Vinted seller posts absurd item and gets £30k offer

A woman posed an absurd item on Vinted as part of a dare and was astonished when she received a £30,000 offer.

Social media manager and content creator, Hattie Carter from Cambridgeshire, was uploading items onto the second-hand fashion marketplace with her 10-year-old nephew last week when he dared her to list a savoury cracker.

After a little back-and-fourth between the pair, Hattie decided to post the snack with the caption 'one of one, cracker, delicious'. It wasn't long before the aunt's phone was overwhelmed with notifications from Vinted regarding the listing.

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She posted about the bizarre incident on her TikTok account, where she explained exactly what happened.

Hattie said: "We listed it for £1. We tried for a penny but it wouldn't let us.

"We listed it under camera equipment and just put [in the description] one of one, cracker, delicious.

"All of a sudden my phone goes mental. I've got 7,000 views, 600 favourites, hundreds and hundreds of messages and loads of offers as well."

But after receiving some offers of £1, Hattie was shocked when she saw people offering to buy the individual cracker for £10k and £30k.

She said: "It was going wild, like obviously a lot of them were a joke.

"I did try and accept one but it obviously didn't work. And then it just popped off, like when mental.

"Somebody did actually buy it for £1 and I was buzzing, I'll send them a whole packet and be really nice. But they cancelled it which was a shame.

"But because that happened, the rest of my Vinted popped off. don't get me wrong, I didn't sell everything but my views and favourites just went wild.

"So if you want to make your Vinted pop off, just list something rogue."

People were in stitches after watching the video, with some people from TikTok even saying they saw the cracker on Vinted.

One user said: "I mean what ever gets their attention."

A second said: "Haha this sounds amazing, might have to give this a try."

A third penned: "I saw the cracker," with a laughing emoji.