I plan to sell 95% of my wardrobe on Vinted

[Ohmygoshposh]

I have too many clothes. I can’t see the wood for the trees.

I lack proper storage space in my house so lots of clothes are piled up in boxes and not laid out well. It makes getting dressed feel overwhelming as I have too much stuff and I can’t see it all, I forget what I have and I have too many things to properly know what goes well with what. This means I often put on an outfit, realise it’s not quite right but don’t have time to change, so end up feeling rubbish all day. Or I just reach for my faithful leggings and sweater again & again.

I have a charity shop/bargain/Vinted addiction, so while I have some fantastic individual items, overall my wardrobe is a random mish-mash of different styles. Lots of things that don’t go and lots of stuff not suitable for my lifestyle.

I’m not actually sure what my style is, but I WFH full time, live in the countryside so spend a lot of time walking in mud, in the garden etc. So I have little need for the nice dresses and shoes I am drawn to.

I’m seriously considering selling / donating the majority of my clothes. Just keeping a few practical and nice things that I genuinely need & love. Then to the extent I need something like say a nice dress for a wedding I’ll just buy one off Vinted, wear it, then sell it on. I simply don’t need a wardrobe full of going out dresses these days sitting gathering dust.

I’ve put some stuff on Vinted & already made over £100 in two days. (Most of my stuff is sought after brands, and I price to sell as a lot of it was second hand in the first place so I’m not too fussed about how much I get for it. I also donate to charity.)

The money will be useful with increased cost of living.

Anyone else done this or is tempted?!

Yes me. I wear the same things day after day! Not the exact ones, just varying styles or colours. I think it would be really nice to just have a simple capsule wardrobe.

Link? 😂

I recently did this. I feel like I know my style now and tend to wear the same pieces over and over and then hang on to other bits 'just in case'. Sold and donated loads and getting ready is so much easier!

I’m feeling really inspired. I keep uploading an item each time I get a spare 2 minutes

I’m up to £150 now

I want to do this, but cannot seem to work out how I calculate the postage? Any tips!

That’s quite tempting / inspiring.

I’m leaving work early next year so will have lower income and more time on my hands for one. For two, I have too many clothes too. I have tried to stop buying lately as I really do have enough. If I do buy, I have to really, really love it, that’s my new rule, no ‘it’ll do’. Perhaps if I sold the stuff I already have that is good but I just don’t ever want to wear, I could replace with other stuff. I’d love to be able to see what I have in the wardrobe.

questions for you:

• is posting a pain?
• is communicating with buyers a pain?
• what sort of price per item are you getting?

I need to do more of this- what you've said about having a mishmash of clothes really hits home. I think I'll pick out a few work outfits and a few leisure time outfits to keep, then figure out what to do with the rest.

I like selling on vinted but only for items that will go for £10 or more - otherwise it's not worth my time.For the rest I list bundles on the local buy nothing Facebook page for someone to come and take for free.

Good for you OP, I took this mentality a few years ago and haven't looked back. It completely changed my attitude to shopping and what I buy and I buy very little. Realising that I was in the habit of buying things I saw that I liked whenever I saw them or that 'flattered' me rather than considering how or where I would wear it within the realms of my lifestyle has been transformative thinking. I also tend to no longer buy bright colours, patterns etc that will date or I will tire of- this makes sure everything is wearable the next year or for it's lifespan. The only things I've kept I don't technically wear are practical items there would be no point purchasing again but will always have their day- eg a pair of wellies, a proper raincoat, spare gloves.

I made a bit of money selling some of it on ebay at the time which was nice and the rest I took to charity, along with all the rest of the stuff I don't use in my house. Just be sure you are actually making a worthwhile profit for the effort, any driving to post (if applicable), packing materials etc.

These days I have one rail with a seasonal capsule wardrobe on and one chest of drawers, half of which is underwear, socks and sleepwear and a small selection of shoes are in underbed boxes.

One thing I found very helpful was observing gut feeling- if I bought an item and then wasn't reaching for it during the returns period, or put it on and took it off in favour of something else- it went back and that was that. Ditto trying it on and that feeling of there being a small thing about it I wasn't sure of or it not going with much else I own. Much easier to get what you paid back within the 28 days than sell on vinted or ebay later.

Well done @Ohmygoshposh . I've had a massive clear out recently and I have been trying to sell stuff on Vinted but I'm not having much luck 😕

That's what I was wondering - does the stuff actually sell? I have a dress that I bought for a formal dinner that I'll probably never wear again so was thinking of selling, but even when I filter right down by size, colour, style, there's 500+ dresses, so what are the chances of someone finding mine?

On the flip side, I can't really imagine buying clothes where you can't try them on and can't return them, or it's more hassle than it's worth to do so. Plus the endless looking for the right thing in in the right size, because even when you filter down to the exact style, size, colour, there's still 500+ dresses to potentially look through.

From my experience with Vinted, I would say it is very different from eBay. It's not really a site for making money. If you price stuff right, it flies. If you overprice, it sticks.
Anything from Zara tends to have more value.
So if you want to use it to just get rid, it's ideal. If you want to use it to make money, I would imagine it's rather sluggish.
Over the last month, I've made about £120 just from selling lots of tops/dresses for between £2 and £5, so it soon adds up.
I have then used this to buy clothes on the site, so I suppose almost like a clothes swap.
Good luck, it is rather addictive though...

They give you recommendations that you can follow?

I'd love to sell 90% of my wardrobe too. However, I live in the rural arse end of nowhere and the nearest In Locker things are a 9 mile drive away. Does this mean its not worth it?

I might be better car booting it perhaps.

I sold a few things but found that things that would go for £10-£15 on eBay only go for £2-£4 on Vinted.

I sold two pairs of Levis and even priced at £4 people asked if I'd accept £2! (No, I won't!)
At £10-£15 which I thought was more reasonable, nobody showed any interest.

Plus Evri /InPost kept losing parcels after I put them in the parcel lockers.

Joe Browns stuff usually sells well

Just out of interest, how much do things cost to buy? I know the difference between ebay and Vinted is that you get the sale price without fees or offering free postage on Vinted, but that must mean that the buyer pays the postage and a fee to Vinted?

So an item that the seller gets a couple of quid for is going to be a minimum of around £6 to the buyer?

I've sold lots of stuff on Vinted but at quite low prices. I would hsve normally taken them to charity shops. I've probably made £200 in 3 months so I think it's worth it.
I buy lots of stuff too. I only stick to the brands I know as I know they'll fit.

I want to do this. I seem to have loads of clothes but nothing to wear. Every now and then I tell myself I’m going to go minimalist-ish: fewer items, better quality, but then I don’t quite get there. I’d rather rotate the same few outfits I love than keep wearing stuff that I don’t.

I have over 50 items for sale on ebay, sold quite a bit in early in October, its gone quiet now, I think people are now waiting for black Friday

Well done you. It is so much better to let things go than just buy more storage.

I used to sell my stuff on ebay but it's quite a hassle for a small amount of money so I started giving it to the local charity shop but stopped when I found out they don't have time to go through everything so most goes for rags, so now I guve it to someone who sells it themselves. I can't bare waste!

Thanks for all the comments, I guess I intended this thread to be more about the benefits of a minimal wardrobe rather than the practicalities of selling on Vinted - there are already several threads on that with helpful info. But in summary I find the Vinted process very straightforward, but I do have a printer at home & live right by the parcel shop so I am not wasting time travelling to a parcel shop. EBay probably gets higher prices but I found it too much of a faff.

I’ve sold lots and would say average prices are around £5 a top or £8-10 for a dress or trousers. I am selling sought-after brands though (Hobbs, Reiss, Whistles, Ted Baker, All Saints, Cos, Hush, Boden, Me & Em, Baukjen, J Crew etc). So it might be harder to shift stuff if you have piles of H&M, M&S, Next or supermarket clothes perhaps?! Although saying that the one Next dress I listed sold in about 5 minutes!

I also try and use trendy words in my listings where appropriate, so words like “oversized” or “100% wool” for jumpers or “chunky” for boots as people will specifically search for these characteristics

Also the more items you list, the more you sell as more views on your profile, plus a lot of people start buying bundles from you rather than individual items.

Hope that helps.

I’m up to £230 ish in sales now & my wardrobe is looking a lot less cramped and it’s really making me happy!!

I’ve done this over the past year and made about £750. Pretty much anything “new” to me comes from there too.

Ive gone from having 2.5 wardrobes, three drawers and 3 bags under the bed, to having 1.5 wardrobes, one drawer and 1 bag under the bed (mainly summer shorts/dresses and small maternity bag).

Still got a bit of work to do. I would like to reduce it further and I’m currently operating on a two out, one in basis.

I’ve been on a MAJOR similar declutter – not just wardrobe but the whole house – and the benefits are immense. With clothes it’s not only need less storage for them, but you end up doing less washing and putting away and thinking: it’s glorious.

Branded stuff sells, you'll get more on Vinted than at a car boot. I've made £250 in a week so am a recent convert.

Price things £1-2 over because wants to change an offer. Be prepared to sell low, but if you have enough volume it adds up.

I've sold a north face jacket for 15 and a north face ski coat for £45, everything else has been £3-5

Sorry totally didn't see your latest post op!