Vinted buyers that never actually buy!

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I’m selling a decent backpack on Vinted. I’ve accepted five offers on it this evening and not one of the buyers has come back to actually buy it! What’s the point in even sending an offer if you don’t want to buy it?!

AIBU to message them all and tell them I’ve had other offers and if they don’t buy soon, they won’t be able to?

Don’t be silly. If that’s the case you’ve formed contracts with 5 people. Can you fulfil that? Are you selling 5 backpacks?

I offered on a coat the other week, by the time the seller accepted it someone else had listed the same one for a better price so I bought the cheaper one 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve accepted them between 4&6pm, pretty much instantly as they’ve sent them.

Because to be quite honest I need the money and don’t appreciate people mucking me around.

Because let’s say I’m looking for brown boots, I’ll like several so that I can easily compare the ones I’ve seen and liked. Otherwise I might see a pair I like but are maybe a little expensive or not quite right, keep scrolling, discover that actually the first pair are the best I can find at an acceptable price, and now I can’t find them.

But you’ve accepted 5 offers on the same thing? So if 2 or more people come back to you, how is that not you mucking them around. “Sorry I know I accepted but actually it’s gone”

Mucking you around would be buying, paying and then cancelling the sale after you’ve packed it and walked to the post office. you are not put out in any way by someone making an offer then not buying other than being annoyed your item hasn’t sold. If you need the money, sending aggy messages to potential buyers because they’ve not bought and paid quickly enough for you won’t help. Instead maybe message to let the know you can post asap? Might nudge them along.

No one would use it then.
It’s not an auction and you are not owed sales.
People like things for a whole host of reasons and make offers to see if the seller would consider selling at that price and then they can think about it further.

Agree re the likes and offers. I’d like a few things while I’m browsing. Then algorithm will offer up similar. Usually a few of the sellers will follow up with an offer which reminds me to check the thing again and often I'll buy it. Might be a couple of days before I check messages though.
I don’t make offers. But it’s probably that phenomenon where people want a bargain but if you accept the offer they think it’s not a bargain!

Anyway. All academic as I have deleted Vinted now it’s all gone to shit with sizing. .

Whoever comes back first and pays gets it.

I understand that. But you are taking issue with the idea of people liking multiple things they aren’t going to buy, when you are accepting multiple offers on the same item.

Snap. Really irritates me people chasing me.

Just chill OP. It's only Vinted. Most people selling on it need the money, most people buying on it need to save money because they need the money.

Literally everyone is in the same boat

Likely they have made an offer on a few similar items and waiting for the best price to come back.

Also maybe they just haven’t been back online yet.

I like things to basically add to basket as if Amazon and to go back to later.

I’ve also made offers on multiple of the same item. The best condition at the Best price wins.

Anyone that comes across begging for a sale doesn’t get the sale from me either.

To bring some joy to five random people’s evenings

It’s a bartering site. It’s designed for price negotiation.

Well by your own logic you should only accept the first offer and then immediately reserve the item to allow them time to pay for it, because you've "entered into a contract" with the first person whose offer you accepted.

But have you not formed a binding contract with all the others, as per your other posts?

😂
surely if we’re thinking about contract law then OP is also under the same, having accepted 5 offers

Evidently not as apparently this thread is full of people who like to mess sellers around on Vinted!

I sell and buy on vinted. I don’t see people
making offers and not going though as messing around. Just like people who offer way less than I want.

They are just throwing offers around and will
buy what they want when they want and when they get the right price.

I get the feeling that if you offered on something, the offer was accepted, and then when you responded the seller told you they’d accepted multiple offers and it was no longer available, you’d have a problem with that as well.

To see if the price drops, to keep an eye on things to compare choices later, to buy it when I get paid, to look at the item in-store first. Loads of reasons.

I don’t think Vinted is the platform for you.

Sorry OP but you are being pretty crazy.

If you believed this you wouldn’t be accepting more than one offer.