Vinted seller - hundreds of Next items new with tags

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I'm looking to buy some joggers for my son and everywhere seems to only have grey/black/navy, so on the hunt for something more interesting and eager to give old things a new life, I've been on Vinted. I found some lovely coloured Next joggers (set of 3), new with tags, but this seller has literally hundreds of items, mostly from Next, all new with tags.

Is this some savvy person buying in the sales and selling at usual price (they are not much cheaper than buying from Next directly)? But there are so many! Are they genuine items or factory knockoffs/seconds or stolen goods?? There are also many positive reviews!

AIBU to buy the joggers, or will I be supporting some shady business?

I went into a local air ambulance charity shop today there were quite a few new with tags next items in there, could they be selling on behalf of a charity

Very likely to be stolen. Be very careful.

I saw similar and assumed bought in sales

But if they are buying and selling like that then I think Vinted might ban them anyway for commercial selling or potentially selling stolen stuff

Could be any of the above.

Buying up seconds or a prolific shoplifter?

Probably just someone who's bought loads in the sales - I've seen people go in and grab bag fulls without really looking.

Or a very prolific shoplifter

Hmmmm I’ve thought the same before, there is one seller that comes up quite often when searching for DS, loads of BNWT, too many to be a coincidence.

I know from talking to staff at Next that there are people who literally walk into next and grab bag loads of things indiscriminately. They also often go to several different Nexts as they open sales at different times.
They presumed for selling on.

I find it a bit silly myself, as presumably they are in the sales because they have failed to sell as well as other things so would expect them to be harder to sell on.

I don't think Next do "seconds" sales. At any rate I remember trying to buy a cardy from them which had a button missing, and as soon as they spotted the missing button (I wasn't bothered by the missing button, but the cardy was a specific shade I'd been looking for) they said they couldn't sell it, as all seconds went into a crate to go to a village they supported. That might have been that specific branch though.

I have a NEXT account with a 3K limit that I've had for years, but then I left ExH and now I'm super poor and have terrible credit and no access to money and we frequently have weeks where I have about £7 to last me and the kids 2 weeks til payday. On those weeks, I buy stuff on my NEXT account and sell it on. I never make back the money I've paid - I'll buy £100 worth of stuff and maybe make £70 back, but it's still £70 of food/bills we couldn't have otherwise paid. Then I pay small minimum payments of like £20/£30 a month on it all. Fully accept it's basically the worst interest loan ever, but it works for me, and FutureBirkenshock will deal with the issues caused when she has the cash to deal with it!

Honestly who cares. If it’s a good deal I’d buy it.

I wonder this when I see sellers with lots from one place.

Staff discounts? Back of metaphorical lorry?

If they were a shoplifter, I would have thought they would have lots of items from different stores. It seems a bit risky to repeatedly steal from one place...

They are probably trade and bought a job lot of old season items like the stallholders in Petticoat Lane or websites like Everything for a Fiver or whatever it is called.

Can’t answer your question but Asda had lots of different colour joggers for boys up to 14. I bought a teal, red, burnt orange and army colour. I was only going in to buy black for his theatre show and was really pleased with my haul.

Hundreds of items are unlikely to be from shoplifting. It's either sale or seconds.

Have none of you seen this? It used to be a known thing in our local mall. people would turn up as the shops open and just shovel ANYTHING into bags and leave with trolley loads of it.

I was in M&S when they had 70% off at the end of the sale when a family came along with a large trolley each and simply cleared the rails. They pushed past everyone and scooped up every item available, put them in the trolley and toddled off to the tills 😳

I felt really sorry for the staff having to ring up that lot.

People do buy trolley loads of stuff to resell on Ebay, Vinted, Facebook. Shops likes M&S and Next are generally pretty consistent with their sizing and quality so people know what they are buying will fit so are willing to pay about 70% of the tag price, as Birkenshock says.

As someone who worked for Next through many sales I’d be delighted if people were buying sacks of stock and selling it in Vinted. It’s certainly less hassle than the people who would buy sack fulls of random stuff on the first day of sale and bring 90% of it back on the first day of returns. It would take ages to process the refund and then all the stock had to be sorted and returned to the floor. I think some people just grab whatever they can and then decide what they actually want/need later.

Ha, it’s not rosibyrne is it?

Literally hundreds of brand new items at more expensive price than in the sale.

Probably stolen by gangs. Our local next had five or six guys walk in, clear armfuls of stock and then race out. Hundreds of things. We watched it happen. Couldn't do anything as we were across the street.
The gangs pick a shop then drive up the major a roads and hit all the branches of that store.
It happens to our stores too. although we deter most of them as descriptions are texted to stores on a possible route

Probably someone abusing their staff discount or maybe it’s been stolen. Buy them if you want it’s not like the police is going to turn up at your door. I’m sure it’ll be either of those things as opposed to the stuff being ‘knock off’ Next goods

I've seen several people go completely mad (with friends/relatives) at the Next Boxing Day sales. They were indiscriminately grabbing piles stuff off the rails and filling their baskets.

My mum (being nosy) got talking to one of them who revealed that she makes a lot of money buying the reduced sale items and selling them on.

@bluebaul

Hundreds of items are unlikely to be from shoplifting. It's either sale or seconds.

Really?!

I've known a lot of dodgy people (in my childhood/youth, not now!). Every person I've known who shoplifted as a 'business', rather than sporadic desperation, always broke in and took as much of a shop as they could shove in a van. Always hundreds of items at a time. I'd definitely presume stolen with loads from one shop with tags...

Next also have outlets so could have been bought cheap there and sold for a profit

I've known a lot of dodgy people (in my childhood/youth, not now!). Every person I've known who shoplifted as a 'business', rather than sporadic desperation, always broke in and took as much of a shop as they could shove in a van. Always hundreds of items at a time. I'd definitely presume stolen with loads from one shop with tags...

Breaking in and shoplifting are not the same. So yes, maybe these items come from a break in but they definitely won't have been shoplifted and are almost certainly seconds or sale items. Only an idiot would break into next then advertise the stuff for sale though, every item is individually labelled so easy to trace the burglar.

There is a large call centre in Yorkshire that used to have a Next shop downstairs where items were sold dirt cheap. Often surplus stock or something very minor was wrong with item. So if that's still there, maybe the items are from here or similar?

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I was in M&S when they had 70% off at the end of the sale when a family came along with a large trolley each and simply cleared the rails. They pushed past everyone and scooped up every item available, put them in the trolley and toddled off to the tills 😳

I felt really sorry for the staff having to ring up that lot.

People do buy trolley loads of stuff to resell on Ebay, Vinted, Facebook. Shops likes M&S and Next are generally pretty consistent with their sizing and quality so people know what they are buying will fit so are willing to pay about 70% of the tag price, as Birkenshock says.

Greedy bastards. I know they are allowed to do this buy this behaviour makes me so cross