Cheapskates on Vinted

I saw some sandals on Vinted that I'd been searching every country's website to try and get but they've been discontinued everywhere. Finally found a pair on Vinted, brand new with box, still labelled and they were listed at £60, I offered £40 as they'd been up for 6 months...seller accepted straightaway.

You don't have to accept offers, depends on how quickly you want rid though

What a knob . Block him

Yabu
You chose to sell with vinted. Vinted allow offers - its part of their MO. If you don't like it, sell elsewhere
I don't understand why people get so personally offended - it's a pair of mass produced high street shoes not your granny's wedding ring. You don't even have to respond to the offers so it hardly takes time out of your day -turn off notifications if it annoys you so much.

I always offer less - why not? For something that's £10 I'd probably offer £8 (exception being if it's a complete bargain and has been listed in the last few hours, in which case I'll pay full price to grab it first). If you want more, list it for more. Bear in mind people are often paying £3-£4 in postage and 'insurance', so even cheap items add up.

You can decline (or just ignore) offers that are too low. If you can't make enough money to make it worth your time, take it to the charity shop instead.

If you get lots of likes and offers early on it usually sells for full price within a few weeks

I just ignore any people who try and argue their case for trying to get it cheaper and decline offers I don’t want to accept.

once I listed a brand new jumper which cost over £100 new for £50. Someone messaged me to say that it was £40 in the sale so that’s all they were going to offer me. Errr.. yes but it was sold out! So either pay me £50 or don’t have the jumper.

I have stopped buying from Vinted, everything was sent using Evri and always took over a week to arrive and the last item, a ring, I waited 3 weeks for but it mysteriously got lost by Evri, took me ages and constant messaging to Vinted but eventually got a refund.

@Highdaysandholidays1

Sorry I see what you mean now. I don't sell many high value (nor buy high value) but I understand what you are saying.

Lots of items are set that you cannot offer below a certain price though? So your offer has to be within 20% of the asking price?

I don’t mind people making an offer, but I hate it when they then keep hassling me with things like “can you post in the next hour”

@Crunchymum , no they do this on Vinted.

It's like when people offer lower on a house than their final price, and then someone comes in with a better but not amazing offer, psychologically it's exciting to get the second offer after your dip in hope...

Not that I think most people could be bothered with this (my dds also swap clothes a lot, if they buy something and it doesn't fit, they give it to their friends in that size, their sister).

You are talking about Ebay? Not Vinted?

I always, always ask under the listed price. Sometimes the sellers agree, sometimes they don't. Sometimes I buy at the listed price, sometimes I don't.

It's the beauty of the app!!

I always list at lowest price I want and I do say this in the description. If I still get offers I just decline them.

I've just been offered £6 for a pair of Gina mules that cost hundreds originally and that I wore once. Indoors. They are perfect.

Quite frankly I'd rather give them to the charity shop.

Depends - if they look really good in it and the pic shows how the fabric falls that can be really helpful

Not quite the topic, but does anyone else get put off if the item is shown via a picture of the seller wearing it?

Gives me the ick and I can't buy it then if I see a 'real person' sweating in it!!

So, I don't want to out myself too much, but my dd and her friends sometimes bid on each other's items to get the price lower, so say the thing is £13, one will bid £7 and annoy the seller, then a day later (or an hour later if popular item) the other will bid £10 and usually the seller is grateful and so takes that offer.

If they get it for £7, even better!

I just decide what I want to pay and start a little lower then make a final offer, I can't be arsed with all that game playing, but to teens, with not that much money, it's fun and sociable! It's not a platform on which I'd buy serious items (like designer bags), too much risk the item is not as it is listed (already had one of these but luckily I paid not so much and my dd loves and uses the bag!)

Isn't there some listing option like fixed price and no offers ?

I sold some school shirts on local Facebook marketplace. They asked for a slight reduction which I accepted.

They were supposed to pick them up from me but that wasn’t convenient (live in a village) so arranged to meet in town. That didn’t work out so they then asked me to drive to their house, which would cost me time (an hour plus round trip), plus petrol money. Decided it wasn’t worth it and gave them to a charity shop!

Rant over.

I was just going to start a thread on this - I’ve done a lot of buying and selling on Vinted so I know offers are part and parcel of the platform but overnight I’ve had two ludicrous offers and I wondered if this is a trend - both weird prices too. £7.60 on a £13 item (I’d accept £10 maybe) and the most stupid, £1.60 on a £5 BNWT item. I’m not even counter offering as stupid offers like that just tell me they’re going to be a PITA buyer. Honestly the two sales I’ve had the most issue with were both from people who made lowball offers, so it’s put me off accepting them. Feel free to offer a pound or so below, I’ll accept, but no more than that now.

It's annoying to lowball too much, though. It isn't the OP's problem that people are 'low on funds', she's not a charity!

OP, the reason I offer on Vinted is to get a response from the seller: sometimes sellers haven't been around for a while and I don't want to just buy and risk them not seeing that I've bought, if that makes sense. I never lowball dramatically and I don't buy super cheap items anyway, so I hope I'm not annoying.

I want to get rid of stuff quickly, so I accept low offers all the time. If you absolutely won’t take less than £10, put them on for £13.

I never even reply to offers.
My stuff all sells as I price it cheaply.

I have an item on Vinted, 1/4 of the price of what I paid for it. I’m asking for £20. I’ve had over 36 messages. The latest email was I should not be selling it for a profit-I’m not! Then go on to say that educational items really should be free? He got arsey when I said don’t be ridiculous and I didn’t understand why waste the time to send me a message that he should move on.

I would say the majority of my Vinted sales have been from a buyer who goes straight to buying without favouriting first and just pay asking. I've also found these buyers to be the nicest people I've dealt with there - friendly in messages, pay promptly and leave a kind review.

I buy alot from there and always pay whatever the price us

If i want that item, and im willing to pay that price, why i going to try get money off of it