Vinted - am I starting too high?

Well it hasn't sold if it's still selling therfore the price is too high.

I sold a north face and a super dry coat at only £10 each. Both worn maybe 4 times each.

£25 for a coat is a lot

I've sold a few items for more than £20 but they were top end of high street (Hobbs , Nobody's Child, Monsoon, Hush) or Nike/Adidas trainers, most things i've priced at £1-4, I usually do the kids old clothes in bundles. I sold all last year's Halloween stuff in mid September and brought all this years stuff with the money from those sales!

I don't buy from anyone with no reviews, there's loads of scam accounts. You might need to buy a few things to get a few reviews or sell a few things off cheaply to get the ball rolling before selling your better items.

I would say average 10-20% of original sale price is realistic. New with tags sometimes slightly better though not always I sold a brand new never worn bridesmaid dress that cost £85 for a tenner.
It's alot of trial and error I find certain brands eg River Island sell instantly. If I still have something on after a few weeks I drop the price for me it's decluttering and added bonus of making some cash I've made just under £500 in a year majority of my stuff is under £5

If you all like saving money, instead of buying £2,000 of stuff every year and selling it to recover £400, try only buying £1,000 worth year instead.

But wait. The vinted maths doesn't work there does it. Because you'll only sell on your smaller haul for £200 and so are somehow worse off.

It depends if it's:

• a highly regarded brand
• a rare item that was popular but made in low volumes/hard to track down

Supermarket clothes rarely sell for much.

The yes I dont make money back I just feel I lose less and it better for the environment.

Jeans I find are really good on vinted as often you can't really tell how they will fit over a day and people wear once or twice and sell on. I do the same but only buy second hand from vinted.

Jeans are super unsustainable as cotton is a really thirsty crop.

SomeTimes I make and error and just sell it on. Sometimes I buy stuff cheap and make a little profit.

Husband is super wily bought a coat for £68 sold it for £150

Although £1600 is a holiday and that other wise would have gone to landfill or charity.

I have an awards do every year and I buy a new with tags black tie dress for around £10-£15. I can usually get £8 back for it as "worn once". It's so economical!

Honestly OP I wouldn’t pay more than £5-6 for any supermarket item on vinted

£25 in unrealistic!!

I sell most of my kids clothes like jojo maman bebe and John Lewis for £1-2 and perfect condition.

how do people make £00’s and £000’s when selling at such low prices? Just selling big volumes?

They are not really making profit.

People like vinted because if you are someone who likes buying lots of clothes, 10 years ago you just ended up donating most to charity shops and never saw any money back. Now you might recover 10-20% or so of what you paid - if you are someone who buys £2-3k of clothes, shoes, bags etc each year you might get back as much as £500.

Then you get people who buy second hand to start with & this is where you can really reduce what you spend - buy second hand, sell back for barely less than you paid.

Very few will make any meaningful profit.

If you really really know your brands you can occasionally spot a bargain you can sell on for more but its rare.

I have made a few hundred but I have sold things like an AllSaints leather jacket for £75 (paid £300), worn once Doc Martens for about £60, etc. There's a pair of DM boots I want but the seller won't sell for less than £120. They were only £150 originally!

I wouldn't ever bother with supermarket listings.

I got the most money for Sezane jumpers - they would go for around £40. I got a decent amount for a Me & Em dress. Then various tops from Ba&sh. So higher end brands but not full on designer.

I dabbled in lower priced items (kids coats that they’d barely worn) but decided it wasn’t worth the faff.

You really won’t get much for supermarket clothes.

Start by selling cheap.

I've made a couple of thousand so far. Found I could increase asking price once I had a few ⭐⭐⭐ reviews. So save the best for last.

How to get people interested:
Good photos of the item in natural daylight, if its a particularly flattering or unusually shaped item, I find a picture of you wearing it (head and feet cropped out) very successful.
Neutral background. Item ironed. Tops often look better lying flat on the floor than hung up.

Price: it's an interesting question.
If you are selling Hobbs, Jaeger, Seasalt, Mint Velvet etc - anything that targets the 35+ market - you might get 20% of original value.
Supermarket/Primark/Peacocks - 10% of value. If its anything super thin, holiday type stuff that isn't a nice linen or a standout item, I wouldn't even bother putting it on.

The best way to gauge it in my opinion is to try and find your item in the search bar before you list. (Rather relying on the sold prices that Vinted shows you while you are doing the listing which always sure very low in my experience)
So I have a brand new blue waistcoat from Mango, new season, size 12. So i'll search waistcoat, blue, new with tags / new without tags, sizes 10 12 and 14 (to give myself a better chance of finding an example is the right size 'bracket') and see if I can see what others have got it on for. Then basically just undercut by a quid or two.
Also think about what's big in shops right now - wide leg jeans, burgundy clothing, pinafore dresses, corduroy, satin Skirts etc.
And season! If you have some nice summer gear, that is good quality, if you can hold off until summer to sell you will get a better price. You can have a summer dress sat on for months in winter, but if you take it off, take new pictures, then list it at the end of the first weekend where it's felt like 'summer' across most of the UK, you'll generally get a better price than selling it in November,if you have the patience.

I agree with this. Unless you don't work/have loads of free time in your hands, it's just not worth the faff of selling stuff for a few quid.

I would sell high end high street stuff from places like Jigsaw, Sézane, Reiss etc, but I wouldn't bother selling budget brands. Those items go straight to the charity shop.

List lots of things for low prices, as when you have sales under your belt your items will get more exposure on the platform. Then you can increase the price a bit. But in my experience the only things I price highly are Jellycats and certain branded items - especially when you factor in all the added fees.

I sell often on EBay and Vinted. The majority of my higher priced stuff is decent high street hush, cos Boden etc usually new and tagged and often this seasons. I try and aim for half retail for this season's stuff and generally do get it.
As others say, things tend to sell in the first couple of hours of listing otherwise it may take a while. I sometimes end up with 90 likes on one item but no offer.

If you buy something yourself they will review you as a buyer - as long as you make sure to mark it as received quickly etc. and are polite that should give you a five star review. Go shopping OP!

As everyone else has said - that’s too high a price. People make money doing it by selling lots. You’d be amazed at what people buy though, it doesn’t just have to be clothes - I’ve sold USB cd players, all sorts on there.

I agree with other pps. I've made a few hundred on there over the past year or so but I don't think I've sold any individual item for more than about £12.

£25 is very expensive for a supermarket dress - the buyer has to also pay postage and so that becomes more like £30. £30 for a 4 year old supermarket dress with no guarantee it will fit and no returns.....and you can still buy dresses in Tesco for £20.

It does depend, but it's probably worth more in the region of £5-£10.

Jelly cats are quite sought after items. It's all about the branding. A supermarket item just doesn't have the brand value no matter how much you originally paid for it. As soon as something leaves the shop and is second hand it already has a diminished value. Even refunds within a month which are not faulty, are not mandatory, they are done at the retailers discretion and seen as good customer service. I would start at £15 at a far push and see how it goes.

Supermarket stuff isn’t really worth listing in my experience, if you do £1 or £2 if it’s in excellent condition. I only bother selling brands like Boden, Zara and some scandi brands where you can get 1/3 to 1/2 of the new price, sometimes more than the new price depending on if it’s a desirable item. I’ve made about £1k in the past year but gave up on selling supermarket stuff!

I sell mostly higher end things and ask a fair amount for them.

I put a very rare Killstar bag up for sale. I've never found another one for sale online. It took 6 months to sell but I got my price.

Ive made a really good amount on there recently but not because things sell for a good price but because I've sold loads. I think about 90 items in 6 weeks or so. I'm happy with that as it's things I would never have used and it's great to get something for things that would otherwise would be gifted or binned.