Delusional sellers on Vinted

I was looking at a cuckoo clock it was £45. She said in the listing the same one is £180 in the shops. No it isn’t. I looked for it and it’s a tenner cheaper than what she’s selling it for.
I told her but go no reply

On a lighter note someone was selling a stick. A small stick like a twig, limited edition barely used. Last time I looked just under 400 people liked it and it’s gone now, don’t know if someone bought it or it was taken down.

I might sell for £6, accept £4. I think people see Vinted as the cheaper option. I bought Clarks tweed shoes as new for £10, checked on eBay last night and they wanted minimum £30.

I was somewhat put off one item because the seller had awful bare feet in the picture! I did chuckle in disbelief at one seller mentioning marks on the item with a cheery ‘Pretty sure they’d come out with a wash’. So wash it?!

Confess I love Vinted, pretty addictive, ime.

And why didn’t they just return it to the shop if it’s unworn with tag still on? That’s what I never get.

This puts me off too or a messy house in the background.

The thing I don’t get is when I see people with loads and loads of brand new (with tags on) stuff. Are they shoplifting? Surely no-one could have 20 plus brand new items in their wardrobe which they never bothered to take back to the shop.

I’ve occasionally looked on Vinted but never felt inspired to buy anything. The thing that amazes me is that an awful lot of sellers don’t iron/steam the clothes they are hoping to sell. Page after page of creased, misshapen items that look like old rags. Surely you would present them properly if you are hoping that someone will buy them?

I don't charge stupidly high prices but I always price a bit higher to leave room for hagglers. Only a tiny percentage of my buyers have paid outright without sending offers.

Funnily enough I’ve just seen the same thing, I was looking for a Scout shirt for my son, there was a very wrinkled second hand one on Vinted for £35, it’s £25 brand new from the Scout shop 🤣

I queried with a seller, selling new item with tags that by the time I had paid postage and buyers fee it was way more than it was selling for in the shop. Their reply was did I want it. Crikey no I didn’t.
last summer someone was selling flip flops showing a picture of them wearing them and they had nail fungus. What the heck you couldn't even have paid me to have them. Yuk.

Recently looking for a kindle. Loads of the new ones were prices for more than Amazon had it. Some were £10 off Amazon price but why would I buy from you for such a small discount when I can have free returns for a small amount more. One person had a big chunk out the corner and wanted £70 for it. Only £30 off when I can buy on Amazon. To me it’s madness. If I’m buying something from vinted, even new I want it for almost half price or I’ll just get it new myself.

This is exactly what I do too with things that I like but feel are priced unrealistically. On a few occasions the sellers behind these listings have sent through a small discount asking me if I would like to buy and I tell them that unfortunately their pricing is outside what I am prepared to pay for that particular item and have just added it to my favourites to train the algorithm to show me more when they appear. On one occasion the seller asked me what I was prepared to pay and came back a couple of weeks later to see if I was still interested

@Wildgoati had this exact scenario. A new with tags item that I knew was in the sale for £8 less than her price. So explained and offered and just got a flat no !

Don't be too sure

I suppose they’re just eternal optimists, thinking that someone is going to be stupid enough to pay it.

I agree and I use this to teach the algorithm what I like.

I add stuff which I have no intention of buying due to the ridiculous pricing and a few weeks later Vinted will show me another identical one at a more reasonable cost so I can snap that one up.

the joy of Vinted is that for more mainstream shopping, there's always more than one of the same thing hanging about. If it's not the right price, you can guarentee there'll be one along very soon at a price you're prepared to pay. I pop things in my liked box and have learnt that if it goes before I've had time to properly consider, there's always something else to take its place.

it’s the same on ebay where it’s free to list, so “no sale no fee”. it’s therefore worth a try to sell something for a highly inflated price.

i bought a shein dress for £20. prob cost the seller a fiver (guessing as ive never bought from shein) oh well sigh too late now. just as well i really like it.

at least i didn't buy the apparently “rare” (that word is in its sale listing) ornament i liked at £160. the same one is on multiple times for £10-£12. madness to attempt £160 !!

I’ve been tempted quite a few times to message sellers to ask if they realise that once postage is paid, their item ends up more expensive than the new one in JD, Office etc. I never have. I imagine I’d not get a very positive reply!

I’ve noticed some people price really high and if just sits there, generally I ignore those sellers.you spot them immediately. But one it was a jumper I fancied, she was charging more than it acrually cost from the retailer but in the sale. So I messaged her with a link and said it’s in the sale, your price is about 2o percent above, but happy to buy if the price drops a little below sale price , she said no movement, so I just bought from the retailer. She’s still not sold it.

I see if quite a lot, people pricing so high they can’t sell the item.

it just seems pointless to me, like you’re wasting your own time.

Yeah, it's like a marker for the fetishists. Just block the ones who ask for a photo of you wearing them. They're just asking for free wank fodder.

I saw a new (no tags) Zara vest top - just plain white - listed for £20 the other day. Maybe it genuinely did cost that new, but it was nothing special; you could find the exact same thing in any high street store. Why would I pay £20, have no return rights if it didn’t fit and potentially wait up to a week for it to arrive when I could just buy a genuinely new one direct?

I was after some specific boots recently but couldn’t afford them new (£199). Found them on Vinted New with tags for £149. watched them for a while hoping the retail boots would go down in January sales. They did, to £99! So I messaged seller to advise and offered her £85 for hers and she said no, £149 is my minimum price 🤣 so I bought them new.
just checked and they are stil listed, 11 months now 😬

Yep. I guess they’ve moved in from ‘trashed tights/knicker’ on EBay 😂

I only know about the Vinted thing after a thread on here was from a poster asking why a man was offering unprompted 4x the price for a pair of shoes she had up for sale that were genuinely well worn…absolute eye opener

So many delusional sellers in numerous ways.

I frequently see things listed for the price they cost new from a shop as confirmed by the price tag in the photo.

Why on earth would anybody buy an item from Vinted in that case?

Unless it was rare and discontinued, but that isn’t the case in those I have seen.

Descriptions saying “just want what I paid for it” or similar.

Who are these people and what on earth does the rest of their life look like?!