A woman was left seething at the way some people behave on Vinted, saying that she doesn’t mind it when people use the app fairly, but sometimes it can grind her gears
A Vinted user has shared her “frustrations” with the app, saying that she doesn’t know how people use it regularly. Sarah Penney asked as part of her TikTok caption: “How do some of you do this all the time? Vinted is driving me nuts”. She explained that she doesn’t have a business on there, it’s literally a case of she’s got “some s***” and wants to “make a few pounds,” saying she believed that to be the “perfect” and “original way to use Vinted”.
Sarah explained that she put a pair of “Bridal shoes” on the app, explaining that they’re “white with like a pearl thing on them,” saying that she wore them “once” to her “brother’s wedding”.
She shared that she wouldn’t “wear them again,” so thought rather than letting them sit in a cupboard she’d get a bit of money for them.
Sarah did say that there was a tiny mark on the sole, but other than that, they were in “perfect” condition, so she thought she’d “chuck them on for £3.50.
She explained: “This person sends me an offer, ‘Would you take £2.50?’ I said ‘I’m sorry, you know, but I do think £3.50 is a fair price’ and they came back and were like ‘Yeah, but when the postage and packaging and buyer protection is added on it just drives the cost up’.”
Sarah then seethed that she doesn’t get the buyer protection fee or the postage and packaging money, all she’d get would be £2.50, saying that they’re “lovely” shoes, so if the woman wanted them, she should “just buy them”.
She then shared another time where someone tried to low-ball her for an item she’d uploaded.
Sarah said that she’d put on a pair of pyjamas for £2 because she knew she “wouldn’t wear them again”. But it was what a Vinted buyer did next that irritated her.
“This woman sends me an offer…£1.80. 20p less. I was like, just f****** buy them, Sandra. I’m not even joking, I’m that petty, I declined. No! Like, they’re two pounds. Why are you offering me £1.80?” she raged.
Sarah then clarified that she’s not saying that people shouldn’t “make offers,” because she has in the past.
“If something’s £45, you offer £40, you chance your arm, see what happens. But it’s £2! For the love of all that is holy in this world, it is two quid for some pyjamas, that you’re probably gonna wear a few times and then put back on Vinted again and you’ll put them on for more than I have,” she joked. She then said that her “gears were fully grinded with this Vinted palava”.
Someone in the comments penned: “I just decline. It’s ridiculous. I put a £75 dress on that I had worn once, so it was perfect, listed for £20. Keep getting offers of £15. I’d rather give it to a charity shop than accept a rubbish offer!”
Another wrote: “Somebody made a bundle of 2 items the other day, which was supposed to be £2.14 with the bundle discount…. She offered me £2!! I s*** you not. I just accepted. I thought you enjoy your 14p hun!”
A Vinted user shared how she uses the app, saying: “I think I only ever put an offer in once to a seller and the item was initially like £45 and I asked if they’ll take £40 like what you did but I felt so bad for doing that so I only heart an item and if it goes lower in price then I’ll buy it when it’s at a price I prefer to pay.
“Anything that’s already at a bargain price or under £10 is something no one should quibble about spending the money on!”