To be exasperated by Vinted sellers

[Willyoujust]

I’m fed up with negotiating with sellers on Vinted with ridiculous prices they want for things. I’ve tried to buy two items this morning. The first item, I could buy brand new off Amazon for the same price by the time the postage and packing and buyers protection had been added on. The item is £58 to buy brand new and I offered £30 which is just over half price. I think this is more than reasonable? The seller said they can’t let it go for less than £40 as it is brand new in the box? So what! If it breaks or doesn’t work properly then I can’t return it? So I want to get it at a bargain price if I’m buying it second hand? Not slightly cheaper than buying it new?

I won’t bore you with the second item but it was a similar situation where the seller was charging 100% of what it is brand new but dropped the price to 70%. With postage and packing this was still 85% new!!

Personally I think that if the item is brand new in the box or with tags then 50% of the purchase price is reasonable. If it has been used then 10%-20% of the purchase price is reasonable. That’s how I sell my items on there as I think it’s fair.

I know that they can charge whatever they like and it’s up to us if we buy it or not but I just wanted to rant a little about it as I find it so frustrating 😅

There’s some weird attitudes on here. Selling something at a 200% is being kind? Lol. I suppose it explains why I once got a really nastily worded message on eBay after listing a particularly desirable item - apparently I only listed it because I knew lots of people would want it and it would sell for lots of money. Erm, yes that’s right, I did 🤷‍♀️, numpty.

Well job done. You did make his day. You still got more than double what you paid so he also made your day surely?
How did you find out that he was selling them?

at the moment I am selling something that has an RRP of £40. I am selling it for £15 (no labels but excellent condition), and I got a message last night asking would I sell for £10.
this is a quarter of the new value which I think is a bit cheeky when there are zero imperfections!! I get sick of vinted buyers sometimes!

Er this is on you. They choose the price point. You choose to engage in silly arguments. Make an offer. The accept it or don’t.

Re half price of new. I totally disagree. I would never sell if half price. I only sell new items, lowest I’ve sold at was 80% of new price. This morning I sold a pair of new shoes for more than I paid for them because no longer available and high demand.

The point is you can pay what they want or not. But wasting your time arguing about it or getting annoyed is your choice.

the lowest I will list an item for is probably £3 mainly because it takes me time etc to pack it and take it, winds me up having an offer on my low value items. I list them if they don’t sell I take them to the charity shop when I have a few bits to go. Recently was selling an unused item for £12 got offered £5 or 6 for it, I sent the buyer a message saying google the item it’s £45 and still available so your getting a bargain. they brought it for £12 😊

This thread has earned me a few quid today.

I only usually sell decent quality items for £20 -£50 but just had a rummage through stuff I was thinking of taking to charity shop, put a few items on for £5-10 and already made £36 on a few hours with stuff I wouldn’t have thought about selling so thank you

This reminds me if when I offered on some clothes and got lots of vitriol back from the seller.

They listed an item that was new with tags from bravissimo - which no longer sells clothes. I have the same item, bought in sale for £30 in 2019, though at full price is probably £60. I thought great I still love it, now I can have another, I don't want to buy it from them for £30 like they have posted but I'll make them an offer, it's been listed for 10 months so maybe they'll just be glad to be rid of it!

I offered like £20 and got loads of vitriol back about how it's brand new with tags, they bought for £60 (bear in mind they stopped producing clothes 3 years ago and I bought the same item in 2019) and that it should be a premium item as they aren't making them anymore like it's some form of collectors item 😅

2 days later another seller posted the same item, brand new with tags, £10. I now have another dress. That original seller has now had that dress listed for 13 months.

But that's what it was always meant to be for. Selling old stuff you were going to chuck away and making a few quid. Not as a business selling things you found in charity shops for a profit or selling stuff for almost full price. I wanted it to buy big bundles of kids clothes in the right size for nursery, or maternity wear I'm only going to use for a few months where a dress is £5 rather than £50/60, and then sell it for the same so another person can use it.

I don’t use it to make a profit from ‘stuff I found in a charity shop’

I sell good quality items that I’ve worn once at a fair price.
I also buy the same good quality items from certain brands, wear it once and then resell for a few quid less than I paid for it so I’ve got a constantly new wardrobe of good quality outfits without spending much money.

But that's exactly the problem. They're good quality and you're only wearing them once. Why? Do you not like them? Vinted isn't there so you can keep buying new clothes without spending much money, it's to reduce the massive amount of waste clothes that's come as an output of fast fashion. To sell clothes you would have chucked out rather than them going to landfill.

Your way of doing it may mean you're only needing to spend a few quid on yet another new outfit but also results in the added carbon footprint of sending your old clothes on to the buyer. You should be able to buy fewer high quality pieces and wear them multiple times over multiple years.

Well not really because the person who purchased it hasn’t gone and brought something new… it’s still an improvement on everyone just buying new all the time.

And often I buy from someone else an item that would be £99 new, worn once and then they sell for say £40. I wear it once and then sell for £30. So 3 people with 1 item rather than 3 new items.

Vinted is an online marketplace - and that’s how we’re all using it even if our way of buying and selling is slightly different.

Ive always only worn what I call going out outfits once. At least now someone else getting the use and I’m making few £ rather than taking them to charity shop or just throwing out.

With Vinted, it all boils down to how much you’re willing to pay. I like to shop secondhand as its better for the planet as well as my purse, but it’s not always feasible as people ask laughable amounts of money for some items.

Re: customer protection... Vinted has some form of that as well. Besides, Vinted is mostly used for accessories, clothes, books, toys etc. Not generally products that have much of a warranty if you buy new anyway. When have you last tried to return a dress that shrunk in the wash? Or a book that you decided not to read after all? Or a board game that's missing a piece? It's not so easy, even if you are within your rights.

Anyway, if I put "very good" or "as new" as a seller, I mean it. Buyers can decide to trust me, or not. If they don't want to trust me, then yes, they should probably buy new, but I'm not going to sell it dirt cheap just because. And if you're going to take significantly less pleasure in a new purchase just because it is slightly creased, then you probably shouldn't buy secondhand either.

I generally use Vinted to resell (and buy) popular brands of clothes and toys that really retain their value, so have never run into this issue. Sometimes I do get cheeky offers from buyers, but that's usually just people who haven't done their research. Yeah, you're lucky to get even a pound for Primark jeans, but that's not the case for all brands.

You know Vinted is a business right?

It's designed for Vinted to earn money, it's not an ethical charity. It took them a while to make a profit, but it's a good model.
Yes, they have a good ethos and hopefully a positive impact.

Vinted is there for whatever you want use it for.

Of course some people use it as "fast fashion", buy then sell back.

i don’t see anything wrong with this tbh. The market is everything. She grabbed a bargain and recognised their worth

Vinted is a pointless jumble sale these days.

There's definitely some absolutely tat on there but if you select carefully,you can avoid it all. I have some beautiful items, brand new with tags for a bargain price. I know what brand and size I want, new with tags and I check the sellers feedback .

Must just ask any Vinted selling experts please, if a buyer doesn't pick an item up from the locker/shop, what happens to it? My name and address aren't on the parcel, so it won't find its way back to me.

if it’s InPost, they track it back to you. It happened to me last week

edited to add, it got delivered back to my house

I stand by my comment but also happy that it's given you what you were looking for. Maybe I'm just not that invested in clothes.

I stand by my comment but also happy that it's given you what you were looking for. Maybe I'm just not that invested in clothes.

"Oooh maybe I'm just not that invested in clothes"

Petty snippy little quip 🤣

@Thirteenblackcat ah thank you, this was sent with EVRI. I looked at her feedback today and it seems she makes a habit of never picking items up. Weird.

I don't sell a huge amount but I do it to raise money for a charity very close to my heart, so I'll check buyers feedback from now on as well as sellers. Thank you ☺️

Eh?
I think someone might be projecting.
I didn't say that there's anything wrong with being interested/invested in clothes, for yourself, for your kids, for necessity, for fun, and so on, just that I'm not bothered enough to spend time seeking stuff out.

Yeah I had this. I bid £95 for a £160 designer bag that was used. The bag is still for sale weeks later. I went to offer a higher bid but they had blocked me. I didn't think my bid was that bad tbh

If they are anything like me, sometimes I'd rather not sale than sale at a ridiculously low price.

You have no way of knowing what the seller has in mind, but sometimes it's just about selling everything fast for very little, but other times there's no rush