To be exasperated by Vinted sellers

And often I buy from someone else an item that would be £99 new, worn once and then they sell for say £40. I wear it once and then sell for £30. So 3 people with 1 item rather than 3 new items.

Vinted is an online marketplace - and that’s how we’re all using it even if our way of buying and selling is slightly different.

Ive always only worn what I call going out outfits once. At least now someone else getting the use and I’m making few £ rather than taking them to charity shop or just throwing out.

Well not really because the person who purchased it hasn’t gone and brought something new… it’s still an improvement on everyone just buying new all the time.

But that's exactly the problem. They're good quality and you're only wearing them once. Why? Do you not like them? Vinted isn't there so you can keep buying new clothes without spending much money, it's to reduce the massive amount of waste clothes that's come as an output of fast fashion. To sell clothes you would have chucked out rather than them going to landfill.

Your way of doing it may mean you're only needing to spend a few quid on yet another new outfit but also results in the added carbon footprint of sending your old clothes on to the buyer. You should be able to buy fewer high quality pieces and wear them multiple times over multiple years.

I don’t use it to make a profit from ‘stuff I found in a charity shop’

I sell good quality items that I’ve worn once at a fair price.
I also buy the same good quality items from certain brands, wear it once and then resell for a few quid less than I paid for it so I’ve got a constantly new wardrobe of good quality outfits without spending much money.

But that's what it was always meant to be for. Selling old stuff you were going to chuck away and making a few quid. Not as a business selling things you found in charity shops for a profit or selling stuff for almost full price. I wanted it to buy big bundles of kids clothes in the right size for nursery, or maternity wear I'm only going to use for a few months where a dress is £5 rather than £50/60, and then sell it for the same so another person can use it.

This reminds me if when I offered on some clothes and got lots of vitriol back from the seller.

They listed an item that was new with tags from bravissimo - which no longer sells clothes. I have the same item, bought in sale for £30 in 2019, though at full price is probably £60. I thought great I still love it, now I can have another, I don't want to buy it from them for £30 like they have posted but I'll make them an offer, it's been listed for 10 months so maybe they'll just be glad to be rid of it!

I offered like £20 and got loads of vitriol back about how it's brand new with tags, they bought for £60 (bear in mind they stopped producing clothes 3 years ago and I bought the same item in 2019) and that it should be a premium item as they aren't making them anymore like it's some form of collectors item 😅

2 days later another seller posted the same item, brand new with tags, £10. I now have another dress. That original seller has now had that dress listed for 13 months.

This thread has earned me a few quid today.

I only usually sell decent quality items for £20 -£50 but just had a rummage through stuff I was thinking of taking to charity shop, put a few items on for £5-10 and already made £36 on a few hours with stuff I wouldn’t have thought about selling so thank you

the lowest I will list an item for is probably £3 mainly because it takes me time etc to pack it and take it, winds me up having an offer on my low value items. I list them if they don’t sell I take them to the charity shop when I have a few bits to go. Recently was selling an unused item for £12 got offered £5 or 6 for it, I sent the buyer a message saying google the item it’s £45 and still available so your getting a bargain. they brought it for £12 😊

Er this is on you. They choose the price point. You choose to engage in silly arguments. Make an offer. The accept it or don’t.

Re half price of new. I totally disagree. I would never sell if half price. I only sell new items, lowest I’ve sold at was 80% of new price. This morning I sold a pair of new shoes for more than I paid for them because no longer available and high demand.

The point is you can pay what they want or not. But wasting your time arguing about it or getting annoyed is your choice.

at the moment I am selling something that has an RRP of £40. I am selling it for £15 (no labels but excellent condition), and I got a message last night asking would I sell for £10.
this is a quarter of the new value which I think is a bit cheeky when there are zero imperfections!! I get sick of vinted buyers sometimes!

Well job done. You did make his day. You still got more than double what you paid so he also made your day surely?
How did you find out that he was selling them?

There’s some weird attitudes on here. Selling something at a 200% is being kind? Lol. I suppose it explains why I once got a really nastily worded message on eBay after listing a particularly desirable item - apparently I only listed it because I knew lots of people would want it and it would sell for lots of money. Erm, yes that’s right, I did 🤷‍♀️, numpty.

I completely agree. If a potential buyer tells me they can buy my item on blah blah for whatever I always ask why are you bothering me then? Sometimes I even look up said item and send them the link. 😆 The last time I did that was for a brand new unopened bottle of perfume. The company no longer ships to the UK. I was selling it for the exact same price listed but didn't include the original shipping fees and associated taxes (which for this brand many sellers do). They didn't buy the item but it did sell an hour or 2 later to someone else from the same area so could've still been the same person. 🤔
As for my basic clothing/footwear items I always take the postage/buyers protection into account when pricing plus I always check to see what that same/similar item is selling for and price slightly under. So it really pisses me off when I receive messages (not the automatic offers) from buyers wheedling about postage and associated fees.

Exasperated by vinted sellers? I find that amusing, getting on CF territory, trying to get everything for nothing.

You think it's too expensive? Just scroll past and don't buy.

If it has been used then 10%-20% of the purchase price is reasonable.
reasonable for you to decide to buy as a rule? Yes, absolutely. You make your own decisions
reasonable for others to put their item for sale? No 😂They don't have to accommodate you!

I am one who doesn't check prices after I listed an item, it's not worth my time frankly. If it's cheaper new, then buy new, I don't care that much.

If I have sold a lot of things and need to go to the post office, I will very likely accept offers because I am going that way anyway. If that would be the only item, then no. It's not worth my time. I don't care that much if things sell or not, they are packed out of the way, I just get rid of the lot after a while.

Not everyone uses Vinted as a business.

I buy things related to a hobby on there. Some sellers will list items which originally cost £30 new for £300+, as they are discontinued and therefore rare. They rarely sell.

If they do sell at a profit like this they’ll now have to declare and pay tax. I’m hoping this stops a lot of this.

I never put in offers, if I’m not happy with the price I scroll past.

I don’t sell on there at all; I give everything to charity as I can’t be doing with the hassle.

I’m one of those who will flog it cheap to get rid of give it to charity. Others are mental. I wanted a blakely hoodie. It was up for £50 or something with postage worked out about £1 less than buying direct from blakeley with their new customer 10% discount.

I messaged the seller asking if they’d reduce on that basis and they said no.

can't imagine it ever sold.

As a seller piss take less than half price offers irritate me too ... I'll often decline these and my item may still be unsold several weeks later but that doesn't bother me as I'll drop it at a charity shop at some point. I'm not prepared to spend time and effort taking photos of items, uploading, storing carefully, wrapping well and then going to a parcel drop off point unless I get the price I want. I'm not desperate to make £3 and my time is a cost too.

Sometime if I get a low ball offer (I always acknowledge every offer, even piss taking ones, with a personal message) and I politely decline, that item suddenly gets lots of favourites the original potential buyer comes back and buys at full anyway so it often pays to wait.

.. what? How were you being kind? You didn’t sell it for the price you paid for it, or even less, you sold it for a profit. The person who bought it is doing the exact same thing, just making a more of a profit. You’re doing the exact same thing, please don’t act otherwise!

I have only bought a couple of things but just paid the asking price as I though it was worth it. A pair of boots for £12 and a jacket for £10. Both items have been great and were no longer available in regular shops. I couldn't be arsed to negotiate for a few quid. If they are selling something currently available in a shop I'd just buy it from the shop.

YABU, it’s just simple supply & demand.

Factors other than newness will affect prices some buyers are willing to pay, eg availability of an item elsewhere.

Yabu, it's up to them what they charge and up to you what you pay or don't pay. If the same price as brand new just buy it brand new, not worth wasting energy because someone doesn't price things the way you think they should

Vinted etiquette confuses me. My teen DD was on there right from the start and assured me that haggling was expected. I was horrified she was offering £1.50 for something listed at £2 and refused to participate 😂

A couple of years later everything is almost as expensive as it is in the shop and no offers. The kids are back on SHEIN and it all seems a bit pointless.

People are sometimes entirely clueless as to the value of their used stuff. I include myself in that category. I’m often taken aback by the auto generated suggested and ‘similarly sold’ prices on Vinted and eBay - like £2.50 for a gorgeous sweater that I’ve worn once. I do get it though. Whack on buyer protection and postage and factor in the general risk of buying second hand and faff factor of Vinted (I must be tight as I never pay 60p extra for home delivery ha) and you can understand why. Price to sell I say.

It’s not listed for you in those circumstances though, is it. It’s listed for people who can’t get it from Amazon or wherever.

Look at the Aldi toy drops, they go onto Vinted for 150% of what they sell for, and most sell… because people can’t get to Aldis. They don’t drive or they don’t have one nearby or whatever, and therefore their only way of getting the toy is paying over the odds.

If you’ve got a straight choice of new or old with not much financial difference, you’d go for new because of the consumer protection. Other people will overpay on Vinted because they have no other option.

I mean I sold my old Apple TV for four times what it cost new; because I hadn’t updated it, which meant it could be jail-broken and used to stream locked-down content… that was eBay and years and years ago, but it had a lot of value to people who wanted that ability. Probably none at all to people who just thought I’d overpriced an outdated tech product 😅

I don’t haggle on vinted I buy ( or not) at the price set. I tend to buy nicer brands and bargain hunt so looking at 10-20% of the original retail price. I feel like it must be very irritating as a seller.