Auctions have become very secondary on the site; I believe they represent 1 or 2% of the activity. It’s a concept that no longer works as we knew it in the 2000s (and which was quite addictive). Now it’s live streams that seem to have taken over. For visibility, if you enter codes in the listings (like the EAN), you’ll show up on Google and price comparison sites.
As for labels, I don’t really see what’s complicated about managing them. For carriers like MR, shop2shop, or Colissimo, the shipping platform works very well, especially since they simplified it again last week. The most complicated part is setting up international shipping because, yes, it’s much more complicated than Vinted, but there’s also a reason: you have access to all countries and all carriers, you can do absolutely whatever you want. I think their mistake is not offering a simplified model that would allow you to do like Vinted for individuals and professionals, while also offering the current model for those who really want to work more broadly.
Yes, there have been quite a few articles on the subject following the $56 billion takeover bid by Gamestop; they are growing again.
Alas, they have become a rare commodity. It’s simple, I’ll give an example from this weekend: on eBay, a buyer thanked me for allowing him to find these figurines at this price, and on Vinted, another one gave me a hard time over abusive shipping costs of €1.95 which exploded the price of the figurine (a model for which I was the cheapest on the entire internet, not common, and I had even accepted his offer of €5 off). Too bad, the eBay buyer received a nice little gift related to what he bought, and on Vinted I deleted the ad so that his offer would no longer be valid (it’s a buyer who had already pulled the same stunt on me and had come back to buy at the offered price a few days later).
Unfortunately, he’s one of those we come across every day on Vinted.
Instead of banning Pros for nothing on Vinted, they should take a close look at these pseudo-buyers.
This is precisely what I was pointing out; we don’t encounter this type of user on eBay, or perhaps I’ve been lucky over the past few decades.
I also had one yesterday, who complained that shipping costs were too high on Vinted (a Spanish woman).
She can go buy it in a store, it’s more expensive
It’s absolutely not my problem…
Hello, my wallet has been blocked since April 15th and I can’t access my money. I sold an item for €85 and nothing else, but they asked me for a photocopy of my ID card (front and back) and then a series of documents to fill out, like for professionals. I filled in my personal details but didn’t fill in the others because they only concerned professionals. Then yesterday, I had to resend my documents because they weren’t legible enough. I’m 77 years old and this is the last time I’ll sell on Vinted. I can’t even close my account. To be continued… pffffffffffffff
Attention Selling with a personal account but as a professional is deceiving the end consumer and is severely punished by the DGCCRF! It’s not just about paying your taxes to URSSAF… Reminder: a professional seller must provide their customer with 14 days of withdrawal without legitimate reason… welcome to France ^^ After you can play, but the state often wins
Yes, it’s a bit like delinquents never being punished in France…
It’s Russian roulette…
I see private accounts on Vinted with over 800 reviews, even more, so that many sales, with over 2000 items listed… and they’ve never been bothered… (and that’s a good thing, somewhere)
And there are mothers who try to sell little things to « put butter in the spinach ».. and who are restricted because they had the misfortune of putting in new items (that came from their closets)
It’s better to ban who, then?
If only the « jealous » could leave everyone alone…
I agree. The accumulation of a lifetime, and if one is of a certain age, items that come from inheritances add up quickly. The number of sales means nothing because Vinted doesn’t say if the seller has been there for 10 years or 10 months.
Yes @Gametoysretro and that’s what I’m saying… you could… and you’d have the « Jealous of their death » people reporting you…
I hate guys (or girls) who report things… It feels like the 1940s
Let them mind their own damn business.. to be polite
Personally, I have nothing against those who sell as individuals when they could be professionals… that’s their problem… it’s not mine…
On the other hand, I’d love to slap those who report
We live in a world with crises everywhere (war, climate, economic, etc. …) and they have the energy to waste on this. Sometimes I really wonder if we deserve to survive as a species .
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