I’ve been doing Vinted for some clothing and such the girlfriend wants to offload. Haven’t tried collectibles yet but yes, it’s kind of nice, no fees and shipping label provided by Vinted…
No but have hundreds of books I want to unload. Lol
My wife has been doing more sales than me lately since joining binged. She litterly is like those women in the ads dancing and calling into fluffy clouds.
Will say they use some strange tactics to keep shipping rates down. Some use UPS or USPS, but other packages get dropped off at a local restaurant as a shipping outlet. I guess they have some contract to be a drop off point. Good for them to get business/people in the door.
She’s bought a few things that said they failed delivery attempts…even though we were home all day. Then some random dude in a car drops off the package, like it was DoorDash.
I don’t know how I feel about for more expensive stuff…but cheap used clothing whatever.
Looks like the ebay seller is backing out of the my absoulte batman #25 cover L order. purchased 7 of them for $8 bucks each.
other than negative, what do you generally do.
If they cancel can you even give them a negative?
Hopefully they get hit for 7 defects as opposed to 1 defect! Like I did for cancelling 3 books in a single transaction.
how do defects work? do i need to report the seller for defects to apply?
Yes, it’s all about the eBay experience. I got a negative long ago when I canceled cause the guy offered me a best price that I took cause he said he was short on funds and that was best he could do, but it was a price I was willing to let go anyways. He then proceeds to send me an offer on the same book in another listing I had as well, at more money. So he got caught in a lie but still left me a negative. Contacted eBay and said nothing they could do, despite me pointing out his lies to try and bargains.
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If the seller cancels a sale without your request, they Get a defect. I think if they have defect on 2% of their sales In any 30 day their seller rating can drop and they get penalize an extra 6% on sales.
So for me a $30 sale has cost me about $100 or maybe more in that extra 6% hit. Should have just sent them a boom for free and refunded the total.
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thanks for the clarification.
That Flops variant with Catwoman I ordered eons ago shipped.
I just listed a Green Lantern #50 on Vinted to give it a go and see how it works out. One annoyance is it required an ISBN for the comic, yet they don’t have ISBN for individual issues. So I found the collected trade ISBN the issue is included in order to list it.
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Type thirteen zeroes, and you’re good on the ISBN. That’s a solid workaround the internet™ has discussed.
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Oh, I tried doing zeroes but maybe I was short one or went over. Heh…
How are they making money? Are they putting all the fees on buyers?
Mercari splits it between sellers and buyers.
I’m guessing so, not really sure since I only see the amount I list and get. It does seem like the shipping costs are lower (that the buyer pays) so not sure what type of deals they got setup. I guess the buyers see more costs on their end. Like I sold some shoes and the shipping I saw was like $2 or so, which I know is not actual but that’s on Vinted since they provide the label. They don’t even ask for weight, just size of box and even that’s vague, envelope, mid and large are most options I’ve seen so far.
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I’ve never paid a buyer’s premium. How does that work on a Mercari?
I have no idea, at one point all the fees were on the seller, then they switched them to the buyer and no one was buying, so they split the costs.
Yeah… that sticking fees on the buyer lasted about a week. Because sellers didn’t lower their prices and suddenly everything cost 10% more and no one bought anything.
No one saw that coming …. 
