@molometer: Good explanation of the difference between these two platforms. I don't use either but still found the information useful. 👍
Vinted vs eBay - which is better? (2026-27) by @adetorrent on 3Speak
I’ve been selling stuff on eBay for a decade and a half. I jumped on the Vinted train two years ago or so and have sold a few things on there too. In this video I compare the two from the point of ...
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So in this video, I'm going to talk about the difference between Vinted and eBay, and if you're trying to make up your mind between the two, then this is the video for you. Now, I'm going to be talking about this as someone who's used both platforms. I've been using Vinted for the last... two years, so I'm not as experienced in Vinted as I am with eBay, but then, of course, eBay's been around for a lot, lot longer than Vinted. I've been on eBay for 20 years, so that's 10 times as long in terms of time scale. So not as a seller from day one. I started like anybody else, I was a buyer, so I had an eBay account, so I can shop on eBay. Back in those days, eBay was completely different, and over the decades, yep, decades, plural, there's been a massive change in the whole sort of eBay ecosystem, going from sort of like a Craigslist, sort of weird, over the phone, pick it up later at my place, type of platform to a fully automated full business engine, okay? So, now, If you are a business user, I'm going to just end the video here for you, go use eBay. Vinted is completely useless for you in more cases than none, in most cases, okay? Now, there are some cases where Vinted could actually outperform eBay as a business seller, and I've seen a lot of business sellers actually move from eBay to Vinted, but you have to be a particular type of business to actually make sales on Vinted. I'm going to talk about all that in this video. The rest of this video is as if you're looking to sell as a private seller, which is what most people do. Now, as a private seller, again, it depends on what you're selling and how fast you want to move your stuff, and for how much, and that's going to decide where you're going to sell your stuff. So I'm just going to go through some of the main points that people have, and based on that, you can maybe pick which platform you want to be on. The first one, of course, is sales. Where do you get more sales? Again, depending on what you're selling, I would say that you probably will get more sales on Vinted. If you're selling things like fast fashion, vintage fashion, children's clothes, I think, sell very well, some household stuff like decorations and vintage arti stuff. Now, the reason why you're going to sell faster on Vintage with these things is that, first of all, Vintage was designed to sell your good quality slash vintage clothing, so that culture is still kind of there. And I think that usually women perform better on these platforms because a lot of the clothes buying, the accessories buying, the bags and shoes and stuff are mainly done by women, so they're the ones that usually shop on vintage, which means the women's stuff probably performs a lot better than it does on eBay or than men's stuff. happens to perform unvinted, if you know what I mean. Children's stuff also moves very, very fast on Vinted. If you've got growing children and you want to sell their stuff, maybe there's nobody to pass the close through, or the final sibling or what have you, or for whatever reason. If you mark it down well enough, they're going to fly on Vinted. On eBay, on the other hand, they might not fly as much, not because people are not looking to buy on eBay, but because eBay is so large and there's so many people on eBay, so what you get is you're a big fish in a small pond when you're on Vinted, whereas when you're on eBay, you're just an average fish in an ocean, okay? The size of eBay and all the accumulated list of stuff over the decades are still in their databases, and you have to sift through all that to find what you need. So, on Vinted, there's a lot fewer things to choose from, which means your product has a very good chance of rising to the top. The second point is the listing process, the process of actually listing your stuff and, you know, have it be listed and, you know, whatever the cost. Now, I'm going to rate both of these exactly the same. Back in the day, up until recently, I would have rated vinted, maybe if eBay kept the old ways. Back in the days, listening on eBay was an absolute nightmare. from the point where you had to, like, configure all sorts of things. You had to do policies and profiles and money-back guarantee stuff. You have to handle your own postage. You have to submit the size of the package. You have to calculate all of that because sometimes eBay would charge for, you know, fees on listing and then charge on your postage, and then people will start gaming the system. And, you all just become a bit of a mess. I think it was about four or five years ago, eBay decided to make the shipping process and the listing process extremely easy. So now they're kind of on par with each other. The amounts of photographs that you can upload, I think you can have more on eBay, including video for some accounts. But all in all, they're pretty much on par when it comes to listing. Of course, you can select more granular detail on eBay. Again, this is a legacy of the fact that businesses have been selling on eBay for quite a while. Invinted is quite straightforward. And unfortunately, actually, I find Unvinted that the granularity, the simplicity of, you know, when you're listing, sometimes is actually a flaw because you can't... get detailed enough, but then there's nothing stopping you from adding that in the description yourself. On eBay, also there's an option to use AI. I wouldn't use it because how would AI know what it is I'm selling? If you're selling generic stuff like iPhones and you're doing multiples, then of course AI can write that for you. But, you know, if it's, you know, your old clothes or some vintage stuff that you had. then AI is useless. I'll say just write the thing yourself, especially if it's a one-off, and you have to describe all of the things that are actually wrong with the item, if there's sort of wrong with the item, if you're selling things like electronics and stuff. Now, having said that, if you're selling electronics, then I'll stick to eBay, because electronics don't move as well on Vinted. Because, again, people looking to shop on Vinted, I think about 70 to 80% of people looking on Vinted are looking for clothes. at a discount. So they're looking for good quality vintage, which is probably where the vintage name comes from, or high quality clothes that have been marked down. I think that's the highest selling category. And then you have, obviously, everyday clothes, children's stuff, children's books, you know, they move quite well as well. Now, the next thing, kind of segue is naturally from there, which is postage. Now, again, back in the day, eBay's postage system was... absolutely insane, the returns policies and all that stuff you had to deal with. As a private seller, it's been simplified such that the shipping process on eBay and the shipping process on Vinted are pretty much... the same, especially in the UK. It might be different in different countries. I don't even know they're vinted in different countries, but here in the UK, it's pretty much the same couriers that pick up your package and post them to your destination. Now, how vinted and eBay deal with the packages after the fact, that's a little bit different, but the actual shipping process is pretty much identical. The seller, the buyer, if you're charging postage, pays for the postage and they pay eBay or Vintage, some sort of insurance fee or customer protection fee, so that they're covered for any issues, okay? So basically, it's going to be either every or DPD or Royal Mail or anybody else relay. there are different options, you can pick them based on whatever your package is. Now, I find the actual, getting the package more accurate in terms of the weight and size and cost and all that on eBay to be a lot better than Vinted. Vinted usually has fewer options, and also it doesn't always pick the correct option. Sometimes you have to game some of the details to get it to pick the actual... box size, sometimes it picks something that is too small or too large for your postage. So you have to watch out for that. So the shipping process in terms of selecting that is more fine-tuned and more refined on eBay than it is on Vinted. But once you get the hang of the Vinted one, very, very easy. Now, the next point is getting your money, getting paid. Now, Vinted and eBay... have different ways of getting paid. You can link a bank account, you can link PayPal, you can link all sorts of payments and methods. I think they're about the same. The amount, at least as a private seller, is transferred to your bank, at least in the UK, with no fees. So what you see is what you get in your bank account, and it happens instantly because it uses the... instant SEPA payment system that we have here in the UK. Now, in the US or any other place, who knows, that might be a little bit different, but in the UK, no fees charged, you get your money. But when do you get paid? Well, it depends, on eBay, it depends on some aspects. I'll talk about that later. On Vintet, you get paid when one of two things has happened. Your seller... your buyer has received their package and they have acknowledged that they've received their package and they have said yes, everything is okay, then you get paid, you can withdraw pretty much immediately. If they've received their package and they don't say anything, they don't give it a positive review, they don't acknowledge anything, then there is a 40, I think it's a 48 hour or two-day wait from that point and then you get automatically paid. If there's a dispute, then that's handled in a separate way. If there's a dispute before you get paid, then the buyer has the option to return to you, and you have the option to refund them that way. There could be other nuances where customer services can get involved, but again, that's another thing I'm going to talk about in the minute. On the eBay end, again, as a private seller, business sellers are different, as a private seller, you get your money even faster than you do on Vinted. Now, if I post a package, because my account isn't good standing, I get paid after the midnight of the day of my sale. So if I sold something today, even if I haven't posted it, I can still get paid tomorrow. Now, if I don't post it or something goes wrong, obviously, eBay can claw back that money via whatever means that they have. But... if your account isn't good standing, you actually get paid regardless of what happens, and unless the buyer says otherwise, eBay assumes that the sale has gone through okay. So I kind of actually prefer that method as a seller because, you know, I'm a trustworthy person from my own point of view, and, you know, the quick I can get my money, the better. For Vintet, for instance, if the person just decides never to pick up the package ever, and it just sits in some sort of delivery room or hole or storage or something for a while, you don't get paid, and then the item may be returned to you. So that is not your fault, that's just the person not picking up their stuff, and you might have to pay for that. On eBay, it's the other way around. If they just never pick up their stuff, you still get paid. you just don't get the reviews, depending on what kind of seller that you are, that may be important to you or not. So, leaving reviews. Reviews are very straightforward on both sides. It's pretty much the same thing. The buyer can leave you a positive or negative review. The seller can also give a positive or negative review. So it goes both ways. I find that there's a kind of understanding that, you know, if... something goes well on both sides, you just give a five-star review or the best possible review. I think on eBay is just a positive review. You can get a positive, neutral, or bad review. on Vinted is stars, okay? So, again, most of the reviews that I get five-star reviews, because I post on time, they get the product that I've described accurately. I've never had anything returned by anybody on Vinted. I've had a few returns on eBay, just because I've been there for longer, 15 years I've been selling on eBay, casually here and there. So, yeah, sometimes I'll get a neutral review, but it is what it is. I find that most people don't even look, unless your percentage is dropped on under 90%. and it doesn't really matter that much on eBay, and my account standing is perfect, which means I still get paid on time. Now, if your account standing drops below a certain amount, you miss some shipments, you get some bad reviews, then the payment system on eBay is not as quick as when your account is good standing. On Vincet, on the other hand, giving a positive review also releases the money to the seller. Now in terms of ease of use and interface, I've addressed that actually in the beginning of the video as well, the look and feel. Vintet, in my opinion, actually just looks better because of course it's newer, it doesn't have any legacy stuff, it doesn't have much luggage to it, and it's sort of fresh looking with a nice color palette again. They've only been around not for so long, so they're able to be modern looking and, you know, the website is faster because there's just less stuff on there. In terms of outages, I haven't seen any outage in any of them for a while. Customer Services, that's a big one. Now, Vinted doesn't have customer services unless it's a serious issue, right? They don't have the everyday customer services, and they definitely don't have anybody you can call in my experience. I haven't found any way of calling anyone. eBay, on the other hand, I'm going to give them... even though the customer services has nosedived recently, I'm going to give them the crown for this one, it's not even comparable. Back in the day, I don't know how they did it, but eBay, you can pick up the phone and you can speak to someone within minutes, okay? Obviously, maybe they cut down costs, they cut down the call centers, the reduced costs, whatever, and now it's AI that's dealing with the customer services, and, you know, just a few months ago when they went from humans to AI, There was a massive hoo-ah about it, and people didn't realize how to get hold of customer service people. It used to be so easy to call eBay customer service, and they used to be so helpful to me anyway, but now just reaching them is an absolute nightmare. And even then, I still rank their customer services above vintage customer services because it's pretty much just non-existent. So whether you're a private seller or business seller... and whatever it is that you're selling is going to help you make a decision of where to sell eBay or Vinted. But check this out. There's nothing stopping you from actually selling on both platforms. I sell on both platforms, but the problem with that is that I need to keep an eye on both platforms, because if something sells on one platform, I have to go ahead and end the listing on the other platform to say that it's, you know, longer available for selling. Because if it accidentally sells on both, and I only have one item to send, I have to apologize to one of the buyers and say, oops, sorry, I don't have this item anymore. On Vinted, that would... negatively count against you. On eBay, not so much. It might count against you in the long run if you do it too many times, but Invented, actually, if you miss, if you can't, if you miss a sale, if someone buys something and you don't post it or you cancel and all that, that really seriously affects your account and, you know, your stars go down immediately. Vintet itself gives you a negative review, which is kind of, I find kind of strange. But what that does is it encourages sellers to, you know, not take the Mickey when it comes to sending the stuff to the buyer. So, again, business seller, private seller, and things that you're selling will help you decide between the two. But again, you could always sell them both like I do. I'm interested to know, what are you selling, where are you selling? Do you agree what I said? Did I miss something? Let's have a chat in the comment section. I've got referral links to both Vinted. and eBay, if you use those links, there's a chance that I might get a commission to say thank you, it'd be at no cost to you, and you might even get a little bonus from said company, depending on when you click and where you are. So the rules are always changing, depending on the time that you do it. There's a possibility that you might get some bonus money, maybe for listing or whatever, or to say thank you if you use my referral link. But definitely, if I qualify, I will be getting something, hopefully. I'll see you in the next one.
@molometer: Good explanation of the difference between these two platforms. I don't use either but still found the information useful. 👍