Hi,

I am trying to find websites to buy luxury items at a cheap price. ChatGPT suggested me alot of links to many websites, and I m kinda confused. Where can I go and find cheap authentic luxury items?

Things that I need are : Valentino bag, gucci dress, and prada shoes. I know I m acting a bit cheap but I m really into these brands.

can anyone help me or suggest me where do I get these things ? resellers, websites? or small shops you guys know? please suggest trustworthy places and dont grill me please.

Vestiaire has been disappointing so far. but people here are experiences so here I am.

I’m based in the UK and the fees on vestiaire is actually just ridiculous. There are so many things i want to buy but the fees are taking the piss literally ruining the app. Is there any way to get around this.

How do I go about finding or getting a referral code that I can send to others to sign up for VC? I checked in the iPhone app but can't find it on my profile anywhere.

I tried to message the chat but it's not sending my messages.

Anyone have a promo code that’s not for new members?

Hi everyone, I have a question. I sold a pair of Maison Margiela shoes through direct shipping (€600++ for the buyer). My first two transactions on the platform went smoothly, but they were both through the authentication service so I’m a bit unsure about this one.

I’m wondering if I’m taking a big risk by accepting a direct shipping sale, even though I usually film my packages and the shipping process (like I do on Vinted for example). Have any of you had bad experiences with direct shipping sales?

Also, I should mention that I’m currently banned from the messaging system because I redirected people to my website without realizing it was against the rules and I got banned for that. Could this work against me in the event of a dispute?

I should also mention that the buyer has no items listed or previously sold but for example, the sizes of the items in their favorites are coherent 🤷‍♂️

Thanks in advance for your answers!

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Hi!

So, the situation is following, a bought a bag from an individual seller, but in reality I see that the bag does not look like in the pictures - things that were stated as a minor wear is actually pretty major and would normally need to be repaired and also - lower corners of the bag, which was not shown in the pictures, are with significant wear. The statement of the post was - very well taken care of, no visible signs of wear. Which is not true.

Should I reach out to VC and say that I am not satisfied with the purchase or just try to resell?

Thanks!

I am writing this Text in hope it will find as many people as possible. Be carefull while buying on vestaire. I personally would never buy anything again. So here is my experience:

I bought the Saint Laurent la 5 a 7 in small. It looked great over the pictures, I was texting with the seller normally. Until I mentioned the receipt. I don‘t know if their system didn‘t translate it correctly, but she wrote that she would send the receipt to me because she doesn‘t want to upload anything online. Suprise suprise the bag came, authentification said the bag is real, but no receipt. I messaged her again, she said no, she would not show me the receipt, it‘s personal information. Vestaire only allowed me to send the bag back so they would verify it and as we know, they would again say it‘s real, so they would not admit it was their fault. So here I am sitting with a 1500€ bag that is actually fake.

Then I decided to look through the site, there are a lot of bags like mine which are a new model, where the seller should still have the receipt. I mean if you bought a bag over 10 years ago I understand that you maybe don‘t have it, but I had a Saint Laurent Lou Lou bag which I had over 5 years and I still had the receipt. Than I wrote a few of those sellers, asking if they have a receipt, guess what, everybody wrote the same thing back, no matter which country, no yes or no just „I don‘t show personal Information“.I‘m sorry but I live in Germany and we show always the receipt with stuff like that, because you can easily nowadays hide your Information or crop it out.

I‘m telling you I did a lot of research and I read that vestaire is legit, I see influencers on IG Talking about how they buy stuff from there. I would never again. If you want a newer Model of a bag, if you don‘t get the receipt, don‘t buy it, from any page. I know some prices are tempting. I am not writing this to cancel anything, but to make sure vestaire handels their scamers better. How can it be that someone is selling a new never used Miu Miu bag, with even the paper still on and say they don‘t have the receipt or they don‘t show personal information? And you can easily nowadays find bags that look 1:1 exactly like a real one.

So be careful and I Hope to hear from your experience!

Allow me to set the scene for you:

You have one new message in your inbox :

“ what’s the lowest price you will take for this?”

Make an offer has been disabled. You thought this was implied.

Both you and the potential buyers of Vestiaire can see that you started this item out at say $400 and you have it marked down to 170 so a generous already 50% off and you’ve disallowed the offers to keep coming in. At this point after fees, you might as well keep it.

The buyer asks if you’ll take “$150 for it , you kindly remind the buyer that you’re already making less than $150 on your end, and they remind you that there’s taxes and shipping and authentication fees in some case cases tariffs so they need you to go lower and take it out of your cut

You say my apologies, but I cannot do that - oh well, they tried . It can’t hurt right. At least they did it privately. Also 150 is so close to 170. Can’t you find a discount code for 10% and get it that way?

Scenario number two the second buyer no need to ask if you will lower the price on an item you’ve disabled the offer feature on. They tell you the price you will take by just writing you a message with the price they are willing to pay. You don’t respond because you don’t know how to respond to a number not even a question- just a number.

And this buyer sees and notes that you haven’t responded and decides to comment on your item that you need to take less for it because they need the item cleaned and to take that into account and not the fact that you paid $1200 for this item brand new and 400 was reasonable - because the buyer messaged you $150 and told you that’s what you will take and now everyone else gets to read that’s what your items worth according to a rude and crazy person on a comment you can’t delete

So you withdraw your listing so the conversation & that buyer go away and you start all over again and that’s the beauty of VC is sometimes you don’t get the price of the listing right or you get harassed or it doesn’t hit the algorithm right and you can just start over again without fear of suspension like over on Poshmark

Could they make offers binding? Yes, but it wouldn’t help because they’d have to advertise their fees before an offer is accepted and they will never do that and also offers would never get accepted if full fee schedule was disclosed - so it is the way it is.

The other day I had just listed a fendi baguette in really good condition and it went live at $900. Buyers could make offers on the listing and within minutes I get a message “I’ll give you $250 for it” I said “sure thing, go ahead and make an offer through the app on the listing, I’ll accept!”

Quando devo vendere qualcosa lo carico sia su Vestiaire che su Vinted, Vestiaire è più affidabile ma ora ha delle commissioni stellari.
Ho caricato un Trench Stone Island e su Vestiaire ho proposte da 470€ (70€ di commissioni per acquirente e 70€ commissioni per venditore), come posso trasferirlo su Vinted e farglielo acquistare lì ?
(Sono già stato bannato perché una volta sulla chat ho scritto “Vieni su Vinted”)
Come posso trovare questa persona ?
Quei soldi di commissioni sono un furto, è giusto non venderlo lì.

I recently bought a pricey item on Vestiaire and I also paid all customs fees upfront, since Vestiaire requires that.

Today DHL contacted me saying I have to pay the exact same fees again. Vestiaire support called it a “processing error on a carrier’s side” and told me to pay again and wait for a refund later. But DHL said Vestiaire chose DAP/DTU shipping terms, which means the receiver is responsible for customs fees & fees are NOT pre-paid.

So now I’m confused and angry that on top of the outrageous fees I also have to deal with getting my money back. Why even charge customs upfront if Vestiaire chooses a shipping option where the buyer still has to pay the carrier directly?

È sicuro vendere su vestiare collective a chi ha profili senza prodotti venduti o badge?

grazie

VC needs to do a better job with those sellers and them been idle as I have put in offers on like 3 items and absolutely no response. I can only gauge by how long item has been in their system and the latest item posted on their site.

Also, what does it mean that a seller cannot accept any private messages on any of their items. TIA