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 have a few bits listed. They’re already way under price and people still ask me for discounts. Sorry but I rather keep a dress before take less than my cut off, if I sell it, fine. If not. Fine. What I’m not going to do again is selling a dress worth more for £5 only for the buyers not to pick it up from their lockers twice, me having the hassle of shipping it twice for nothing in return. The price also includes my time I have to deal with the listings. If you think that’s too much that’s your prerogative and im not bothered.

I've got quite a lot on vinted as I'm moving so for me it is about getting the stuff out of the house rather than making a lot of money, therefore I have a lot at £1.

I sell things cheaply anyway, I’ve no interest wasting time responding to offers when everything sells at full price.

I buy and sell loads on Vinted. If I sell anything I consider it a bonus as previously it all went to charity shops. I sell cheap and get good feedback. If someone makes a reasonable offer I accept unless it's only just been posted.
My oddest experience was someone who offered £5 for an item I had up for £6. I accepted and then she offered £3🤣. That annoyed me enough to withdraw it and put in the charity bag.

When buying I always check out other listings. If there's a lot of rubbish, Primark or shein in there I won't buy from them. If their wardrobe is full of seasalt or the like I usually buy a bundle. I've only once had a bad experience. Something I would have called satisfactory that they listed as very good.

I know but I used it get my hopes up thinking they were about to buy.

I love using Vinted, it's worked well for me so far.

It's mainly clothes I sell and I list them for around 75% less than what they were new and have a good discount on bundles. I'll also accept offers if things don't shift quickly but they usually do at the low prices I put them on for.

I'm always honest about the quality and showcase them with plenty of quality pictures and a decent subscription.

I find it quite irritating when I see listings with poor quality pictures, lack of description such as measurements, material not shown and the worst are those listed as very good quality and its obvious they are not!

I don't mind items selling for £1, I'm not far from the postal lockers and drop items off daily on my walks so I'm benefiting from some exercise and I'm doing my little bit for sustainability.

I'd say that just because you're not willing to pay the list price doesn't mean someone else won't. I listed a bikini last weekend for £50 (Hunza). A very fair price. I had an offer within about an hour of listing it for £35. I went back to the person offering to say that as it hasn't been up long I want to see if I can get closer to asking. About ten mins later someone paid full price! I think they were being particularly cheeky with that offer to be fair as £50 is a good price for what it was.

Comments like this baffle me. The OP has clearly stated in her post that the key factor here is the item hasn’t sold in 17 months.

So it’s completely different to your example

Favourites are like a wishlist. Also you can favourite things and wait for them to be reduced by the seller. Once they do that put in a lower offer and hope for the best. Often sellers will take the offer.

You’re perfectly entitled to refuse offers - but not to get annoyed that people make offers. You chose a platform that allows this. Simply refuse and move on.

I would ignore that. They chose to use Vinted - that means they’re open to offers.

That doesn’t make sense.

And they did what? I’m guessing bugger all.

I’m one of those. I don’t take offer simply because I’m in no rush to sell. AND I can’t be bothered with the whole logistics of selling if it’s not for a certain price. 🤷‍♀️ If I don’t sell and really need to get rid of the items, I’ll give them to charity, simple.

I have loads in my favourites. Often because I’m browsing for the children and will then later ask them to remove anything they don’t like and then over the next few weeks likely buy everything else unless I’m waiting to see if they lower the price. Obviously sometimes I then miss out of stuff but if I really wanted it I’d just buy it straight away.

Usually when you favourite an item sellers drop the price.

I favourite things just for my own reference. You can turn the notification off in settings on the app so that the seller isn't notified if you favourite an item.

So you’d prefer 0 money than some Money?

I’ve never used vinted, but I used to sell on eBay with offers and regularly got people offering 50p or £1 lower than the asking price, and believe it or not sometimes I’d reject them because I’d think ‘what a tight bastard, just pay the extra few pence’ 🤣

I always sold the items in the end whether I accepted offers or not though so that probably makes a difference. I think there’s definitely a middle ground with offers. Too low = cheeky, too close to the asking price = tight penny pincher. If they haven’t sold it for months though then they’re delusional.

I reject offers like that because I’ve offered it at a (reasonable) price and I’m not in a Moroccan market. We are not bartering here. I’d rather not sell than engage in that.

So why do you use a platform set up for just that?

I don’t accept offers as there is no obligation for the buyer to complete the sale when you accept- just a waste of time.

If you don’t want to pay the price listed, then don't.

I don’t mind the crazy offers, I mostly reject them.

What amuses is the abuse I get for my prices.

I sold some discontinued items at many times their value (£2 items sold for £35) because that’s what they were selling for. A few people were incandescent with rage!

It's essentially a time versus money equation. Time has a value too and is often undervalued.

For me, it's only worth posting something for £1/£2 if I've sold some other stuff that I'm posting as well. So if I'm already parcelling up a load of other stuff, I'm more likely to accept offers. But I wouldn't go out of my way to post one item for £1, no. HTH.

But I wouldn't go out of my way to post one item for £1, no. HTH.

But you can only offer a maximum of 40% below asking price - and £1 is the lowest price you can offer regardless of the starting price. Therefore for anyone to offer you £1 means you can’t be listing at more than about £1.60 anyway. Is that worth your time?