I did specify that their case was an exception 
I didnāt quite understand your message at first, as I had mainly retained that you were discussing the problems of lost packages with Vinted Go, but not necessarily the issue of full lockers.
In any case, my intervention was mainly aimed at sharing my observation: on my end (Lyon region), itās quite the opposite. In recent days, Iāve had trouble finding space in the lockers, and my pickup point, which handles Vinted Go, Mondial Relay, Relais Colis, UPS, and GLS, confirmed that business is picking up strongly, with clearly more volume at the moment.
Afterwards, Iām not complaining, I had a good weekend, the best in months, but Iām waiting to see if it holds up. I still have trouble being very confident given the last few months and what I see and hear.
Besides, I saw that my biggest direct competitor on eBay had thrown in the towel (he made bundles for resellers to destock and seems to be moving into another niche and also deleted his Vinted account) and others on Vinted have seen their wardrobes shrink considerably with few new items from a supplier we usually have in common.
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Haha, all the better, that will make space for you
Itās clear that the market is becoming increasingly complex, but I tell myself that itās not a bad thing: only the strongest and most professional will last in the long run 
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After talking about Vinted Go (which fortunately doesnāt exist in Corsica) when I see many tracking updates on Facebook and elsewhereā¦ when you see packages stuck in lockers for over a week, itās no surprise theyāre full 
To clarify: I am convinced that sales on Vinted are going well; itās just that itās no longer happening to meā¦
3 sales Wednesday, 2 Thursday, and 4 Friday, zero today. Since I never take public holidays, including tomorrow, November 11th, I had planned a weekend to catch up! Mistake! I broke my momentum. On Vinted, strike while the iron is hot, otherwise it cools down very quickly, and especially on the 1st weekend of the month! Thatāll teach me! Tomorrow morning, Iāll have to sign the Ā« just 5 more minutes Ā» armistice, theyāll have to heat up their credit cards at the crack of dawn! 
I sent an email to Vintedās robots to inform them that my customers were not satisfied (listing the issues), that it was harming my business and the siteās image, and that obviously it could not be deactivated.
itās not becoming more and more complex, itās a cycle, I explained it in another post, all the steps, some told me I was in the wrong phase. I invented nothing, itās the cycles of capitalism (Here applied to a site and the phase of the declining rate of profit. (saturation, price drops, the smallest sellers go under and only the biggest ones remain and will grow and devour the others)
Then another platform will appear, or something else.
Hello everyone,
I regularly read the posts on this thread and would also like to share my experience. Iāve been quite demotivated regarding sales for over a month now. Iām not a professional seller, but I used to easily make at least 10-15 sales per month. My closet has a good variety, and Iām very open to negotiationsā¦ I generally accept offers, even those close to -40%. My sales helped me supplement my income and clear out my closets. But since the end of September/beginning of October, Iāve been in a complete slump. Since November 1st, I thought there might be a comeback because I made 3 sales (all on the same day!), but since then, nothing. I regularly lower prices if my items stay too long, but it doesnāt change anything. I accept many offers, but they no longer lead to payment. Of course, Iām not a professional and donāt have a business to run, but even as a private seller, the sales climate is completely negativeā¦ I hope the trend changes quickly.
Best regards to all,
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Donāt get discouraged, there are cycles, and we are in a complicated cycle. It will get better. Patience. The advantage is that you donāt do this professionally, so thereās no pressure. Keep posting and reposting your ads. Right now, (this isnāt the explanation for everything) but most stores are having Black Friday sales all month of November, which overshadows second-hand sales.
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yes and quite a few -50% promotions on Christmas items 2 months in advance
You see, thereās also a factor that seems significant to me, right now, itās tough for everyone, everyone wants to make money. I think supply is becoming greater than demand because people are selling in droves. And prices are often inflated to get the most out of it, and thatās not the professionals, because we do as weāve always done, we have to make a profit and itās costly work. The Vinted approach of the average person has become a search for income before itās a search for bargains. There will come a time when people will slash prices out of discouragement. And we see some testimonies to that effect. Thatās my point of view.
Iām going to get roasted by the moralizers and the specialistsā¦ 
Tell me Iām wrong with real arguments. Not just Ā« youāre talking crap Ā».
What I see instead, when I make a bit more effort to look at the competition, are accounts that fall into dormancy, even with hundreds of listings. No one takes care of them anymore, the last listings are over a year old, there are only ratings for Ā« automatically canceled sale Ā» because no one manages the account anymore. I think discouragement leads to a silent departure rather than correcting all oneās listings one by one to slash prices. Simple intuition, no statistics behind this idea.
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Did you stock up? 
Hello
Iāve decided to make a 180-degree turn. Iām going to gradually phase out my pro account and switch back to a regular account. I feel like the pro account is a way for Vinted to push resellers aside. Weāre put on a different algorithm. Weāre made less visible unless we buy their boosted listings. Which is a win-win for Vinted.
Iāve had several people offer me a good price. I accept, and shortly after, the conversation gets deleted. Do they realize Iām a pro and run away, or were they deleted by Vinted? (Iāve never found one of the accounts I remembered)
At the same time, Iām diversifying my sales platforms.
Happy selling everyone
Well done,
So in my niche, Iām less concerned by this mass effect. Because I sell products from supplier clearances (more second-hand here and there, but mainly to avoid issues with Vinted), so you have to be professional to access them, which limits competition. And I often have items where only a few sellers offer them. Especially since the stock isnāt eternal, so at some point, there arenāt many people who have them (quite a few of my competitors do one-off sales, whereas I try to build stock gradually to have long-term references). On the individual seller side, Iāll have a bit of Ā« competition Ā» from those clearing out sales, but itās still a vein that tends to become more and more complicated with fewer and fewer offers, and less and less significant discounts (I often see items on sale in stores that are more expensive than what I sell them for).
But yes, obviously, Vinted has greatly simplified reselling (that was their strength, offering a simple mobile app perfectly suited to the general public who werenāt necessarily into platforms like eBay). Furthermore, thereās a trend effect with press articles and TV reports, a bit like all those who wanted to open restaurants in the early 2010s with cooking competition shows (only to get wiped out by Tacos and all-you-can-eat buffets).
I have competitors who seem to be giving up, with their dressers going from 500 listings to about 100, mostly inexpensive items (so theyāre no longer taking risks by buying more expensive items from suppliers), and they really seem to have shifted to a supplementary income mindset rather than a full-time activity. My biggest competitor on eBay has completely put everything into wholesale lots for resellers to get rid of his stock (well, I think that will relieve quite a few people because he was selling very cheaply to get started, but in the end, after a year, heās giving up and moving into another niche).
Moreover, at the beginning of the week, one of my suppliers had a nice shipment of figurines that weāre pretty sure will sell, but in very small quantities. I thought they wouldnāt last 2 hours on the site (I personally bought 15% of the stock), and there are still some left today. And Iām seeing this with many products; theyāre selling much slower than a few months ago.
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