Vinted sizing change!!

[GargoylesofBeelzebub]

Aaargh!! WTF have they done?!

it was terrible before but now it’s going to be absolutely impossible to find the right size.

now if I want a size 14 I can only choose medium which will show me all size 12 and 14s. 🙈🙈

I hope so @mcatmay You seem to have got a response from an actual human!

Yay for Ahmed!

I have pretty much exclusively dressed myself from Vinted for 3 years now (doing my bit for the planet and all that) but I can’t face trawling through up to 4 sizes of stuff to find what I want. Let’s hope the feedback works, I’ve also sent a message via the website.

I got this:

Thank you for your follow-up message. I want to sincerely apologize for the continued frustration the size chart update is causing, particularly with the search functionality.

I completely agree that mixing different sizes (like showing Size 12 when searching for Size 14) makes finding items much harder. You are correct that the lack of separate sizing systems in our filters is creating a major issue.

I have immediately forwarded your specific feedback—especially the demand for allowing distinct sizing systems—to our technical team. This input is crucial as we work to fix the flawed conversion and improve the search experience.

We are actively prioritizing a resolution to these inaccuracies. Thank you for your continued patience.

Best regards,

Mouine || Vinted

It’s interesting, I have had responses from (apparently) a named human rather than AI, with a completely different attitude. This was the most recent response:

Thank you for coming back to us.

Unfortunately these updates happens automatically and may lead to wrong listing like in your case, however those updates accurately change the size for most users, so we apologize for this inconvenience but please we kindly ask that you adjust and ensure that they are correct in your listings.

Kind regards,

Ghassen || vinted

From a buyer's point of view, this really puts me off. Something not fitting is not a reason to return it and I need to be 100% sure what I'm buying. I'm a 14 and I don't want to wade through 12s. I just want to be able to filter by definite sizing.

This is promising!

@GargoylesofBeelzebub Your response is much more promising. Hopefully Vinted now realised they have caused mayhem and will reverse their "improvement". I totally agree with the need to do something but how they have approached this is rubbish.

That sounds more promising than it did - probably not very promising for my bank balance, but it does sound like they're doing something about it.

It's made the news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87421v7lzro

Disappointing, tho, that it isn’t resolved, despite insane amounts of complaints, no doubt.

I’ve still not had a message from Vinted saying the sizing has changed. Thank goodness for this thread, or I would still not have known!

So annoying. I’ve been buying loads as I’ve lost lots of weight. And now my home page is a complete mess!

Once all the current listings have been updated by each seller I can see it will make sense again. But when will that happen? Sellers had no warning. And for some it will be hours of work to update each listing!

But nor is this. I don't know anyone who regularly seeks out clothes based on S/M/L. People look for their numerical size. I'm a 10/12 but now I can't search for this without also seeing 8 and 14, and unless someone has photographed the label it's impossible to tell.

It also doesn't take seconds to change if you have 300 items listed....

I must be a bad person but I've been using the chaos of the change to go back through my favourites and send in some low-ball but reasonable offers for things I want. My reasoning is that sellers will know it's chaos and be grateful to offload the stuff now, knowing that it won't get searched properly again for months. I've been right so far, although I'm not making silly offers, I've picked up some nice quality stuff (cotton, cashmere) for winter.

This is stuff I've already searched for by size, though, so I know it's a 14 even if it says 20-22! I can't do proper searching yet.

Maybe I’m just a weirdo then as I usually search for L or XL rather than a numerical size.

Yes. I'm in holiday mode for now. Won't make any changes for a few weeks. They backtracked on their stupid changes to postage selection before I think.

Mind you, even if they change it back today the sizes wouldn't be accurate any more because some people have changed already. Terrible, terrible decision by Vinted.

@HundredMilesAnHour I don't really care if it's a letter or a number, as long as it's a single size. It's the two-size band that is infuriating, as you can't filter out the 50% of the search results that are the wrong size. If I pick 12-14 in the search filter, I am getting mainly size 12s which are totally irrelevant to me as I want size 14 only. And at the moment there are lots of size 10 as well, given that most people haven't updated their listings yet.

I’ve always hated two band sizing anyway because I’m inevitably in between. I’m currently size 14-16 depending on brand, fit, garment etc. I usually have really specific searches, e.g. Seasalt tops size 14. I do not have the time or patience to wade through the current mess of results.

oh well, the local Evri courier will get a break from coming to my house until all of this is sorted

For me it depends on the brand, for Austin Reed I search "M", for Next I search "14" and M&S I search "12"!

Same here. I mostly search Size 12 but for All Saints they often have things in a Size M

Don’t know if anyone has previously posted this, but it also looks like you can no longer filter by colour in searches either!

The search filters seem a bit glitchy. If you don't select a category, some of the search options are hidden. If you choose a clothing category (eg Women -> Clothing - All), then the size and colour options seem to reappear, mostly, for me. I think it's an error rather than a deliberate removal.

If something hasn't got a picture of the actual size label, I always ask the seller for one.
I don't like woolly descriptions such as:

"label says 16 but I wear it as a size 10"

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