Wallapop vs Vinted for Resellers: Fees & Margin
If you sell second-hand for a living, or you are trying to, “Wallapop or Vinted” is not really a question about apps. It is a question about what you keep per sale, how much of your week each platform eats, and whether you can list on it at all from where you are.
This comparison answers it in that order. Updated for 2026, with the fee structures, the shipping costs the seller actually absorbs, and a straight answer about geographic availability, which is the part most comparisons skip.
Before Anything Else: Where You Can Actually Sell
This matters more than any fee table, and it is the first thing to check.
Vinted operates across 20+ European countries, including the United Kingdom and Ireland. If you are based there, it is a channel you can list on today.
Wallapop operates primarily in Spain, with a presence in Italy and Portugal. It is not a UK or Irish marketplace. For a seller in Britain or Ireland, Wallapop is not a listing channel, it is the platform your competition uses if you sell into southern Europe, and it is the reason a lot of Spanish stock is priced the way it is.
So the practical version of the question changes depending on where you are:
- Selling from the UK or Ireland: Vinted is the live channel. Wallapop is context, not inventory.
- Selling from Spain, Italy or Portugal: both are live, and the rest of this article is a genuine choice.
- Selling cross-border into Spain: Wallapop is where the demand is, and the fee structure below is what you will be paying.
What You Keep Per Sale
This is the number that decides everything else.
Vinted
You pay no seller fee. You list, it sells, the full amount lands in your Vinted Wallet, and you transfer it to your bank at no extra cost. This has been the model since 2023, when Vinted moved protection costs entirely onto the buyer.
On a 40 EUR sale you keep 40 EUR.
Wallapop
It depends on how the sale happens.
- Locally, in person: no fee at all. You agree a price, exchange goods and cash. On a 40 EUR sale you keep 40 EUR.
- With Wallapop Envios: a variable fee of around 10% of the sale price, covering handling and protection, deducted from what you receive. On a 40 EUR sale you keep around 36 EUR.
What the buyer pays, and why it is your problem too
The buyer’s cost is not somebody else’s business when you sell at volume: it sets your ceiling on price.
On Vinted the buyer pays a protection fee of 5% + 0.70 EUR per transaction, on top of shipping. On Wallapop with shipping, the listed price typically already includes handling, and the buyer adds shipping. On a local Wallapop sale the buyer pays exactly the agreed price and nothing else.
| Per sale | Wallapop (shipped) | Wallapop (local) | Vinted |
|---|---|---|---|
| You keep | ~90% of the price | 100% | 100% |
| Buyer pays | Price + shipping | Agreed price | Price + 5% + 0.70 EUR + shipping |
| Listing | Free | Free | Free |
| Promotion | From 0.99 EUR | From 0.99 EUR | From 0.70 EUR |
| Withdrawing funds | Free | N/A | Free |
The short version: on take rate, Vinted wins outright. Wallapop only matches it on local sales, and local sales do not scale, they cost you a trip and an hour per item.
Shipping: The Cost That Decides Your Floor Price
Shipping is where volume sellers lose margin quietly, because it sets the price below which an item is not worth listing at all.
Wallapop Envios
You pack the item and drop it at a collection point (Correos, DHL, or a convenience pickup point). The buyer picks the option at checkout and pays.
- Small (up to 2 kg): from 2.99 EUR
- Medium (up to 5 kg): from 4.99 EUR
- Large (up to 10 kg): from 7.99 EUR
- Extra large (up to 30 kg): from 12.99 EUR
The extra-large bracket is the interesting one: Wallapop will ship things Vinted simply will not accept.
Vinted
Shipping is not optional, every transaction is shipped, and there is no in-person option. Vinted works with several carriers (Correos, Mondial Relay, InPost, Packlink) and generates the label for you: print, stick, drop off.
- Small (up to 1 kg): from 2.69 EUR
- Medium (up to 2 kg): from 3.49 EUR
- Large (up to 5 kg): from 4.99 EUR
Where this lands for a seller: Vinted is cheaper at low weights, which is exactly where clothing sits, and caps out at 5 kg. Wallapop is the only one of the two that can carry a 20 kg item. If your stock is bulky, the fee comparison above is irrelevant, only one platform will take it.
What Is Worth Listing Where
Not a category list. A decision rule.
List on Vinted when the item is clothing, footwear, a bag or a fashion accessory, weighs under 2 kg, and is worth more than roughly 8-10 EUR. Below that, the buyer’s 5% + 0.70 EUR plus shipping makes the total unattractive and the item sits. The audience arrives specifically to buy fashion, so sell-through is fast and the filters by size, brand and condition do the work of finding your buyer.
List on Wallapop when the item is anything else, electronics, furniture, a bike, a console, a car, or when it is heavy enough that Vinted will not carry it. The user base is broad and geolocated, so bulky items that would be uneconomic to ship can be sold locally at full price.
List on both when it is branded clothing with resale value on either side. This is the overlap where the same item genuinely competes for two audiences.
Do not list when the expected sale price does not clear your cost floor: platform fee, shipping, packaging, and the fifteen minutes it takes to photograph and write it up. That last one is a real cost at volume, and it is the one most sellers forget to count.
Protection, and What It Costs You in Cash Flow
Vinted
Protection applies to every transaction automatically. The money is held until the buyer confirms the item arrived and matches the description. The buyer has 2 days from delivery to raise an issue; after that, payment releases automatically.
For you, that means a predictable but non-zero delay between sale and cash. At volume, budget for it.
Wallapop
Protection only applies when you use Wallapop Envios, where funds sit in escrow until the buyer confirms receipt. On a local sale there is no platform protection at all, it is a cash deal between two people, which is why you meet in public and check the goods before money changes hands.
The trade-off is straightforward: local sales pay instantly and protect nobody; shipped sales protect both sides and hold your money for a few days.
Managing Both Without Losing Your Week
Sellers who do this seriously rarely choose. They list the same stock on several platforms to multiply the chance of a sale, which is called crosslisting.
The catch is that the admin scales with the number of platforms, not the number of items: the same photos uploaded twice, the same description rewritten, and, the expensive one, stock that has to be pulled from one platform the moment it sells on another. Sell the same jacket twice and you cancel on a buyer, which costs you a rating you cannot get back.
That is the problem Ruit exists for. It publishes to Wallapop, Vinted, eBay, TodoColección, Shopify, WooCommerce and PrestaShop from one place, keeps stock in sync so a sale on one channel delists everywhere else, writes the descriptions with AI, and puts every platform’s messages in one inbox. If you are managing more than 20 or 30 active listings, that is not a convenience, it is the difference between selling and doing data entry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I sell on Wallapop from the UK or Ireland?
Not as a local channel. Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, and its user base is concentrated in Spain. From the UK or Ireland, Vinted is the platform you can list on, with 20+ European countries behind it.
Which one leaves more money in my pocket?
Vinted, on take rate: 0% seller fee against Wallapop’s ~10% on shipped sales. Wallapop only matches it on local, in-person sales, and those do not scale.
Does Vinted charge seller fees?
No. Since 2023 Vinted charges sellers nothing. The cost sits with the buyer as a protection fee of 5% + 0.70 EUR. You receive the full sale price.
Can I list the same item on both at once?
Yes, and it is the standard approach for anything with demand on both sides. The one rule that matters is delisting: the moment it sells on one platform, pull it from the other. Doing that by hand is where crosslisting goes wrong.
Which is better for furniture or electronics?
Wallapop, without question. Vinted is fashion-only and does not accept those categories, and its shipping caps out at 5 kg. For anything bulky, Wallapop is the only one of the two that can handle it.
The Short Answer
For a seller, these are not rivals, they are different tools.
Vinted wins on economics and reach: zero seller fees, an audience that came to buy clothes, cheap shipping at low weights, and availability across the UK, Ireland and most of Europe.
Wallapop wins on everything Vinted will not touch: bulky goods, non-fashion categories, and local sales at full price with no fee, inside Spain, Italy and Portugal.
If you sell one kind of thing from one country, pick the one that matches. If you sell at volume, the question was never which one, it is how to run both without the admin eating the margin you just worked out.
