Lowering your price on Vinted: when, by how much and how often

Lower the price of a Vinted listing when it has favourites but no offer for about a week, or lots of views and no favourites. A 10% drop is a good first step: members who added the item to their favourites are notified when its price drops. After two drops, change the photo or repost instead.

You will learn to read the signals, choose the right step for the item's price, and avoid price drops that do nothing.

What happens when you lower a price on Vinted?

Two things. First, members who have the item in their favourites can be alerted: "The price of an item you added to your favourites has dropped" is one of the notifications listed in Vinted's help page on notifications. It is a free nudge to people who are already interested.

Second, your listing becomes more competitive against comparable items. Vinted lists price among the parameters of its ranking systems, on its page about content recommendations, without saying exactly how it works.

Is there a minimum drop to trigger the notification?

Vinted doesn't publish any threshold. You will often read that you need to drop by at least 5% or 10% for the notification to go out: that is sellers' observation, not an official rule. To be safe, avoid token drops of 50 cents on a €30 item: if there is a threshold, they may trigger nothing, and even if notified, they convince nobody.

When should you lower the price of a Vinted listing?

When the listing's numbers tell you to. Each situation calls for a different response, and a price drop isn't always the right one.

Remember the third row above all. If nobody sees your listing, lowering the price changes nothing: nobody will see the new price either. Start by making it visible. For the full list of causes, see our 10-point checklist.

Should you drop the price in the first few days?

No. Give the listing time to find its audience. A new listing benefits from being fresh: Vinted lists time since upload among its criteria. Dropping after two days means giving up money while the listing is at its most visible. A week is a good first check-in.

How much should you lower the price on Vinted?

The right drop depends on the starting price. A fixed percentage works badly at both extremes: 10% of €4 is 40 cents, nobody notices. 10% of €150 is €15, sometimes more than needed.

Here are some recommended steps. They aren't Vinted rules, just a seller's decision grid so that each drop is noticeable.

Why round the price?

Because a round price after a drop reads better: €18 rather than €18.90. And when the drop takes you below a threshold (under €20, under €50), you enter price filters that buyers use. Example: a coat dropped from €55 to €49 now shows up for people filtering "up to €50".

How often should you lower the price?

No more than once a week on the same listing, and no more than twice before changing something else. Here is a simple schedule.

After two drops, you are no longer solving a price problem. Either the listing lacks visibility, or it is the wrong season, or the photo isn't appealing. Carrying on dropping is underselling. The reposting pace is covered in our article on when to repost.

Lower the price or repost: which comes first?

If the listing has favourites, drop the price first. Reposting means creating a new listing: it starts again without its favourites, and you lose the chance to notify those members. If the listing has no favourites, there is nobody to notify: reposting is often more useful.

This is where it gets heavy. Following this schedule for each listing means knowing which ones have favourites, since when, how many drops they have had, and when to repost them. For 10 listings, a notebook is enough and you need nothing else.

For 100 listings, it is around twenty decisions a week. Example: if you forget half of them, that is about ten items with interested buyers who never get the nudge. On €20 items, that quickly adds up to €200 of sales waiting.

That routine, nudging favourites and reposting what is stalling, is what Revendor runs in the background according to the rules you set.

Which mistakes should you avoid when lowering a price?

• Dropping every listing on the same day. You send all your nudges at once, and nothing the following week. Spread them out.
• Dropping a listing nobody sees. Fix the visibility first.
• Writing "price dropped" in the title. The title is for keywords, not promotional notices.
• Going below your floor price. Set it when you list, especially if you bought the item to resell.
• Dropping instead of answering an offer. An offer, even a low one, shows a buyer ready to pay. Make a counter-offer rather than dropping for everyone.