Mailys Rabot
Co-Founder & CTO
The engineer behind the platform, leading Trendful’s technology and infrastructure.
24 articles
- Where to sell and source pre-owned inventory: your channel options and what each costs
October 27, 2026
Every channel you use to sell or source resale inventory has a price. Here is a plain look at marketplaces, your own storefront, and where your stock actually comes from, what each one costs, and how adding your own channel changes your sourcing strategy.
- Pricing pre-owned luxury for acquisition: offers sellers accept without killing margin
October 6, 2026
Price a resale offer too low and you can lose the sale; too high and the margin gets thin. Here is how condition-based fair market value sets a defensible number across buyout, consignment, and store credit, why a common anchor is about 60% of resale value, and why your acceptance rate is a readout of your strategy, not a grade.
- Ditch the spreadsheet: how organized offers change a resale operation
September 29, 2026
Offers scattered across an inbox and a spreadsheet fall apart the moment a seller disputes something. Here is how putting every submission, quote, message, and payout on one searchable offer changes a resale operation, and the platform data on how quiet a well-run offer actually is: about 87% complete without the seller ever emailing.
- September updates, part two: photo recognition for handbags, and every offer shows its deadline
September 29, 2026
Customers listing a handbag in your resale app can now start with a photo and pick their bag from ranked matches. Offers and shipping labels show exactly when they expire, and every shipment is one search away.
- Store credit: the offer type that turns sellers into buyers
September 22, 2026
Store credit is the most underused lever in resale. Merchants on Trendful add about a 10% premium for it, yet only about 4% of accepted offers are paid in credit. Here is the honest case for the cheapest money on the platform, and when it actually converts.
- September updates, part one: you decide what customers can submit, and offers get answered faster
September 16, 2026
Curate the categories and brands you accept, including ones our catalog does not carry, set condition and photo guidance per category, and, if you are on the Launch plan, let your customers accept or decline an offer straight from their email with no account to create.
- Half your resale sellers come back. Here's how to win the rest
September 15, 2026
About half the sellers you win come back to sell to you again, all on their own. The other half slip away at two simple moments. Here is where you lose them, in plain terms, and the clear communication that brings more of them back.
- Anatomy of a submission: from customer photo to payout
September 8, 2026
Follow one resale item end to end, from the first customer photo to the final payout. Here is how selling to a resale store actually works, stage by stage, with the real median timing at each step and where the roughly 30 days between photo and payment actually go.
- Luxury for all, sourced nationwide: inside The Vault Luxury Resale
August 18, 2026
How The Vault Luxury Resale, a women-owned institution running since 1991, uses Trendful to source pre-owned luxury nationwide without losing the showroom experience that defines it.
- Handling declined items: how resale merchants should run returns
August 5, 2026
Every resale acquisition program declines items. How resale merchants should run returns: who triggers them, insurance, service levels, and keeping the seller relationship intact.
- How resale merchants handle inbound shipping (and what sellers expect in 2026)
July 28, 2026
How resale merchants handle inbound shipping from sellers: prepaid labels, live tracking, and delivery in 4 days on average. What sellers expect in 2026 and how to deliver it.
- Introducing the sell form on Launch: intake without a website
May 14, 2026
Launch plan merchants can share a link to a custom sell form so customers submit items without needing the merchant’s site. Submissions sync to Trendful Admin for quotes, shipping labels, and payouts—and you can embed the form when you do have a website. Upgrade to Pro when you want customer accounts and a storefront on your domain.
- The Catalog API is moving to Price Hero — and v3 is here
April 20, 2026
We've launched Price Hero, a dedicated platform for the Catalog API. Here's what's new: v3 endpoints, a self-serve developer portal, a credit-based pricing model, and a live API Explorer.
- Accurate resale pricing needs real data, not just AI chatbots
October 10, 2025
Everywhere you look right now, AI is making headlines. From writing essays to generating product descriptions, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini seem to have the answer for everything. So it's natural that people in resale have started asking: Why not just use an AI chatbot to figure out resale pricing?
- Powering internal pricing tools with the Trendful Catalog API
September 23, 2025
The Trendful Catalog API isn't just for powering customer-facing resale experiences; it’s also a powerful engine for building internal pricing dashboards and automation tools. In this article, we explore how merchants, wholesalers, and resale platforms are leveraging the API to make better, faster pricing decisions at scale.
- Powering e-commerce listings with the Catalog API
June 12, 2025
Discover how resale merchants and platforms use the Trendful Catalog API to create clean, consistent product listings with minimal manual input. From title standardization to improved categorization and search, this use case shows how the API helps streamline e-commerce operations and drive conversions.
- How we built our resale app on top of the Catalog API
April 11, 2025
Learn how Trendful built its Resale App using the Catalog API to create a step-by-step product submission flow, deliver instant pricing, and power smarter product identification for handbags and watches. This article showcases how developers and resale businesses can build flexible, UI-friendly resale experiences using the Catalog API.
- How blockchain is shaping the future of luxury resale
March 24, 2025
Blockchain is transforming the luxury resale industry by enabling greater transparency, security, and trust through digital product passports. This technology offers a tamper-proof way to verify authenticity, track ownership history, and simplify resale transactions.
- How the Catalog API will power the resale market?
January 31, 2025
The resale market is booming, transforming the way consumers buy and sell pre-owned goods. With an estimated global GMV of $400 billion and expected growth to 3-4% of the retail market in the next five years, businesses need smarter tools to navigate this rapidly evolving landscape. Enter Trendful’s Catalog API—a powerful solution designed to streamline resale operations, enhance pricing accuracy, and optimize product discovery for businesses enabling resale.
- What’s included in the Trendful Price Database?
September 13, 2024
The Trendful Price Database offers a comprehensive tool for discovering fair market values and detailed price data for designer handbags and watches, organized with intuitive hierarchical attributes. With features like typo-tolerant search, image recognition via Trendful Vision, and upcoming enhancements such as real-time data collection and automated pricing alerts, Trendful ensures you have precise and up-to-date pricing information at your fingertips.
- Differences between the North American and European resale market
June 18, 2024
The resale market has seen tremendous growth in recent years, with both North America and Europe emerging as significant players. This article delves into the key differences between these two markets, examining the types of marketplaces, product offerings, and pricing trends.
- Comparing the cost of resale apps: Trendful vs. custom development
April 25, 2024
For merchants looking to integrate a resale app onto their online store, two primary options are available: subscribing to an existing service like Trendful or opting for a custom-built app. Each choice has its own implications on cost, time investment, and technical complexity..
- The inspiring journey of Closet Full of Cash
February 26, 2024
In the dynamic realm of luxury resale, one name has consistently stood out for its commitment to knowledge-sharing, innovation, and community building – Closet Full of Cash. Founded by Deanna Thompson in late 2015, this platform has become a cornerstone for resellers, offering invaluable insights and resources for navigating the complexities of the industry.
- Scale your resale business with Trendful’s exclusive UPS shipping discounts
April 28, 2023
Discover how Trendful’s partnership with UPS can save your resale business up to 50% on shipping labels, streamline operations, and enhance customer relationships.