A WOMAN has revealed the small tweak she made to Vinted items that had been on sale for months so they sold straight away.
Vinted is an online marketplace where people can buy and sell second-hand clothing, shoes and accessories.
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Uploading clothes to the app is completely free and Vinted doesn’t take a cut of sellers’ profits, instead charging buyers a small fee for each item.
Brogan Sutcliffe had 60 items listed on her Vinted page, some of which hadn’t been sold in months.
After watching a TikTok video in which a woman recommended taking down all of your items and reposting them to sell, Brogan picked five random items that she was having a hard time selling.
She deleted these five items and immediately reposted them, with the exact same photos.
Within two days, Brogan sold three out of five items.
“With two of these copies, no one offered me anything, they bought them right away,” she says.
The savvy seller said that she had previously tried to lower the price of these items, but that it had not worked, so she was relisting them at the same price as before she removed them.
“Give it a try because it can help you get rid of some of the stuff that has been sitting there for months,” she said.
Brogan’s video, which was posted under the username @brogansutcliffee, has likely left quite a few people in awe, as it has already been viewed over 93,000 times on the video platform.
TikTok users rushed to the video’s comments section to share their thoughts.
Someone said, “I’ve told people to do this before, it works!”
“It also helps to reorder the photos and upload them on Friday evening, since people are just scrolling on the weekend.”
Someone else suggested: “Instead of deleting your items, hide them and re-upload them. If your older items perform better in favorites, they’ll still be there.”
Do I have to pay tax on items I sell on Vinted?
FAST tax facts from the Vinted team…
- The only time an item is taxable is if it sells for more than £6,000 and there is a profit (sells for more than you paid for it). Even then you can use your £3,000 tax-free capital gains allowance to offset it.
- Generally, only business sellers who trade for profit (buying goods with the intention of selling them for more than they paid for them) are required to pay tax. Business sellers who trade for profit can take advantage of a £1,000 tax-free allowance, which has been in place since 2017.
- More information here: vinted.co.uk/no-tax-changes
A third person said, “I did this today and I’m already selling more.”
Online marketplaces like Vinted and Depop have millions of users in the UK and the cost of living crisis has only increased their popularity.
Financial pressures on UK households saw sales of second-hand goods rise 15 per cent to £21 billion in 2022.
According to research commissioned by review site Trustpilot, one in six people say they now buy second-hand items.
Oh, now is the perfect time to make some extra money on sites like Vinted.
According to the popular platform, sellers do not have to pay taxes on the revenue they generate through the site.
According to HMRC, this is because the sale of personal items through platforms such as Vinted is not taxable in itself.
“If the money a member earns on Vinted in a year is less than the amount he paid for the items he sells, he does not have to pay tax,” a Vinted spokesperson explains.
”In general, only sellers who ‘trade’ for profit have to pay taxes.
“Since 2017, there has been a £1,000 tax-free allowance for people who trade for profit.”
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