Selling on Depop and Vinted #16

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None of the parcel drop offs apart from the pst office are accessible to me, steps to get into shop, machine is high up and they don’t help, shops cluttered so I cannot navigate around in my wheelchair. The impost lockers are often too high for me to reach, I complained to everi and yodel and they basically said tough. Get someone else to take it.
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mm901 said:
they get about 20p-1 pound per parcel, thats both people collecting and sending according to a reddit thread... i think the main draw is people coming into the shop and buying things or remembering to use your shop for things in the future
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I avoid the shops that have a bad attitude when it comes to parcels, but I will buy something in the nice ones - the staff in my local Evri shop are lovely ☺️

Yodel was never been a pleasant experience and I’ve turned it off altogether now.

Just turned off Royal Mail - thank goodness for that! 🙌
 
Tanne1999 said:
Last few parcels I’ve sold, buyers have left the sale to autocomplete and not left any feedback. One even had the nerve to message me and ask me to leave her feedback so it builds her reviews, even though she left mine to go auto review. Does me in 🥲
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I'm finding that marking as confirmed and leaving feedback is really rare. Anyone who does it now I give a glowing buyer review.
One SS who made me accept a shipping extension got left to autocomplete, though. I'm not usually that petty but she took the piss.

And yes, RM can duck off! Back off holiday mode now.
 
Ok so i have just posted my first item. Daft question but how do you get a label? I literally dont have the first clue what to do if someone buys it 😂 i dont have a printer or anything?
I bought something last week which I will pick up later today so that will be my first experience with a locker.
Dunno if this vinted life is for me. I need a mentor 🤯
 
Sheila Bloom said:
Ok so i have just posted my first item. Daft question but how do you get a label? I literally dont have the first clue what to do if someone buys it 😂 i dont have a printer or anything?
I bought something last week which I will pick up later today so that will be my first experience with a locker.
Dunno if this vinted life is for me. I need a mentor 🤯
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If you don't have a printer, switch off InPost home delivery. I think that's the only one you need a printer for.
Do you have access to all of the other options, if you haven't already switched some off?
You can get labels from shops that do Evri and Yodel pick ups. Inpost lockers are the easiest imo, you can get a digital QR code.
 
Millennial Pink said:
If you don't have a printer, switch off InPost home delivery. I think that's the only one you need a printer for.
Do you have access to all of the other options, if you haven't already switched some off?
You can get labels from shops that do Evri and Yodel pick ups. Inpost lockers are the easiest imo, you can get a digital QR code.
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Ok ive switched off all the options other than Yodel to store, Evri parcelshop and Instore locker. So i just take the parcel to the garage and then they print the label?
I posted my first thing 2 hours ago and have zero views. Is this normal?x
 
Sheila Bloom said:
Ok ive switched off all the options other than Yodel to store, Evri parcelshop and Instore locker. So i just take the parcel to the garage and then they print the label?
I posted my first thing 2 hours ago and have zero views. Is this normal?x
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I only do evri, make sure your evri drop off has a printer, take your parcel in and go to your vinted app, request digital label, it gives you a QR code, scan that at the evri machine, in it will print you a label. Stick it on your parcel (don't wrinkle the bar code or the shop person will eye roll you in dolby quality sound 🫣) hand it to shop person, they do scanny thing, then they give you a blue ticket with tracking info.
The views thing is about right, I've got 2 similar things listed, one 20+ views 4 favourite. Other one zero action🤷‍♀️
 
Aussie said:
How would you reply to a buyer when they have purchased an item & pm saying 'can you send ASAP'
A- Should they not have enquiried before they purchased it
B- reply with 'I'm not Amazon hun, I have 5 days to post!'
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A mixture of A and B

If you need something for the next week, you do need to ask in advance to see if that’s doable. I only do prompt (ie. Next day) dispatches if I have a load of stuff to ship and it’s worth the stress.

I sell CHEAP. Most of my items are underpriced and around £2 average, but they tend to go asap. When I just have one random lone sale,
I’m not dashing to the shops to expedite my £1. I’ll go within 5 days when it works for me.

Had someone moaning at me the other month for not dispatching a £1 BNWT kid’s item promptly because I was in hospital 😂 they reluctantly accepted an extension in the end

Funny thing is Amazon had the same item (included in prime) for only about £2 more if you include all the fees and shipping. I pointed that out to them so they could cancel it if they wished.
 
me myself and karma said:
I only do evri, make sure your evri drop off has a printer, take your parcel in and go to your vinted app, request digital label, it gives you a QR code, scan that at the evri machine, in it will print you a label. Stick it on your parcel (don't wrinkle the bar code or the shop person will eye roll you in dolby quality sound 🫣) hand it to shop person, they do scanny thing, then they give you a blue ticket with tracking info.
The views thing is about right, I've got 2 similar things listed, one 20+ views 4 favourite. Other one zero action🤷‍♀️
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Thanks - ur an angel! I just went to the locker and the pick up guys were there and explained it all to me. Just want to sell something now. Probably coz i dont have any stars yet x
 
Millennial Pink said:
Your first item ships free, so someone usually takes advantage of that. Some items can take months to shift, others minutes.
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I was hoping that but alas not to be. I have listed 5 items and bumped 1. I have had 1 view total. Dunno what i’m doing wrong. Some have pics of me wearing it. Others not. Priced fairly i think. Clear pics and lots of them inc pockets etc. So weird.
I just reviewed the item I bought but they havent left feedback for me 🙃
I have a question about bundles. I want to buy some books. I made a bundle of 6 but the postage hasnt changed. It’s the same postage for 1 book or 6 but surely that cant be right. I don’t want to hit buy incase the postage shoots up
 
All the dumbs are out tonight and I'm too ill for this tit 😆.
Offered me £3 on a £5 item. Declined. Offered £4 so I thought ok. Then got "does this include postage". No it bloody does not. Block.

Then...a dress, description states the length, material (also a photo of label with material) etc etc...how long, is it stretchy, is it true to size etc etc.

GO AWAY
 
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