Ebay or Vinted?

[JuliaDorneys]

I've used both but only 2 sales on Vinted.

TBH I've been fed up with both sites recently compared to years ago when I sold a lot on ebay with no issues. (I've around 300 positive reviews, all mainly for 'quality' clothes.

My take on it is...

With Ebay it's an auction so better chance to get a good price.
Postage can be 'bespoke' whereas Vinted comes up with the price, there is a default setting for UPS, so you have to say you aren't using it. (They over-priced a parcel I've just posted so the buyer will have a nice surprise.)

The downside of Ebay is that a couple of buyers recently have been very quick to tell me their items didn't arrive and one had the nerve to query it within a few days, even though my 'posting time' was 4 working days and by R Mail 2nd class. She even mentioning raising a claim, and when it did turn up a few days later, she didn't even let me know.

I now have a couple of pairs of good boots that are hardly worn (I ought not to have kept them!) and I want a decent price for them.

My feeling is that Vinted is for fast and cheap sales.

Anyone educate me a bit more? I've heard such bad stuff about Ebay on SM - scammers etc- it's making me wary.

Vinted us ok. I've sold lots on there. But if it's overpriced it won't sell.

I used to use ebay all the time but then it seems they put their fees up. Moved to vinted, and yes it was good, but felt people wanted stuff alot cheaper.

But now vinted have taken away their custom postage and its much harder for me to post as work in rural place instead of London and cannot get to these inpost boxes or different shops and its annoying. Thinking of goin back to ebay!

Ive recently moved to Vinted from Ebay. Its much easier and no seller fees however things sell much cheaper and I do miss that buzz of the auction and seeing something you're selling going up and up. You could always list the boots on both sites and see which gets most take up. I've done that before then just removed the other listing when I've sold.

Nothing of mine seems to sell on eBay, but does so quickly on vinted - listed at similar prices. Plus eBay fees are quite a lot these days too. So vinted all the way for me!

To be honest 4 days is too long. Appreciate this might be due to your circumstances but buyers generally want it asap.

I'm the opposite lol

Nothing of mine seems to sell on vinted.

I feel like everything's knock down price on there.

I sell on eBay only when 80% off selling feesnis available.

Op, my advice; if selling on eBay; don't sell by auction. That Is an incredibly short window for potential buyers to see and bid on your item. You can be lucky or not lucky, the latter very easily.

Sell Buy It Now. eBay will suggest a price. Sometimes the suggestion is accurate, sometimes not. Check if same item or similar item is on there and how much sellers are looking for it.
You can set a minimum offer too if you like.

List during an 80% off selling fees offer, every other weekend - if you've sold enough items to be eligible (not sure how many you have to have sold).

The dispatch thing ... I have 3 working days and I get it too. Not from most ppl, just a few. Ppl are impatient and too used to instant everything.

If they message me, I blandly tell them I have a three working day dispatch and this is day x. If they piss me off, I say I'd be v happy to cancel the order; they never seem to say yes to that.

If you have a decent quality item in a not weird size and you're not in a rush to sell, stick it on BIN and just wait. If I'm waiting on a buyer for a not cheap item, it could take weeks, months even. It depends how much of a rush you're in. Now is a good time for boots, obviously.

I have to warn you with boots, if they're long, that the increase in general size in the UK population means everyone is fixated on calf measurements of boots. If they're not generous or have stretch sections, it can be tricky to get a buyer.

I've heard such bad stuff about Ebay on SM - scammers etc- it's making me wary.

Take a tonne of photos of the boots, take a video of the zip working if they have zips.

Say full refund on return if they try to say they're ab or c. No partial refunds etc.

Use a tracked service, Yodel or evri or tracked royal mail.

It's not the majority of buyers though. Most are fine.

I sell on both sites but prefer vinted. I get much more regular sales on vinted (25 sales in October with average sale price around £20). I really think it depends what you are actually selling on Vinted.

Also the UPS is not an option anymore so that's not correct.

I've attached some examples of recent vinted sales. It's really not just for fast cheap sales!

Honestly, fair play to you for getting a decent price for anything on vinted.

I really couldn't seem to sell anything.

When I checked prices for items similar to those I was selling, they were generally really low and much lower than on eBay.

Eg a merino jumper, I'd sell it for close to £20 on eBay, they all seemed to be half that in vinted.

And the fact buyers can make you an offer on anything - unlike eBay where you have to have specified offers - means they just keep trying to make lower offers.

They've even moved that behaviour across to eBay and message you making offers when you don't have make an offer specified.

I tried to sell on vinted and as @Hamburger233 says I barely sold anything there or not for what I wanted.

Agreed with buyers making you offers on eBay too, I had an irritating buyer who tried to get me to sell the item for basically the postage price plus a tiny bit extra. They kept messaging me too even after I said no each time. With that, if it doesn’t sell I’d rather charity shop it.

I usually just ignore them if it's not a reasonable offer.

I've had weird back stories about why I need to sell them something for what they can afford Inc postage.

I felt like writing back .... If you can only afford X amount, including postage - you're buying a used item; why don't you go to a local charity shop so you have no postage cost, and find as close to what you're looking for as possible??

Why do you expect me to sell you something for less than I'd like. .. and probably less than someone else will pay for it because you only have X amount and somehow "need" to have an eg Jack wills pure merino cable knit jumper.

They are fruit loops.

And I bet they'd not do anyone a favour or budge an inch if someone wanted something from them.

(Btw I buy 98% of my stuff from charity shops so I'm not being a hypocrite either).