Anyone selling on TikTok shop?

[Mr UK]

Hi all,

Is Anyone selling on TikTok shop?
You know how TikTok has it's own marketplace now, so you can list products on the TikTok app, and buyers can check out on TikTok without having to leave the app (e.g they don't have to leave TikTok to go into a shopify store).

Do you only get sales if you have a large following on your TikTok page?

Can anyone share their experiences with it?
I can't see much on here about this.

I've been doing dropshipping
I'm from the UK but imagine it's all similar in the US etc

Thanks

[Mr UK]

I see tons of pages still linking their shopify stores but I don't really understand why as tik tok has it's own tik tok shop marketplace now

[BigLad]

Interesting. I will try to set up a stealth account

[BigLad]

They want Selfie ID, hardly surprising these days, especially considering TIktok is Chinese

[Mr UK]

Originally Posted by BigLad

They want Selfie ID, hardly surprising these days, especially considering TIktok is Chinese

I see, surely you would be good to do that though, as long as you have never been banned from tik tok shop before. Unless you just don't want to share that info with them?

[Mr UK]

Anyone else had any experience selling on TikTok?

[BigLad]

Originally Posted by Mr UK

I see, surely you would be good to do that though, as long as you have never been banned from tik tok shop before. Unless you just don't want to share that info with them?

i'd rather be stealth

[SaiJin]

TikTok has their own selling platform??

[unkown5454]

this is interesting. i wanna hear from someone moving weight on tiktok

[rsot]

Originally Posted by unkown5454

this is interesting. i wanna hear from someone moving weight on tiktok

Same here - news to me

[solefoodbk]

I just opened a shop, undergoing the verification process right now. Always good to get a first mover advantage. TikTok month active users is well worth the time, 834.3 million MAU's, that is 8x eBay.

[jessiejay]

Didn't know TT has its selling platform, sounds interesting

[asot34]

They want to keep everything within TikTok. I was able to create a seller account and gets verified in 24 hours and able to list.

[DENDEN76]

I believe they were offering new customers steep discounts...like 30-40%...I wish I could sign up

[rsot]

Originally Posted by asot34

They want to keep everything within TikTok. I was able to create a seller account and gets verified in 24 hours and able to list.

Sales been going rapidly?

[solefoodbk]

Update for me, I've gotten sales on it but the customer service is garbage. Absolute trash. If I had to rank customer service out of all marketplaces TikTok is by far the worst but I do see opportunity to grow sales on it.

[Delta1]

TikTok has a shop / selling platform?!

Now I'm curious.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

Update for me, I've gotten sales on it but the customer service is garbage. Absolute trash. If I had to rank customer service out of all marketplaces TikTok is by far the worst but I do see opportunity to grow sales on it.

you getting payout quickly?

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by rsot

you getting payout quickly?

No I had a customer lie about not receiving their product, which of course was my first sale so because of that I'm on deferred payout. It takes 15 days after delivery to receive like 30% of the sale then 30 days later for the full amount. It's a joke. However as I said the customer service is trash, they can be easily manipulated with that same understanding they only follow the "policy".

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

No I had a customer lie about not receiving their product, which of course was my first sale so because of that I'm on deferred payout. It takes 15 days after delivery to receive like 30% of the sale then 30 days later for the full amount. It's a joke. However as I said the customer service is trash, they can be easily manipulated with that same understanding they only follow the "policy".

How's the traffic on tiktok? Do you get to sell your stuff pretty quickly?

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

How's the traffic on tiktok? Do you get to sell your stuff pretty quickly?

It is pretty good to be honest. I'm sure it all depends on what you sell but I noticed they spiked my visibility randomly about 2 weeks after I started selling. Like sometimes a video will randomly go viral and the rest of someones tiktoks have hardly any views, it was sort of similar. They did something to try and and promote me. It worked also, I got a few more sales. I have sold around $2000 worth and that's not with much items listed.

I can really see if you make a video format, and promote it you'll probably get good sales. My listings are just photos, the videos, maybe not all but it only takes one and it can really do well.

Also another nice thing is you are only charged around 2% in fees. They are increasing it to 6% in April then 8% in July which I figured would happen at some point.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by solefoodbk

No I had a customer lie about not receiving their product, which of course was my first sale so because of that I'm on deferred payout. It takes 15 days after delivery to receive like 30% of the sale then 30 days later for the full amount. It's a joke. However as I said the customer service is trash, they can be easily manipulated with that same understanding they only follow the "policy".

ooh split payments and a week customer service - sounds exploitable by buyers :(