To sell free baby clothes on Vinted

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One of the Mums in the village offered up a huge box of old baby clothes for free. There wasn't much interest (I know as she put it twice on the WhatsApp group) so I said I'd have them.

Anyway I've grabbed the few bits I want and some for a friend but lots of them are wrong season for DD and not quite my style. They are also quite well washed (no complaint they were free!).

I was thinking I might put them on Vinted in big very cheap bundles and see if they shift. I could give them to charity but wondering if a charity shop would actually want them?

Is it ethical to sell them on Vinted when I could technically give them to charity?

Can you contact your local women’s aid and see if they want them? Years ago I gave a load of baby clothes to my local refuge and about a week later I got a lovely note saying two women had already had the benefit of them. So many women have to flee when pregnant or with a small baby.

If the charity shop won’t want them then why would anyone pay for them? Put them in a clothes bank

i’d definitely sell on vinted rather than them being throw away. i, and quite a few of my friends, regularly buy bundles of cheap children’s clothes on vinted to use as nursery or outdoor clothes. my sister runs a charity shop and she said they struggle to sell baby clothes unless they’re new with tags.

The internet has a far wider audience than a single charity shop. People buy stuff all the time that charity shops can't sell. The wiser charity shops are catching on and selling online themselves.

If they are good enough to sell on Vinted they are good enough to donate to charity.
it’s scruff behaviour to profit from the generosity of someone else.

I'd google " baby bank" and find out if the ones near you are currently accepting donations of pre-loved clothes.

I guarantee local women's and/or refugee charities would be grateful - well worn isn't an issue.

By well washed, do you mean well worn and washed? If so, I would be very surprised if anyone would pay for them at all.

I'd just stick them in a clothes recycling bin..

I’d ask the person you got them from. I bet she would say yes. It wouldn’t feel right to me to sell them. It seems a bit cheap.

I think it would be wrong to sell them. Perfectly fine to take what’s useful to you and pass the rest to a friend, charity shop, women’s refuge etc.

I don’t see a problem with selling them at all. The person that gave them away probably just didn’t want the hassle of doing it hence why they were free.

The suggestion of donating them to a charity textile bin is a good one.

My local fire station has four bins on site and it is easy to drop bags off but the hatch and chute are small so don't overfill bags or they won't fit.

By all means sell them - I sold a big bag of clothes for £1, advertised as playwear. Lots of people want cheap clothes in poor condition to dress their kids in to get paint over at nursery or play in the mud kitchen or whatever

I agree. In my experience, the vast majority of people who give stuff away online just want it out of their hair. If they genuinely cared about its end destination they would either specify that in their post, or make the effort to take it to the refuge/baby group /charity shop themselves.

Just pass them on to a charity shop or baby bank.

I'd 100% give them away if anyone wanted them! Lots of them are summer stuff so I doubt people will. My idea was if they are cheap enough on vinted they might go.

I might ask at my local charity shops if they actually want them first.

But what actually happens to these clothes?

My local children's centre has a donation bin
Or post on Gumtree/FB Marketplace/Freecycle/Freegle/Olio/Upcycle for free

Why can’t they sell baby clothes??

Wearable clothing is re-used and unwearable donations are recycled to make other textiles such as car upholstery.

You could check what your local textile bank does with their donations or hand them into a charity shop that accept rag bags.

The time needed to photograph, list, bag, respond to messages and arrange collection to sell for a £1 or so really wouldn't make it a worthwhile task.

Because people don't buy them...

Most of it ends up in landfill or incinerated these days. Supply of discarded clothing exceeds demand for reuse or recycling.

If a charity shop doesnt want them a stranger doesnt want to pay for them

This.

It's depressing! It's the waste I don't want more than anything. Most of the clothes are summer ones and don't really want to store them in my house for 6 months on the off chance someone might want them then.