Where to Sell Vintage Clothes: The Best Places Online and Near You, US and UK

For most people, the best place to sell vintage clothes is one of two or three big marketplaces: eBay, Etsy and Depop in the US; Vinted, Depop and eBay in the UK. Grailed is worth adding for menswear, and Vestiaire Collective for designer pieces. If you want cash today, a buyback shop or a local vintage dealer pays less but pays at once. The rule that matters more than any ranking: match the place to the piece, because each marketplace has its own buyers.

This guide goes place by place, then sorts pieces by where they tend to sell. Rules and fees were read on each marketplace’s own pages on October 28, 2026. For the full fee sums, see our guide to the lowest fees for selling clothes; for more on valuing and dating, the Vintage Snap guides hub.

At a glance: where to sell, by place

Checked October 28, 2026. Fees in one phrase; the detail is in the fees guide.

Place	What sells best there	Who pays the fee
eBay (US)	Collectible and older vintage, workwear, denim, band tees, anything people search by exact name	Seller: 13.6% of the total sale plus $0.40 per order
eBay (UK)	The same, for UK buyers	Buyer: private sellers pay no final value fee
Etsy	True vintage (20+ years), women’s dresses, accessories, pieces with a story	Seller: $0.20 listing, 6.5% transaction fee, plus payment processing
Depop (US and UK)	Streetwear, Y2K, 90s sportswear, young buyers	Mostly the buyer: no selling fee in the US and UK, seller pays payment processing
Vinted (UK)	High-street and everyday brands, quick sales, bundles	Buyer: Vinted fee at checkout, no selling fee
Poshmark (US)	Mid-range women’s brands and mall labels	Seller: $2.95 under $15, 20% at $15 and up
Grailed (US and abroad)	Menswear, designer, Japanese labels, archive pieces	Seller: 6% under $120 (minimum $1.99), 9% at $120 and up, plus processing
Mercari (US)	Everyday pieces and mixed household sellers	Both: seller 10%, buyer 3.6%
Buyback shops (US)	Current-season styles and clean vintage the shop can resell quickly	No fee: the shop pays you a share of its own price
Car boots, flea markets	Bulk, cheaper pieces, things that sell better in the hand	You pay for the pitch or stall

Online marketplaces, one by one

eBay

eBay is the widest net for vintage in both countries. Buyers search it by exact terms (“Levi’s 501 USA 1990s”, “single stitch band tee”), so pieces with a clear brand, model or era do well, and you can choose an auction for rare items. For denim, put the era in the title once you have dated your Levi’s by the tag. On eBay.com most clothing pays 13.6% of the total sale, including shipping and tax, plus $0.40 per order. On eBay.co.uk, private sellers pay no final value fee; the buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee instead, and you get 300 free listings a month. If a UK piece could go on either eBay or Vinted, Vinted vs eBay shows which one suits it.

Etsy

Etsy’s Creativity Standards only accept vintage items that are 20 or more years old and that you personally curated, and Etsy may ask for photos or information about a piece’s source, age, designer or materials. Anything newer than 20 years is not vintage on Etsy, even if it looks retro. Etsy buyers browse by style and decade, so dresses, blouses, knitwear and accessories with good photos sell well. Since August 11, 2026, Etsy’s animal products policy prohibits natural animal fur, regardless of age.

Depop

Depop is the app most people mean by “vintage” in streetwear: 90s and Y2K sportswear, graphic tees, baggy denim, track jackets (to put an era on an old track top, see how to date adidas clothing). Its seller fees page charges no selling fee to sellers based in the UK, US or Australia; you pay payment processing of 2.9% + £0.30 in the UK or 3.3% + $0.45 in the US, and buyers pay a Marketplace fee. Sellers anywhere else pay a 10% selling fee plus PayPal’s fee.

Vinted (UK)

Vinted is the default resale app in the UK. Its price list, last updated October 8, 2026, shows no selling fee: the buyer pays the Vinted fee at checkout. High-street brands, kids’ clothes and everyday pieces sell fastest (see what sells on Vinted for the brands Vinted itself names); rare vintage can sell too, but buyers there tend to expect lower prices. Vinted removes listings that contain animal products such as real fur. To set the number itself, see how to price clothes on Vinted, and for the words, how to write a Vinted title and description.

Poshmark, Grailed and Mercari (US)

• Poshmark suits mid-range women’s brands. It is the most expensive of the big apps on a typical sale: 20% on anything from $15, $2.95 below that.
• Grailed is built for menswear and designer pieces, including archive and Japanese labels. Its fee page says Grailed is free for buyers; sellers pay 6% (minimum $1.99) under $120 and 9% at $120 and above, plus a separate payment processing fee.
• Mercari is a general marketplace: 10% from the seller and a 3.6% Buyer Protection fee from the buyer.

Vestiaire Collective (designer)

Vestiaire Collective sells pre-owned luxury fashion and runs its own authenticity verification and quality checks on items. It suits designer bags, shoes and clothing from known houses, in the US and the UK. Check its commission on its own site before you list; it depends on the price and your country.

Facebook Marketplace and local groups work in both countries for bulky or cheaper pieces you’d rather hand over in person.

Selling offline, or everything in one go

• Buyback shops (US). Buffalo Exchange says it pays on the spot, 25% of its price in cash or 50% in trade, buys from open to close seven days a week with no appointment needed, and asks for a government-issued ID (checked October 28, 2026). Its mail-in program has been closed since April 2021. Crossroads Trading also pays in cash or store credit, in store or through its Sell by Mail service; check its current cash and trade split on its own site before you go, because published figures vary. Buyers pick what fits their shop this season, so you may take most of your bag home. What each chain pays, worked through on one $40 piece next to eBay, is in our guide to stores that buy clothes.
• Consignment by mail (US). ThredUp’s Clean Out kit lets you send a bag of clothes; ThredUp decides what to accept, prices and lists it, and pays you a share when items sell. Read the current payout table and fees on ThredUp’s site before you send anything, since they decide what you earn.
• Local vintage dealers and shops. The best route for a box of genuinely old pieces you don’t want to list one by one. Call ahead, ask what they buy, and expect a trade price, well under what the piece might fetch online.
• Car boots and flea markets. Good for volume and for pieces that sell better when people can touch them. You pay for the pitch, so price to clear.
• Clothes-for-cash and kilo buyers (UK). They pay by weight, the same for a 1970s blouse as for a worn T-shirt. Pull out anything with a good label or real age first, then weigh the rest; our guide to selling clothes by the kilo shows the sum and what to take out.
• Charity shops (UK) take donations; they don’t buy. Useful for what’s left at the end.

What goes where

Kind of piece	Try first	Why
Designer and luxury (bags, coats, known houses)	Vestiaire Collective, eBay, Grailed for menswear	Authentication or a buyer pool that pays for names; check a trench first with the Burberry trench guide
Streetwear, Y2K, 90s sportswear	Depop, then Vinted (UK) or Mercari (US)	That’s where those buyers search; for football shirts, see how to tell if a football shirt is fake first
Workwear, denim, band and tour tees, military	eBay, Etsy (if 20+ years old)	Collectors search by exact model, era and label
Women’s dresses, blouses, knitwear from the 1950s–1980s	Etsy, eBay, local vintage shops	Buyers browse by decade and style
Everyday brands and bulk	Vinted (UK), Poshmark or Mercari (US), buyback shops	Fast, low effort, low prices
Real fur	eBay (species named) or an auction house	Vinted and Etsy refuse it; see what a fur coat is worth
Leather, sheepskin, shearling	eBay, Etsy, Depop	Etsy’s fur ban excludes leather, sheepskin and shearling

When a piece could go to two places, search sold listings for it on both and list where comparable items actually sold, and for how much.

Before you list: a short checklist

1. Find out what it is. Check the label, the RN or CA number and the construction to date it. This also tells you whether Etsy will take it.
2. Get a rough value. Look at sold listings, not asking prices, for the same brand, era and condition.
3. Compare sold results on the platform you’ve picked. The same jacket can sell for different prices on eBay, Depop and Grailed.
4. Check the fee. Work out what you keep after the marketplace’s cut; the fees guide has worked examples on a $40 and a £40 sale.
5. Photograph it honestly. Daylight, front and back, the label, and close-ups of any flaws. Describe stains, holes and repairs plainly; it saves returns. The condition guide shows which label fits on each site.
6. Use a quick estimate if you have a pile to sort. Vintage Snap estimates a low-to-high range from a photo of the label using AI and live web search, and writes a listing you can paste into any marketplace above. It’s an estimate, not an appraisal, so check it against sold listings.

Fees and rules change often. Before you list, open the marketplace’s own fee and policy pages and note the date you checked. How we research and check our guides.