To hate unrealisic Vinted sellers?

The seller probably does not think anything, they list and forget. If something sells they get it out and ship it.

OP you are the type of buyer that irritates me . i price the item that i want for it if i was happy with lower id list it at lower . Stop being such a beg and pay the £3.

Well from the sellers point of view - to get that £1 they have to pack it up, sort out a label and traipse down to the PO or whatever.

It's simply not worth it to me. I don't take less than £15 for anything.

I'm currently offloading my vast collection of "designer" vintage shoes which were £200 and up when I bought them in the 1990s. They've been in boxes for years and they can stay there until they sell. I'm in no particular hurry. They are gradually reducing and I have many mixed feelings about selling them in the first place although I am unlikely to wear any of them again myself. Some I never wore at all....

Nobody is obliged to sell you anything. And some sellers get fed up with tight wankers trying to beat them down on an already low price. I gave up selling on Vinted for precisely that reason. It simply wasn't worth the time, effort and annoyance.

But it’s not actually £3 is it? Today I bought something for £1, that was the asking price. I didn’t offer. But it actually cost me nearly £5 with fees and postage. For someone on a low income paying £8 for something might be out of their price range or if it’s something like a kids T-shirt might not even be worth £8 second hand

I wouldn’t bother making the trip to post it for less than a £10 item so if the offer is lower than that it’s not because I think it’s unreasonable that I’ve declined it. I just don’t need the money that badly and the stuff that doesn’t sell within a few weeks goes to charity.

ive had abuse from someone who offered me £35 for a jumper which was brand new (unworn gift) and had cost £100 new. They sent me a screenshot of the item in the sale for £40 and said ‘I’ll take it for 35 seeing as it’s in the sale’. But it was sold out in that size!! So buying it for £40 wasn’t an option anyway. I didn’t bother replying! I wanted £50 for it and it was snapped up hours after her offer.

Me too, I have a couple of storage bags of items, neatly folded away, awaiting sale.

I do have a tub sat in a cupboard that just has my vinted listings in it. It’s not in my way I actually forget about it till I get a sale. Feels like passive income randomly these days

I just did that. But by offering £3 less is basically covered the postage and buyer protection fee 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve found a few things on both vinted and eBay priced higher than I can buy them brand new which is mind boggling. Ds love a particular brand 🙄 so I’ve been searching for deals regularly and I purchased a hoody £56 brand spanking new. EBay £88 vinted £95 😂

Must say I did have an offer accepted on vinted tho offered £17 on a £20 top.

What I hate is when people send an offer you accept and then they don’t buy it like wtf

Sorry but as a seller I get annoyed when people offer a few £ under the listed price. Just pay the £3! 🤣

Agreed.

This.

In my experience, things tend to end up finding the right buyer eventually. I've had items listed for a year or more, that ended up selling for the full asking price. Not everyone is in a hurry to sell.

With some stuff, particularly the clothes that I particularly loved my DC wearing, then I price slightly higher. I’m not in a hurry to sell them. I still price fairly, I think the highest price I’ve ever listed an item was £5 (love 2 dream sleepbags which sold within about 2 hours). Usually people also agree those outfits are cute and pay the slightly higher price. If they’ve been on for a while, I’ll consider dropping the price.

When we moved everything was priced to sell and sell quickly. Where I was storing listed items was in the way. Now, listed item aren’t in the way, they’re in the wardrobe in the spare room. Very much out of sight, out of mind. I have some items that are £2-3 at the moment that have been on about 6 weeks but I’m not in a hurry to sell them. I’ve got some more bits to add soon so that’ll attract some new viewers and maybe they’ll get bundles. I have good discounts on my bundles and I am open to sensible offers. The items aren’t bothering me and I’d rather my total sale equal a couple of pounds, as it makes it more worth it to me at the minute.

Most of my items are low priced, say £3, to accept offers just isn't worth the effort. I'd rather give it to charity.

Yeah I had one just recently. The item is priced at £60. It's something not many people would be able to find a use for because it's specific to go with something pretty rare. It's been listed for about six months without selling.

I'm on a low income so I asked the seller if they'd be willing to let it go any cheaper. They offered me £1 off! I could lose a pound coin and not notice! I just wished them good luck with it.

It goes both ways. I'm not selling something that was originally priced reasonably, taking into account RRP, how much it's been used, and listed with a selling price of other similar items, for much less than I've listed it for. Equally, I'm not buying your kid's second hand shoes listed in very good condition but are actually scuffed to fuck and listed for more than clarks currently have them on sale for....

It works both ways imo - sometimes I price something fairly and then receive a raft of silly offers for it.

It’s a marketplace, people can attempt to buy and sell at whatever price point they see fit.

A seller might prefer to keep something or even give it away to charity, than feel they are having the piss taken by a cheeky offer. No one is obliged to sell their stuff at a price they don't consider fair or reasonable.

I've sold a few things through Vinted recently; I tend to list at a price that is fair and realistic, in line with similar items. I'll give things a week at full price before considering offers; if I see that an item has been favourited by a high number of people I won't respond to offers because I'm confident that it'll sell at the asking price. I'm not out to make a fortune, but I'm not going to faff about posting stuff for a quid.

If you like something, and you can see it's already on 20+ people's favourite list, don't waste time making an offer, just buy it before someone else does. Same goes for if it's only just been added - the chances are that someone will buy it at asking price and you'll miss out.

I find the same on Gumtree, though. There's lots of sellers who bought something like a sofa two years ago, it probably is immaculate, but it's not worth half of the original price, is it, because no-one wants to pay that for someone else's two year old sofa! They just relist and relist. I don't even offer on them because they are always insulted by your low offer, even though no-one is buying their item! The whole concept of 'priced to sell' is an interesting one! I am guilty of it sometimes...

Do you understand that the seller also has a price at which they're willing to sell? Beneath a certain price, they're not selling the item, because it won't be worth it to them to print off the label, package it up and take it to post.

Not everyone's in a rush. After I've listed something, it costs me nothing to keep it listed for ages. I don't have masses and masses of things to declutter, so I'm not concerned about the space.

It's a lot of effort to pack and post items for a small amount of money. I think people want to hold onto items too, and have a sentimental value they are willing to sell for, a bit of a horder.

Agree - also something specific annoying me currently is I have offered on some joggers and followed up with a message and the seller has vanished off the face of the earth. Take your items off then if you can't even be bothered to look at your notifications! Do you want to sell them or not?!

it works both ways. I was once selling a bundle of about 6 T-shirts all immaculate some still even had tags (£12/ £15 ish mark) but my DD had grown out of them. I only put them on for £4 to get rid of them quickly and within 1hr someone offered me £3. Id not seen it because I was back at work at that point. An hour later she sent me a snotty message saying she was worried about buying from me because I’d not responded and I couldn’t be trusted to post them???

Another sent me a message about some shoes (something like are they are a generous fit). In the time it took me to reply someone else had bought them and she sent me a message saying how her daughter was devastated and it was my fault for not responding to her???