What the buyer actually pays for your Vinted item

Your price vs the buyer's price

You still receive the full listed amount in your Vinted balance every time. The fee is additional, not deducted.

The flat 0.70 punishes cheap listings

Because 0.70 of the fee is fixed, the uplift is not a flat 5% — it is 12% on a £10 itemand only 6.6% on a £45 one. A £5 top is shown to buyers at £5.95, a 19% mark-up on a bargain-bin price. That is why very cheap Vinted listings stall: the buyer is comparing your £5.95 total against someone else's £6 item and seeing no saving at all.

Bundling helps for exactly this reason. Three £8 items sold separately carry the 0.70 three times; sold as one £24 bundle it is charged once.

The uncomfortable comparison: Vinted vs Depop at the same buyer price

Everyone compares the seller fee — 0% on Vinted, 3.3% + 0.45 on Depop — and concludes Vinted wins. But a buyer with £21.70 to spend does not care whose fee it is. So compare on what the buyer hands over, not on what the platform calls its fee:

List on Depop at the price a Vinted buyer would have paid anyway, and you end up with slightly more — because the protection money goes to Vinted rather than to you. The 0% seller fee is real, but it is not the same as the platform being cheaper for the transaction as a whole.

This is a fee-arithmetic point, not a recommendation to move platforms. Vinted's audience size, its postage integration and how fast a category actually sells there will usually matter more than 50p a sale.

What this means when you set a price

• Price against the buyer's total,not your listing figure — that is the number shown next to your competitors' items.
• Avoid very low single listings. Under about £8 the fixed 0.70 makes your item look poor value however little you charge.
• Bundle to spread the fixed fee across several pieces.
• Your real profit is the listed price minus postage you cover and what the item cost you — Vinted itself deducts nothing.

Buyer protection is charged as roughly 5% of the item price plus a fixed 0.70 in the currency of your market, checked August 2026. Vinted has changed this fee before and it differs by country and for Pro accounts — confirm on a live listing before repricing a whole wardrobe on it.