I can't use vinted anymore

why are you picking on me? The OP is telling a poster to "fuck off", her words. I didn't insult anyone. I stand that it was a bit of an extreme reaction, especially in the context of a thread about Vinted 😂

You are the one who is trying to keep derailing the thread now

There's no need for this.
Just stop.

It's just as bad to buy or sell, no one wants to list an item to a range of size when there's an actual size.

And it's worst when you sell or buy kids clothes, a navy jumper is a navy jumper, but it must be listed in the "girl" or "boy" section. Fair enough with adults, completely pointless with a 3 year old.

Worse than that, if you are between 10 and 12 you need to search across 8-10 and 12-14 so FOUR times as many garments just to find one that might fit.

It is indeed shit. I want to search for just the one size. Not a 12-14 or 14-16 or whatever. So now every search for a particular size will spew out double the number of items, half of which are the wrong size. Weird.

Can I just point out that sellers were not asked to update anything.

I have hundreds of things for sale and the first I new about this was when it hit the news today! Now I’m expected to manually update all of them - its going to take a while!

Pretty much this. A 12 and a 14 aren't interchangeable, especially considering that there are huge differences in sizes between brands too.

Well, it would be more useful if it just stuck to the sizes that the brands used instead of making up their own.

I am listing UK clothes labelled M, L or XL too.
Problem is, some of the XL is actually a 12-14 😂Depends on the brand. It does XL on the label, but no one above a 14 would be able to put that on.

The sizes were never accurate to start with

I am not loving the new system, but I think the original one was already wrong half the time anyway, so it's not making it worst than it already was.

To avoid any complaint from buyer, you already had to clearly state what the size written was.

@ThatChristmasMug but I can't put the size from the label when I'm listing an item. If it's a 14, it has to be in the 12-14 category. Not the 14 category because that doesn't exist anymore. So, it's less precise and a less accurate search. Makes it harder for a buyer to find the item, because now it's being including in a category with twice as many items.

The old system was a bit odd that a size 14 was called XL, but really that was irrelevant because womens clothes are labelled with the numeric size typically in the UK. So that's what I was looking for, whether Vinted considered that an M, L or XL didn't matter or affect functionality.

Annoyingly, I ordered a top the night before last, looked at the order again yesterday and they had changed the sizing on the item I had already ordered and it showed as being a 22-24. I cancelled the order, then got the email saying that the sizing policy had changed. When back into my cancelled
order, realised it actually was a 14 rather and a 22-24, and it had been resold 😅

Such a pain. I am a newbie to buying on Vinted and already find it so confusing.

Apparently some people got a notification about it? I saw messages copied around. I didn't receive anything from Vinted, just saw comments on facebook groups

that sounds a bit extreme for a discussion about.. Vinted 😂

How do you react when you have actual problems?

I am not loving it, but I wasn't loving the old system either. Their conversion between number size and L-XL was not accurate either.

You should be able to put the size from your label, not have it randomly converted.

It's bad enough to know that mumsy sizes (M&S and the rest) and teen sizes are completely different, and that mumsy brands are insanely generous, but it's always a pain to convert. I always had to trawl through clothes because the sizes were wrong anyway.

So you'll get used to the current system too, if they stick with it because it's easier between countries, who knows. I don't work for Vinted.

Looks a lot more sensibly to me. important that people still add the actual label/ tag size.
I didn’t realise I’d need to change my previous uploads so thanks for flagging op

I don't think I am going to get used to having size 12s shown when I'm looking for 14s. I just won't bother wasting my time trawling through dozens of items that should have been filtered out of my search.

Honestly it doesn't take a genius software developer to realise that you have removed functionality by forcing items into dual size band categories where previously you could identify them by single size.

YANBU. Just taken a look. How ridiculous, I’m a 14 or 16 so don’t fit into the new sizing categories. I was happy with the old system. I would usually do a size 14 and 16 search and choose size based on the brand ad some are more generous than others.

It's annoying, but you'll get used to it!

Sellers will hopefully also show photos of the LABELS so you can decide by yourself

I thought something was odd with it the other night but thought nothing of it.
I have just looked for some jeans. I'm size 18 generally in M&S jeans but some size 20s in other brands fit better. I've looked at 22 listings in two size brackets 16/18 & 20/22 and have had to discard all of them as they are either a 16 or 22. I even had some that were 12s! Just very frustrating when it worked perfectly fine before.