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There are difficult garments that remain in the back of the closet and that you never use or will never use again. Luckily applications like Vinted are there to try to recover part of the investment of that purchase and give the garment a real useful life. But what happens when you can't even get the product off your back with those? Well, Vinted has its own product promotion system. He calls it Featured And there's a free way to take advantage of it to get that item out.
Vinted Highlights is the platform for promoting your products. A way to ensure their visibility in searches and visible places in the application. That is, to show them to more users to have more chances of selling them And, of course, it is a paid function of the application. But you have to know how it works and how to take advantage of its free promotion. Yes, you can take a garment to the window completely free of charge.
A Free Featured Item
You should know that when you create your new Vinted account, the service gives you an interesting gift. And it is that allows you to highlight one of your articles totally free That is, to position it in the searches of different users of the application so that it is more visible and has more options to be sold. Of course, there are conditions that you should know.
This gift is only effective for 7 days from when you create your Vinted account. A period perhaps too short to fully understand the virtues of this function. But enough to take advantage of it with some difficult article.
If you are still in the promotion period and you are a novice user, keep in mind that you can take advantage of it. All you have to do is go to your Vinted profile and, in the wardrobe tab, click on Feature your items With this you can follow the steps to promote that rebellious garment that you are not able to sell. Keep in mind that you will manage the purchase or payment of the promotion as usual, but you will not be charged a single euro if you are within the promotion.
What is it about highlighting products
Highlighting an item on Vinted means offering more sales opportunitiesIn the case of this free promotion, Vinted gives you the option to highlight a product so that it appears at the top of the news page. A highly visible place for products. Also, this difficult piece of clothing will appear on the search pages of other app users for 3 days in a row. A reiteration that can clarify the doubts of users who come across it to end up buying it. But there is more.
If you create a good ad for the garment, Vinted will correctly collect data about color, fabric, and other details to show it directly to searchersThat is, it will be shown to Vinted users who are more likely to buy it because it matches their preferences.
How to take advantage of this promotion
If you are not a new Vinted user and your promotion has expired, don't despair There are other ways to take advantage of this free highlight.Although it does involve some extra work on your part and a second phone number available to take advantage of.
And the trick is, simply, create a new Vinted account But you don't need all the process of creating a new email email in Gmail. The process is simpler, except for the aforementioned phone number requirement. And it is that it is the formula that Vinted has to avoid scams.
The first thing is to use a temporary email account. You can click on this link to access a website that offers this type of free service. You avoid having to create an account from scratch, you only need to copy the email address that this service offers you and paste it into the Vinted registration process
Add a name and password on Vinted and you're done.
It only remains to verify the email account on the website of the temporary mail service, where an email from Vinted will have arrived. Here you will click on the button to verify the email account to have your Vinted account up and running.
The next step is the complicated step. Vinted now requires your phone number to create and verify an account. If you did not already have it registered, take advantage of it now. If not, you will need to use a valid phone number that you have on hand to complete the process and take advantage of the promotion. It could be your partner's, or one of your parents who will never use Vinted... The question is that they can receive the verification code to associate this secondary Vinted account with that phone number.
With this you will have created a new profile.And that means having a new featured promotion available to you Of course, you will have to take advantage of it in the first seven days of existence of this new account. In addition, you will have to upload products to this profile again. Publish one or more articles to have a closet available and show yourself as one more real account.
Of course, take advantage of the featured option to sell that item that is choking you in your main account. As we said above, go to your closet tab and select the Feature Item function. Here you can follow the steps to choose how much highlight time you want for your garment. The gift consists of the reduced version, the 3-day version Choose it and complete the action to start it.
From this moment on, and without having spent a single euro, this garment will be seen by many more users than usual.Of course, keep in mind that your secondary profile will not have the same route as your main profile if it does not have the same followers and products. But at least you will have taken advantage of a free resource to get this garment out.
If you don't take advantage of the promotion, Vinted charges €1.15 for the three-day highlight. And it increases its price to 1, 95€ in the case of the outstanding seven days.