message how the Campaigns worked. I explained it to her and sent yet another email regarding my own Campaign situation. Finally-a response, no fix, another response, no fix. I emailed angry demanding that particular Campaign be squashed, trash it, and could I have a new one to complete. An instant response to that email led me to check my Campaign menu and bam, there were 6 to choose from. I was in Heaven. I accepted, completed and waited. There were issues with that one too….. How could this be. About 5 emails later I had an answer. The link on my instagram profile was wrong. With help from a fellow Posher, I corrected and now have been able to complete a total of 5. This has been frustrating and a lesson learned. So don’t give up if you are having issues with the Campaigns and read ALL the details.

Any questions or comments, let me know.

Basic Reselling Tips

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Getting your items ready to list and sell

You’ve got some items to sell. Great. Make some money!!!! Whether these items are yours that you no longer use or you’ve sourced to sell, here are some basic tips to keep in mind no matter what platform you choose to use.

Clean clothing items. Start with clean items. Wash according to care tags and avoid any heavily perfumed products. Check carefully for any stains or marks. Use a lint roller or fabric shaver to get rid of any pilling or fuzzies. For items that are new with tags, I will spot treat and freshen up with the steamer. For dry clean only items, I use a home dry clean kit.

Fix or repair items. Items usually get donated because of minor flaws. Buttons can be easily replaced. Check and pull seams gently to inspect. Check hems and crotches. Don’t be afraid to do a little mending. Be sure to check zippers, zippers sometimes only need to be cleaned and realigned.

Clean shoes. I keep a shoe cleaning kit consisting of magic erasers, Scotti tool, Goo Gone, scrub pads, old toothbrushes, saddle soap and leather conditioner. All sneakers get laces removed, a hand wash and air dry. Think of how you would expect a pair of shoes to arrive, even if preowned, send the buyer a clean and disinfected pair of shoes.

Take good and plenty of photos. Each platform is different and allows a different amount of photos. Be sure to take photos of front, back, tag, fabric, detail, flaws, up close, modeled, hanger or flat. You want to show as many views of the items to avoid any questions. The cover shot is the most important picture. It will catch the buyers eye and draw them in. A lighting kit is not necessary from the start, choose an area that has plenty of lighting to take your pictures. Choose a neutral background and avoid clutter. There are plenty of editing apps to use if your lighting is not the best.

Provide measurements. Last thing you want to do is miss a message from a buyer asking for measurements. They are looking to buy now. They don’t want to wait days for you to respond. Get in the habit and provide measurements from the start. Include the basics-rise, inseam, heel height, platform height, bust, length and sleeve length. You will still have the occasional buyer ask for more measurements.

Use templates. Using a template that you copy and paste into the listing can help to ensure you don’t miss any vital information. This way, you just add the information as you go along. Having different templates for different items will make listing easier.

Provide detailed descriptions. Descriptions are important. You want to provide all the information necessary for the buyer. Fabric content should be included-I always add if material is thick, thin, or stretchy. If item is preowned, elaborate on the condition. Include and describe any signs wear or flaws. Buyers want to know if an item is button, zip, elastic, pull on, slit or oversized. There are plenty of ways to describe necklines, dress types, sleeves and heels. This terminology will come easier to you as you continue to search comps.

Optimize listing titles. The title and the cover shot are the most important to get right. Be sure to include brand name and style. Use the entire space allowed. Capital letters for the brand will make your item stand out. No need to include size in the title as the buyer can narrow their search. Color can be avoided in the title also, unless the option is not available. Be sure to add any specifics that someone may be searching for such as party, holiday, boho, festival, career, dance, business casual and cocktail.

Pricing. Not every buyer negotiates, there are buyers that know what they want and purchase at the listed price. The rest of us buyers are looking for a deal. Most platforms are allowing the buyer to make an offer on items. For this reason, you want to price your item at least 15% more than you are willing to sell for. Many buyers will price up to 30% or more to allow for offers. Keep in mind fees and shipping when listing. Always search comps and see what you items has sold for in the past.

Have more tips? Questions? Contact me and let me know! Happy selling!

The Must Have Bag

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The Merona bag, a must have.

This bag is a must have. Every one should own this little black bag. It’s chic, trendy and useful. The Merona (yes, Target) crossbody bag is a closet staple that will remain in style season after season. If you want a bag that will get you compliments, look no farther.

Why do you want this bag? It’s cute, it’s cheap and it has a bow!

Who wants this bag? Anyone who likes a bargain. Me!

Who needs this bag? Everyone who has debit cards and a shoulder.

When should you get this bag? Now, before it’s gone.

Where can you find this bag? Just look up trishvan99.

Let’s talk about specifics:

Leather, no.

Real gold, no.

Expensive, no.

New, no.

Serial #, no.

Authentic, yes

Adjustable, yes.

Easy clean, yes.

Cheap, yes.

This bag has no age limits, teen, young adult, cougars, and everyone in between can rock this bag. This bag is small, even when full, will not hurt your shoulder.

This bag will keep your debit and credit cards where you can see them, even if you shouldn’t be using them. This bag has a zip pouch area to keep your chap stick from being stolen. This bag is just big enough to hold what you need, cards, money, chap stick, keys and, no, nothing else that’s it. Everyone holds their phone in their hands anyway 24/7. Plus, with a bag this size, no one will ask you to hold anything for them, ever.

This bag will be shipped to you undamaged. It will arrive stuffed with tissue, in a clear bag and packed nicely in a plain box. No need to ask if this comes with a dust bag and original box, this bag is not needy and has not lost it’s value.

This bag won’t last long, someone will snatch it up quick. If you miss out, feel free to shop my many other items available at TRISHVAN99.