hi guys a really warm welcome back to my
channel so today i'm talking about
something that i want to see so excited
about to share with you
it is vintad the secondhand pre-loved
clothing app
and i'm gonna be sharing basically a 101
so i asked over on my instagram which is
lara jana jarvis
all questions that you might have about
buying and selling and how to make your
items sell and how the app works and
what it is
and i thought i'd do a whole video on it
because although i've got
lots of things i want to share maybe in
a haul let me know if that's the sort of
thing you want to see
i thought maybe it would be a good place
to start actually showing you what
vintad is how it works why should be
using it
so i hope this video is helpful for
anyone looking to
start using vintad or maybe they use it
and they don't quite know how
like how it works or if you're a seller
and you aren't selling anything and your
clothes aren't selling
hopefully this video is going to give
you lots of tips and tricks to get your
items sold and if you're a buyer
how to do it so let's get into the video
and share with you
all about vintage
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secondhand and slow fashion is becoming
more and more popular and i for one i'm
here for it
i love that vintage has a kind of
thrifting feel to it so i have dabbled a
little bit in depop i haven't done any
of the other
selling apps and i thought i'd do a
little bit about
how it differs from depop i haven't been
on depop for a while
if i'm honest i kind of just got a bit
put off by the whole platform
it was quite expensive to sell uh the
fuse interface was it i think there's
differences and i'll go on to those a
bit later on in the video but
i think with vintad it's so much more of
like a thrifting vibe
it's sellers can be more creative they
have got you know upcycling you can flip
things i just feel like it's a little
bit more like pre-loved
things things that you know you would
find in a charity shop whereas d-pop
it's been around a lot longer the the
average user is i think 50 percent are
in their teens
so with vintad there's a real shift i
think it's a lot more
things that you would find in a charity
shop and the prices
reflect that as well it's also not as
well used and
not as over subscribed to so i think
it's about 35 million users at the
moment
maybe 40 million now it is growing a lot
and you may have
been seeing lots of vintage adverts
going around
and i think it's it is becoming to shift
a little bit into a bit more expensive
but generally you will find things for
three four five pounds
whereas with depop i think it's more
like as more designers or
just the value of things are way higher
or the price
shouldn't say the value but you know if
you're going to a charity shop you're
not going to be spending 20 quid on a
dress
so with depop that's what i was finding
whereas with
vinted you will be buying it for five or
six pounds so i'm gonna be sharing my
first impressions and then later on in
the video i'm gonna be sharing how to
list
how to sell how to buy so stick around
and i
will be listing a few items live for you
so that you can check it out and the
whole process
so if you wanted to sign up my link is
in the description bar
and you'll be able to sign up for free
and start creating your account i'll
show you how easy it is as well to
create an
account and i would really love to know
if you have used it yourself let us know
in the comments if you use it
feel free to leave your username in the
comments as well for anybody that sells
on there or buys
and hopefully that will help you guys
out if you're trying to sell some things
and just raise a little bit more of
awareness of your
page so i can't speak for depop entirely
because as i said it's been a long time
since i used it i kind of just gave up
on it because
i found like it was really expensive to
sell things so you would sell things
you'd pay a buyers a seller's fee and
then you'd also pay
the paypal fee so that was taking like
about 40 of actually what you were
selling at so
i didn't really like that about that
vintage is brilliant because they
actually don't
charge the sellers a fee how they do it
is they charge a buy protection fee
or a service fee on the buyer's end so
actually that's incorporated into the
buyer's fee so
for a seller it does mean that it's like
free to sell so if you sell something
for 10 pounds you will get 10 pounds
another thing that i absolutely adore
about vinted
is that they just sort the shipping
labels out for you
so the way it works and let me show you
on my phone whilst we're going through
this
so i actually have just sold something
which is perfect timing
so i can show you on here my orders
so i will show you something that has
just sold so this is just literally
sold yesterday evening and it will just
give you a bit of information about the
price that they've bought it for
so you can see here what items they were
these were just some
children's clothes i had of from the
boys so usually i would just give this
to charity but
this time i'm actually selling it just
to test it out as a seller and i've got
so many things bags and bags of clothing
that's always gone to charity
so i'm testing this out now and the
thing i love here so it says sold
and 325 for the clothes and 320 for the
poster so obviously i can't show you her
dress just to keep it private but it
will literally give you
this information this is a royal mail
you can choose hermes as well
and all you do is take it to the post
office
and then by the postage you can do it on
this but i did try this and actually it
was a bit difficult to
the post office wouldn't accept it
because it was a different kind
the way i actually prefer is when they
choose hermes because it's a
downloadable shipping label and you just
literally print it and take it to the
shop and then send it so it's really
easy
so for example and i do think the user
interface could be easier to
understand here so what's happened here
if it's green it means it's all good all
finished and complete
anything gray so i'm a seller here and
you'll notice here it says buyer so i
know that the ones that are seller and
gray means
it's something i'm waiting on so if i
click on that that's what i've sold so
this is great it means i've done what i
need to do i'm just waiting on the buyer
to confirm that she's received it
this gives it great peace of mind
because it means if she's not happy
then the funds are just kept until the
seller or the buyer sorry is happy with
it
so this is just a chain of something
that i bought so i bought it the postage
was there
and then it says purchase successful
then wait to
ship it so then it tells me it's been
shipped then it tells me it's been
delivered
and then i can say that yes i did
receive it i'm happy with it
and then i will leave feedback and i
always always
leave good feedback if i'm happy with it
because it just helps the seller out as
a five-star review
and then it will literally say completed
so that trail is completely complete
but for here i know that i need to send
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couple of the differences
i found like the depop shipping quite
tricky compared to that so it's really
really simple the buyer
buys it and what will happen is it will
ask the buyer to come
the seller to confirm the size of the
parcel you will say
it's a medium-sized parcel for maybe
like
a few items small is usually what i
would go for if it's just a top or
some trousers or something like that the
buyer pays for all of the shipping costs
which is great it literally does it all
for you
and i found that really helpful with
depop i found things were more expensive
there's more designer stuff on there or
just higher end stuff
so for me it wasn't really necessarily
what i would want to buy
i want to buy things that i would find
in a thrift shop a charity shop
and there's different ways to buy things
on
vintage that i really enjoyed so i
thought i would share those with you as
well
so because it's an app it's really
really simple to sell things and i will
show you the full process of that very
soon i've got some more things i need to
list in fact i need to list
so much stuff as i said i usually just
give my clothes to charity
but i thought well actually every penny
counts and at the moment
as you know we're saving you know still
for everything that we're trying to buy
at the moment
if i can actually make some sales and
out of the things i would just literally
give to charity at the moment they're
shut
so it feels like the right thing to do
at the moment as i can't donate them
anyway
as an app it's so perfect so easy
because you can take the photos within
the app and upload them directly it's
just a really good way to minimize and
declutter
anything that you don't need anymore if
you've grown out of it if you don't fit
it if it doesn't fit your style
just things like that so always list
things that actually someone else will
find
joy from not stuff that's just trash
that you just
you know doesn't really give anyone any
joy because
it you know you should be selling things
that actually you know are going to give
someone else that nice feeling when they
receive it it's also great i've seen
lots of creative people
come from you know flipping things from
charity shops now they can actually
upcycle them and run a proper business
obviously you need to be careful of the
tax implications i think it's a thousand
pounds
earnings you need to be paying tax on it
so do you do your research and make sure
you are
dealing with it in the right tax way
there are a few features on the app
which i thought
were really good so the first one is the
swap feature
so i didn't see this on depop basically
it means if you've got
a piece of clothing that you're selling
for example this item i'm selling
it's like a poncho and i could have at
the point of
listing it if i redo it now so here you
can see you can actually list it to
be interested in swapping so that means
if a buyer
likes the look of it and they don't want
to spend the money on it they might say
hey
come and look at my page is there
anything you want that's similar value
and that we can just literally switch
so i thought that was a really good
feature another thing that i love about
listing on here
is that you can actually do bundled
discounts
which means if someone wants to buy a
bundle which is a really good way of
selling more than one item
you can set up discounts so say they
wanted to buy two
you can set that up that you can get 10
10
off of that bundle which is a really
good thing to do
i also find that i don't really like to
buy just one item unless it's more
expensive because the shipping outweighs
it
so that's a really good way of getting
more people to come you can also put it
on holiday mode which is fantastic if
you're not there
and it just means that you're not going
to be making anybody wait for their
deliveries
so that's a really nice feature as well
there's also a forum which is great
because
it it's just a really nice way of
chatting to people and seeing
you know how people get on with their
sales and if people think they would be
sold and things like that so it's a
really nice community as well so as you
can see
where you get reviews it's fantastic
because it just means that other people
know that you're a good buyer or a good
seller
and people are going to have a really
good transaction with you so it's really
really important to make sure you give a
really good review when people buy
i would always do a five star unless i'm
unhappy like four three i mean i just
wouldn't do that i'd always give a five
star
and that's really nice like a little bit
of extra info the seller kept me up to
date in every step and was very nice
perfect condition i'm really happy i
mean that is just such lovely
feedback and definitely something that i
would also give somebody there's also a
section here for
personalization so i've done this so
basically i won't then see
all of the other categories so i've got
women so my sizes and then the children
sizes as well
just means that when i'm looking at my
feed i'm not gonna be bombarded with
stuff that's actually not gonna be
relevant to me and i'm gonna have to
look through it all before i actually
get to anything that i want to buy
another good thing here is to put in a
search
so what i would often do is go to
so let's have a look at jess again i
featured in my wardrobe video
so what she may have here let's have a
look
um so here so i'll have a look at this
and i think i love those jeans
i will literally go to vintage and i
will search for
white wide leg
and then search for it and then i can
put in a size as well
women size 10 and then
show results and that's just going to
format it well
so the problem i find is if it's got a
little bit of white it will show up
because you can choose your colors
so i would only want white here and
literally you can go on you can see the
different pictures
and then you can decide whether to buy
another really good feature here which i
love
is the favorite button so you can
favorite something
and then they will go into your favorite
items so then you can see here this is a
great way of keeping track to make sure
things
are you know if they're getting reduced
in price so for example i really love
this like
boiler suit only one picture of it
annoyingly
so this lady knows i have favorited this
item okay
so what that what that does now is gives
her the
option to message me directly and say
hey
i can take six pounds for this would you
be interested
so having that favorite on there is a
really good way of making sure
you can be in touch making sure you know
exactly when it's sold or if it's not
sold yet and you can go back to it
or maybe just you know have it there if
you're not sure about it
i really love this shirt i thought it'd
go really nicely with white jeans
i favorited it it's only three pounds
anyway i just wasn't sure if i needed it
so i'm not waiting for her to offer me
something
but it's just to remind me when i you
know go back onto the app if i still
want it so again i'm i'm
and adopting those 30-day rule things
i'm not just going to buy it oh my gosh
look at this it's so
cute but you know i don't know really if
i'll ever go anywhere that i could wear
it let's be honest
but it's really nice and what happened
was she actually
messaged me i favorited this and she
messaged me saying that i would take 30
pounds for this
so it's a really good way of making sure
that if the seller wants to
drop the price then you are the first to
know about it so the chat is a really
nice way of being able to talk to
sellers and buyers
and just kind of like have that chat
with them rather than having to go
through like two official
uh means um i want to just now quickly
say about how to list things
so this is super super easy really
impressed with this and one of the
really cool things for you up there
one of the really cool things i found
with the listing is that you can list
videos which really helps items sell so
i may do a whole video on how to sell
items or like tips of it but the key
things would be photographs
make sure they're lit up make sure
they're nice backgrounds if you've got
mannequin
amazing that always makes me feel like
they've made a real effort
if you can be bothered then put it on
and try it on because
that will literally make you make it
sell so much quicker because people can
see it
another way is to put like props in the
photo
that doesn't bother me too much as a
buyer but i know people do do that and
it does help them sell
another thing is maybe like putting
things with an item so like if i wanted
to
sell this white shirt i would put like a
pair of wedges and a sun hat in the
corner and make it look nice like a flat
layer on instagram
just so it gives people an idea of what
would go nicely with that and it makes
them feel like they can actually
see themselves wearing it because it's
given them ideas so
on to how to sell so easy i love it
so as you can see this is just like the
feed and we're just going to click
sell so it's so simple upload photos
give a title give a description and then
add in a few bits of extra info
so upload photos so i'm just going to
pop it up there because i haven't got a
mannequin
i could really try it on for something
like this but i'm literally just going
to take a few pictures like that
so it's really important to like make
sure that the color is represented well
so i'm just going to take quite a few
photos of it and then here there's a
little bit of
like staining almost i'll just get a
really good shot of that so the buyer
knows
exactly what to prepare for and if
they're happy with that
the rest of it seems like really nicely
kept i haven't worn this really
for i only wore a couple of times and
then yeah take one at the back
adjust as much info as i can give on it
really
so those are my pictures there and then
i'll do next
and then here i will write mustard
faux suede biker
jacket primark size
10 um
faux suede biker jacket
great for warmer
days paired
so i'm basically like loading it up with
like info to inspire them as they wear
a barbecue or day out
great condition slight
marking on collar as
shown so literally that so that's a
perfectly
long description gives some ideas and
gives all the info they need
so then category is going to be giving
us a few options here which is really
handy
and then brand it will already pick out
your word so it knows that it's primark
size is 10. annoyingly you can't put
more than one size because
i would say that would fit in eight
absolutely fine but it won't let me do
more than one
so is that i'm going to add that in
there for size 10 but would
fit and then condition is
uh very good is light i to lightly use
item that may have a slight imperfection
so that's fine i'd use that one
and then obviously there you could put
new with tags or new without tags or
good or satisfactory so then colors is
already gonna pick out that color that
i've said
mustard and there isn't really anything
else so i'm just gonna go with that
and then that is literally oh sorry
price
how much should we say for that let's
see it'll give you some ideas here of
what other people are selling for as you
can see
really low prices it's not like deep up
where you'll be you know that would be
like 20 quid although it was any primark
um so i'd go with different ideas here
here you go that's really similar that's
really similar people are saying two
pounds
so let's say two pounds
i'm gonna go with three pounds fifty
because that gives me some leverage or
leeway if people want to
get a better price i could put i'm
interested in swapping
but i'm not and then parcel size i'm
going to put light
coat so a medium and done and then
literally
upload and that is as easy as pie
done it's literally there so as you can
see really really easy to list
and so easy just to show exactly what
you want to about it
to be fair i didn't do those photos very
well i may retake some of those but it
was just to show you guys
so i just took a couple of me wearing it
because i think that would actually
help it sell so i'm gonna add those
probably add that one to it
so as you can see i've just added that
so you can move them around just by
pushing holding it down that's going to
be my main image because i think it
would just sell a lot nicer like that a
lot easier
so that's me i've edited it and then i'm
just going to save it
so so simple and so quick come on keep
it on for the rest of the video
it's quite nice really isn't it so
another thing i wanted to chat to you
about was
uh selling so once you have sold
obviously you need to package it up and
i always have like a
load of bags and wrapping paper tissue
paper
that i put my items in or i'm starting
to do so
just to make it like a little bit nicer
so that when they are received they're
really nice to you know it's like a
present to you from you
i also save other people's packaging so
that it can just be reused
and then i'll put my own items in there
but i have bought
actually 25
bags from amazon i'll link it in the
description it was so inexpensive
because i didn't think i would have
enough packaging if i did start selling
some things
so it's come like this and yeah they're
huge
um they are actually huge
wow really big so what i can do oh my
god it just stuck to me
so what i can do is package it in one
half and then fold it over so it gives
it a little bit of extra protection
and you know if you wanted to do it as a
business you can put stickers in
you can put like a business card
uh just a really nice thing to unwrap so
just think of it as when you receive
things you want it to be nicely wrapped
and packaged
obviously if you're selling jewelry uh
then think about getting some bubble
wrap and some protective
wrapping so when it comes to buying i
tend to really only buy if i've bought
like a a bundle because
unless it's like an expensive thing
which i'll show you in my haul because i
got something beautiful
uh then i wouldn't really spend the
money on the shipping like the lady
bought three pounds worth of clothes the
shipping was 320 so it feels a little
bit like why
you know i'm paying more for the
shipping so i'd always bundle things
and that's great so when you actually
look on someone's page and i'll show you
what it's going to look like so let's go
to my favorite items just to show you
one thing so
if i wanted to buy that it's only three
pounds obviously the shipping is gonna
outweigh that
so i would then look and then all under
here are their bundles and she's down at
15
off if you buy more than one thing so i
think that's a really good way of making
sure people
actually buy more than one thing she's
also done this where i tell you about
and putting things with the items so it
gives people ideas
and you can see everything is very nice
and well designed on here
and it looks good also as you can see
it's not just clothing
phone cases makeup lipsticks all the um
nail varnishes that sort of thing
and then at the bottom there's
children's clothes so that means if i
actually wanted that top
actually let me just see if i can get
anything else
and it's actually going to save me in
the shipping and also as a bundle cost
as well
so another question that people were
asking me over on instagram was how do
you get your money where does it go how
do you get it
so i think this is a really nice way
that they do it what happens is
when a buyer buys something as i said
the money will be
taken from the buyer and it will be put
stored on the server
vintad and what will happen is once they
get their items and they say that
they're happy with their items
they can then mark it as okay and then
your funds will be put into your pot so
as you can see oh my thing has just
arrived so now
my balance is 26 pounds so it will list
the items that i've sold
so some ralph lauren shirts um a fergie
lay
and some of stuart's old t-shirts so
that money there is now
available for me to withdraw to my bank
account and you can put in your bank
account details there and it goes
straight to there so you don't pay any
fees that
end either so hopefully that has
answered most of your vintage
questions how to buy how to sell how to
make money please let me know in the
comments if there's anything additional
you'd like to know about vinted
if you want a vintage haul if you want
to know anything else basically because
i'd love to make it i'm really
loving this app it's like going
thrifting from your sofa
so the joys of thrifting second-hand
shopping
but without having to leave your house
it's also a great way of saving money
because you can buy things second-hand
you can help the environment by not
letting that go to landfill
but also if you wanted to swap things so
you could actually
buy a new top but not pay for it because
you can then swap some of your own items
so
you're not actually spending money
either or you can use it as a side
hustle and make money there's so many
options here on this
platform no sellers fees is a great
bonus
the deliveries actually just being done
for you is really helpful
and i just think the prices of stuff is
a lot more affordable on vintage
compared to depop but let me know what
you think do you think depop's better or
maybe
poshmark if you're in america there's a
few others
let me know what you think and if this
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