Am I the only one who received this warning? This morning at 8:10 AM, to start the day off right, Vinted gave me a warning:
“Hello,
We are delighted to see that your profile is particularly active on Vinted!
We simply want to remind you that selling items in large quantities can be considered a commercial activity. Here is some information about our policy on this matter. In accordance with our Catalog Rules, you can only carry out commercial activities if you are a Pro seller.
For the moment, no action has been taken regarding your listings or your profile. Nevertheless, please keep these guidelines in mind and avoid listing items for commercial purposes. If you wish to continue selling large quantities of items, you can become a Vinted Pro member and thus sell an unlimited number of second-hand items, if this option is available in your country.
What is a Pro seller?
etc… We know the message**”**
I haven’t touched my account today…. Vinted is really going downhill….
Received the same this morning at the same time. And I’m a pro seller. Obviously. I think something is going on at Vinted. All these bans, these warnings, these refusals to communicate foreshadow a significant change in strategy. Yesterday I spoke to Colissimo on the phone. The person told me they had instructions not to handle disputes for Vinted packages anymore. In short, it doesn’t look good.
Oh?! I’ll check with my pickup point (I’m lucky enough to have one that handles Mondial Relay/Chronopost/DPD/Relais Colis). The manager usually knows everything…
I had the same thing lol even though I’m also a pro. Anyway, Vinted is nonsense. You have specific profiles with 1000 items for sale but no problems, anyway. Even as a pro seller, you can’t even do what you want on their woke platform.
Received this warning 6 months ago, with no consequences to date.
However… I only added new listings on a second account. On the account in question, I am only running pre-existing listings. I have sold 20% of this stock since the warning.
I have also backed up all listings via Clemz, in case they need to be transferred to another account following a ban.
Why are you republishing? Do you have strong competition in books? With individuals, right? Do you notice that what you republish sells better? Why not post anything more on this account?
I think it’s an automatic alert message, what do you think?
How many items do you have online at the time of the message? (I have 1870)
It’s certain that in very competitive markets, republishing is vital. It may be less so in other niches.
I was trying to turn over stock in a month, so about 50 per day, I’m going to lower it; knowing that I publish an average of 20 new listings per day.
I am republishing because it generates sales, the link is direct. When I muster the courage to repost listings on LBC, which has to be done manually, the result is just as immediate.
Competition in books is fierce. Vinted has become a huge platform for books and other cultural products, although the interface is anti-ergonomic for these categories.
I no longer feed the account where I received a warning because… I received a warning. I’m afraid of being banned.
I have thousands of items online.
When everything is going well, I also add about twenty listings per day.
This message has been sent randomly for years, but today many received it (me too), but there’s nothing to worry about, it’s just the bot going crazy right now, it happens almost every day.
ah!!! I searched and didn’t find it. You did. That says a lot about what’s going on. I just looked at their Instagram too. It looks like they want to compete with Vestiaire Collective.
personally, I think I should have a few new ones, but I’ve replaced everything with « very good condition » or even « satisfactory » xD
we’ll be careful about that…
ah ah ah that’s exactly it. A crazy story. Anyway, they want to sell. We will either have to go elsewhere or adapt. Or they will sink. Sky is the limit
For the first time in my life, I’m thinking, « I can’t wait for this to be bought by a big group that will ask themselves, ‹ Okay, how do we make the most money here? › »
