A resale marketplace for designer fashion, bags and jewellery, where buyers can pay to have your item checked by experts before it reaches them.
The kit our builder picks for a typical Vestiaire Collective seller. Change the answers to fit yours.
Storage
Holds tubs or boxes floor to ceiling in a small footprint.
Label printer
A compact thermal printer for your first few hundred labels.
Scales
Weighs anything from a card mailer to a boxed pair of boots.
Each step in the order you'll need it.
You list the item with photos, condition and a price, and the moderation team approves it or asks for changes. Buyers can make offers, and you accept, counter or decline.
After a sale you get a prepaid label and a deadline. The buyer’s choice decides whether the parcel goes to an authentication centre or to them directly.
Shoot on a plain background in soft, even light: front, back, base, inside, hardware, and close-ups of the logo, heat stamp and serial or date code. Moderators and buyers look for these first.
A softbox kit gives the same light every time, and a light tent suits jewellery and small leather goods.
Keep bags stuffed and in their dust bags, upright on a shelf away from sunlight. Hang coats and dresses on a rail with room between them so nothing creases before the photos.
Store the box, receipt, cards and spare parts with the item. Missing accessories lower the price and can fail the check.
Wrap the item in tissue inside its dust bag, then pack it in a double-wall box with fill so it can’t move. A bag in a soft mailer arrives crushed.
Weigh the parcel before you hand it in, and photograph it packed, label visible, in case of a dispute.
Search sold and live listings for the same model and condition before you price. Vestiaire shows the commission when you list, so work back from the payout you want.
Leave room for offers. Buyers on Vestiaire expect to negotiate, and a quick counter-offer keeps them in the chat.
Once you buy pieces to resell, you are trading. Register with HMRC, and look at Vestiaire’s professional seller status, which comes with its own rules on returns and invoices.
Record what you paid for each piece and what it sold for, so your Self Assessment matches any platform report.
Each one costs you money or reviews, and each has a fix.
Complete kits for one kind of seller, costed and laid out.
Step-by-step help for the jobs that come next.
Vestiaire Collective sells pre-owned designer pieces to buyers across Europe, the US and beyond. A moderation team reviews each listing before it goes live, and fast-fashion brands are refused, so a £30 high-street jacket belongs on Vinted instead.
Most sales are bags, shoes, jewellery and labelled clothing worth £100 or more. You need clean, detailed photos of every logo, stamp and serial number, dust bags and boxes kept with the item, and a sturdy parcel for each sale.
Straight answers to what sellers ask about this.
Listing is free. When the item sells, Vestiaire deducts a commission that depends on the price, plus a payment processing fee. The rates change by price band and country, so check the Selling Fees page in Vestiaire’s help centre before you set your price.
At checkout the buyer chooses between having the item checked by Vestiaire’s experts or Direct Shipping. With authentication, you send the parcel to a Vestiaire centre, which inspects it and forwards it to the buyer. With Direct Shipping, it goes straight to the buyer.
Vestiaire gives you a prepaid label for the parcel and a deadline to send it. Pack it in a box with the dust bag, any certificate and accessories you listed, and keep your proof of postage.
The payout follows once the buyer has the item and the sale is confirmed, or once the item passes authentication. You choose a bank account for payouts in your account settings.
If the experts find the item doesn’t match the listing or isn’t authentic, the sale is cancelled and the item is returned or handled under Vestiaire’s rules. Describe every mark and flaw so the check matches what the buyer was told.
Platforms report UK sellers with 30 or more sales, or about £1,700 or more, in a calendar year. A report is information, not a tax bill. Buying to resell is trading, so register for Self Assessment once it becomes regular.
