u/Skyloveblue

I just started selling on vinted and loving it. However, I'm looking for advice. I have an item up and it has 92 favourites at the moment. I listed in for €20 knowing that I'll likely sell it for less and happy to do that. Five people offered me €12, which is the lowest possible they can offer I assume. Two other people have messaged me asking for measurements.

I’m wondering what the best strategy is now. Should I counter-offer those five offers at, say, €16, or should I lower the listing price to €16 so that everyone who has favourited it gets a notification about the price drop?
I’m worried that if I counter-offer €16, I might lose them.
I’m also curious whether it’s a bad strategy to send a second offer if they don’t accept the first one — for example, if they don’t accept €16 after two days, I then offer €15.
I’d really appreciate any advice. Thank you.

I want to get thoughts on a reading I had. This was my second Vedic astrology reading. At the time I knew the astrologer because I had met him a few times and he seemed friendly so I trusted him. He was also friends with the guy I was dating at the time. I had expressed some anxiety to him around getting a reading because the first time I went to a Vedic astrologer he told me I was about to experience a lot of bad luck in the coming year. That was 2 years previous.

I won't go into too much detail except to explain what this astrologer told me which upset me even more than the first astrologer. When he brought up the topic of relationships and love, he told me that I might have one relationship in my life. I might have one single relationship in my life if I'm lucky. With the condescending look on his face and the tone of his voice, I felt he was more leaning towards you're going to be alone and single forever pretty much. I just thought to myself, why would you say that to me when you know I was coming to you feeling anxious already. He then went on to ask about my previous relationships, and I told him about my last relationship who I was with for 2 years, and then he quizzed me asking why did it end. He asked if he had broken up with me in a very suggestive way. In fact I had broken up with him. I didn't like his line of questioning. I was like brother, please, you don't know anything about me. I left the session feeling quite disempowered and anxious, which is unusual for me because I’ve had other astrology readings before and even when they were challenging, they didn’t feel like this. I felt more annoyed with myself because with the first astrologer I told him I didn't want to know about relationships, because for me, I believe words are spells. You have to be very careful what you take it.

I’m curious:

• Is this kind of deterministic or blunt delivery common in Vedic astrology?
• Or is this more about the practitioner’s style rather than the system itself?

I’m trying to separate what might be symbolic interpretation from what felt like a very fixed and discouraging narrative. Thank you.