W hen a mystery package encased inside a Pampers wrapper arrived on Sophie’s doorstep, she wondered if it was someone’s idea of a joke. Or, depending on what was inside, if she’d run afoul of her worst enemy. No, she quickly discovered: it was actually the second-hand T-shirt she’d bought off Vinted .
Just, for some reason, wrapped as confusingly as possible. Think of Vinted as a modernised, mobile app version of eBay , where you can barter with strangers over pre-owned clothes and accessories . Sounds easy, right? If only it were that straightforward.
Everyone who’s used the app will have at least one bizarre tale, like the buyer who received second-hand jewellery inside a Fruit Shoot bottle, or another whose parcel was delayed as the seller was too “distraught” over Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury’s breakup to mail it on time. Some have even encountered dirty socks for sale for £5 a pop. I began using Vinted in 2022, when I learnt that the company – unlike its biggest competitor Depop – didn’t take a cut of my sales.
(Though us online sellers, across the board, now have just days before the HMRC “side hustle tax” comes in.) Since switching to Vinted, I’ve made more than £1,000 selling my pre-owned clothes and, generally, I’ve had an extremely positive experience. The site is much easier to use than Depop or eBay, since it generates a digital packing label and automatically calculates the price of postage before charging it to the buyer.
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