Two lines running the same way. One of them is ahead.
The rule that decides everything: the item goes to whoever is charged first, not to whoever opens
the order first. Opening an order reserves nothing — as long as nobody has paid, the item stays
available to everyone, including to the buyer who opened it.
Where the race is run
The dashboard: this is where listings land, and where races are won.
The markers that decide a race.
The sequence of a purchase, and its exit points
A purchase is not a click: it is a chain of steps, each of which can end in an exit. Knowing where a race stopped is knowing whether there is anything to fix — or nothing at all. What the diagram says, and what to remember from it:Three exits cost nothing
“GONE”, “Under verification”, and the refusal for a missing card or phone: in all three cases
not one euro left the account, and in the first two REGA did not even ask Vinted for anything.
Only one exit is ambiguous
An interruption at the moment of paying. The outcome there is unknown, so REGA never
replays: replaying would risk a double charge. That is the “TO CHECK — OUTCOME UNKNOWN” row.
A listing is not buyable the second it appears. Vinted makes it buyable a short moment later, and
until then every attempt is refused, including yours. REGA waits for that switch on your behalf —
there is nothing for you to time, and nothing you could do sooner.
What costs seconds
Here is what actually weighs on a race — and what you can do about each item.
End to end, a purchase takes about six to nine seconds. Of that total, the only two steps you can
make disappear — choosing a pick-up point the first time, and setting the card — weigh no more than a
small share of it: preparing a carrier gives back ~1.3 s, and a card saved as default removes its
step altogether. Everything else belongs to Vinted, and none of it can be won back.
What costs nothing, despite appearances
This is the most useful half of the page: do not spend your energy on any of these.Closing the tab, the browser, or shutting the machine down
Closing the tab, the browser, or shutting the machine down
Stops nothing. Automatic buying runs on our servers. Only disarming the AUTOBUY pill stops
it.
Pausing the live stream, or scrolling the list
Pausing the live stream, or scrolling the list
Freezing stops the screen from painting, never detection, never enrichment, never automatic
buying. A “N NEW” counter climbing while you read is not a fault, and nothing is lost.
A feed moved into a tab on the bar
A feed moved into a tab on the bar
It carries on detecting, counting and buying. An invisible feed is not a switched-off feed. Do
not close one to make room: pin what you want to keep on screen.
The layout, the number of photos, the detached window
The layout, the number of photos, the detached window
Purely visual. The geometry of the screen does not change a purchase by a single millisecond — “the
interface cannot make a purchase faster, it can only avoid slowing it down”.
The progress bar that never reaches the end
The progress bar that never reaches the end
It is capped at 96 %, and it runs against an average rather than against your purchase. It is
not proof of payment — the proof is the purchase row.
Preparing several carriers to go “even faster”
Preparing several carriers to go “even faster”
The gain is not additive. The seller chooses the carrier: preparing one more carrier widens
the share of your purchases that skip the pick-up point step, never the gain itself.
By hand, or letting REGA buy
Both paths are the same path. A BUY click and an automatic purchase go through the same chain, the same account selection, the same lock, the same payment, the same bank confirmation. Neither one is “the fast version”. The only difference that matters is when the start happens: automatic buying starts at detection, your click starts when your eye reaches the card.An item detected more than two minutes ago is almost always gone. That is why automatic buying
refuses to take it: this is not a cap, it is freshness. After an outage, nothing will be bought
“late”.
A single streak crossing the dark from edge to edge: one chain, run once, whatever started it.
The three ceilings
All three exist, they do not do the same thing, and none is active out of the box except the third. No price ceiling is armed by default anywhere: that is an explicit decision by the tool’s owner — visibility replaces the constraint.When it does not go through: reading the screen
Most failures are not errors. They are lost races or items that had already
gone; only a minority are down to the tool. The screen files every failure under a verdict: “Race
lost, or the item had already gone”, “Postponed — the purchase will be retried”, “For us to fix”,
“Waiting for something from you”. React only to the last two.
The ten payment refusals, and what they mean
When Vinted declines a payment, REGA files the real reason under one of these ten sentences. The first six are lost races; the last four ask something of you.The other sentences you will meet
The Orders screen: this is where an unknown outcome is checked, and where the verification queue is watched.
Our advice
Let the automation run the races, keep the click for what you want to judge
A human click always leaves after your reading time; the automation leaves at detection. For the
items you take every single time (a brand, a size, a price), arm the filter and stop clicking. Keep
the click for what needs judgement — condition, photos, seller.
Arming the AUTOBUY pill is not enough: arm each filter, then give it a moment
Without that double condition, an armed autobuy would buy everything the radar shows. An arming
done elsewhere is not taken into account the very same second: after arming a filter, let about
twenty seconds go by before concluding that “it is not buying”.
NEVER click again on a “GONE” item
Every refused attempt is paid for on the next item, on that same account. REGA itself makes a
single, immediate attempt: do not do by hand what it refrains from doing.
“Under verification”: click BUY once, then let the queue work
An item under verification is not lost, and it is not buyable either: Vinted has taken the listing
out of the catalogue and does not allow the transaction while it checks it — from 30 minutes to
2 hours. Click BUY anyway: the card switches to “Queued — the purchase starts as soon as
Vinted verifies the item.”, the purchase fires on its own at approval, and the queue gives up
after 96 hours. Do not buy over it in the meantime — every extra click only reduces your
chances on the next item.
Before arming anything, check card, address and phone on every buying account
These are the three refusals that cost you items without ever costing you a euro. A card must be
saved and set as default on the Vinted account; the address must exist; a phone number avoids a
flat refusal with the carriers that require one. In the United Kingdom the number is
mandatory, and the format matters: it must be the complete number in international form — the
country code, then the national number without its leading zero. One digit short and it is refused.
Prepare the carriers your recurring sellers use — not all of them
The “PREPARE THIS CARRIER” button (Accounts screen) makes a real purchase of a few euros,
once per account and per carrier. It is optional: without it the purchase still succeeds,
simply ~1.3 s slower on the items that carrier ships — out of the six to nine seconds a
purchase takes. Since the seller chooses the carrier, prepare first the ones you see coming back in
your streams — the gain does not add up, it widens.
Rank your pick-up points BEFORE an account's first paid purchase
Your ranking comes before any automatic strategy, but it is at the first paid purchase that it
fixes the point every later purchase will reuse without asking for anything. Setting it afterwards
costs you the point selection every time, until the next purchase through that carrier. A point
remembered this way then stays pre-filled on its own, with no upkeep at all.
Do not touch “Automatic pick-up point” — it is on out of the box
The setting says so itself: “rega chooses the collection point during the purchase. Turned off, the
purchase fails for want of a pick-up point — leave it on.” Turned off, nothing asks you
anything: the purchase stops on “No pick-up point could be selected for this order.”, and it
stops after the item has been reserved. Faced with a purchase that fails for no visible reason,
this is the first box to check.
Stay reachable for a quarter of an hour after a purchase
Bank confirmation is the only moment a race needs your hand, and it expires after 15
minutes. The notification goes out the instant the link exists, with “Bank confirmation required”
and “Your bank is asking for a confirmation — without it, the purchase will not complete.” An
adjustable reminder (from 60 s to 15 min) follows with “Bank confirmation still pending”. Leave
those notifications on, and accept them on your phone.
Several buying accounts beat one very clean one
An account can only carry 2 purchases in flight. An account that has just failed has already
used its turn in the rotation — the tooltip says so: “Account committed at click time: it is
reserved before the purchase completes. In rotation, a failed purchase has therefore already used
its turn.” And in automatic buying, an over-asked account is set aside for a time: with no second
account, that window is a hole in your coverage.
One account per country you hunt in
A purchase never leaves from an account attached to a country other than the listing’s, and
that lock is the only one in the chain that refuses rather than degrades. It is decided on the
currency of the total: the pound means the United Kingdom, the dollar the United States; the euro
means 18 countries, so it constrains nothing. If you open a
British filter, open the account that goes with it.
On “TO CHECK — OUTCOME UNKNOWN”, open Orders before clicking again
The missing “RETRY” button is not an oversight: the payment may still go through, and a second
click would be a second purchase on an order that may already be paid. The sentence says it
literally — “Check in Orders BEFORE retrying”.
Empty your verification queue before a weekend
It holds for 96 hours: four days during which a purchase can leave on its own, with no new
click. Orders screen → Being checked → remove what you no longer want. “Remove from the
queue” is not a cancellation: nothing was paid, so there is nothing to cancel.
If automatic buying disarms itself, read the message before re-arming
That is a purchase refusal issued by Vinted, and it concerns the account itself, not just that one
item. Re-arming straight away — on that account or another — is how one refusal turns into several.
The block lifts on its own, on the scale of a day: read the message — it is kept as it came, so
that you can judge — then re-arm the next day rather than trying to carry on elsewhere.
Only set a ceiling if you accept its refusals
No ceiling is armed out of the box, by explicit decision of the tool’s owner. If you set one, it
will also refuse an item whose price cannot be read — and it compares the item price, not
the amount charged. An item listed at £10 has shown on screen as €11.84: nothing is
converted, because nobody has the exact rate.
Do not scroll during a burst — but know that freezing does not stop buying
Scrolling by more than 40 px freezes the display without saying so, and that is a protection: a
card sliding in under your cursor is an unwanted purchase. To read in peace, pause deliberately
with PAUSED — detection and automatic buying carry on throughout.
What surprises people
Opening an order does not reserve the item
Opening an order does not reserve the item
An unpaid order holds nothing: the item stays on sale, and the first buyer to be charged takes it.
“Being first to open” is worth nothing — only the charge counts.
A dry run still creates an order with the seller
A dry run still creates an order with the seller
It simply does not pay it. But it is not free either: like any attempt, it is paid for on the next
item. Believing a dry run to be inert would be wrong.
A faster purchase does not necessarily win
A faster purchase does not necessarily win
The payment itself happens at Vinted, and that time is not ours. Two buyers who left at the same
instant do not arrive in the order they left. Speed improves your odds; it does not guarantee them.
The bank confirmation link appears before anyone knows it will be needed
The bank confirmation link appears before anyone knows it will be needed
Often the bank approves on its own and the purchase flips to paid without you clicking. Showing the
link straight away forces nothing: it only offers the confirmation earlier, in case it turns
out to be needed.
A bank confirmation not done within 15 minutes is not a fault
A bank confirmation not done within 15 minutes is not a fault
It is a payment nobody confirmed, hence an invalid purchase — and not one euro left the
account. Fifteen minutes is how long the order lives at Vinted, not a choice of ours.
A payment is never replayed after an interruption
A payment is never replayed after an interruption
The outcome there is unknown: replaying would risk a double charge. The purchase therefore
stops where it stopped, and the row asks you to check in Orders before any other gesture.
A failed purchase still used its turn in the rotation
A failed purchase still used its turn in the rotation
The account is committed at reservation time, hence before the outcome. That is also why “RETRY”
leaves from the next account: an account that has just failed is the worst placed to start
again.
In “one specific account” mode, REGA will never go and find another
In “one specific account” mode, REGA will never go and find another
Not even when it is saturated. Silently switching to another account would change the delivery
address without telling you — that used to happen, and it no longer does. A saturated account
simply moves to the back of the order when there are other candidates, and the wait is shown when
it is on its own.
An empty account group does not fall back on anything
An empty account group does not fall back on anything
“No restriction” and “no account” are not the same thing. Confusing them would let any account pay
when you deliberately emptied the group. If your automatic purchases stop for no visible reason,
look at the feed’s account group first.
A purchase timer is never shown to you
A purchase timer is never shown to you
A design decision: the internal time of a purchase is not useful information to a buyer, and showing
it would invite the very gestures that lose items. What you see is the result.
The price shown is the listing's, never a conversion
The price shown is the listing's, never a conversion
The total delivered stays in your account’s currency. Nothing is converted on screen: “we do not
have the rate, and inventing it would mean showing a figure nobody measured”.
Vinted always suggests a pick-up point — and its suggestion is not the best one
Vinted always suggests a pick-up point — and its suggestion is not the best one
Vinted always puts a point forward, and it is often not the closest one — sometimes far from it.
Nothing in that suggestion makes it the best: the ranking that counts is yours, so set it.
On a phone
The dashboard on a phone: the gesture that matters here is the bank confirmation.
- The useful gesture is the bank confirmation. Fifteen minutes, and a notification that leaves at once. Accept notifications on the phone you actually carry.
- BUY takes the full width, under the photos: it is the one geometry where you cannot hit the wrong target.
- A single feed, always: below 900 px REGA says so itself — “Only one feed on this screen — two bands would fall below the readable card width.” An imposed layout, no selector; two feeds side by side are a computer thing.
- Automatic buying depends on no screen at all: it runs while your phone is in your pocket.
What we do not promise
Going further
The dashboard
Every control on the screen where you buy, what can refuse it, and the exact wording of the
refusal.
Filters
Where automatic buying is armed, filter by filter, and where the “€ max” that counts is set.
Accounts
Who pays, with which address and which card — and the “PREPARE THIS CARRIER” button.
Settings
The “Purchase ceiling”, the “Automatic pick-up point”, and the bank confirmation notifications.
Orders
The real history, the verification queue, and where an unknown outcome is settled.