To be exasperated by Vinted sellers

I get fed up of really low offers.I generally sell NWT items and some are higher end high street. I had a dress this week that had a load of £30 less than asking price offers in first few hours. I even had one person say they love it and if they could afford to buy it new they would. The dress was new and £160 less than rrp!
I sold it on eBay same day!

I'm fed up with buyers making ridiculous offers. I have items on there for sale at very reasonable prices and I hate getting silly offers on things that are already an absolute bargain.

Vinted requires a bit of common sense from buyer and seller - I'd always bought at asking price until the weekend when I spotted a jacket on there for £30 that I really wanted. Noticed it had been listed for 14 months so I offered £25 - would've paid full price if seller had rejected but they accepted. They get to sell the item, I saved a bit of money, winner.

I sell on there and have been lucky not to have many timewasters. As others have said it's about testing the waters. I uploaded a video game and it got snapped up so I priced the other video games I put on higher and all but one got snapped up - that game got offers with a couple of quid knocked off so I accepted that's what it was worth and accepted the offers.

Again, if I'm selling an item for £5 and 6 months after it's listed someone offers £3 I probably wouldn't say no.

A lot of people price high so that if someone sends a slightly lower offer the buyer feels like they're getting a bargain and seller is still getting the amount of money they were willing to sell for - again though this depends on common sense.

I think your maths is a bit strange though OP - so if I bought a PS5, played one game and then decided it wasn't actually for me I should sell it for £45?

I sell quite a bit on Vinted (lots of us in the house), but it does get frustrating with lowball offers.
I price my items to sell, think £3-£5 for dresses & jeans. I will only sell new items or 'Very Good' and pride myself in not selling tat.
However, I still get people offering me 60% of the asking price just because they can. Example - I had a beautiful Coast Dress, worn once, immaculate, listed at £10. Numerous offers of £6. I always counter with a 10% reduction, but if they continue to increase by 50p each time I just block and move on.
I think some people put an offer in just because they can - think a 50p discount. What even is the point in that?!
On the flip side there was a set of books I wanted, which on Amazon were £35 new with free prime delivery. Seller had them listed (new) for £35, so I sent an offer of £30 and explained why I was offering this amount politely. She was so rude in her reply that I bought from Amazon instead.
I've realised that Vinted is full of scammers, unrealistics, and CF's!

Yes, sensible offers, but not stupid ones. Buyers need to realise that people aren't there for the buyer's entertainment. It's irritating when people think haggling is 'all part of the fun'. It really isn't. In fact, on eBay, I'll tell people why I won't accept their offer - it costs money to pay for postage and packaging (I know on Vinted that's done for you), I also spend a lot of time listing my item. Why do you think sellers should accept your idea of 'fun'? It's quite rude, actually.

I don't sell on Vinted, but I do sell on eBay and the amount of people who make ridiculous offers is annoying! In fact, it's got so bad in recent months that I now put as high a price as I can so that if/when a person does make a stupid offer I just block them and move on. Some people (I'm not saying you here OP) just think that people should give them stuff for nothing. You have to also consider the time it takes for some items to be packaged up, especially if they're bulky or large, they've then got to arrange collection or delivery of the item, that time doesn't come for nothing. I'm damned sure I'm not going to talk 50% of what I've put the price at.

The thing is that it’s not personal, I make offers all the time, then haggle. If the seller blocks me for taking the piss that’s their prerogative, I don’t care. there will be another seller with the same item who will negotiate the price. Taking it personally just because someone has a different way of buying second hand items than you do is just being over sensitive. Vinted is a site that invites you to make offers, you should expect offers to be made.

Yeah I had someone trying to get me down by 50p yesterday on an item I was selling for 10% of what it would cost to buy new (used but vintage and in very good condition). Before I had time to block they'd paid the extra 50p.

I think some buyers don’t realise that not everyone is desperate to sell. Sometimes we’re just opportunistic sellers. My things are priced to sell but I’m under no pressure to sell them so people making ridiculous offers are just wasting my time and filling my inbox. Even more irritating is the sad face messages some buyers then send when I’ve sold an item (usually at asking price) that they made some pisstake offer on that I’ve ignored.

I sold a worn once pair of shoes for £45, bought new for £60. They took a while to sell but we’re just sat in a cupboard in the interim. I don’t like the hassle of packing them up and getting to the post office, so wanted it to be a certain price otherwise I’d just give them to a friend. The seller is under no obligation to sell at your price.

Agree. If someone makes a ridiculously low offer, I don’t engage or even bother declining, I just delete.

Its just a waste of everyone time and certainly not ‘fun’

Ive got over 500 5 star reviews, I price fairly and always sold my items at close to the asking price so no need to bother with anyone making piss take offers.

What you call fun and “part of the experience of the site”, other people may consider it time-wasting.

I don’t bother negotiating with obvious timewasters. I just block them. Let them waste someone else’s time. I have enough good buyers that are a pleasure to deal with. No need to waste time with muppets.

Similar on eBay as well for me last week.

£250 item. Had an offer of £80 then £90. As I was going in to both block the idiot and add a minimum offer to the listing it sold at £250.

I know God loves a trier, but come on.

I’m amazed that you are taking it so personally. They can ask what they like and you can choose to either pay, haggle or scroll on to the next item.

i sell and buy all the time on Vinted and I haggle over everything, for me it’s part of the experience and fun of the site. It’s not personal if I offer half the asking price for an item and I wouldn’t consider it personal if they reject my offer.

You need to think about timing too. If I've listed something for £40 and ten mins later I get an offer for £20 I'm not going to accept it right away. If you're interested right away, someone else might be too and prepared to spend more. In these cases I usually say I drop the price over time but can't go that low just yet.

There's been times when this is a mistake and I should've just sold it early. But plenty of times I've made more by hanging on.

I do agree if there's only a few £ off new, and you can't fully trust the condition, you should just buy new.

Anything is only worth what someone will pay for it. Simple.

Agree. I recently listed a dress that cost £129 worn once and I priced at £45

Within about 2 minutes of listing, I had an offer of £23 followed by increased offers of an extra £1 at a time.

I sold for £40 same day I listed

Yep agree with this.

I've had a few people recently offering ludicrously low prices, when I've literally just listed something. If something has been on a while, I'll be much more likely to take an offer, but not when something has just been uploaded, and is in immaculate condition.

YABU if you don't like the price you need to move on. I have recently bought skin care on Vinted that I can't get where I live which was more than it costs new. (The shop doesn't offer online buying 🤬) I was happy to buy for the convenience. I've had 99% good transactions on Vinted

I’d just buy it on Amazon. I price reasonably and I don’t accept offers anymore because the last time I accepted an offer and sob story I found the item being resold for double the price I sold it to the buyer for! Some people deliberately want things at a cheaper price so they can resell which is actually against Vinted’s policy.

Womp womp

I see things my offers haven’t been accepted on, still there months later. Some sellers don’t seem to realise there are always similar items to buy, often from sellers that just want to get rid for a couple of quid. Sellers that message saying ‘I can post today’..I usually unfavourite their item. Without offering a discount they are wasting my time, I don’t want their messages!

I’ve gone off Vinted a bit lately. I mainly use it to buy and sell my kids clothes but since it’s got more popular it’s full of people trying to flog faded worn out items labelled ‘very good’ for prices I’d expect to pay in the sale brand new!

Don’t get me started on dirty kids sandals for £15 (Clarks sell them brand new for £24).

I’m always secretly pleased when a seller turns down my offer and then the item is still on there weeks or months later, sometimes reduced. They clearly haven’t had the interest they’d hoped for and are now desperately trying to get anyone to buy, well it won’t be me 😝

When I sell, I take whatever someone offers because the item is worth precisely zero unless someone buys it 🤷‍♀️

I buy and sell on Vinted and if anyone offered me half of what my item was priced as I’d delete and not even give them a response because they’re taking piss.

Yes we all slightly over price expecting reasonable offers but just over half - no jog on. Not prepared to pay close to asking price - don’t buy it then

And I’ve always sold my items very quickly so my pricing is obviously fair