You will recognise these irritations as a seller on Vinted

Whether you're a seller or a buyer, there's nothing like a good Vinted deal. Anything I get fed up with I throw on it and within no-time it's gone. It is almost a full-time job to respond to everyone and send everything. Still, Vinted does bring some irritations that really get the blood under my nails.

Let me start with my big personal irritation: people who want dimensions. Am I the only one who has never looked at that while shopping? You don't go walking around town with some kind of measuring tape, do you? For the five euros I can make with it, I really think that's way too much trouble.

Speaking of effort: shipping the packages is also a job in itself. Vinted is kind enough to use all kinds of different shipping options: DHL, PostNL, UPS, Homerr, DPD, Mondial Relay and so on. Buyers can decide which one they choose. As a result, you sometimes have to go all over town to send a particular parcel. The other day, I was half an hour away for a UPS mail point. Is this only a problem for people from a village or is it the same in the city? Now I do know that Vinted has an option where you can turn off certain parcel points, but UPS is the only one you can't turn off. So that means I get to cycle a whole marathon from now on. Love it.

One tip: always make the asking price just a bit higher, because everyone always bids lower. I am guilty of this myself, but there are some people who bid asocially low. I myself had put a beautiful blazer on the site for fifty euros while the original asking price was two hundred euros. Then someone still has the guts to bid 25 euros. No Karen, not today.

In addition, Vinted has the ‘reserve’ feature where you can put an item in your name for five days. As long as you pay for it within that time, it's yours. You won't hear me if people then actually buy it, only now it's happened a bit too often that nothing is paid and the item hasn't been sold yet. Super irritating, if you ask me.

Last but not least: people who necessarily want pictures where you have it on. Maybe it is just me but I am simply far too lazy for that. I would do it for a nice item, but not for a shirt from Zara (which is probably too small already). Super embarrassing if you do send a photo and they are suddenly no longer interested. Maybe better to sell it then.