The second hand clothes market is dead.

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And Vinted is to blame. Nice items that would previously have been snapped up in eBay auctions are sitting there for weeks on end as there no urgency to buy. Prices have dropped so low it’s hardly worth it any more.

The second-hand market is thriving and Vinted is the reason!

Yes!

Ive started to sell on vinted as its really easy to upload etc, But do find prices very low, and people try and make evener low offers and ask to knock £1 off something thats already a bargain. ie offer £3 rather than pay £4.
I often think is it really worth selling it for £3-4 when ive got to drive to the post office!
Also get offers that I accept but then they still don't buy it!!
Wish like ebay, if you make an offer and its accepted the purchase automatically goes through.
For a buyer its fairly good but search for sizes is very annoying and ive bought some things that don't suit me or fit isn't right so thats always a risk.
But I dont think second hand market is dead but it has changed and with primark, shien etc selling new clothes very cheaply the prices of good quality second hand clothes has plummeted.

Go to settings and switch off that post option. Honestly blaming a platform because you don’t know how to use it properly is a bit silly.

You can also set the % of full price that you’re willing to accept offers of.

I'd say that I'm currently buying and wearing more secondhand clothes now than I ever have previously. There's some very nice charity shops near where I live, and one of them is "everything is a £1". So you can get an armful of bits for a tenner, and if one or two of them turn out to be duds, who cares?
That one is particular has been fantastic for stocking up my "smart/casual work wardrobe". I'm a primary school teacher, so if something gets covered in paint, or otherwise ruined, it doesn't matter.

You can buy those plastic posting bags.
Nowadays, however, I just reuse all the bags my other stuff arrives in.
I've made a fortune on Vinted and I never buy new clothes anymore.

I'm a long time vintage market trader. Not the same as online I know but business is generally pretty good

We save the packaging of anything that comes to our house. Amazon or vinted or whatever. We live really near an inpost locker and an evri drop off so I have vinted set to either of those only. When I buy I check where they send to and if it's not inpost or evri I don't bother completing the sale.

Many people are finding out that vintage clothing is much better quality, better made, more natural fabrics than the current awful fast fashion by the likes of SHEIN and TEMU.

I always look at fabric labels when making choices.

Vinted has exposed the huge problem we have with the oversupply of clothes. If I wanted to buy a Coach bag (I don’t) I have literally hundreds of models from all possible years available on Vinted, Vestiaire, eBay and so on. Plus the new ones directly from Coach. If there are more goods than buyers, the market will adjust accordingly towards the lowest priced items.

I’ve learnt my lesson and I stopped buying things “for later”, “because they are on sale” or for whatever imaginary lifestyles I don’t have. I buy from a few niche independent brands and fill any holes with good quality basics and then I wear and enjoy my things for years. I use the same strategy for second hand clothes, I am really picky and wouldn’t buy something just because it’s a bargain.

Time and space are very expensive commodities and it takes time to buy, care for and resell or donate things,it also takes lots of space to store clothes we don’t need or wear.

@Frumpitydoocan I ask which types of clothes was most popular please ? Especially interested in selling adults clothes. any obvious brands or styles that was in demand please?

I absolutely agree with the OP. Something that would have sold for a decent amount on eBay (kids Monsoon dress, for example) will only sell for a couple of quid on Vinted. Great if you are a buyer, but as a seller, items are beyond devalued. It seems to get worse as time goes by. I used to use eBay a lot and have found the overall user IQ and standard of listings is way lower. I’ve started ignoring stupid fucking questions now, either buy it or don’t.

just posted 11 parcels from eBay sales in the last 24 hours - so no I don’t think so.

SHEIN and temu end up on Vinted too.

I don’t buy anything from them new, so certainly wouldn’t second hand!

The filter for brands and ‘saved’ feature means I don’t ever see SHEIN or TEMU items.

I used to buy lots secondhand on eBay but I’ve been ripped off a couple of times and it’s put me off. I’d rather pay more money for things that aren’t faded and stained. People are selling things for far too much sometimes.

Vinted has exposed the huge problem we have with the oversupply of clothes.

I am sure I read that there are enough Christmas jumpers made to kit out every person in the world!

(if Christmas jumpers are still a thing we could just have a massive world wide swap shop and never produce another! 😉)

Seems to me that there are real businesses involved in this racket.

The UK Income Tax people should do a thorough sweep of the site.

As a seller it’s not really worth it. Nobody wants to pay a reasonable price they want it for practically nothing even new clothes with tags on.

Just sold a top for £1 on vinted-raking it in!
havent sold on there for at least 2 years
had given up
gave bags full of clothes to the charity shops/clothing banks recently

I sell for environmental reasons and keep the prices low but not ridiculously low. I measure everything, take clear photos and disclose flaws. My things sell and I always try to sell first before donating - if someone wants to pay for my clothes I hope they will be reused, while most of the donated things end up in landfills.

I have just sold a bag that I used regularly during my maternity leave. I don’t need a large bag anymore but I got a lot of use from it so I’m happy that it will get even more use and I effectively got 1/3 of the price back.

As a genuine buyer, who is prepared to pay a reasonable price for a decent buy, I see this from the other side;

~ so many items that are described as being in good condition really much more worn in reality

~ items such as a blouse described as “beautiful” and photographed cleverly when it’s actually Shein polyester tat

~buyers demanding almost the original price for an item that is not new; even when it is new, the vendor is not taking in to account that we are buying on trust without the security one would have buying from a trusted company, and we have no idea about the conditions in which they have been stored.

Having said that I have bought some amazing bargains this summer from genuine sellers but a lot has been disappointing too.

Totally agree

I don’t think they should have allowed professional sellers on in the first place if you ask me.

Christmas jumpers selling really well for me on Vinted at the moment … 🤣

I save the parcel bags that come to me with stuff in i buy from vinted and re use them.