Autocop
The mechanism that buys without you — two switches that both have to be on, what a match actually sets off, and the six reasons a filter that looks armed never fires.
The master switch is the Autocop button at the top of /feed. Everything else lives in Settings → Purchase Preferences.
The two switches
Autocop only fires when both are on. They are in different places on purpose.
| Where | Scope | |
|---|---|---|
| Global autocop | The button at the top of the Feed | Every filter, every folder, the whole workspace |
| Filter autocop | On each filter, on the Filters page | That one filter |
The global one is your emergency stop. One click and nothing buys anywhere, and no filter setting can override it — filters stay exactly as you left them, they just stop firing. On a plan without autocop the button is not disabled, it is simply not there.
The per-filter one is how you run a mixed setup: two filters armed, six watching.
The most common support question about autocop has the same answer every time: the filter's own switch was on, and the global one was off.
What a match sets off
The moment a listing satisfies every criterion of an armed filter:
- Kops checks the price against that filter's ceiling. At or below, it buys; above, it can negotiate towards it, or just notify you. That decision is entirely the filter's, and the two are not exclusive — one filter can buy the bargains outright and negotiate on everything listed too high. See Automatic acquisition.
- It picks the accounts allowed to buy for that filter, and skips any that are not ready.
- It fires the purchase, sequentially or in parallel depending on your execution mode.
- The result is recorded on the Attempts page whether it won or lost.
Steps 2 to 4 are seconds. Step 1 is instant.
Which accounts it is allowed to use
Autocop never uses "all your accounts" by default. Three things narrow the pool, in this order:
- The folder's account group. Bind a folder to a group and only that group's accounts buy for its filters. See Account groups.
- Country. An account can only buy from sellers in a zone it reaches. An armed filter watching a zone none of your accounts covers fails on every match. See Zones, sellers and verification.
- Readiness. An account without a card, an address or shipping preferences is skipped silently — there is nothing it could have done, so it is not reported as an error. See Account states and readiness.
Repost protection
A seller who relists the same item creates a second listing that matches your filter again. Without a guard, autocop buys it twice.
Under Safety, one setting with a second nested under it:
Repost Protection — on by default. It blocks a repost after any attempt on that item, including a failed one. Turn it off and only a successful purchase blocks the repost, so a failed attempt is allowed to try again on the relisting.
Block all known reposts — off by default, and indented under the first. It widens the guard to listings other Kops users have already bought from the same seller — the ones carrying a Republication badge. Stricter, and it blocks purchases you never attempted yourself.
Both work on a 24-hour window, after which the two listings stop being treated as a repost of each other.
A relisting has a new Vinted listing, so the guard cannot recognise it by identity. It recognises it by the seller plus the listing's title and description: same seller, same words, treated as the same thing.
That is what makes it work at all, and it is also its one blind spot. A seller with genuine duplicate stock — three of the same item, posted with identical titles and identical descriptions — looks exactly like one item posted three times. With Repost Protection on, buying one stops you buying the others for the rest of the day. With Block all known reposts on, somebody else buying one stops you.
If that is your niche, the second toggle is the one to leave off.
Leave Repost Protection on. Its off state exists for one narrow case: an item you genuinely still want after your attempt failed for a reason that has nothing to do with the item — a card that was blocked, an account that got rate-limited. With it on, that relisting is refused too.
Block all known reposts is the one to think about. It is the difference between "don't buy the same thing twice" and "don't buy anything a Kops user already bought from this seller". The second is a real position — repeat sellers who relist in volume are often the ones you want to avoid — but it will decline items you would have been happy with.
Blocked sellers still count
A seller you have blocked never reaches autocop, regardless of filters. Depending on the mode you chose, their items are hidden from the feed entirely, or shown with a blocked tag and no autocop. See Privacy and blocked sellers.
Autocop is not the same as buying automatically
Two different things share a similar name, and the plans split them:
- Auto Buy (Plus and above) — Kops completes the checkout on Vinted for you, but you trigger it: one click on a card, in the inbox, or on a conversation.
- Autocop (Pro) — nobody triggers it. A match is the trigger.
Everything on this page is about the second one. The first works with autocop switched off, and always will.
When an armed filter never fires
Go down this list in order — it is ordered by how often each one is the answer.
| Check | Where |
|---|---|
| Is the global autocop button on? | Top of the Feed |
| Is the filter itself enabled — not just its autocop toggle? | Filters page |
| Does the filter have a ceiling set, and is it above the items' prices? | Automatic acquisition |
| Do you have an account in the seller's zone? | Zones and sellers |
| Are your accounts ready — card, address, shipping preferences? | Account states |
| Is the folder bound to a group with no eligible account in it? | Account groups |
If all six pass and it still fires nothing, the filter is matching nothing at all — check the Feed, not the autocop settings.