Vinted selling -cheaper sister site of Ebay or not?

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Not maybe S&B but interested on comments!

I've a few bits to sell - good quality Boden, Mint Velvet, hardly worn- but the prices being asked on Vinted are so low (£5 for knitwear) it hardly seems worth the effort ( taking photos, loading, answering messages, taking to the post office etc and waiting a whole month for the payment.)

A few years ago I could make £100 quite easily on Ebay selling Boden, Jigsaw, etc. But Ebay commission is high and I don't think clothes are selling that well now.

Has anyone had any more positive experiences of Vinted where you've got a reasonable price for clothes? Or if you're a buyer, what price do you expect?

Am I doing vinted wrong? Whenever I've been on it looks like a jumble sale in a brothel. There's a mixture of scantily clad women in provocative poses and 'I've tipped the unironed contents of my wardrobe onto my unmade bed'

I've seen the jumble sale but not the other bits. I think you need to be careful what you search for or you get heavily photoshopped images of young women with huge arses/boobs.

@skyeisthelimit Thanks for your detailed post.

I used Ebay for years and had a lot of positive feedback, so I know how listing works.

I use the PO as it's closer for me and in my area we've all had awful issues with Evri.

I am not going to drop the price for the branded big items. one I've listed ( a handbag) is on far cheaper than the same bag by other sellers but not in such good condition.
ie mine is listed at £120 and the others are £150. I'm selling it at a fair price and if it doesn't sell I'll just keep it (it's a bag I might use once or twice a year.)

Maybe prices of 2nd hand clothes have fallen. A few years ago on Ebay I'd get £10 for a pair of Boden cotton trousers and now on Vinted they are listed for a fiver.

I made several £hundred each year on Ebay but in comparison Vinted seems cheaper. I WILL use it but I think the demography of buyers is different.

I can't come to terms with Vinted because of the postal options thing. I haven't got a phone so just want to be able to take stuff to a post office and have a stamp stuck on it. This doesn't seem to be an option on Vinted - it's all QR codes and scanning things which I can't do.

I use eBay to sell items I think I can get more ££ for.
People generally don’t want to pay much on Vinted. I had 2 lovely Zara coats for sale, I priced them at £20 each which is cheap for 2 barely worn coats (rrp was £80-100) but kept getting offers saying “will you sell for £10?” They were on there for weeks & weeks.
I took them off & sold on eBay when it was free listings - one went for £36 the other £55!

I use Vinted to sell kids clothes - I usually sell in bundles, Next, M&S,Zara, seem to sell well. It’s not worth my time selling individual items for £2 each so I do in bundles of 4/5 for £5. I don’t mind selling kids clothes cheap. They sell pretty well imo.

I much prefer the ease of Vinted - it’s quicker to upload than eBay & less hassle.

The days when you could get ££££ for second hand clothes have long gone.

Basically down to everyone having the same idea and selling everything they can get their hands on. So it's a saturated market and people just won't pay anything more than a couple of quid.

I've got some gorgeous Joules items on at the moment, mint condition, I'm asking a fiver but am inundated with people offering £2. I'll probably end up accepting just to get rid.

Three years down the line … are we of the same opinion still?

I’m about to start selling, thanks to Mounjaro. I have many Boden /Reiss/Me&Em dresses and trousers, a few still tagged , all in really good condition, and I don’t know where to start. My dd uses Vinted, but the change in sizing really caused her some grief and extra trouble. She tends to buy cheap and cheerful stuff, and sell it v cheaply, whereas I hope the top-end high street brands might do better on eBay

I would be grateful for your views!

I only started using Vinted recently and, to begin with, I was mostly searching for 'high end high street' brands e.g. Toast or Me and Em. But frankly (and I've been buying second hand in 'real shops' for a long time) I found the prices ridiculously high considering you can't try on or expect to return. I've now given up on contemporary labels and switched to looking for vintage (1940s-70s). I quite enjoy it - the pricing is chaotic but I'm reasonably knowledgeable and it's unexpectedly good fun. Also as a rule, vintage sellers understand that you need garment measurements which saves a lot of hassle.

I only buy - I'm not interested in selling.

I've not used Ebay as much but my impression is that it's more organised with more small scale dealers and slightly higher prices.

I don't 'make offers'. If I want something and I think the asking price is reasonable, I pay it. If I think the price is taking the piss, I don't engage. I think that might be unusual but I've never been interested in haggling.

Ebay dropped their fees for private sales two years ago. Selling's free for private sellers with no final value or transaction fees across almost all categories, including fashion.

You pay for 'promotion' if you want, as with Vinted, but Ebay lets you choose a level of promotion/cost.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/fees-private-sellers-activated-managed-payments?id=4822