Vinted's offer feature brings in real buyers — and a steady stream of offers well below what an item is actually worth. Handling them well starts with knowing a number before the offer shows up, not reacting to it in the moment.
Set your floor before an offer arrives
The biggest mistake sellers make is judging an offer by gut feel on the spot instead of against a real floor set in advance. On Vinted, that floor needs to account for the buyer protection fee's effect on what price actually converts, plus your sourcing cost and shipping — not just "more than I paid." See how to price Vinted items for profit for how that floor gets calculated in the first place.
Counter instead of an all-or-nothing reply
Declining every lowball offer outright loses buyers who would've paid close to your real price with a small nudge. Countering 5–10% above your floor — not back at your original listing price — tends to close more sales than an all-or-nothing response, since it signals room to move without giving away the full discount asked for.
When declining outright is the right call
Some offers aren't worth countering: anything that lands meaningfully under your actual cost basis, or an offer on a genuinely scarce piece that's likely to sell at full price anyway. Countering a lowball on something with real demand just anchors the buyer to a lower number than the item was going to get regardless.
Offers on stock that's stopped moving
The calculus shifts on items that have sat for weeks with views but no sale. Since relisting to reset visibility is currently Depop-only, a price adjustment is the main tool available for slow Vinted stock — which means an offer close to your floor is often a better outcome on genuinely stale inventory than holding out for full price on something nobody's actively looking at anymore.
Making the floor a real number
None of this works if the floor is a rough guess instead of an actual figure tied to what the item cost you. DepopAutomation.com's profit tracker logs sourcing cost against every listing — on either platform — so the floor for any offer is a number you can check instantly instead of estimating while a buyer is waiting on a reply. It runs alongside the AI listing tool and bulk lister, keeping accurate cost data attached to every item at the volume a growing shop actually sells at.
Conclusion
A lowball offer only becomes a problem when there's no real floor to measure it against. Set that floor from sourcing cost, fees, and Vinted's buyer-paid checkout math, counter close to it rather than at full price, and decline outright only when an offer falls under what the item actually cost you.