If you haven’t seen it, Vinted has just been revalued at 5 billion after completing a secondary stock sale for 340 million euros.
What new features would you like to see on the platform?
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What’s new: fewer bugs
after the Germans and Irish buy more than others
(for the opening to Germany and Ireland I had seen in their email), but the others not so much
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I would like them to offer seller-paid shipping.
Let me explain: I am a professional seller, and I regularly offer limited-time discounts. But I would like to have the option to offer shipping at my expense, for example, on the next 20 sales, as a « special promotion. »
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One of the main new features I would like to see on the platform is the ability for sellers to disable offers. A new field to fill in the questionnaire for each listing, « Allow offers » with a small ON/OFF button, would be welcome!
If it were up to me, I would disable them by default. Indeed, too many jokers make offers left and right and then disappear. I never understood why some people have fun doing that. Besides wasting the seller’s time and making them hope for a sale for nothing, it’s borderline sadistic.
As I am part of a boost group, at first when I did sessions, lots, messages and offers, I was like you, and now when I get a lot or offer message, I immediately tell myself « it’s a boost so there you go » and sometimes there are surprises because it was a real sale.
It’s the least I could do indeed 
We agree, having total configuration of offers like on eBay.
For the benefit of those who do this, I have noticed that often when going to the profiles of those who sent messages to ask for even less than -40% (or even -40), I often came across closets that sold a lot, so surely direct buying/reselling on Vinted (especially since there are bots that exist for this kind of practice).
Personally, I am not closed to negotiation, it depends on the items, I can or I cannot. However, I now apply a silly rule: those who start directly at -40% (especially when I know the price is already very good) get the cost price or nothing at all. For those who are reasonable, we’ll see on a case-by-case basis. Especially since the problems afterwards often stem from tough negotiations.
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Otherwise, in terms of new features, they could already improve what already exists. Namely the customer service which is catastrophic, their delivery service which causes problems, the blocking without clear reasons (already start by checking before blocking directly on a report).
Then provide tools for professionals to work, inspired by eBay. For example, being able to manage stock on listings (basically setting quantities or automatic republication after a sale), also having a small photo editing module, one-click republication. Have a dedicated page for reviews so you can find them easily and not struggle to search in the messaging system, especially with the 14-day deadline.
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Hello,
Regarding negotiations, I’m with you. Not completely closed off, but annoyed by offers at 60% of the price (i.e., 40% off) or at 2/3 of the price. And this, even when it’s clearly stated in the listing that the price is firm and that offers will not be accepted.
I had this happen again this morning. I asked the person to read the listing (« Hello, could you please read the listing? »). I received a lengthy response telling me to be more polite, explaining that with shipping costs, the price wasn’t as advantageous as buying in a store, and also explaining the principle of Vinted, which is to get good deals, and that she sometimes sells her items at a discount, so she tried anyway, ending with « Have a nice day and happy selling. »
So, I also responded with a lengthy message explaining that politeness starts with a greeting before making an offer and taking into account what the seller writes in their listing. And I added that a « Sorry, I hadn’t read/seen it » would have been enough.
I deleted the conversation. The problem is that there are more and more people like this. Less and less respectful with increasingly lower offers. A few years ago, big discount requests were rarer. Often, negotiations revolved around 2 or 3 euros off the total price, which was acceptable.
Ultimately, I’m in favor of a button to enable/disable offers, and I’d go even further: allow limiting offers to a percentage of the price, like « yes to offers, but a maximum discount of 15% ». With the possibility to do this for each item, because for some items, we’d almost give them away, while for others, we don’t want to discount them at all.
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Yes, it’s eBay’s system that’s perfect, you can accept or not and configure for each item an amount below which it’s automatically refused.
Personally, messages like « yes, but with fees it’s not interesting… » « yes, but on Amazon… » I used to write long replies too, I don’t even answer them anymore. Especially since it’s often as soon as Amazon has a promotion, they jump on my listing with a disgusting offer that I refuse and brandishing the Amazon price, knowing that the promotion can disappear after an hour.
Hello - now 8 billion according to the latest news.
They could hire some IT specialists to improve the search engine.
ahah, it seems to me that @Gametoysretro wrote somewhere on the forum that the engine had been modified though?
In any case, I no longer have the same problems as before with hundreds of ads that had nothing to do with it. Even the tags are less delirious.
Fewer bugs, a resolution of visibility because when you have millions of users and you republish during peak hours and you see such low visibility, there is a big problem with the algorithm.
Better optimization of the European market because we are not all equal, for example the Austrians (I sell costume jewelry) and well I have already received big offers from them but they cannot proceed to purchase which is stupid in this case to make our ads invisible to them…
Regarding delivery law, why not review their prices with the carriers because I receive messages from other countries saying the item is as expensive as delivery…
But the biggest point yes is the stability of the platform (fewer bugs) and visibility, so rework the algorithm…