Here is what Vinted responded to me regarding the drop in sales
"Thank you for contacting us.
I am truly sorry for the disappointing situation you are experiencing.
Good news: our technical team is aware of the issue and a fix is in progress! 
We hope everything will be working well very soon.
Have a nice day."
So it is indeed a recurring problem
Ah, thatās good news! Anyway, given the number of people in our situation, and the precise time it started, it couldnāt have been anything other than a bugā¦
Well, hopefully the problem will be resolved quicklyā¦ Thatās another story 
We should start a petition for compensation 
@ Poggi : I totally agree with you about the benefit of specialization. If thereās one thing Iād like to have on Vinted, itās the ability to have multiple Ā« shops Ā». I sell books: Iāve regretted from the beginning not having a shop for novels, one for essays, one for art books, etc. Iām perfectly aware that when someone is looking for a crime novel, they wonāt buy a sociology essay.
Hello - In my opinion, if Vintedās search engine were more efficient, we wouldnāt need to open multiple shops.
Well, the problem is that it does. I could agree with your entire reasoning if it werenāt for that. And on professional groups, this is something that comes up a lot. Quite a few people who, from one day to the next, find their revenue divided by 5.
In my personal case, itās basically 5-day cycles. So, I agree that randomness exists in business, but here itās timed like clockwork: 5 days I work, 5 days I do nothing, and this has been going on for months. Luckily, I donāt have all my eggs in the Vinted basket.
Iāve just come back from vacation, and strangely enough, Iām not selling too badly even though I havenāt posted anything yet, Iāve just been busy updating my packages. And besides, July is really not a good month in my sector.
Vinted is clearly not suitable for large shops. Using the example of the books mentioned above, I used to buy a lot for my wife on Rakuten, and having multiple categories in the same shop didnāt cause any problems (on the contrary, it allowed for optimized shipping costs and discount vouchers).
Not a good idea to buy books on Rakuten. Their commission is so high that sellers are forced to sell at a high price. As for me, I have books on Rakuten because listing them is easy, but I sell them much cheaper on Vinted.
hence the Ā« before Ā» 
I gave up on Rakuten, they are too abusive. Anyway, individuals and small sellers no longer interest them.
The only advantage of Rakuten is that there isnāt the Ā« old listing buried on page 10 Ā» phenomenon. Listings are roughly sorted by increasing price when you are on a given book.
Regarding going live: it was fast, until I realized that the suggested price ignores bulk used sellers like Momox or Recyclelivres. In other words, Momox etc. pay Rakuten so that their listings are excluded from price comparisons when someone wants to sell the same book.
So when you go live on Rakuten, you first have to go through a manual check of competing prices. The advantage of scanning the ISBN / barcode disappears. Furthermore, on a phone, itās such a painful process that in practice itās unfeasible => PC required.
Are you in vacation mode? How long did you leave without sending packages?
You wrote that vacation mode caused your sales to drop upon your return. So I hesitate, but does that mean we can never rest?
I went on vacation for 3 weeks and I just hid my listings to avoid the vacation mode, which apparently causes sales to dropā¦ I had never made the connection before, but itās true that last year I put myself as unavailable for 1 month and when I returned it took several weeks to pick up again!
For my part, I was also on vacation for almost a month.
I just got back and so far my stats have remained stable: Iām still averaging around 4 sales per day.
So I would say it might depend on the account, its age, or the posting frequency, but personally I havenāt seen a big impact.
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Yeah, I tried again because I didnāt want to have to explain each time that I was on vacation and that it would take a few days). I donāt know, I havenāt had time to check if my articles were showing up in the search engine yet.
I sell silver and stone jewelry. I deliberately have very little stock because I specialize in unique pieces. Therefore, I have a targeted clientele. Vinted complements my website, and since Iāve been on this platform, my revenue has been steadily increasing. I post one piece per day and occasionally re-publish items. From time to time, I introduce a new product line so that my clientele doesnāt get bored, but I am very careful to always stay within the theme of my shop. I would be curious to have an outside opinion because I operate on the principle that one can always improve.
Iām jumping on this topic, I havenāt gone on vacation and yet none of my articles appear when I type the exact name in the search with another account, Iām invisible from searchesā¦
And contacting support doesnāt do much good, same bot responseā¦
There have been major issues with the Vinted search bar lately, so that could explain it.
Whatās your Vinted? Iāll try to check on my end.
Same as yesterday, a friend asked for my account, I gave it to him, he looked and I didnāt appear anywhere.
Yesterday there were bugs, the site wasnāt progressing, messages werenāt displaying, this morning same server error, nothing works. Every day thereās something.
What a mess this site is. Never a sales site like this. they managed to get the NĀ°1 spot, for the moment we canāt do without it, but at this rate they wonāt last long.
Iām telling you, plan for something else on the side and now, so you donāt hit the wall having planned nothing.