I'm trying to understand the Vinted space before listing my small clothing resale business. Is there actually a market for established Vinted accounts with followers and feedback, or is that just noise? My business has steady sales but the account itself is the main asset. Don't want to waste time if the answer is that only individual garments sell.
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Is Vinted account selling even a real thing or do people just sell individual clothes?
The account itself matters less than you'd think. Buyers on Vinted mostly care about the item and the price. Feedback and followers help with visibility, but I've never seen anyone pay a meaningful premium just for the login, though.
I have heard of it happening but it's rare and usually small amounts. Like someone selling a curated closet with 2k followers for a few hundred. Not a real business acquisition.
Wait, you can sell the account? I thought that was against the terms.
It is against the terms. That's why most of it happens off-platform and quietly. Vinted can and does ban accounts that change hands. That risk is probably why the prices are low and the market is thin.
That's my concern. If it's against terms and the platform can just kill the account, then the asset is fragile. But I'm still wondering if there's an off-platform market for the inventory and the customer list rather than the login itself.
The customer list isn't really transferable in any clean way. Vinted doesn't give you direct contact info for buyers. You'd be selling a following that only exist inside the app.
If you're trying to sell a business, Vinted is probably the wrong frame. Sell the inventory wholesale and treat the account as a minor extra. The real valule is the stock and your sourcing relationships, not the profile.
I've seen people on other forums asking about this and the replies are always the same. It's a thing but it's tiny and sketchy. Maybe a few hundred for a big account.
There's a difference between selling a Vinted account and selling a clothing business that happens to use Vinted. The first is a gray-market login swap. The second is a real sale of stock, supplier contacts, and process knowledge. Buyers who want the second thing won't care much about the account itself.
Also worth noting that if your account gets flagged during the handover, you lose the feedback history and the buyer loses everything. That's a lot of risk for a small multiple.
So the consensus seems to be that the account itself is not a real sellable asset. i should focus on the inventory and the operation. That's helpful, even if it's not the answer I was hoping for.