The second hand clothes market is dead.

You have to input your NI number to sell now

You didn’t the last time I sold. When did that happen?

Still doesn't mean you'll pay tax. Or that HMRC will be in any way interested.

Or help with bills during a cost of living crisis...

I disagree OP. I hate Vinted with a passion and have just bought my winter wardrobe essentials on eBay for less than £100. I can still get decent M&S jeans on eBay for under a tenner after browsing for less than 5 minutes, buy it now and free postage, so that'll do me.

I don’t bother with either. I just buy my clothes from reasonably priced shops, and donate my unwanted stuff to charity shops.

I always assume they're bought cheap on sale and being sold for a profit.

That just isn’t the business model though. That’s why it’s best to not use it for high value items. It’s intended to be for cheap stuff, you take your chance on an amount you’re not too fussed about and if you don’t like it or it doesn’t fit you resell it. Vinted have no intention of getting involved in disputes or mediating. It’s not them you’re doing business with. They’re just providing a platform.

If there is a genuine problem with how it was described it’s weighted very heavily towards the buyer. Which keeps people coming back. It works better for buyers than sellers, they’re the ones you have to entice. Sellers will always flock to use a free shop window.

If it’s something that needs to be well fitting I.e work trousers I stick to brands I know work for me. If it’s a jumper or some baggy trousers I throw caution to the wind. Size isn't that important for most of the types of clothes I wear. Fairly unstructured, loose, casual things. I have clothes in all sizes.

and if it doesn’t fit you just resell it. Which is admittedly a hassle but worth it to take a chance on finding something fab that costs a few pounds.

Agree.

It's so hard to find the right clothing item on eBay. For non-fashion it seems slightly better.

For fashion, the important things are size, colour, brand and style. On eBay, half the time these filters aren't even available! On Vinted, you can even search by image.

Also, there aren't many listings. If I want. particular pair of jeans from say, Paige, there are few UK options on eBay. Meanwhile, 100s on Vinted.

I'm not sure what you're expecting. Good condition interesting clothing is selling fine, but you won't often get more than £1-5 for it unless it's quite sought after. Unspoken rule a while back was no more than a third of the new price. With vinted you then have to factor in the buyer protection and postage. If you're selling a next item for £3 that you bought in the sale for £5, chances are nobody wants to pay £7 in total.
What is really killing second hand sales is the postage cost and the unreliability of delivery to shop or locker. It makes a difference buying bundles so I tend to upload a lot at once.

There is a lot that realistically won't sell outside of large bundles. Vinted is full of it but nobody will search for it nor will it be the sort of thing that comes up in an algorithm. Which is probably why charity shops end up with all of it eventually.

Clothing depreciation is crazy unless you have something ultra rare.

I work in fashion and we struggle badly in offloading old stock. We're talking 95% off and still sitting around for years. The full price you see at the start of the season is very much the negotiation starting point and nowhere near the item's market value.

Essentially the moment your bag no longer comes directly from the retailer, unless it's out of stock and hard to get, the price drops 50%+. If it's in perfect condition, you may have a chane at that price.

However, if there is a lot of offering of the same time, the price drops far more. I have resorted to buying jeans exclusively on Vinted, as I get £250-700 pairs for a tenner - so much offering.

People generally do not want to pay more than 35 for anything on Vinted. I buy designer fashion on Vinted regularly as the bargains are amazing and there are some rare titems to be had, anything over 200 has usually been listed for close to a year, I still have many lovely items in my faves prices at 70-300 that have lots of likes but still unsold after 2-3 years.

Vinted is a cheap item focused, lower trust marketplace, also due to the 'no returns' default.

At that price point, you're more likely to achieve a sale on eBay, but it'll take longer.

If you're selling a popular style, you will sell only if tbroadly aligned with the market lower end. Stella McCartney Falabellas on Vinted are a good example of that - some go very fast, other sit there for ages due to price. People do compare side by side a lot.

Yes I said this to my DH last week, same seems to be true of toys, unless it's something discontinued or hard to get hold of (did well with Shopkins and Equestria recently). I used to sell lots of kids clothes, Ted Baker, John Lewis, Next, M&S. Last week I got £3 for a pair of brand new TB leggings that cost about £30 and had the tags on. I work
full time and don't have much spare time so it's just not really worth the effort any more. I have started sending it to the charity shop instead mostly.

This is also why I no longer use EBay. I think Vinted will also go the same way. Vinted also seems to be getting a lot more resellers selling for profit rather than just people clearing out their wardrobe and the people selling sale goods for a profit are annoying too.

£3 seems reasonable. They have to pay postage on top. And they don't have a chance to check they fit or check the quality

I wouldn't pay more than £80. And I probably wouldn't pay even £60 for something I am buying from a random on the internet.

I have a few Coach bags and have bought them all once heavily discounted in sales and never paid more than £100 with tags from a real retailer. And then postage would be free and quick.

People have to understand the site they are selling on and be realistic what the thing is worth to others

I have switched back to buying from retailer sales rather than vinted as people were so greedy with their pricing

A random? Everything on Vinted and Ebay is a random unless it's a company. Everything that is 'designer' goes through strict security checks of the logo, numbers etc and numerous photos.
My starting price is usually 50 % of what it cost, or slightly less.
I wouldn't accept £60 for a bag I paid £250 for. It was used twice.

I've kept it for myself now and will just use it more.

Well yes. That's why I won't pay much for anything from those sites! It's not specific to you
Seems reasonable to just keep the bag
Just as it's reasonable for people to decide not to buy it at that price.

Charity shops = prices up quality down
Vinted = prices down COL up

Its the perfect business for now.

I still sell on eBay, DD does vinted, designer stuff goes to a local resale shop who take 40% commission
Between those 3 we do quite well
Both DD and I are dieting and she sells outgrown DC clothes so fairly frequently getting rid of stuff
I prefer to try things on and/or can return easily so mainly buy from charity shops
Today I bought a jaeger sweater dress for £3.99, a cashmere sweater for £3.50, another one for £12.50 and some trousers from mint velvet for £6

I used to love vinted but there's so much on there now it's completely overwhelming. And the size filters are crap now. I actually don't get much on there now unless i can be really specific.

Just looking at Vinted for the first time. Typed in woman, jumpers, size, brand. Jakers how do jumpers get so creased does no-one own an iron or steamer. I wouldn't touch any garments displayed in that state.

I used to love eBay 8-10 years ago got some real bargains in the surplus branded stores and outlets plus mid century modern findings for my house . However agree it’s dead these days .Ventured over to vinted and agree presentation sadly lacking and sizing system odd . Also trying to find items you looked at previously seems a challenge . I have at last count 278 hangers in my wardrobes so maybe it’s not essential I get into vinted .

I still love Ebay. Last month I bought a new Sezane dress with tags from EBay for £30. Excellent photos etc. I find the presentation poor on Vinted but my teenage DDs use it lots to buy cheap joggers etc

That's because they're not worth what you think they are. I have sold a number of decent items lately on Vinted for between £15 and £20 but I've also stuck a few things on for £2 or £3 and if they don't sell in a week I take them down and send them to the charity shop. It's supply and demand in practice.