you priced at £22 and disappeared from a thousand searches

Quick one that costs you nothing to fix. You probably didn't price your item too high — you priced it one pound into a dead zone, and it deleted you from a thousand searches without you ever knowing. Here's the trap.

Most buyers don't scroll forever — they filter. And when they set a maximum price, they reach for a round number: up to £10, up to £15, up to £20, up to £25. It's just how we think about budgets.

So the search isn't 'cheapest first,' it's 'show me everything under my cap' — and anything priced over that cap, even by a single pound, isn't in the results at all. The buyer didn't reject your item. They never saw it.

Which means the danger prices are the ones sitting just above a round number — £21 and £22 over £20, £26 and £27 over £25. Price at £22 to 'save yourself' two quid you can't even see, and you go invisible to everyone who capped at £20 — a massive chunk of buyers. Drop to £20 and you're back inside that whole window of searches, with room left for an offer.

Which means the danger prices are the ones sitting just above a round number — £21 and £22 over £20, £26 and £27 over £25.

The gap between £20 and £22 isn't two pounds of margin — it's a whole segment of buyers. So the fix: whenever your price lands a pound or two over a round number, check whether dropping to the round number puts you inside a cap people actually use. £20 beats £22, £15 beats £16, £25 beats £27 — nearly every time. You're not slashing your price, you're moving it the tiny distance from 'invisible' to 'in the results.' And if the thing's genuinely worth £27, keep it there — just know you've chosen to talk only to buyers who capped higher, and price it on purpose.

Do this across a whole shop and you widen the audience on dozens of listings without giving up real value. VintSnap suggests the price and writes the title, description and hashtags from the photo in seconds — so the one bit left to you, nudging the number onto the right side of a cap, takes two seconds and is the cheapest visibility you'll ever get.