The headline: all three are now basically free to sell on
If you last compared these platforms a couple of years ago, the maths has changed completely. As of 2026, for a casual or private UK seller, the seller-side fee on Vinted, eBay and Depop is almost nothing:
- Vinted: £0. No listing fees, no selling fees, no commission. You keep 100% of what the buyer pays for the item. Vinted instead charges the buyer a Buyer Protection fee (roughly 5% + about £0.70) on top of your price.
- eBay (private sellers): £0. Since 1 October 2024, private sellers in the UK pay nothing to list or sell. eBay moved the cost to a buyer-side Buyer Protection fee instead.
- Depop: £0 selling fee since 20 March 2024. The only seller-side cost left is Depop Payments processing at 2.9% + £0.30 per sale. The buyer pays a separate marketplace fee.
Most comparison articles still quote Depop’s old 10% commission or eBay’s old 12.8% final value fee for clothing. Those numbers are stale. For private sellers in 2026, the fee gap between these three platforms is tiny — which means fees are no longer the thing that should decide where you sell. Audience, payout speed and listing effort are.
The fee table (2026, UK, private/casual seller)
| Vinted | eBay (private) | Depop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listing fee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Seller selling fee | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Payment processing | None to seller | None to seller | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Who pays the platform | Buyer (Buyer Protection ~5% + ~£0.70) | Buyer (Buyer Protection fee) | Buyer (marketplace fee) |
| You keep on a sale | 100% | 100% | Sale price − (2.9% + £0.30) |
Two things to flag. First, this is the private/casual seller picture. If you sell on eBay as a business seller, the old fee model still applies: a category final value fee, a per-order fee (£0.40 on orders over £10 from 12 February 2026), a regulatory operating fee, and VAT charged on top of those fees. If that’s you, treat eBay’s “£0” with care — it doesn’t apply to business accounts.
Second, “the buyer pays” isn’t free money. A buyer-side fee still raises the total price your item shows for, which can affect how competitive your listing looks. It just doesn’t come out of your payout.
Worked example: a £25 jumper on each platform
Say you sell a second-hand jumper for £25. Here’s what lands in your account on each platform, ignoring postage (which is handled separately on all three).
Vinted
- Item price: £25.00
- Seller fee: £0.00
- You receive: £25.00
The buyer separately pays a Buyer Protection fee of roughly 5% + ~£0.70 — about £2.00 on a £25 item — so they pay around £27.00 total. None of that comes out of your £25.
eBay (private seller)
- Item price: £25.00
- Seller fee: £0.00
- You receive: £25.00
As with Vinted, the buyer pays a separate Buyer Protection fee on top.
Depop
- Item price: £25.00
- Depop Payments processing: 2.9% of £25 = £0.725, plus £0.30 = £1.03 (rounded)
- You receive: £23.97
So across the three, the seller cost on a £25 sale is: Vinted £0, eBay (private) £0, Depop about £1.03. That’s the whole fee story in 2026. A pound on Depop, nothing on the other two.
Want to run your own numbers, including postage and Depop’s processing fee? Use the Vinted Fee Calculator, the eBay Fee Calculator and the Depop Fee Calculator.
If fees are a wash, what actually decides it? Audience.
This is where the three platforms genuinely diverge, and it’s the part worth thinking about before you list.
Vinted is the volume marketplace. It skews towards everyday womenswear, kidswear and high-street brands, and it has a huge, habit-driven buyer base hunting for bargains. If you’ve got a wardrobe of ordinary, wearable clothes — Zara, H&M, M&S, Next, supermarket brands — Vinted tends to move them fastest. The trade-off is that buyers expect low prices and bundle haggling is the norm.
Depop is the Gen-Z, vintage and streetwear marketplace. Curation, styling and good photography matter more here than anywhere else. If you’re selling vintage, Y2K, designer-adjacent, branded streetwear or anything with an aesthetic, Depop’s audience will pay more for it than Vinted’s will — and the 2.9% + £0.30 processing fee is a small price for reaching buyers who care about the look.
eBay is the everything-store with the largest pool of intent-driven buyers. People search eBay by exact brand, size and model. It’s strong for branded items, menswear, footwear, sportswear and anything a buyer is specifically hunting for rather than browsing. The buyer base is broader in age than Vinted’s or Depop’s, and the search-led behaviour means a well-titled listing gets found.
For a deeper fee breakdown on each, see Vinted fees in the UK, Depop fees in the United Kingdom and eBay private seller fees in the UK.
The honest answer: don’t pick one
Here’s the thing nobody selling you a “which platform wins” verdict wants to admit — the same jumper has a different best buyer on each platform, and you can’t predict which one will sell it. A vintage band tee might fetch most on Depop but sell first on eBay. A bundle of kids’ clothes flies on Vinted and sits ignored on Depop.
When all three are essentially free to sell on, the optimal strategy isn’t choosing — it’s listing on all three at once and letting the fastest buyer win. The only reason most sellers don’t is the effort: photographing, writing and listing the same item three times, then remembering to take it down everywhere the moment it sells.
That’s exactly the problem Shopfront solves. You list an item once, and it cross-lists to Vinted, eBay, Depop and beyond. When it sells on one, the others come down automatically so you don’t accidentally sell the same jumper twice. You get Vinted’s volume, Depop’s prices and eBay’s reach without tripling your workload — and since seller fees are near-zero across all three in 2026, there’s no fee penalty for casting the wider net.
FAQ
Which is cheapest to sell on in the UK in 2026? For private sellers, Vinted and eBay are both £0 in seller fees, and Depop is £0 selling fee plus 2.9% + £0.30 payment processing. On a £25 item that’s £0, £0 and about £1.03 respectively. Vinted and eBay are technically cheapest; Depop costs about a pound.
Does eBay really charge nothing now? For private sellers, yes — eBay UK removed selling fees for private sellers on 1 October 2024 and shifted the cost to a buyer-side Buyer Protection fee. Business sellers still pay category final value fees, a per-order fee (£0.40 on orders over £10 from 12 February 2026), a regulatory fee and VAT on those fees.
Why does Depop cost more than the other two? Depop dropped its 10% selling fee on 20 March 2024 but kept Depop Payments processing at 2.9% + £0.30 per sale. That processing charge is the only seller-side cost left, and it’s why Depop is the one platform here where you don’t keep 100%.
Where will my clothes sell fastest? It depends on the item. Everyday high-street womenswear and kidswear tend to move quickest on Vinted; vintage and streetwear command higher prices on Depop; branded and search-specific items do well on eBay. Cross-listing to all three removes the guesswork.
Do I have to pay tax on what I sell? Selling your own used clothes for less than you paid usually isn’t taxable, but if you’re buying to resell or trading at scale, different rules apply — and platforms now report seller data to HMRC. See our UK reseller tax guide for 2026 for the detail.
A note on tax and the official sources
The fee figures above are accurate as of 2026 and taken from each platform’s current UK fee terms, but platforms do change their pricing — check the official Vinted, eBay and Depop fee pages before you rely on a specific number for a high-value sale.
This article is general information, not tax or financial advice. Whether your selling counts as taxable trading depends on your circumstances. For anything tax-related, consult HMRC directly or a qualified accountant before acting.
