How much do you sell on vinted?

[CurlyCabbage]

(hope Ive put this on the most appropriate board)

I have had a massive declutter of clothing. Adults and kids. There must be thousands of clothing items if I am honest and the bags they are stored in are taking over my home.

I really want to try Vinted but will this be a pointless exercise? Is there just too many to sell?! Am i being unrealistic? Shall I just give all to charity?

I have plenty of time to upload said items but how much can I realistically sell and over what time frame. I do not want to go i to the new year with this many bags all over the house.

If you are an avid user of Vinted, please give me an idea of how much you realistically sell and over what timeframe. Im feeling very overwhelmed.

If you upload around 5 items a day you’ll get good views for your other stuff. Can’t really say how much you’ll sell as it depends what it is and what you’ve priced it at. I look at prices on eBay (sold prices not listed prices) using google lens to get an idea. Also look at similar items on Vinted. You can always reduce if you’re not selling. But (big but!) expect to be offered 25-50% of your asking price. Tbh I sell about £40-50 a week doing this but I have been uploading daily for a year and give away to charity at least half of it when it doesn’t sell. Be prepared for the endless questions and make sure you get candid photos of all imperfections because people are, well…‘interesting’

You could always bundle the children’s clothes together. Make sure the pictures are decent. Vinted for me comes in waves. Buy a packet of sealable postage bags so you can easily get things posted. Just sold an empty iPad box which has made me go 😵‍💫 but that is £5 for old rope essentially.

Vinted for me has paid for two holidays and I have enough in my account to pay for a third. What have you got to loose??

Personally I would sell on eBay over Vinted, Vinted things go for very low prices in comparison. eBay also protect people selling better.

Ive sold most of my daughter's clothes on there, which has given them the enthusiasm to keep clearing their wardrobes out.

I have put a load of stuff on Vinted and sold half really quickly and the rest is slowly trickling away. I spent a day doing a mass upload and used low pricing strategy as it would all have gone to charity normally so my theory is it's better getting some cash back. I've used the proceeds to restock my now empty wardrobe so it's a circular economy and Vinted must be laughing at the double fees but it's still better for my bank account and the environment than buying new! So I'm doing it all wrong but it's satisfying anyway!

I agree about bundles. I don't sell much but buy all DC clothes on Vinted. I'm much more likely to buy something if it's in a bundle or if I can make a bundle of 5 or 6 items. The postage and fees add on about 3 quid so it's got to be worth it.

Thanks for the advice so far. I think i will start with items that are new with tags. When ive got the hang of it i will do the kids clothes bundles.

Its just very overwhelming. I suppose i just need to start.

How long before people take stuff thats not selling off vinted and send to charity? I cant leave stuff indefinitely. I want these bags gone.

I have items in plastic boxes under beds here - listed them last year but they occasionally get bought. I agree with pp who suggested listing 5 items a day and this keeps you, as a seller, visible. Get a stash of easy peel and stick bags ready, and send as soon as you sell. I suggest changing your settings to InPost and Royal Mail if you have lockers nearby.

I’ve made £2.5 k on Vinted over 2 yrs and it’s so worth it.

Take at least 3 pictures of each item, give dimensions and definitely list material. Use your phone to download the App. Take all your pics in one go before folding each item down to store away. I upload a few items a night whilst watching TV.

Good luck!

I use Vinted because it’s so quick to list. EBay bundles didn’t work well for me (quadrupled the postage costs, but I wasn’t able to change it due to ‘simple shipping’(!)

I sell most kids things for £1 to get rid of them. Things with tags sell for much more on Vinted though. I think people are wary of quality on Vinted and having tags means it’s not likely to show up with stains or a hole.

I sold a lot on eBay s few years ago. As pp said, get really organised, scales, labels, tape measure, posting bags. It might be worth getting a cheap mannequin as clothes look 100% better on a "body". Everything clean and ironed and described briefly but clearly with a few measurements. Find somewhere with good light (I use a plain wall in my conservatory).

Start with the better quality items that might get over £10 but be realistic as very little goes for over £25:even if new. As you get down to things that will fetch less than postage, bundle kids clothes by age/season. If you are left with a residue of cheap items or things that don't sell, cut your losses and donate them.
Finally dont spend your earnings on more clothes, if you are going to do this (or if you don't need the money) just donate it all to start with and get a warm feeling for helping a charity.

I always need the next size up of kids clothes so that's what my earnings go into!

Are there any Vinted sellers close to you? There’s people round my area who take bags of clothes and sell them for you, and they keep 30-50% commission. It means I get rid of bags of clothes but don’t have to put any effort in myself to sell them, and get some money back.

Weekends are a great time to upload as people are browsing on there more.

get good photos and give good descriptions. Be sensible with pricing.

I bought loads of postage bags from Amazon cheap too which are useful to have to send things.

I love it! Have sold loads on there. I tend to give things a couple of days (over a weekend) then reduce slightly. If I haven’t had much interest after a week I take them off and charity shop them.

I sold two things for £90 yesterday and have £80 in my account at the moment. High price items do sell , you just have to be more patient.

i start listings high, always prepared to lower them to a price i can afford to sell at and sometimes get lucky with buyers going for my high price straight away.

I know lots of people who make money selling hundreds of things for a pound each but I don’t have capacity for all the work, photography, uploading, customer service: questions, detailed measurements, crazy reductions, reservation requests, perverts etc.

in my experience the customers who make the most demands are the least likely to buy the item.
i only do measurements if the item is vintage or has ambiguous sizing and the information isn’t available on the retail website.
if it’s a standard size 12 (for example) I don’t provide any measurements, whereas if it’s a ‘large’ from a lesser known brand I might provide measurements if asked, but put in the listing what size it fits.

i never offer reservations because those people have never come back and if it’s a newly listed item, reserving it takes it off the market for those days and it has less chance of being noticed in that crucial time.

people make crazy offers, I don’t always accept them and am happy to negotiate as a buyer and a seller. I often try it on as a buyer too, and it can pay off.

I dont sell any single item for under a fiver because the wrapping and trips to the post office are not worth it for me.
if I have lower value things that I don’t want to send to the charity just yet I offer bundles, that’s mainly the kids’ stuff.

i don’t buy packaging but I always make a nice parcel, and often get high praise for my parcels.
It’s worth making the extra effort, especially for the expensive stuff, I think it’s nice for people to receive, and I feel good for reusing and recycling.

i mainly use the money to buy more as they’re growing steadily - so just got two decent winter coats for the kids, branded and perfect condition for a tenth of the retail price.

I also use the money for specific bits and bobs, so things like a piece of jewellery I really wanted but couldn’t justify the spend, just sold loads of old clothes and more recently paid for a gardener as didn’t have ready cash.

i have a disability which makes excercise difficult so im often selling and buying clothes due to my fluctuating size. I buy as cheap as I possibly can and pretty much always make money on what I sell

because I am a single parent on a low income I’ve moved from tax credits to universal credit and apparently there’s new rulings where if I earn over a certain amount my benefits can be capped or stopped which is part of the reason I don’t do frequent uploads .
There is a tax threshold too so it’s worth checking that

Exactly. I've gone from an 18 to a 10. My wardrobe is empty 😂

I’ve been selling on Vinted. I uploaded about 10 items on a Saturday night and had sold 5 within about 4-5 days.

think I sold all for full price. Not sure why that pp is saying people offer at 40-50% of listed price - I haven’t had that at all. Maybe 75% (someone even reduced by 50p) I think I maybe reduced a bigger item by £1 or something but generally have sold at full price. I don’t put them on for supper high amounts though.

I have found it really easy to use.

I think the idea of waiting for thousand items to sell is overwhelming. But even if they each sold for £1 thats a £1000 i suppose. Not sure how realistic I'm being to be fair.

Do some people just leave the items on forever then? I think I'm going give them the season. So autumn/winter clothes not sold by spring will go to charity and then the same for spring/summer. Does that seem fair?

Don’t overthink it about leaving them on. I find after a couple of weeks they don’t get much attention - I think vinted promotes newly listed stuff.

Of course, that's different!

I’m not sure about them not getting attention. I’ve managed to shift some clothes that were listed last year!

Yes, I bought a skirt a few days ago and after I paid realised the upload date was 10 months ago, so I fully expected it to be cancelled but it arrived today (and it’s perfect)