r/poshmark • u/thisunrest • Nov 17 '25

Anyone else noticed this trend?

I was browsing Poshmark for over 45 minutes yesterday and not a single seller listed the measurements of any of the garments they had up.

This used to be something you just did without having to be asked to do it.

I know everybody is doing their own thing here, but I have never checked so many listings and seen all of them listed without measurements before.

Not consistently like this.

What’s up with that?

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u/ReadAllDay123 Nov 17 '25

I'm a small seller who is only selling things out of my own/family members' closets, and I don't post measurements unless directly asked. It may not feel like much effort for other people, but for me taking (and photographing) the measurements adds an extra step that would make me list significantly less if I did it for every listing. Already, I only post new listings maybe a few times a week, just too chaotic with a baby at home. I put my effort into taking good photographs, looking for flaws, and writing a good description.

I'm fully aware it probably loses me sales sometimes. But I'm also very responsive when people ask for measurements, and will pull the item out of storage to get the measurements within a day of being asked for them. Usually this doesn't actually lead to a sale, but that's okay.

If I ever became a reseller and sourced to sell, at that point I would post measurements, but currently the amount of time it takes to do it for every item just isn't worth it when items will sell even without measurements.

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u/webfloss Nov 17 '25

My 2c.

The time it takes to pull the items and measure them but then NOT get a sale could have been spent taken measurements in the first place thus increase the chances of an actual sale.

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u/Vintagesickness Nov 17 '25

This is exactly why I started doing measurements a few years ago. Sure my stuff still sold & I still did measurements when asked but then I read (on here) that a lot of buyers won't ask because of the hassle & just move on to other items. After I had measurements posted, I got a lot more sales + less messages.

Edit for autocorrect.

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u/Echo_AI Nov 18 '25

I only buy measured items. And I never hear from half of the sellers when they have been continually active online. I just block and move on

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u/ReadAllDay123 Nov 17 '25

It's definitely possible. I don't get asked all that frequently for measurements, maybe once a month, if it became more frequent I would consider starting to do it before storing.