To hate unrealisic Vinted sellers?

[Dealornoheel]

Ok hate is a strong word but still

I am quite active on Vinted, with a toddler I am used to buying and selling a lot of items fairly frequently, I always price to sell, usually pitching items £1 or so less than the cheapest other listing of the same or similar item, I’ve never had an item listed for more than 48 hours.

Now DD is getting older and her size isn’t changing as much I’m now looking at nicer items to buy on the platform, and I’m just so surprised about how unrealistic some sellers are.

Example, I had a Ralph Lauren summer dress favourited for a while, it’s been listed for 17 months, I offered £3 less than asking and it’s been rejected. I am always tempted to message them asking if they understand the concept of an item only being worth what someone is willing to pay. Imagine having an item for sale for nearly a year and a half and not thinking to yourself ‘maybe it’s priced too high’

Then you have the people charging more than the item is even selling for new! And it’s not an antique or rare item, a pair of leggings etc.

I am always tempted to message them asking if they understand the concept of an item only being worth what someone is willing to pay

That would be incredibly unreasonable and rude to boot

Nobody has to sell at a price they don't want to.

I honestly can't imagine being bothered to package the item, get it to the post office or drop off location and deal with the buyer for less than £1?!

I wish Vinted had a 'no offers' setting like Ebay does.

@OhmygodDont

I just did that. But by offering £3 less is basically covered the postage and buyer protection fee 🤷🏻‍♀️
But that was in a £20 asking price. I think the poster was referring to someone offering less on a £3 item.

Ah yeah that makes sense haha

I've been there from the other direction, selling something below the going rate and getting people asking me for a few quid off. I don't bother because it's not a business to me. I don't care how much you want to pay, I'm already offering what I think is a more than fair deal. I've binned stuff before rather than sell it to someone who expects a discount.

Obviously if you're running it as a business your mindset can be different, especially if you want repeat customers. But to me, I'm flogging something I'd otherwise just throw in the dustbin because it's no longer of use to me.

the worst is when they send a bit that is lower than 40% off via message. Yeah no bother, I am going to sell this £60 cardigan for £25....

Someone offered me bids in increments of 10p for a pair of £5 jeans. needless to say i would rather give them away than accept any bid from some one that annoying.

More annoying is ebay buyers who make ridiculous offers that barely cover fees and postage costs. Depends whether your motivation is just to get rid or whether you want / need to make money.

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I price to sell so just ignore a lot of offers as I know I'll get full price. I posted a brand new pair of Nike trainers for £40 which were £80 new online (genuine and long story as to why we had them). Immediately inundated with offers ranging from £10 to £25 and then a few hours later sold them at full price. Two of the cheaper offers messaged me after to basically say 'oh that's not fair they've gone as I wanted them and would have paid £40'. Erm ok

That’s different though, as the example given here is items clearly not priced to sell since they were still on the site after nearly a year and a bit

I do like be vinted but it's a test of patience at times.

I recently had someone buy an item (priced too cheap really but was having a clear out) and then text me the next day asking if she could cancel the order and re-buy it at a lower price. I accepted the cancellation and declined her new offer, also ignored her messages asking why I wasn't accepting them. It sold again and hour later.

I price items at what I want to get for them. I'm not desperate for the money so I don't care if they don't sell for a year! I'd be open to reasonable offers though but I wouldn't let a £100 item go for a tenner if it was in great condition.

Vinted does seem to attract a special kind of nutter - I once got some after sale negative feedback cos the buyer had slipped in the boots I’d sold her! I didn’t bloody manufacture them

Someone said, why is this annoying? I guess it's because you spend time on the site, evaluating different items, deciding if you want something, and if the person doesn't want to haggle or has a fixed offer in mind, it's a bit tiresome trying to bid and guess that information on a site set up for haggling (offers), but that's a limitation of Vinted, not the sellers as such.

There are 4 items I've asked measurements on , just the lengths, I will buy them as soon as they've got back to me but sellers rarely do and they're still for sale. Odd

Also why the hell accept an offer then no communication and the time expires to send it?

I think it's fine. It's theirs they can valuate it as they wish. If it doesn't sell then obviously they aren't that fussed or need the money that badly that they lower the price to shift it.
I always get great bargains on Vinted, I only use it to buy not sell. I can't relate to being entitled to other people's things because I'd only want to part with such and such amount of money 🤷‍♀️

I get annoyed by buyers who just seem to want to knock £1 as a point of principle. Either buy it or don’t, it’s not a game to “win”.

The most annoying one is people who offer (a fair offer) which I accept and then they want to revise their offer down further. Nope.

Like others, I list items then leave them in the cupboard. If they sell I pop them in a bag and drop them off at the Inpost locker near work. Otherwise, they go to the charity shop. Not everyone is desperate to sell - I don’t really care one way or the other, they’re just different forms of recycling.

I won't sell if a buyer offers me a really low amount because by the time I've packaged it, travelled to the nearest in post locker only to find it's full, then have to drive to the next one, it's not worth my bother. I'd rather stick it in a charity bag and put it outside my front door.

I sell lots on vinted, I have a "vinted bag" under DC bed. I usually accept offers as I'm just happy to get stuff out the house and the locker is just round the corner so it's worth it even for £1 as all those £1 adds up!

Same.

Im just trying to clear out my kids clothes that don’t fit, I price cheap anyway because I want quick sales and will do bundles but because I price so cheaply I don’t generally do offers unless something has hung about for a while. I wouldn’t personally have stuff hang about more than a few weeks because it would annoy me.

But maybe they're not desperate to sell. They might be happy to let it sit there for however long until either they give in and lower the price, or someone's willing to pay it. It's entirely their business and I don't understand why you're upset about it

I price my items at what I'm happy for them to go for. If I get a reasonable offer then sometimes I will accept, however if I don't want to accept an offer I don't see the problem, they're my items to do with what I want. For me it's a lot of effort to walk to the library to print off a label to then go to the parcel shop for one or two pounds. If my items don't sell, they go to charity shops.

Think about it from the seller's perspective. If I'm being offered less than £3 for something, I really can't be arsed to:

• Locate it in the bags/boxes of stuff I have to get rid of.
• Print the label and package it.
• Make a trip to the corner shop just to send that item.

I do accept offers for less on stuff but it tends to be when the buyer wants to buy a bundle or when I've sold some other stuff that I have to find and package as well, so it's not going to be any extra effort to send something else as well.

But if it's just one item and a few pounds, then it's not really worth the time.