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A wide flat ellipse of green light spreading from a bright point on a dark background

A single sweep, spreading from one point of light.

REGA watches Vinted for you. It sees every listing the second it is born, matches it against the filters you wrote, and puts it on your screen with a BUY button on it. And if you ask it to, it buys on its own — on our servers, with no need for your computer to be switched on. REGA now watches two marketplaces, and it runs a warehouse of its own. Everything below describes Vinted, because that is where the race is. On Vestiaire Collective a listing only goes online once a member of the marketplace’s staff has validated it by hand — there is no birth to catch, and the whole method changes with it. And reshipping gives your accounts a delivery address at our warehouse: we receive what you buy, open it, photograph it, then group several purchases into a single parcel and send it to your door. Both have their own set of pages, and both start under “Where to start”.
REGA's dashboard, with the settings panel on the left and the stream of listings in the middle

The dashboard: settings on the left, the stream of listings in the middle, recent purchases on the right.

Two things worth knowing before you start. A complete card reaches your screen about a second after the listing is born. And a purchase takes six to nine seconds from end to end — most of that time is Vinted’s own processing, and nobody can shorten it.
On the screenshot above, the Administration button in the left-hand column: REGA staff only — this button does not appear on your account.

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From listing to purchase

Here is everything that happens between a listing appearing on Vinted and a parcel heading your way.
Two facts explain the whole race. First, on Vinted the item goes to whoever is debited first, not to whoever opens the order first: opening an order reserves nothing. Second, an item is not buyable the second it appears — the marketplace makes it buyable a short moment later, and REGA waits for that moment for you.
A very wide dark plane under a luminous green horizon line

A wide dark plane, and a single lit horizon. Everything on this chain happens in the seconds between a listing being born and a payment going through.

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Where to start

Your first ten minutes

Connect a Vinted account, write a first filter, watch the stream fill up — in that order, because the other way round surfaces nothing.

Writing a good filter

The skill everything else rests on: what the radar can look for, what costs time, and what a filter that is really working looks like.

Money

The three caps and exactly what each one covers, the price on screen versus the total actually debited, and everything that can spend when you did not expect it.

When something refuses

The refusal messages you will read most often, what each one means, and the move that unblocks it.

Vestiaire Collective

The second marketplace, where every listing is put online by hand: nothing to catch at birth, a window swept without pause instead, and a purchase you finish yourself.

Reshipping

A delivery address at our warehouse: your purchases are received, opened and photographed, then several of them leave as one parcel for your door.

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The order of the first run-through

It is not decorative: every step needs the one before it.

Create your workspace

From the invitation link you were sent. A password of at least 10 characters, and the terms of use box to tick — the button stays off until it is ticked, which is not a fault. The link is single-use: never retype it by hand.

Connect a Vinted account

The Accounts screen. That account is the one that will buy, with its card and its delivery address. Vinted sends a code by SMS during sign-in: keep the account’s phone within reach.

Create a filter

The Filters screen. “The radar only sweeps what a filter asks for: with no filter it cannot detect anything, so nothing will reach this screen.” A filter can perfectly well be created with no account — it is buying that needs one.

Watch the stream, and buy by hand first

Listings drop in as they come. Make two or three purchases by clicking before you arm anything: you will see the real refusals go past, and you will know how to read a purchase row.

Arm automatic buying, filter by filter

The AUTOBUY pill opens the tap, but each filter is armed separately on the Filters screen. That is deliberate: without it, automatic buying would buy absolutely everything the radar displays.
Only turn on two-step verification at the very end. It signs out every other device of yours the moment you arm it — including the computer you were working on. And the 10 recovery codes are shown only once: write them down before you close the window. Asking for new ones invalidates the previous set.

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The four facts that cost money

These are the only four things we ask you to read before arming anything.

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1 · Automatic buying runs on our servers

The AUTOBUY pill arms the server, not your tab. It survives closing the tab, closing the browser, and switching your machine off. The only thing that stops it is disarming it.
In the left-hand panel, the line “Where automatic buying runs” — “on our servers — closing the tab does not stop it” — states that fact. It is not a switch you set.

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2 · Three separate caps, from widest to narrowest

REGA sets no price cap out of the box, and we would rather say so plainly than hide it: it is yours to decide whether you want one. Mind what the “Purchase ceiling” means once it is set — it also refuses an item whose price cannot be read, not just an item that is too expensive.

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3 · The pick-up point: two things, one name

In Settings, and on by default. Switched off, the purchase fails: “No pick-up point could be selected for this order.” Nothing asks anyone a question, nothing waits for your answer — the purchase simply stops.
In Accounts. It is a real purchase of a few euros, to be made once per account and per carrier. It saves ~1.3 s on every later purchase that goes through that carrier — out of the six to nine seconds a purchase takes.Without it the purchase still completes — simply those ~1.3 s later. And the gain is not additive: it is the seller who picks the carrier, so preparing several carriers widens the share of your purchases that save that time, never the time saved.

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4 · An interrupted payment is never replayed

If the connection drops exactly at the moment of paying, nobody knows whether Vinted debited or not. Replaying would risk a double charge — REGA never does it. The row then reads “TO CHECK — OUTCOME UNKNOWN”, no “RETRY” button is offered, and the message tells you what to do: “Outcome unknown: tracking stops here. Check in Orders BEFORE retrying — a payment may still go through.”

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By hand, or on its own?

Both take exactly the same chain: same choice of paying account, same pick-up point, same card, same bank confirmation. Here is what really separates them.
  • Trigger: your click on the card.
  • No cap applies to your click — neither the browser one nor a filter’s. Only the Settings “Purchase ceiling”, if you have set one, applies here too.
  • No freshness rule: you can click on a listing you saw ten minutes ago (it will almost certainly be gone, but nothing stops you).
  • Two simultaneous purchases per account, not three. On the third: “A purchase is already under way on this account.”
  • If no account is free, the refusal shows immediately.

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Before your first real purchase

Six checks, in the order in which skipping them will cost you an item:
  • The account shows “connected · ready to pay” in the left-hand panel.
  • A card is saved and set as default on that Vinted account. Without one the payment is refused cleanly — no charge, but the item is lost.
  • A phone number is saved on the account. Some carriers require it, and in the United Kingdom it is mandatory.
  • “Automatic pick-up point” is still on in Settings.
  • You have decided whether you want a “Purchase ceiling” — or whether you do not.
  • Your filter is confirmed, not left as a draft.

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The nine screens

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On your phone

REGA's dashboard on a phone, with the Feed, Filters, Orders, Tracked, More navigation bar

REGA on a phone: a single band, the “Folder” layout imposed, BUY across the full width.

  • At the bottom of the screen: Feed · Filters · Orders · Tracked · More.
  • A single band, and the layout selector disappears entirely — there would be only one option, and a selector with one option is not a selector. The choice you made on a big screen is remembered and comes back untouched.
  • BUY takes the full width, under the photos: it is the one geometry where your thumb cannot miss its target.
  • An iPad in portrait gets the phone layout. That is decided on width alone, and it is deliberate.
The split that works: the computer for writing filters and connecting accounts, the phone for watching and buying. And remember that automatic buying needs neither — it runs on our servers. The detail is in REGA on your phone.

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What surprises people

These behaviours are correct. They surprise everyone the first time.
A step is missing, and the screen tells you which one: “First, connect a Vinted account” — “rega watches Vinted with your own accounts: one of them will buy whatever the radar finds.” — then “Create a filter to start the radar”.Every screen always points you to the earliest missing step, never to its own. A blank screen for half a second on the very first load is normal too: REGA would rather write nothing than write a sentence it has to correct a moment later.
As soon as you scroll more than 40 pixels, the display freezes. That is intended: a card slipping in under your cursor as you click is a real, unwanted purchase.So the “12 NEW” counter climbing while you read is not a fault, and nothing is lost: listings keep arriving, keep filling in, and stay buyable. One click on the counter brings them in. The plain gesture is the LIVE / PAUSED button — and it is the only one.
That is the point. The state lives on the server, not in your browser: finding it armed after you closed everything is not a bug, it is proof that automatic buying kept running while you were away.
“GONE — BOUGHT BY SOMEONE ELSE” offers no retry, and that is a protection: an item bought by somebody else does not come back. Insisting on it wins nothing, and it tires the very account you wanted to buy the next one with.
Vinted takes the listing out of the catalogue while it checks it, for 30 minutes to 2 hours, and does not allow the transaction in the meantime. The item is not lost, and it is not buyable either. REGA knows this and starts the purchase on its own as soon as it reopens: “Vinted is still checking this listing. The purchase will start as soon as it is available.” So let it run rather than clicking again, and do not buy over it in the meantime.
A test purchase still creates a real order with the seller — it simply does not pay it. So it uses up one turn of the account, exactly like a real purchase. Believing it has no effect would be wrong.
Most of the failures you will read are races lost or items already gone — not errors. That is why every failure is filed under a verdict in plain words, one of which is “Race lost, or the item had already gone”. Read the verdict before concluding something is broken.

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Going further

Winning races

Why an item gets lost, what really costs seconds, and what does not despite appearances.

Watching several countries

Open a second shop without picking the wrong site, and read a price in pounds without mistaking it for a total in euros.

REGA on your phone

What REGA becomes on a small screen, and how to split the work between your computer and your thumb.

The glossary

Every word of the product, defined once: filter, scope, band, race, arming, pick-up point.