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.

All my clothes are from Vinted or charity shops. And my daughter's. I've just bought myself a whole new wardrobe after losing 4 stone and it's all from Vinted (or Sainsbury's, admittedly).

I used to buy and sell clothes on eBay but it's such a farce to upload compared to Vinted, and bidding on things is time consuming.

I keep looking on vinted but never find anything I like. It’s an online jumble sale, you trawl through utter crap and probably won’t find anything!
Pictures are deceptive or crap, most don’t show item on a body (fair enough) so you can’t see what they look like, many are not ironed or look like they’ve been screwed up in the back of the wardrobe before being photographed and a lot don’t even have the correct size on the listing!
In case anyone thinks I didn’t give it a chance, I tried again last night!

The ones around me are dire now. Everyone under 50 sells their old stuff on Vinted!

I buy everything on vinted for me and DC. I don't sell much unless it is new or nearly new adult clothes in a desirable brand. Fast fashion doesn't sell. Children's clothes are almost worthless unless they are in a bundle or very good brand so I usually give them away to friends or the baby bank but even the baby bank doesn't want baby clothes!

For baby stuff you have to sell in large bundles. If they're in good condition, they sell. It's always been the way. Branded stuff like JoJo and Boden always sells too.

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Have people favourited the items that aren't selling? Lower the price and they'll all get a notification.

Vinted is much like Rightmove - things don't sell for three reasons
A) it's overpriced
B) the photos are terrible
C) the condition is misrepresented (e.g. marked as Very Good but the photos tell me otherwise; the brand or fabric content isn't what it says on the labels)

Agree that the secondhand clothes market has never been stronger/more mainstream, just not through eBay. Obviously Vinted has its issues, but it’s so user-friendly to sell, and once you get used to how to search it’s fine. (My tip is use as few keywords as possible, then use filters - or use photo search.)

Nearly everyone I know is buying through Vinted and lots are selling - and these are people who haven’t historically bought secondhand - it’s completely commonplace for friends to say ‘Xbrand, via Vinted’ if you compliment something.

I also sell plenty, at decent prices.

I used eBay for years and then stopped because of the selling fees and the app didn't have half the functions of the website so it was a hassle to go between the two.

Vinted is a much simpler system and I find the search function good especially when you use it regularly. I made £50 in two days this week and brought two new Halloween costumes for DC for a couple of quid each. I use charity shops regularly as well both to buy and drop off. The second hand rail at school is always busy. People love a bargain!

EBay is dead because it’s crap. I used to sell on there years ago before Vinted existed and it was horrible. You had to pay to sell in the first instance, sometimes you wouldn’t get the money to post the items before sending so you’d have to fork out for that, occasionally the item would cost more to send than you’d put in the listing, then PayPal would take a cut! It was a shit platform. Vinted is so straightforward, you don’t have to stump up the postage and my god lockers are a game changer!

What happened to Depop? DD used to use that all the time

I buy pretty much everything brand new, through small high street outlets selling sustainable high-quality items. But I don't buy a lot of clothes. Maybe a dozen items max in a year, not counting socks and underwear. I wear the same clothes for years; decades.

When I'm finished with a garment for whatever reason I give it to charity if it's still in good condition, or wear it as sleepwear, or turn it into cleaning cloths.

I would buy more if people clearly stated the actual size not a size range like 16-18 and also listed the fabric as I don't buy acrylic. Polyester etc. I do like vinted a lot but postage coats do tend to double the prices. I don't sell as finding an Evri place round here which I can access on my way to work is hard.

It's true, but sometimes I wonder. Is it so great for the planet all these items being transported back and forth across the country?

I use Vinted A LOT, but all packaging and sending 1 small tshirt at a time?

I wish Vinted had the same option as Ebay has (or used to), and allow collection.

Or that towns or supermarkets set up "private" lockers: you are given a code when putting your item, and the other person needs that unique code to collect.
Buy and sell local first.

Well, if you want to make a living out of selling old clothes, maybe it is not worth it. But I don't think that's the point of Vinted to be honest. Most people who sell on Vinted sell because they are decluttering/not wearing those clothes anymore and making some money in the process, so definitely worth it when you wouldn't get anything from taking them to the charity shop.

I personally wouldn't mind taking old clothes to the charity shop, but their pricing of lately is ridiculous, so I refuse to donate anything to them now. I don't mind donating when then people can buy cheaply.

Agree. I’ve bought from eBay since it started, and now I use Vinted as well, but I find the search function much better on eBay. It’s so annoying having to search dual sizes on Vinted, and to also have to search other sizes as they changed their whole size labelling and some people still have things listed in the old way.
I also got scammed recently on Vinted and that hasn’t ever happened in over twenty years of using eBay. Vinted didn’t sort it out so I lost £50 and the scam seller was still selling stuff days later so will have scammed others too.

This is exactly what is sold on Vinted by teens - cheap unethical fast fashion.

I think eBay is actually better. The filters are a lot more granular so it's good if you are looking for something very specific. Prices are higher which is better if you are selling, and eBay will email you if a saved search comes up on the site.

BUT

Vinted is like social media in that there is a feed strongly tailored to you, and so you want to get on there are constantly scroll. And because it doesn't email you, you need to actually go on the site and check if a saved item has been listed, so basically you spend more time on the site and buy more.

Overall it's a good thing that people are buying more secondhand, but I do worry a bit about the actual clothing businesses because buying new from a shop seems extremely expensive in comparison. Even though you don't know if something will fit buying on Vinted, if you can buy 10-15 items on there for the price of one new, your odds are good.

I usually go for brands and specific items that I've tried on or owned before, so I know they will fit, but sometimes take a risk.

You can still donate, it'll raise money.

Another myth.

You can sell as much of your own "old crap" as you want and HMRC are not interested.

They are ONLY interested in people who are trading - which means buying with the specific purpose of resale. Selling stuff you bought for yourself and then wore, or which sat in the wardrobe and you decided you didn't want it after all is not trading.

Ebay sellers have always massively overpriced things
Toast items 5-10 years old and they want 70-100 for them
Ridiculous

Yep, the market finds it’s level.

My friends say their daughters are buying on vinted daily.
I love charity shops, from my teens.
There is something about the unknown about them.
My size 6-8 daughter has some incredible long dresses from there, among other clothes.

That's true. None of my children mind second hand clothes at all, in fact they'll browse Vinted and tell me what they want.

When I was a kid, you wouldn't be seen dead in second hand clothes.

EBay is dead not second hand clothes

How much were you selling them for? Were the descriptions good? Were your photos good? It’s odd to not sell at least one or two things.