The concept behind Vinted is really unique and works well most of the time, it relies on both the buyer and the seller updating the app in various stages in terms of updating the dispatch of the sold item and the buyer confirming when the item arrives with them. There are a few different courier types that are automatically assigned when selling, which include Hermes and Royal Mail. All of which have QR codes on the pre paid postage labels which when scanned at the destination update the app as to when the sold item has been dispatched and arrived. Meanwhile any money paid to the seller for the item is kept in holding as a pending balance until the buyer receives the item and confirms everything is ok, which can cause some problems when dealing with inactive or argumentative buyers. Then the money is released to the seller and they can transfer it to their own personal bank account. The app has a great platform to sell items to make money and relying all stages of the buying and selling process are checked off it can work really well. I have had an item lost by couriers and also returned by a courier before allowing the customer the 10 days allocated collection time which can cause problems, and as much as Vinted is safe and offers the checklist format to ensure both buyer and seller are protected it does rely on multiple party’s to ensure the process is successful which can go wrong.

I have used this app for nearly 2 years and it works well when all goes well. But… there are issues that can occur with Vinted that don’t always work out in your favour. For example I have listed a few household items that don’t necessarily fit into one of Vinted’s brackets so I have had to upload them in a category that is similar. Vinted then delete the item and say it’s against the rules, when other people sell the same items and manage to keep there items listed. I’m not talking about anything dodgy. One example I had was a Pyrex dish! Also, if you sell household items such as plates they make you choose a delivery option based on weight and the lowest is 5kg. So if someone wants to buy a small dish, the minimum delivery they would pay can be £4+. Obviously that puts buyers off if you’re selling a dish for £1! And if a parcel is damaged in transit you can sometimes be the person to lose that sale as most people don’t want to return a broken item if they have to pay for the return delivery. That means you have to refund them yourself and lose the sale money. When every sale has a protection fee applied I think Vinted should be refunding damaged parcels, not the seller! Generally the app is good and the concept is great. You can sell clothes easily and buying clothes or soft items comes with much less risk of damage in transit. I like that it makes buying second hand easier, and less waste is produced.

….few things would be nice to make better. Notifications- too many content so often not even enough time to read as they disappear from my screen. Notifications should be short and short glance should give you straight away info what event occurred. Other thing - all notifications, doesn’t matter if item sold, item added to favourites etc etc generating exactly the same sound. Why??? Would be good if for example “item sold” sound could be different - so you don’t even need to take phone to your hand to know something was sold from my items. Like on ebay. Other stuff. Why all items sold and bought ate in the same place?? It should be separate so you can tracing easily items posted to you and the one you sent to customers. Now everything is mixed up. Another thing. When having money on my vinted account from sold items and buying something this money are consumed first then difference going from my card - would be nice to being able to decide if I wanna use money from vinted account or pay in full by card/apple pay. Another thing - all notifications, messages coming with massive delay. Is hard to keep up what’s what. Or accidentally I hidden item then unhidden and item is still shown as hidden… Like your system not keeping up with user commands. And many many other small things which making app not very user friendly.

At first I thought this was a great app the way it doesn’t charge you to use it and the ease of listing. However, it has so many fundamental issues. The first one is when I sent an item the receiver did not pick it up so it was automatically sent back to me. The buyer was refunded and my item was sent back to me. However, it was never sent back to me and Vinted did not bother to look into it any further then tell me it was delivered. I lost out on money through this.The other major issue is every time I’ve edited an advert in regards to the price, to reduce it, my item has become hidden and I’ve been threatened with a violation, authenticity is being checked every single time I change the price even though photos and the product hasn’t changed, and now I have just got another one to say my item is hidden because the photo quality is too low or too dark. There is literally nothing wrong with the high definition photos which are well lit and crystal clear, you can zoom in on the fires of the bag if you so wish. I’m getting really fed up with this app constantly sending automated messages saying their automatic detection system find a problem. Find humans before you insult people who are using your app, find those humans and get them to actually look at the advert rather than just constantly criticise on suspicion.