This screen does not watch anything on its own. It reads what sales tracking checks, filter by filter. Until a filter has been put under tracking here, its items are never re-checked: their sale will not exist for REGA, even if the filter detects them perfectly in the Filters tab. Detecting and tracking are two separate moves.
The Sales screen, “Luxe FR” view, “Sold” tab — eleven sales, 1,420 €, twelve sellers.
What you are looking at
The screen's twelve controls, numbered.
The AUTOBUY pill (4) does not belong to this screen but deserves one sentence, because it is visible here: automatic buying runs on our servers. Once armed, it survives closing the tab, closing the browser, shutting the machine down. The only move that stops it is disarming it.
The routine that works
Three different uses, three ways to open the screen. Take the one that matches your moment.- The daily glance
- The weekly review
- Before buying a piece back
- Open on “All tracked filters” — that is the default position, do not leave it to read.
- Read the news counter on the right of the tool row: “Nothing new since your last visit”, or the number of departures and sales since your last pass.
- Go through the fresh cards, ♥ anything you would want to buy back.
- Click “Mark as seen”. Without that click, the next visit cannot tell new from old.
The life of an item
This is the diagram that clears up most misunderstandings: “Sold”, “Removed by the seller”, “Removed” and “tracking stopped” are four different outcomes, and only one is a sale.The sale marker stays readable for at least ~50 min after the departure. That is the whole margin tracking has to decide. A pass that comes back inside that window decides; a late pass leaves an undecidable departure. Anything that speeds re-checks up — fewer filters, tighter filters — turns “Removed” into “Sold”.
Putting a filter under tracking
1
Open the “Tracked filters” drawer
The button sits at the right end of the action row (marker 11). On a fresh install, the screen shows “No filter tracked.” and the drawer opens by itself, once.
2
Pick a filter
Under the FILTER heading, the “Choose a filter…” list shows your filters with their group, and the word “paused” where it applies. If everything is already tracked: “All your filters are already tracked — create a new one in the Filters tab.”
3
Read the intake verdict BEFORE clicking
Between the choice and the button you get “New listings from this filter” — or “New listings from this filter — close to the ceiling”, or “— ceiling passed”. It gives you a bracketed rate (
Between ~{bas} and ~{haut}., or Under ~{d} — too rare to measure over this window.) and the room available (Room left: {n} new items an hour.). While measuring: “Observing (~15 s)…”.4
Click “Track sales”
Under FILTER TO TRACK, the chosen name is repeated, then the button starts tracking. With no filter chosen: “Choose a filter to track first.” On success:
Sales tracked — {nom}.5
Set the alert
The TRACKING block appears, with the “Notify me” switch and the “Stop tracking this filter” button. That block exists only on a single filter’s view — never on a merge.
What can refuse the signup
The server judges the filter too wide
The server judges the filter too wide
This is the only server refusal in the whole subsystem. It never says “no” without saying what to change: it gives the number of listings received per minute, the number of checks per second that would require, what tracking sustains for all filters together, then the two levers. The measured lever, spelled out: from a €30 price floor upwards, only 14% of listings remain — far more effective than a narrower category. And it reassures you: the filters already tracked are not affected.
The short measurement does not decide
The short measurement does not decide
Over a 15 s window, a filter running at 2 listings/min has a 61% chance of showing nothing at all. That is the normal regime of rare brands — which is the heart of the product. The screen then offers its own remedy: the “Refine over a long window” button, which restarts the observation. While it runs: “Long observation running…”.
The verdict is negative — and forbids nothing
The verdict is negative — and forbids nothing
Under a negative verdict the screen writes: “You can track this filter anyway: this measurement informs, it does not forbid.” And the default reason tells you what you are buying: “This filter brings in a lot of new items: they will all enter tracking, but re-checks will spread out. Raising its price floor is the setting that weighs the most.” A filter refused today can pass tomorrow: capacity is re-read on every attempt.
Tracking a group fails
Tracking a group fails
On failure:
Could not track the group — {raison}, the typical reason being “group unknown or empty”. If it was all in place already: “Every filter in this group was already tracked.”Choosing what you look at
Two triggers, side by side (markers 6 and 12): the group restricts the list offered, the second picks the view.
When a position is not offered, the reason takes its place:
None of the {n} filters in this group is under sales tracking. or Merging is available from 2 tracked filters — {n} out of {total} are. A 1/{n} marker (tooltip 1 filter out of {n} tracked in this group) tells you a group is showing on the left while a single filter is being read.
Reading a card
Every card is dense on purpose. Here is what each element tells you — and what it does not.The whole card opens the details panel. Only the title, the seller, the photo arrows and the ♥ do something else — they are there so you can act without opening.
The two views
- Items
- Dashboard
The card grid, plus a sticky tool row carrying:
- Three view pills with their counters: “Sold”, “Kept”, “Archived”.
- Sorting, in a single menu (“Sort by”): Recently sold (default) · Recently detected · Oldest · Price ↓ · Price ↑ · Seller. The trigger shows the short form, “Sort : Sale”.
- Brand and Category, multi-select. Category shows as a tree — measured: 5 levels, 2,920 nodes — with the subtree count when the server publishes it. A “Category not resolved” box catches items with no category, and appears only if at least one real category exists.
- The news counter and its “Mark as seen” button.
The three pills do not read the same thing
Sold
“Only sales carrying Vinted’s sale marker — no caveat”. The counter does not move when you tick a brand.
Kept
What you set aside with the ♥. A separate list, with its own copy of the details, bounded to the current view.
Archived
What you filed. Sales only, held without limit, loaded only when you open the tab.
Cleaning up
1
Keep what you want to hold onto, first
The ♥ on a card. It is the only safety net against step 3, and it has to be set beforehand.
2
Archive
“Archive the gone items” opens the “File the gone items?” dialog. It announces how many items that left the market (sales AND withdrawals) will leave the list, reminds you that “Items still on sale are not touched: they have no verdict yet.” and that “Nothing is deleted. They stay readable in the “Archived” tab, held with no time limit.” Nothing to file ⇒ “Nothing to file: no gone item in this view.” Failure ⇒ “Archiving is not possible right now.”
3
Delete the archive — two confirmations, on purpose
“Delete the archived items” exists only on the “Archived” tab. The dialog announces
{n} items held in the archive will be permanently erased., warns “This action cannot be undone.” and lists what is NOT touched: items still tracked, and the items you have kept.The context strip, and how to read it
Under the tool row, an always-visible strip:{n} sold in teal, the value sold, {n} sellers, checked {quand} — on the capture: “11 sold”, “1,420 €”, “12 sellers”, the time of the last check, and the state “paused”.
Then every admission, never folded away. The five that call for action from you:
The others are read in passing:
{n} on sale left tracking · {n} writes lost · history set aside at start-up · {n} listings unaccounted for · {fait}/{total} filters checked · throughput too low · older items seen {n}× less often · heavy consumer · paused · last check errored.
Behind “details”, the full diagnostic: items tracked and gone, passes, re-checks, pending, one full pass ~{d}, {n} new/h, load, dropped, memory, archive, checks per source, checked every {d}, and above all the line to watch: observation: {obs} · tracking stops after {arret}.
When the intake of new listings is blocked, an “Intake suspended” box sits at the top, with its reason, what it covers — “No new item enters tracking while the suspension lasts: listings spotted now will not be re-checked, so their sale will not be recorded. Items already tracked keep being checked as usual.” — the number of listings already refused, and the “Resume intake” button. From a group view: “Resuming is possible from a single filter’s view.”
Zero sales showing: what to check, in order
An item’s details panel
A click on a card opens the details: large photo and thumbnail rail, brand, title, chips for status / Under review / size / condition / category, the clauseTracking stopped — {motif}: its fate will stay unknown. where it applies, price and cut, seller (with stars if the source gave them — otherwise no stars at all, never “0 stars”), the time sentences and seen {d}.
Three actions:
View the listing on Vinted
Always there. Opens the original page in a new tab.
Find the same piece
Google Lens on the photo you are looking at. Page to the best photo first.
Message the seller
Only appears if the server declares the capability. See the warning below.
Messaging a seller
The composer warns you before sending: “The sold item can no longer be reached on Vinted. Your message will go out under another listing of this seller — they will see it in “…”.” It offers the sending account (from 2 accounts) and the carrying listing (from 2 listings), and the field is capped at 1,000 characters. Possible refusals, word for word:- “Write your message first.”
- “This seller has no listing online any more: Vinted offers no way to message them.”
- “This seller’s other listings cannot be read at the moment.” (with “Retry”)
- “Message not sent — try again in a few moments.”
The screen’s states
At the foot of the list:
{n} shown (with out of {n} received and · {n} in total where they apply), {n} more are held in the archive — “Archived” tab., {n} kept items come from filters outside this view. with the “See all tracked filters” button, the “Load more” button, and at the ceiling: “Display ceiling — narrow by brand, category or status.”
Our tips
1. Read on “All tracked filters”, enter a filter to act
That is the default position, and for good reason: the screen used to open on the first filter by signup order — with 44 filters, that meant showing 1/44 of the sales, chosen by nobody. The page looked empty while everything was there. Keep the habit: the merge to read, the named filter to refresh, remove, adjust.2. The first figure on the dashboard is not the number of sales
It is the undecided rate, and its block sits before every aggregate on purpose. Measured on a real population: 47.5% of departures undecidable (4,841 out of 10,186), cause identified as a tracking pass 2.94× too slow (12,780 s against 4,340 intended, over 22,002 items). The signature is clean: a proven sale had received 10 median checks before it left, an undecidable one 6. If that rate climbs, it is not the market changing — it is us coming back too late. The remedy is in 3 and 4.3. A €30 price floor, and nothing else, is your best lever
It is the measurement the server itself quotes in its refusal: from €30 upwards, only 14% of listings remain. A narrower category also works, far less well. Why it matters: a single luxury-brand filter was measured at 1,539 intakes/h against a fallback capacity of 1,500/h — one filter alone can saturate the queue everyone shares, and it is your other filters that lose freshness. Sales tracking is not a collection: it is an attention budget.4. “Under ~N/min” does not mean “dead filter”
Over 15 s of observation, a filter running at 2 listings/min has a 61% chance of showing nothing. That is exactly the regime of rare brands, which is what you hunt. Click “Refine over a long window” — and remember a refusal never forbids: “this measurement informs, it does not forbid”.5. Make it a habit: read, then “Mark as seen”
The teal outline that flags a fresh item lasts only 300 seconds, while re-check pacing is measured in hours: on a screen you open twice a day, it never shows anything. The news counter, on the other hand, never resets on its own — not on mount, not on load, not when you change filter. It is your only marker that survives from one visit to the next. Without the click, it will never tell you anything new.6. Keep before you clean up, and keep generously
The ♥ “Keep this item” puts the item in a separate list, with its own copy of the details. Emptying the archive does not reach it; archiving does not either. Measured bonus: a sold item’s photo was still being served 11.7 h after it left — so a kept item stays consultable, illustration included, long after it disappeared from Vinted. Keep generously, it is free: nothing goes out to Vinted, no quota is consumed, the seller never knows.7. Filter instead of “Load more”
The list is not a download but a stream: it is re-read in a loop every 10 s, and the pace stretches in proportion to its size — up to 60 s for a large list. A short list is a fresh list. Measured: a single brand filter takes a list from 100 cards down to 16. At the 500 ceiling, the screen even tells you what to do: “Display ceiling — narrow by brand, category or status.”8. Compare “observation” and “tracking stops after” under “details”
This is the single most useful diagnostic on the screen. On the left, the age of the oldest item still tracked; on the right, the setting. The tool used to announce 24 h of observation while no item on sale went past 1.85 h of actual tracking — when 55.5% of the sales in the control cohort arrive AFTER that threshold. When the first figure is far shorter than the second, the sale times you are reading are truncated by us, not by the market: remove filters from tracking, or tighten them.9. Read “BY BRAND” in two columns, never in one
Sell-through alone makes you buy volume that is worth nothing; Median sale alone makes you buy rare pieces that sit. Cross them: high sell-through and a short median = a supplier to restock from; low sell-through and a long median = a piece to take only at a broken price. And remember the median is an upper bound: the real sale time is always shorter than what is shown.10. Load before you filter, not the other way round
The Brand and Category menus only offer values already loaded — “Values seen so far — the list grows as you load more items.” If you are looking for a rare brand, click “Load more” once or twice before opening the menu, otherwise you will wrongly conclude it never sold.11. Do not confuse “Recently detected” with “Recently sold”
The default sort is Recently sold, on the departure date. Recently detected sorts on the detection date, never the sale date — useful to see what just came under watch, never to read a market. The screen says so in the sort tooltip; it is the most common misreading of the table.12. Archive as soon as the list gets unreadable — it is one tab away from reversible
The working views read memory only, so archiving genuinely empties “Sold”. That was not always true: measured right after a real archiving run, 3,720 items archived, and “Sold” was still serving 2,196 sales. Today the move does what it says, everything is found again under “Archived”, held without limit, and the foot of the list reminds you how many went there.13. Only stop tracking a filter after the hot phase
An item’s first six checks all fall inside the first 30 minutes: that is where most verdicts are decided. Removing a filter from tracking during that window sacrifices its items still on sale — their sale will never be recorded. Let the hot phase run out, then remove.14. Check the sending account before you write, every time
Messaging shares its rate budget with your purchases, account by account. A message sent at the wrong moment from the wrong account can cost you the window for your next purchase. The account selector only appears from two accounts: below that, look at which one is shown in the page header before pressing send.What surprises people
“Removed” does not mean “removed by the seller”
“Removed” does not mean “removed by the seller”
Two distinct labels exist. “Removed by the seller” is a recorded withdrawal. “Removed” on its own is an undecidable departure: the listing had vanished before we could read its marker. The label was chosen on a measurement — 982 items filed there, 982 had genuinely vanished, zero readable closures. Keep the rule in mind: a sold item keeps its page; a page that cannot be found mostly means we came back too late.
“Under review” is neither a departure nor a withdrawal
“Under review” is neither a departure nor a withdrawal
The listing is temporarily hidden by Vinted. The badge is neutral and is added to the status; the item stays tracked, for up to 72 h instead of 24. Measured: out of 1,592 items that an earlier version wrongly froze as “withdrawn” (31.8% of the store, 1,362 of them at their very first check, at ~50 s), two re-probes returned 0/42 and 0/11 withdrawal signatures — 31 were still buyable and 9 came fully back on sale.
“Tracking stopped” is neither a sale nor a withdrawal
“Tracking stopped” is neither a sale nor a withdrawal
It means “we will never know”. An item let go for lack of room, or because it passed 24 h on sale without doing anything. Measured: 4,628 live items dropped in 3.09 h, once upon a time without leaving the slightest trace. Those items are excluded from the denominator of the sell-through rate — which is what makes that rate honest.
The pill counters do not move when you tick a brand
The pill counters do not move when you tick a brand
That is deliberate, and the screen writes it: “The counter covers the whole filter, before brand and category.” A counter that followed the selection would never tell you the size of your market again.
The “Archived” tab never reloads on its own, and its counter is smaller
The “Archived” tab never reloads on its own, and its counter is smaller
The archive only grows at the end: watching it would re-serve an identical page. It only loads when you open the tab, never in advance. Its pill counts archived sales only, while the archive also receives withdrawals, departures without a verdict and stopped tracking: the pill number is therefore normally lower than the archive total, and the foot of the list gives you the real total.
“Refresh” does not refresh the screen
“Refresh” does not refresh the screen
It asks the server for a pass, capped at 200 items, and the screen does not reload straight after: results arrive as the next checks come through. Progress tracking stops after 3 minutes and says so: “Check still running — progress tracking stops here.” A refusal shows as
Refresh refused — {raison}, the most frequent reason being that a pass is already running.The “Kept” list is bounded to the current view
The “Kept” list is bounded to the current view
So you can “lose” a kept item simply by changing filter. The screen does not leave you in the dark: it writes
{n} kept items come from filters outside this view. and puts up the “See all tracked filters” button. And if you release a ♥ in this view, the card stays on screen with the heart switched off: the next load does the tidying.Every sale duration shown is an UPPER BOUND
Every sale duration shown is an UPPER BOUND
A departure is recorded at the following check, never at the moment it left. Hence “under …” everywhere, and “median ignorance” next to it, which puts a number on the imprecision. Watch out for “already on sale ≤ …” too: that is not a sale time — the item was found while it was already listed, so its duration is overstated by an unknown amount. The two populations are never merged.
One price histogram can mix currencies
One price histogram can mix currencies
Nothing is converted, and the screen announces it with the counts. Measured over a sample of 395 detections: EUR 212 · GBP 95 · PLN 41 · USD 16 — 46% outside the euro area. Two currencies never add up: value sold is served per currency.
The dashboard's median price is not an average of departures
The dashboard's median price is not an average of departures
It is computed on sales only. An earlier version computed it over all departures, withdrawals included: measured, 2 sales at €100 and €110 plus 4 withdrawals at €5-8 gave €7.50, i.e. 14× under the truth, while the same screen displayed 105.0 three blocks below.
Some cards have no photo, or no category
Some cards have no photo, or no category
Measured: 823 items out of 2,952 (28%) carried a photo, and never more than one — Vinted does not serve them all at birth. Likewise, 21% of gone items have no resolved category: the “Category not resolved” box in the Category menu exists precisely to catch them.
On a phone
The Sales screen on a phone: stacked selectors, actions over several rows, and two whole cards visible on arrival.
- Bottom tabs replace the sidebar: “Feed”, “Filters”, “Orders”, “Tracked”, “More”. Sales is not among them directly — you reach it through “More”.
- The selectors stack and the action buttons wrap over several rows; the order stays the same as on a large screen.
- The grid drops to two columns, and the promise held is that two whole cards are visible on arrival, without scrolling.
- The context strip folds onto two lines, but it keeps every admission: nothing is hidden to save space.
- The “BY BRAND” table scrolls sideways, and says so: “◂ the table scrolls sideways ▸”.
The limits, said plainly
- Vinted does not always distinguish a sale from a withdrawal. “Removed” departures without a verdict are a platform limit, not a product one. What we can do on our side is come back faster — hence tips 2 to 4.
- The “Withdrawn”, “No verdict” and “All” views no longer exist as tabs. The server still counts them; you now read them in the dashboard and the context strip. Measured reason: counting doubtful departures as sales, the screen announced 1,716 sales against 734 proven — 57% withdrawals.
- You cannot remove a whole group from tracking on this screen: filters have to be removed one at a time, from a named filter’s view.
- Check pacing is not adjustable. The intervals were established by measurement — 12 checks from 45 s to 24 h, 6 of them in the first half hour.
- Automatic archiving and automatic deletion do exist, but they are set elsewhere: Settings → Sales. There is no “never” option.
What this screen does guarantee, on the other hand: a sale shown under “Sold” carries Vinted’s sale marker. No caveat, no estimate, no “probably”.
Going further
Filters
Where a too-wide filter gets tightened — and where a disabled detection gets switched back on.
Settings
Automatic archiving and automatic deletion of sales are set in Settings → Sales.
Accounts
The account that messages a seller, and the one that will pay for the next purchase.
Dashboard
What the radar detects upstream — before sales tracking comes into play.