A SELF-DESCRIBED Vinted “addict” has insisted the selling app is “broken”, and she’s not the only one struggling.
Maisie, who has turned her love of flipping items for a profit into a lucrative side hustle, explained in a video on her TikTok page that the site has gone very quiet for her.
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“Is anyone else’s Vinted broken or is it just mine?” she sighed.
“Because I genuinely cannot remember the last time that I had a sale on there!”
In fact, things are so quiet that she’s even “favouring eBay” for sales at the moment.
She urged people in the comments section to let her know if they’d had any success with Vinted, and if so selling what, before concluding: “But yeah it’s dead for me.
“So if you’re in the same boat you’re not alone.”
And she quickly discovered that she also wasn’t alone in her Vinted struggles.
“Vinted is still my main place for sales but it’s properrrr quiet!!” one admitted.
“Getting tons of saves but not many sales.”
“There’s definitely problems – things are not updating again and views aren’t been put on either,” another added.
“I have sold a few things but it’s very slow.”
As a third said they knew exactly why things have slowed down on Vinted.
“It’s August as a whole though,” they wrote.
“It’s because it’s not hot hot anymore but its not cold enough yet – so it’s the worse month for selling on Vinted.
“We all go through it.
“It’s not you at all it’s just more of a quieter month.”
They added that things will “pick back up again” come September, and pointed out that it’s currently “near the end of the month so a lot of people have bills to pay for right now”.
Do you need to pay tax on items sold on Vinted?
QUICK facts on tax from the team at Vinted…
- The only time that an item might be taxable is if it sells for more than £6,000 and there is profit (sells for more than you paid for it). Even then, you can use your capital gains tax-free allowance of £3,000 to offset it.
- Generally, only business sellers trading for profit (buying goods with the purpose of selling for more than they paid for them) might need to pay tax. Business sellers who trade for profit can use a tax-free allowance of £1,000, which has been in place since 2017.
- More information here: vinted.co.uk/no-changes-to-taxes
“Get that out the way then it will start again!” they concluded.
“I’m glad it’s not just me. I’m doing all sorts to see what’s working!” another added.
“Mine is so slow,” someone else bemoaned.
“I deleted 230 items and started again with listings, uploading everyday and sold nothing.”
“I found that Friday evenings I got the most sales,” another suggested.
“If it didn’t sell in 2 weeks or got 0 views I just deleted it.
“I also only upload products related to the right season.”
“Coats, fleeces, jumpers selling well,” someone else pointed out.
“I go through phases of adding stuff to sell,” another said.
“I uploaded 2 items this morning after not uploading for over a month and they both sold within 10 minutes.
“Food items though so think it was a one off lol!”
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