Two listings, identical title, identical price, identical photos. One ranks higher. The difference is the seller behind it.
Vinted's algorithm reads your profile signals before it reads the listing — your dispatch time, your reply rate, your review average, how recently you were active in chat. New listings from a fast-dispatch, fast-reply seller get a visibility uplift the algorithm doesn't even tell you about. Three things that move the needle and most sellers never check.
One: dispatch in under 48 hours, every time. Two: reply to messages within the day, even a one-line acknowledgement. Three: keep a 4.8+ average — under that and you start sliding.
VintSnap writes the listing. The seller-side signals are still on you. Pair the two and you're competing in a different lane than the casual sellers who only optimise the photos.
Part of our Reseller economics series — field notes from building VintSnap.