Selling
Vinted or eBay: where to sell what
Put everyday clothes, shoes and accessories on Vinted, where buyers browse fashion and private sellers pay no selling fee. Put rare, technical and collectable items on eBay, where buyers search by exact model, and check the fees on your own country's eBay site, because they differ. Choose by item, not by habit.
What sells best on Vinted?
Vinted is built around clothing. Buyers come to browse by size and brand, and haggling is normal. What works: clothes, shoes, accessories, small leather goods, and children's clothes in bundles. What struggles: anything bulky, technical or niche, where buyers search by reference rather than scroll.
On fees, Vinted's help pages say there are no fees for uploading or selling items. The buyer pays the Vinted fee at checkout, which Vinted's price list for its euro markets gives as usually 5% of the price plus €0.70, and postage on top. What you list is what you are paid, before any postage or packaging you cover yourself.
Example: on an item listed at €20, the buyer pays €20 + €1 (5%) + €0.70, so €21.70 before postage. The fee can differ from one country to another: the price list on your own Vinted site is the one that applies.
One thing to build into your prices: offers are the norm, not the exception. A price with no room in it turns into sales below the price you wanted.
What sells best on eBay?
eBay is where buyers look for something specific, sometimes for months. On a sought-after piece, a collector will pay without haggling a price a casual buyer would never accept. What works: collectables, technical kit, identified vintage, niche brands, spare parts, anything with a model number. Auctions can push a rare piece well past its estimate, and let an ordinary one go cheap.
eBay's fees are set country by country, and they have changed several times in recent years. Depending on the eBay site, a private seller may pay a commission on each sale, or the buyer may pay a protection fee instead. Listing upgrades, listings beyond a free allowance and international sales can add charges on top.
So do not take a rate from a blog post, this one included. Open the fee page of the eBay site you sell on (eBay.de, eBay.fr, eBay.it, eBay.es, eBay.nl, eBay.ie and so on), note the percentage, the fixed fee and any threshold for your category, then run your numbers.
How do you split your stock between them?
The method that works is not picking a platform. It is giving each item its own:
| What you have | Where to list it | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday clothes, shoes, accessories | Vinted | Buyers browse fashion by size and brand |
| Rare or collectable pieces | eBay | Buyers search by exact model |
| Technical kit, spare parts | eBay | A reference number finds its buyer |
| Identified vintage | eBay, or Vinted for wearable pieces | Depends on whether buyers search or browse |
| Low-value pieces | A bundle on Vinted | One parcel, one checkout, several pieces |
What does the wrong platform cost you?
Not a lower price: no sale at all. A technical item on Vinted does not sell for less, it simply never meets anyone looking for it. It sits there, slides down the results, and ends up sold off out of frustration when it had a market somewhere else.
The opposite mistake exists too: an everyday high-street top on eBay, where buyers expect a technical description it cannot have and where its price leaves little room once postage is added.
Should you list everything everywhere?
No, and it sounds wrong until you have tried it. Every extra platform means another listing written in its own style, and another listing to take down when the item sells. A sale on one site while the listing is still live on another produces a second sale you cannot honour, and a bad review.
The rule that holds: one main platform per type of item, and a second one only for pieces that have not sold after several weeks. If you do cross-list, end every other listing the moment one sells.
That is why it helps to know, item by item, where each one is listed. resellflip records the platforms each piece is on, and on a paid plan writes the listing in the style each one expects. The title that works on eBay is not the one that works on Vinted.
Where the figures come from
Fees and rules change. Every platform figure or official threshold on this page comes from the page below, read on the date shown. If it has changed since, the official page is right and this one is out of date.
- Vinted Ireland Help Centre: Is using Vinted free?, checked on
- Vinted Ireland: Price list (Vinted fee for buyers, last updated 5 October 2026), checked on
A tool for this: eBay fee calculator: what you actually keep
The tool
Try resellflip on one item
From one photo: a price range, and the net profit you would keep before you buy. Listings are written for you on a paid plan. No card needed.