Small closet or large closet to sell more: What is the "right" size for a closet on Vinted?

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I am facing a situation that has perplexed me for months. By consistently posting listings online, my catalog has doubled in size compared to last year. However, sales have remained at the same level overall, both in quantity and revenue.

Therefore, I have the impression that beyond a certain number of items, adding more is almost useless, or even counterproductive. The « old » items are drowned in the depth of the catalog, and no buyer goes that far, whereas they would have better visibility in a smaller catalog. (This is evident on leboncoin: I cannot display more than a few hundred of my own listings because the site consumes so much memory that it crashes my browser).

One can, of course, think that it’s a matter of quality, and that I’m simply noticing that the « lousy items » are left unsold. Except that when I refresh the listings, some of these « lousy items » do sell: so they weren’t that lousy after all.

I am curious about your experiences on this matter.

Perhaps the optimum is to have, say, 400-500 listings, meaning rich enough to generate interest and encourage buyers to make bundles, without being so long that no one searches to the end. And therefore, it would be better to have several separate accounts, each with 500 listings, rather than one large one with thousands.

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complicated to answer and everyone has their own theory (or experience) on the subject.
So as far as I’m concerned, I’ve progressed enormously when I had a more extensive catalog (a little over 1200 listings today) because it makes it easier to create bundles. But if I said it’s complicated to answer, it’s because I’ve had a big drop in activity for a few months on Vinted. Is the size of my catalog the cause? I don’t think so because I was working well with the same size.
In my opinion, if you sell the same with twice as many items, it’s perhaps because you’ve compensated for the drop in activity noted by many thanks to this widening of choice.
Afterwards, it is true that Vinted is quite poorly designed for large wardrobes.

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For any situation, there are pros and cons. The difficulty of making a coherent arbitration with our way of working, our business, our products.

Me too, around 1400. And the more I have, the more visible I am, and the more I sell. My goal is to increase gradually.

I calculated a ratio per month: Number of sales / Number of items listed. This helps to see the turnover.

And it’s not about useless things, it’s just about visibility. If it’s visible, it sells; if not, it doesn’t. And in my opinion, the more items you have, the more visible you are.

I also looked at the number of similar items to mine for sale. For example, I’m talking nonsense, like the number of Levi’s 512 jeans.

The idea to be seen is to be #1 in your niche. That’s where it will grow and where you’ll score. In my opinion, not being niched means being diluted = no visibility = no sales.

So, to compensate, it’s better to have fewer items but all niched, than a large catalog without identity.

Before, I could manage with 2500 diverse references, and then I went down to 500 at the beginning of the year. I got rid of almost everything, keeping only what was similar, and my turnover started to increase when I specialized.

In books, I don’t know well, but you could be in Japanese manga from the 2000s, or French thrillers, or poetry, or I don’t know what.

Now there’s so much supply that it’s the only way it works (except for a few exceptions).

Before, the supply was much smaller. I remember I had an item where I tracked the number of items online for years: it was the Eden Park shirt. In 2008, we had about 200 pieces online on eBay. Then it increased, by thousands, but not excessively. Today, I think Vinted has tens of thousands of pieces.

So before, you could be non-niched, and it worked.

So ideally: a large supply in a very small area, so as to always appear on the first page of Vinted. (For example, if someone searches for French police novels, or Japanese manga 2000s.)

I don’t know if this can help you.

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Hello,

I feel the same way. Since I doubled my wardrobe from 300 to 600 items, I’ve been selling less and less bundles.

It’s a shame the filters and # hashtags aren’t better designed; it would make people more inclined to scroll to create a targeted bundle.

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I am not in a position to choose the book resupply that I offer; it depends on opportunities. The niche logic has an immediate limit. I can at least focus on essays (“Non Fiction”), and on comic books/manga, thus trying to set aside novels. Being more specialized is really complicated…

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It’s especially the fact that there’s no search engine in the shops, that’s a huge barrier. I’m told that every day.

There’s nothing to expect from hashtags, I’ve explained here several times why. (Random reward).

Yes Faune, I understand. It’s one of the « big barriers to entry » as they say. Have you tried exploring all avenues? Suppliers, liquidations, flea markets? Associations?

There are really books everywhere and a lot of them, but I don’t know if they are resellable. Do you deal in books… by chance? out of conviction? practicality? Maybe try to broaden to other items and reduce the scope? randomly, for example, the book universe and manga, and offer figurines, clothes, and related items?

When you don’t change anything, the result is always the same, and when things aren’t going well, you have to try to change, that’s the hardest part, getting out of your comfort zone.

If I remember correctly, I bought a cubic meter of books at auction, well, there was a bit of everything in the lot.

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I sell books by chance, after realizing I could resell the books I didn’t want to keep after reading them. The choice of titles is infinite and their values vary extremely, from nothing at all to 1000 euros or more. You need a bit of flair.

Flea markets are not a good plan, as you’ve noticed in other categories. But perhaps look again at judicial liquidations. I had looked at auctions for a while: there are far too many well-informed buyers to make a profit, at least in the Paris region. But I hadn’t looked into it further.

And to echo your sentiment: « Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results » (Einstein).

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