Sell one a day on Vinted to clear the decks.

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This is the plan. I am overwhelmed and overrun with lovely kitchen and dining items. Beautiful plates, mugs, bowls etc.
Love them all but going into my dotage the wish is to slim down belongings that no one is going to want and not leave the utter overstuffed cupboards that my mum did in her death.
Started three days ago and my plan is as one sells to add another.
Painting, mugs and jug gone already.
Anyone want to join me?
Today is a Pip trinket dish.

Am very inspired by all of your Sales and wondering what I am doing wrong.

i do make sales (and have been selling for years) but have found Vinted quite slow going since they changed their sizings.

All of my items are NWT or NWOT and usually for 20% to 30% of original price.

So could I please ask.

I am wondering if you are selling at lower prices? And do you have a preferred listing day?

Also interested to hear views on seasonality. I have sleeveless dresses ready to go and a few short sleeved blouses. When would you list Summer clothes? I listed Coats in October but think I probably left it too late.

I sell cheap, but I just want rid! If I am buying NWT I wouldn’t pay more then 50% of price. Unless I really really wanted!
Another 3 sales.

Just wondered how you’re all getting on?
I had a few nothing days but have been on roll since Saturday…9 items sold.
Pleased as Punch.

I too had a break to recover, six items posted out this morning gets me back on track.

I did receive an email from EBay unfortunately regarding tax having sold over a certain limit or 30 items 😢

I keep forgetting to comment but Ive made £100 since I first commented on this thread! Very pleased. 🙂

@PinkLegoBalloon@stayathomegardener
That’s fantastic. I’ve posted off 10 items this week which is great. The cupboards are clearing.

Jeez…12 items sold today. All homeware.

I finally started again! The pile was too big it was daunting. Everything I have put on last 2 days has sold - that’s 7 parcels equivalent to 3 bin bags!!

Super happy 😃

I fell out of the habit but really trying to list one item a day. Just listed 2 items BNWT so hopefully they sell, left it too late to return 🙄

I think there’s 3 important rules for the algorithm.

1. how quick you post - literally when I restarted I got a sale and posted within 15 minutes
2. how often you upload - so upload regularly and it will show people. I find lunchtime works
3. price! People have to pay the protection surcharge plus postage. So it has to be worth it when you add all that up. If it’s not sold in 24 hours it’s never going sell imo.

Extra tips -

• when someone favourites it then send an offer for a 10-20% off.
• bundle stuff, iron stuff and curate it properly
• upload and then sell it all. I don’t upload again until it’s sold. So if 48 hours is gone I will just delete the listing remaining. Upload new stuff and cycle back to that one later at a reduced price.

This has inspired me to start listing again. I usually do 2-3 a day, does anyone know when you list new things does it bump up your other previously unsold things too? Got a few things been sat there for a couple of months just wondering if I should take them off and relist or if I start listing again they may get bumped up too?

I need to join in too. I should do a declutter and will use the 2 week charity shop rule.

My tip is to do the lowest postage price you can. Very often Vinted say a medium parcel and 90% of the time I change that to small.

I started to sell on Vinted at the beginning of February. If it's not sold within 2 weeks I then list on eBay.
If no takers they go to the charity shop.
At the moment I've cleared the spare room. Made 175pounds. And only 3 things went to the charity shop.

Useful tips, thank you !!

One thing I can't work out is how to send individual offers to someone who has 'liked' an item.

I have researched it but have not been able to get it to work.

I get an alert in messages when someone likes someone. I can send my offer from that message.

I have a three week rule for clothes. But I sell cheap. But the nearest charity shop is same place I have to send my items. I reuse my stash of online plastic bags .

Personally I am not a fan of people in boxing me offers if I favourite an item! So I have it in my settings that people don't see when I favourite something. It seems a very mixed bag of some people like it and some people hate it.

I've never inboxed a buyer an offer when they favourite things and always do well for sales regardless.

I agree with the advice to price being mindful of the total cost for the buyer and to think if it can go small parcel to save them postage costs too.

I price to sell. I don't often sell women's clothes, my stuff I'm listing is mainly kids toys and clothes as my youngest outgrows things. Plus a bit of homewares, and very occasionally womenswear.

I take lots of photos. Item is clean, area around it is clean, if there's a label or tag I photograph that.

I do wish vinted would sort out the adult clothing sizes. They're all listed wrongly! I rarely try to buy myself anymore for clothes for me as searching is almost impossible. It's really frustrating. I do think it must really affect sales of women's clothes!

@Azurearransea if you see in notifications that your item has been favourites, click on that message and there should be a large green bar that says ‘make an offer’. Click on it, put in your price and press send and they’ll receive it like they would any other message on the site.

Can I join? I sold some clothes that didn't fit and made a decent amount. I then added a book earlier and it sold within 5 minutes! Couldn't believe it (I didn't think it would sell!)

The adult sizing thing is soooo annoying. No woman I know is across two sizes, you’re one or the other (even if you’re different on top and bottom). Now, if you have the patience, you have to trawl through at least double the stock, plus stuff that has been incorrectly labelled since they changed it. I’ve also stopped buying adult clothes, but look occasionally and really appreciate people who put the size in the title of their listing.

Thanks @selondon28

I think there must be something wrong with my notification set up. Whenever I try to follow through on a notification it just dead ends.

I need to check whether I have inadvertently turned something off.

Another one hoping to have a vinted frenzy! Got lots of clothes from younger skinnier days (especially diesel jeans) cluttering up my spare bedroom. Sold 8 items this week & aiming to upload 2-5 items a day...

"when someone favourites it then send an offer for a 10-20% off."

Please don't do this. I was speaking to a few friends the other day about vinted and we all agreed this pisses us off no end.

If we wanted a 10-20% discount we would put an offer in. We are usually either making a short list, considering it or tracking the item because we have something similar to sell.

If you reduce an item all the people that are following it will get a notification of the price drop. Do not pounce on them with offers as soon as they watch it - it's goddam annoying.

I’d love to join this, I am a regular seller, I sell at least 5-6 items a week. So far this year I’ve made £350. I add daily. My tip is research your product on Vinted and don’t take their selling suggestion price as I’ve under sold a few times based on their recommendations. It keeps my house tidy and helps me with money is a bit tight.