Vinted v eBay

[Slow.Patrol]

Now I no longer work, I have a wardrobe full of work clothes and other stuff that I won't be needing ever again.

It is years since I sold on eBay, but I am wondering if anyone knows if Vinted is a better option? I am out of the loop and noticed that eBay now have a buyers fee or something added to the price.

Any experts out there that can explain the way they both work?

[theguvernor15]

I give my son any old/unused clothes that I'm not interested in, he sells them on Vinted for pocket money. I cannot be bothered with the hassle of listing/photographing it all.

He finds it fun & it also means he earns some pocket money!

[Spare tyre]

As an experiment put your used leather pants on vinted and eBay for the same cost and see what happens


My wife flogs all the kids decent old clothes on vinted, gets decent ish money

The trick is to list it all and box it away and wait a FULL season before you start dropping the price

We find it will always sell for decent money if you sit tight


For us the vinted postage is great as we have the no label lockers near us

[Slow.Patrol]

Spare tyre said:

For us the vinted postage is great as we have the no label lockers near us

How does this work

[Alorotom]

Slow.Patrol said:

How does this work

Courier labels up the packages as they remove them from each individual locker - works well in practice until one courier opens all the lockers together and then mixes up the parcels - thats happened twice for me.

[Spare tyre]

Alorotom said:

Slow.Patrol said:

How does this work

Courier labels up the packages as they remove them from each individual locker - works well in practice until one courier opens all the lockers together and then mixes up the parcels - thats happened twice for me.

We saw the courier arriving and observed

He scans the qr code on the screen, handheld machine prints a label, door pops open and he pops the label on the package, slings it in his bag, shuts door

With all of these things, it’s great until it’s not at which point you just have to suck it up



I don’t really understand it, but I believe the buyer chooses the postage option (or has it chosen for them)

It’s not the seller who decides

So if you didn’t have lockers and suitable shops nearby, vinted might not be great

We are only doing it to shift the piles of old clothes, so can take a hit once in a while.

That said I don’t think we’ve had a vinted issue yet

[smokey mow]

Alorotom said:

Slow.Patrol said:

How does this work

Courier labels up the packages as they remove them from each individual locker - works well in practice until one courier opens all the lockers together and then mixes up the parcels - thats happened twice for me.

We had this too about a year ago. To be fair to Vinted, they refunded the buyer in full and still credited us as the seller for the sale as they could see it was the couriers error.

[cheesejunkie]

Slow.Patrol said:

Now I no longer work, I have a wardrobe full of work clothes and other stuff that I won't be needing ever again.

It is years since I sold on eBay, but I am wondering if anyone knows if Vinted is a better option? I am out of the loop and noticed that eBay now have a buyers fee or something added to the price.

Any experts out there that can explain the way they both work?

I'm in the same situation. I don't need a work wardrobe as much as I used to (still do a bit but not often) and have been selling stuff on Vinted. I sell very cheaply and it goes very quickly but I've noticed brand labels sell faster. My tailored jacket didn't go quickly but every Ralph Lauren thing did and one person even offered to buy the job lot.

I think Vinted is fine if you don't expect much money. If you want to get higher value for an item eBay might be better. I wouldn't try and sell my RRL on Vinted as it would annoy me how low it goes for. That reminds me, add 20% to anything you want to sell it for as nobody on there seems to want to pay the asking price.

[SwissJonese]

I have found Vinted seems better for the buyer than the seller, but it is the best for clothes.

You can change which postage method to buyer can use in the settings. I prefer to use Royal Mail as wifey works right next to a post office, so easier for her to post in the lunch break.

It all goes a bit wrong when I had a person confirmed big for an item, but realised they lived close so picked up the item in person, happy with the item. However Vinted wanted me to still post the item, there is no option for picked-up in person. So I had to cancel the order and refund, vinted automatically gave me a 1 star rating, nice.

[Gt6turbo]

Have used vinted for clothes never had an issue.

Decided to try it for a games console. Had my doubts as a photo showed a DIY style hole cut in draw for cables.

Turned up lifted box and was rattling. Opened it up no packing just Xbox and controller. Damage to controller. Sent it back but I have to pay for postage.

Hopefully get refunded but probably stick to eBay next time.

[jinkster]

For clothes - Vinted. Had some pretty good bargains. Great for selling too as Vinted make money on the postage so what you sell an item for is what you get paid.

Ebay for something more specialised.

[mikef]

cheesejunkie said:

Slow.Patrol said:

Now I no longer work, I have a wardrobe full of work clothes and other stuff that I won't be needing ever again

I'm in the same situation.

Airline pilots or pole dancers? Who else wears “work stuff” that can’t be used for gardening?

[MattsCar]

I said a few weeks ago that I was going to have a declutter and signed up to Vinted.

I have so much stuff/crap spread around that I could probably take a year off work and live comfortably on the proceeds.

These are the things that sell well...anything vintage, branded clothes, video games.

Examples of things I sold last week

An old pair of Rockport boots for £60...



A silly hat with a stain mark on it for £16...



A broken watch for £25...



Really is bizarre what certain things fetch.

I am also a Business seller on eBay and have listed business items on there for 20 years.

Vinted is sooo much easier to use as a platform. No filling in endless pages of "item specifics".

You don't get charged fees (although I think eBay have scrapped private seller fees now).

The people on Vinted are nicer...it has that kind of community feel eBay once had but lost about 20 years ago.

Vinted has considerably more traffic to your items. eBay seems like a very dead platform to me these days, unless you are knocking out very cheap poor quality stuff with low profit margins. But even then, people are now just buying this stuff direct from TEMU and cutting out eBay, the middleman.

I would however say that with very specialist stuff, eBay would probably help you achieve the highest price.

[Ryyy]

Vinted all day long, sold so much on there and surprisingly quick too, even when I thought I doubt anyone will buy it. All been decent branded gear though

[smallpaul]

Slow.Patrol said:

I am out of the loop and noticed that eBay now have a buyers fee or something added to the price.

Any experts out there that can explain the way they both work?

It's Marketing. Nothing has been deducted from your final value. But eBay still gets their slice of cash when your item sells

Then ebay want sellers to pay the same amount as before (about 10%) to "promote" a listing.

So they often take a cut from the buyer and seller now.

And somehow I feel better with the fee structure now.

Edited by smallpaul on Friday 4th July 22:56

[MattsCar]

One week on from my last post...

Sold a lot more on there and picked up on 2 things...

No one seems to understand "the market price". Say if I have a video game, eBay completed listings show that this game sells at say £20 day in day out as buy it now or at auction. So if you list it at £15, that is a bargain, and if someone was looking for that game, then surely they would snap it up. But no, offers of £9 etc.

So then you increase the price to £25 and then you get multiple offers of £15 and it sells.

Weird.

One other thing, there seems to be LOTS of resellers/flippers on there. Wanting to buy your item at a knock down price and you get messages of "I need to be able to resell and make some money". Can't understand that. Why would I sell you an item at a discounted price, so you can relist it when I can sell it for less than the price you would list it at?

[Gt6turbo]

Yeah I increase price. Had some used trainers for sale 15, offered 9, countered 10.

They rejected it. Crazy for a quid.

[Jamescrs]

MattsCar said:

One other thing, there seems to be LOTS of resellers/flippers on there. Wanting to buy your item at a knock down price and you get messages of "I need to be able to resell and make some money". Can't understand that. Why would I sell you an item at a discounted price, so you can relist it when I can sell it for less than the price you would list it at?

Everywhere there are used items there are resellers now, vinted, eBay, FB marketplace, car boot sales, charity shops etc, the market is saturated.

I did it a bit during Covid lockdowns and did quite well out of games consoles, particularly Wii’s but gave up when things started opening up again.