Vinted buyers that never actually buy!

Class action 🤣

To answer some of your questions:

Liking an item will mean you get shown more of them by vinted, it helps the algorithm. So whilst an item may not be perfect, or you'd prefer to pay less, liking it gets more of them shown to you.

On vinted you can make multiple offer. Offers do not expire nor can you retract them. I've had 2 offers waiting for an answer for several months now. I no longer want the item, but can withdraw the offer. It would be awful if I was now automatically charged.

You accepted offers this evening, people are probably having dinner, doing bedtime routine etc. Not everyone is constantly on their phone or has notifications turned on.

I make many offers at once, because I don't want to have to keep refunding an item or having hierarchy of items to offer on next should one get refused. I generally buy the first one accepted.

I dont think yabu OP if someone made an offer which i accepted Id expect them to follow up.
But I admit Im completely new to vinted, Ive only very recently starting selling on there.
Not wanting to derail the thread but has anyone got any advice about pricing? Vinted seems to recommend very low prices even for good quality clothing. Ive taken their recomendation and things have been snapped up very quickly, sometimes within minutes. So Im starting to think vinted recomendations are wrong. Ie a Boden Dress cost about £100 new still in good condition , vinted says similar items sell for £6 and recommends that as the selling price. I think it is really worth the effort! But put it on for £7 and it sells within minutes.
Also has good quality skirt on for £5 and people offer £4. I mean its £1!! Just buy it. I go back and say £4.50 and they buy it. Skirt cost about £60 new and is in excellent condition, theyve got an absolute bargain.
Im sure a charity shop would have priced it higher.
On flip side DD bought a cheap cotton vest fashion top for £7 in allegedly good condition but when it arrived it had holes in it .
Also the length of time people take to collect things from ipost lockers-vinted says i need to post within 3 days but buyers dont collect for about10 days?!
Rant over, but any advice on pricing greatly received. Do people ignore vinted recomended prices and still sell item?

I’m both a Vinted buyer and seller. If I’m after a particular item I will send offers to several sellers of the same item, but will then choose between based on cost and which one looks better. I wouldn’t take it personally though if a buyer doesn’t go through with a sale!

Worst is when you sell and item and you’re instantly harassed by a buyer asking when can post, need it by a certain day etc etc - I completely get that but I’m not Amazon!!! I’m a normal mum clearing stuff out!!!

I imagine they will wait for pay day

I get this all the time, lots of offers is a sign it will sell soon so sit tight. Don't message any of them.

....I imagine that four of them will be bringing a class action against the OP, who has admitted that their offers and her acceptance of those offers amount to a contract - which she knew for certain, having accepted the first one, she would not be able to fulfil.

I mean, I know it's Vinted, but it's very difficult to see how the conventions of the platform can be thought to supersede established law - as someone has already pointed out. Oh, hang on, it was the OP.

So? The site doesn't work differently because of 2 extra 0's

Someone may come along today and buy it for £100...
be careful though, those people whose offers you accepted may sue for breach of contract.

The buyers aren’t selling anything. Unless you mean people buying things and reselling them?

But it's not reserved though as anyone can come along and buy it at any point? So not wasting any of your time?

I had an item reserved first a buyer for 5 days last week, didn't buy, timewaster

You are misunderstanding how Vinted works. Even if you accept an offer, the item still stays available for others to buy, so the item could be sold before they’ve even seen that you’ve accepted the offer.

Vinted has a page which explains how offers work, it clearly says that offers aren’t binding.

I’m another one who has changed settings so sellers can’t contact me if I like an item, as I was fed up of the messages that I got. As you’re browsing, hitting the like button means the items all go into the same place so you can easily find them again and compare. It doesn’t mean you definitely want to buy them.

Someone might make an offer on a few similar items and they buy the one that works out cheapest with postage, which can’t be seen until you click through.

It's bloody Vinted where people sell their shorts for £1. You are overthinking and overreacting. I constantly sell/buy things on Vinted and never thought about things like this. At least don't send these "reminding " messages.

Oh yes, these are the ones tha annoy me. Also the ones who do collect and don’t press the ‘is everything alright’ button so you can get your money.

The buyer won't have lost any money on postage. Once you accept the item as returned to you, the buyer will be refunded the whole amount they paid including any postage.

Because the option is there do you actually know how the site works?

Another type of "buyers" that are so annoying are the ones who buy your items then don't collect the item! They pay for the postage so a postage label is generated. You post it off, the don't collect & then you have to wait for it to be delivered back to you. What is the point?? The buyer I'm waiting on to collect this time has form for it. She must have lost so much money in paying for postage for nothing. Riduculous.

Online buyers in general are getting more flakey and dishonest. I sell vintage on Ebay and at one time customers who buy antiques could be relied upon to be more honest. Not any more.

One buyer said she wanted to return an item. for a spurious reason. She provided a fake tracking # and the item never arrived. The return window closed and Ebay efunded me. Buyer obviously intended to keep the items and get refunded. Welcome to my blocked buyer list!

Next a buyer who put in a "not as described" claim. She sent a picture of what she recieved and it was the same item she ordered. She claimed never to have ordered the item. but in private messages she admitted it was a mistake. I got onto live chat and the agent could see all those messages. He closed the case. I told her she could still return the item (as she clearly ordered it by mistake) but return shipping was on her dime. Heard nothing further. Welcome to my blocked buyer list!

Another buyer wanted to return an item as ordered in error. Without contacting me for international return instructions he posted it back via DHL next day . There were no customs documents with it so it sat at London airport for 4 weeks with the courier being unable to submit it to cutoms. Eventually they sent it back and the sender would have had to pay a fee to DHL. By then the return window had closed and he had an tem he didnt want and no refund Welcome to my blocked buyer list!

Ive been on Ebay since it began so I know most of the tricks and dodges.

Pay attention to when you buy from me or you will end up on my blocked buyer list.

This. Dont worry about it. It will sell eventually.

How have the offered have they emailed you? if you only have 1 item how would that work?

Favouriting is not the same as making an offer...

You shouldn't take it so seriously. It's a fun way of finding new things a a good price. I must have favourites nearly 100 items. I couldn't possibly buy them all. Also some of the items I have for sale have dozens of likes.

Everything that I favourite I would like but I am either waiting for the price to come down because it is overpriced or it is something I would like when I can afford it or several of the same item to watch if the price drops, all sorts of reasons.

If someone sends me a pushy message I ignore it. If someone offers a low offer I decline it. It's silly getting annoyed, it's just how the site works.

On eBay if you send an offer it’s an authorisation to charge your card so it automatically does so if the seller accepts. Try popping it on there instead as you’ve not had any luck. Re liking things. When searching for an item I would like the ones that fit the bill to then compare later to decide which one to buy