Vinted - do you get aggravated by offers?

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Or is it just me?

I'm selling 6 pairs of exercise / yoga pants. All excellent condition think there's only 2 pairs that have actually been worn. Can tell from the photos that there are no faults.

All Nike, Adidas & Reebok, easily £30 per pair to buy new.

I'm asking for £10 for all 6 pairs.

Had several offers of £7... one lady I declined the offer, came back and offered £8, came back & offered £9. Why would I take £9 if I wouldn't take £7 or £8?? Now she's asked me to reserve them until Thursday for her.... fuck right off!!

Is it just me that's like this about offers? I honestly feel insulted and would rather shot them all in the bin. I had to stop doing car boots sales for the same reason. Curious if it's just me and I'm not cut out for selling on.

You’re pricing too low. Some people expect a bargain - put them at £20 for the bundle and accept the offer of £15

I think it's because sometimes postage really bumps the price up.

Just decline the offers!

I don't get annoyed at all, but then I will often make reasonable offers on stuff to counteract some of the postage hopefully.

Yes and no. I think there are reasonable offers, and it’s a good feature of Vinted when the buyer isn’t a beg, but when they are like that I just ignore them / block.

I tend to list things higher than I would like too so there is more room for better offers.

You can’t take it personally, it’s very much the norm on vinted. If you want £10 for them, list them for £12 and accept an offer. You’ll get the same price but people will feel it’s more of a bargain. It’s odd but true.

Also I don't get annoyed cos I sell loads on vinted so I might sell 10 items for £3 each but that's £30. I'm on Mat leave though so have the actual time to do it. Be different when back to work, won't seem worth it for the time I will have to post the odd item.

I do eye roll when people request literal pennies off the price, (for example I was selling an unopened tube of foundation for £5 and someone offered me £4.80) but in general, I expect people to make an offer and will price accordingly. In your case, if you wanted £10 for the leggings, you should have listed for min £15 and then be haggled down

I’ve only just started but will ask a couple of quid over what I actually want. As pp said, postage can increase it quite a bit for the buyer. Someone did offer and explain it was because of postage, I declined and said that I was looking for more.

I get pissed off when someone tries to drop the price from £2. Like pay for the tshirt or don't, but that is ridiculous. I would be annoyed at the upping by £1 each time.

Absoltely - I'm finding the majority are offering the full allowable 40% less just now. If someone makes me that offer, then the next one is a £1 more, I block as I assume they will claim it never got there or is damaged. I don't 'need' to sell anything, I'm just decluttering and giving the money to my favourite charity but starting to think I need to overprice everything.

List them separately for a few quid more than you actually want. Offers are a normal part of Vinted culture.

Not many people want 6 pairs of leggings so that will be decreasing your buyer pool also.

Yes, especially when they offer half the reasonable price you are asking 🤬

I only get annoyed when it's a piss take offer.

Had a wool Zara coat listed for £30 BNWT rrp £120 and I had a message asking if I would accept £12. I ignored and she proceeded to send me 3 lots of "??????"

If it's 10/15% of the asking price I normally accept just to get rid of the item.

The ones that annoy me are where people request a bundle with discount. You agree and then they come back and ask for further discount on top of the bundle discount.

Not sure whether I'm allowed to ask this, but please could you give me a few more details so I can search for them??

I didn't make an offer until a Mumsnet thread where people were saying they priced offers into the starting price!

Maybe put not accepting offers in the description if it bothers you?

There are people who have things sitting on vinted for 6 months then refuse offers. Madness

The slight increments annoy me as well, I just ignore.
I've recently started to get non cheeky offers that I've accepted and then they never pay. Why offer then?!

As a seller, if I've got stuff on Vinted it's cos I have no need for it and I'm trying to get rid. Why wouldn't I take an offer?

You obviously don't need to accept any offers that you don't want to, but getting aggravated seems weird. They're trying to take the thing off your hands, if you want to hold out for more then fine but they're entitled to ask.

I can beat that op, I once sold something that was £300 new for £30 and I still had an offer for £25!

I just price a couple of ££ higher than I want to sell for and then accept the offer.

I put things on Vinted for enough to make up for the extra hassle in selling rather than just bunging in the charity shop bag. If there are offers which are below the already pretty low selling price, I just don't bother - I cancel the sale and charity shop the lot so I don't faff around with offers.

Can't yiu change a setting so you don't accept offers at all? I send offers regularly, but only on items that have been listed for at least a month. I figured by then people might be interested in negotiating down. I've had people reply with a counteroffer which worked for me, too. There's no emotion in it from my side. Just decline the offer and move on.

"Why would I take £9 if I wouldn't take £7 or £8??"

But also, if you'll accept £10, why wouldn't you accept £9. Same argument.

There's risk in buying from Vinted, people want the best price they can get to reduce the risk. You know for sure that some are unworn, the buyer doesn't.

I am with you OP, it can grate on me too. I didn’t realise it was considered a “starting price”. I can’t be arsed walking to the post office to sell something for under £5. I have a full time job and it’s too much effort, so anything worth less than that, or I just get stupid offers for, goes to the charity shop after 2 weeks. I once sold a beautiful ball gown on there. I asked for £30. I had offers at £18 and a couple of snotty comments when I rejected that. I sold it for £30 on the second day. I am a big fan on the block button on Vinted…

You have to remember on vinted that the buyer will pay and extra £3-5 on top of your price with the fee and postage. I don't think asking for a quid off is cheeky.
I think you'd be better selling them separately and having bundle discounts. I'm not sure many people want 6 pairs of leggings at once.
Think you'd get more sales individually and more money overall too.

I find that Vinted has a boot sale kind of feeling. Being able to offer a price as a buyer and also the seller can offer a price to prospective buyers.