A RESELLING pro has revealed the clever hack she uses on Vinted to write long descriptions in seconds.
Emily has been making her name for herself on social media thanks to her skills at finding gems in charity shops, car boots and jumble sales, which she then sells on at a profit.
But instead of spending ages writing descriptions for the bits she’s selling on sites like Vinted, she’s found a clever way to do it in a fraction of the time.
She explained in a video on her TikTok page, as she said: “I use AI, ChatGPT, to write my item descriptions.
“There is a paid version and a free version but on the free version you can actually do two photos a day so you can still use this feature.”
She actually uses the paid version of the app, and adds in four picture of the item – showing the front, the back, any text and any labels.
Then, after checking she’s included all of the main information, she writes: “Write item descriptions and title and bullet points of important information using -. and hashtags.”
Emily then hits the button, and generates a load of text describing the item in much more detail.
As well as giving her a “bit of text to sell the product”, it then lists key features, followed by the hashtags.
“Now all these words here are keywords which means it’s going to get your item in front of more buyers,” Emily said of the hashtags.
Once that’s done, she copies and pastes the description into Vinted, making sure to remove any unnecessary punctuation, and hits list.
Emily added that another thing she’s trying to do at the moment is include more measurements of items, as she finds that helps the selling process.
She concluded her video by showing the app she uses for the hack.
In the caption for the video, Emily wrote: “This is a gamechanger!! I cheat using ChatGPT to write my item descriptions.
“I’m terrible at writing, it’s not my strong point, and this has made it so, so much easier for me!”
She added in response to a comment: “It saves me so so so much time – it’s totally worth it for me, as I wouldn’t be able to get loads listed without it!”
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QUICK facts on tax from the team at Vinted…
- The only time that an item might be taxable is if it sells for more than £6,000 and there is profit (sells for more than you paid for it). Even then, you can use your capital gains tax-free allowance of £3,000 to offset it.
- Generally, only business sellers trading for profit (buying goods with the purpose of selling for more than they paid for them) might need to pay tax. Business sellers who trade for profit can use a tax-free allowance of £1,000, which has been in place since 2017.
- More information here: vinted.co.uk/no-changes-to-taxes
“I think it’s really good,” another agreed.
“Sometimes I’m not sure how to describe things and if I’ve described something accurately so this is super helpful.”
“I use the built in AI that EBay provides,” a third commented.
“Then I copy/paste to Depop & Vinted.
“I couldn’t handle listing freestyle!”
