I make £100 every week on Vinted – here are my top tips for selling
A WOMAN who earns £100-a-week on Vinted has shared her top tips for generating sales.
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.
Rose Claire took to YouTube to share her best tips for generating sales through the site.
Items for free bumps
To get items at the top of the search results on Vinted, you have to pay a fee.
However, Rose indicated that there is a simple way to get around this.
She explained that if an item doesn’t sell, you can simply delete the listing and re-upload it.
Once Vinted displays the items that have been uploaded in the list, the re-uploaded items will appear at the top of the search feed.
White background
Rose said that when photographing objects you should always use a white or plain background.
“Don’t use colorful things or things that are visually hard to digest,” she said.
She also makes sure that there are absolutely no wrinkles or creases in her clothes and takes photos in bright light to make the items stand out as best as possible.
“I think the more pictures the better,” she added.
Accurate description
To get the most accurate description of the items, Rose tries to find the original listings of the products on the websites where she purchased them.
This way she can use as many keywords as possible in the description.
“I recommend saying everything you can in the description,” she said.
“Fill it in.”
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-changes-to-taxes
Online marketplaces like Vinted and Depop have millions of users in the UK and the cost of living crisis is only making them increasingly popular.
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.
So this 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 trading for profit.”
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