To think Vinted buyers are RIDICULOUS!

[ThisFunHedgehog]

Lighthearted post.

Just that really 🤣 I’m very new to vinted. So let’s hear your Vinted horror stories!

I agree with you OP - many Vinted buyers are sooo cheeky with their offers! I have a pile of stuff to sell but honestly have to psyche myself up to deal with the hassle. It’s worse than FB marketplace 🤣

What is butt hurt?

I find buyers really cheeky on Vinted in a way I’ve never had with other selling platforms. Someone bought an item from me and then messaged to say they only wanted it posted in recycled packaging! I was like sorry you take the purple mailing bags I have or nothing 😂 I’ve also had super cheeky offers that just irritated me, it’s brand new clothes that are never worn for £5, if you can’t afford it don’t message me asking how low I will accept! I ended up taking most of it off and donating to charity because the messages were so annoying and not worth the hassle for the sake of £2/3!

There’s never any paperwork with InPost lockers. You just put the parcel in and the sticker gets put on when it’s collected by InPost.

Sellers are just as annoying as buyers... 🫠

I saw someone selling the most filthy pair of shoes I'd ever seen. They said they could 'wipe them before posting' lol

Well this is obviously made up bollocks as it doesn’t allow you to make any offer, only within a percentage of the asking price

That IS ridiculous. Has that happened? I'd be horrified if something turned up in a crisp bag.

I made an account because I've got loads of stuff to flog! But I haven't used it yet because I'm unsure about packing and posting. What do you ladies pack items for post in and who pays, is it like eBay where I can ask the buyer to pay?

I do get annoying offers too but I just decline and then at some point someone comes along and offers the asking price.
it’s not worth the bother to me of posting anything for less than £3 so I give it a certain amount of time then take to the charity shop or do a doorstep collection for stuff that hasn’t sold

They seem to have removed the limit recently.

I don't think they have. One of my childish family members used to like to piss about on eBay years ago and send me joke offers, he can't do it on vinted because of the percentage cap the pp mentioned, I've just had a go a few seconds ago and on an £80 item you can't put an offer in lower than £48, a warning pops up to say it cant be any more than 40 percent off asking price. Tried again on a few other items and had the same warning.

I'm sure some buyers are ridiculous and offer super low offers but 79p for a £75 item isn't possible.

I mean, I don't even have Vinted - spot the bored person! - but this is an obvious 'tar them all with the same brush' thread title so maybe you shouldn't get butt hurt when people say that. Maybe it's you being RIDICULOUS

With respect you’ve started an AIBU thread with the title ‘Vinted buyers are RIDICULOUS’ which is a generalisation in itself and then when people offer their counter opinions you call people “butt hurt” and tell them to calm down? No one is being anything other than polite and calm besides you who keeps quoting people ordering them to chill out for no reason. 🤣 Are you new to Mumsnet as well because telling people how to feel when you’re asking for other’s perspectives through the form of AIBU will not go down well just because you’ve added the words “lighthearted”. Not really the lighthearted thread you seem to want to think it is. 😬

The buyer always pays postage on Vinted.

I use parcel bags off Amazon or re-use packaging I’ve received / ASOS packaging etc.

This is exactly what I mean! The buyer can still offer on an item by privately messaging you regardless of the offer limit. Nothing stops them from messaging with silly offers, which is what I’m referring to when I say that SOME buyers can be ‘ridiculous’. Wanting items for next to nothing when they’re already cheap too.

Yes, this seems to be a big problem on Vinted. Being hounded by the buyer to ship asap because they’re in a rush.

What paperwork would she be expecting? You shove it in the locker and the courier does the rest. You get an email confirming its dispatch and with In Post I’m pretty sure you can scan a barcode on the screen at the end to track it.

I'm a frequent buyer on Vinted and I'm always considerate and polite
If an item is beyond my budget, I don't buy it. I don't think I've offered less on an item, but have accepted sellers offers.

"Someone bought an item from me and then messaged to say they only wanted it posted in recycled packaging"

@sunsu you should have told them to post you the recycled packaging and if it got to you before the posting window arrived, you'd use it for their item. Make the stupid buggers be inconvenienced if they want this on a platform like vinted! Bet they would soon change their minds!

You don't ' accept the item' when Vinted asks you has the item arrived as expected- they raise the case and no funds are passed to the seller. But you must do this as soon as you get the item, Vinted only gives you a couple of days, otherwise will assume all is ok

Actually, this does read like someone reached the 'Use A Provocative Title!' section in Copywriting For Dummies and decided to try it out

Exactly this. I've given up on it, charity shops only for me now.

I’ve usually had a paper receipt that gives the date, time and number of parcels being sent.

You couldn't make that offer. An offer has to be a minimum percentage of the listed price.

I had one issue after selling about 50 things. Buyer said that the £5 jersey trousers she'd bought from me weren't 'worn once' because there was a bobble on them. Photo of bobble I hadn't even spotted. Back and forth a few emails with me saying no worries, send them back, while she repeatedly told me I'd lied and so on. Then she clicked the box to say they'd arrived, the money went into my account and she wrote a really shitty bit of feedback. I decided not to bother with Vinted anymore.

Ive sold over 400 items on Vinted, so would class myself as an experienced seller.

its rare I encounter an issue with a buyer or a seller really. The only issue I did have is that I bought a Barbour coat listed as new without tags, then in the description “never been worn, only took the tags off and was put in my wardrobe”.

so I bought it, and when it arrived it had gingerbread crumbs in the pocket. I questioned the seller on this and she replied that she had worn it, and never said it wasn’t worn. I then screenshot her listing and sent it to her, she then got very defensive and accused me of being petty.

I left her bad feedback explaining the situation, and in return she did the same to me, describing me as a whinger.