Is Depop Legit? r/depoop Exposes the Bleak State of Most Current Resale Apps

Many are calling them unusable; the platforms still won't do anything about it.

The prevalence of dropshippers flooding these platforms with poor-quality, counterfeit, and misrepresented products has eroded trust and ruined the online shopping experience for a lot of people. Users have been left sifting through a sea of dubious listings—I've personally been duped into buying unethically-produced, plastic-ridden items presenting themselves as local, handmade, or even 'vintage'.

At this point, everyone who shops online has been tricked at least once into paying a high-quality price for a low-quality product—even if they never even realized it. Yet despite a rising outcry from users, resale platforms themselves have been slow to crack down on sellers like these (even despite the anti-dropshipping policies outlined in their Terms of Service). Well, the seller fees generated from these scams most likely make up a huge portion of their revenue, and putting a stop to them would probably mean a loss of profit.

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