Vinted offers

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I’m not hugely experienced with Vinted, have bought a few bits and bobs over about three years, sold a few, list infrequently but have recently listed about 50 items after DD had a clear out.

The first couple of days, early August, about half sold or were “favourited”. Now around 20 items are left, women’s and boys’ clothing, lots BNWT, and since Friday I’ve had umpteen offers of less than half the listed price! These are cheap items, ASOS, Next, Zara, but when a BNWT skirt is listed for an already low £3 and I’m offered £1.20, I’m declining. Is this usual for items that have been up for a few weeks? I’m not looking to make huge amounts, obviously, and of course the buyer’s premium and postage do add up, but do most sellers just accept the first offer or do you go back and forth (list at £3, they offer £1.20, I decline and suggest £2.50, they offer £2…)? It’s easier and probably more sensible to accept the first offer but I’ve never actually asked any seller to reduce the price and I don’t know if it’s a game some buyers expect to play! What’s your experience?

If I listed anything at £30 instead of £3, would the same % reduction be reasonable? Do you price high expecting to negotiate? I thought pricing low would shift loads but haggling over £1 seems too petty and I feel silly for fretting about it!

Lots of new and unworn baby clothes in the next bag to list, but it’s not feeling much fun any more.

I use Vinted and the block button is your friend when people start asking silly questions and quibbling over 30p! Many people make offers and then don't buy too. Don't feel obliged to make counter offers. Ebay is much more professional.

My pet peve is people on vinted saying things are basically new (and expecting almost or even more than new once shipping factored in) when they have been used.

The problem these days is goods are cheap but living costs are expensive, so people want to make/ save money but the effort of posting for a few quid is a lot of work. But if its more than a few quid it can be almost new costs.

I’ve retrieved some emails from my “bin” that said an item had been favourited, but I guess there’s a time limit on offering a lower price as using the “Write” button just brings up their profile with no means of messaging them. I’ve edited the price from £2 to £1 but perhaps they’ll only see that if they look through their favourited items.

If they still have your item(s) favourited, they’ll get a notification of the price drop. But they may no longer be favourited (sellers don’t get informed when someone ‘un-favourites’ their item).

Thank you. I’ll crack this eventually! Still I do think it’s better than selling on eBay. Charity shop run at the weekend.

Whenever I list a bulk of stuff on Vinted I give myself a time limit- if it's not all sold in eg a month, it goes to the charity shop. My experience is the good stuff all goes quickly, the rest gets favourited and sits there, then you get few low offers in dribs and drabs a couple of weeks later. I usually accept those (assuming this is all just fairly normal high street stuff and not very specific high value or designer things) and then take the rest to the charity shop because I don't have the space to have it all hanging round the house for weeks on end! I'm still better off at the end of it than I would have been donating the lot.

I don't use Vinted (I tried it, but even at low prices I just got lots of favourites but no sales) but I do eBay. I won't take less than £2, I only put on things that are decent anyway so £2 seems like the bare minimum for the effort involved. Sometimes I get the odd person with a really low offer, most times they just sell