Vinted seller fees in the US explained (2026)

Updated October 19, 2026 · Guidance, not tax advice. Fee rules checked against each platform’s own help pages on that date; platforms change fees, so confirm before you rely on a number.

The short version: Vinted does not charge you a selling fee. The buyer pays a fee on top of your price, your prepaid label is covered by what the buyer pays for shipping, and the price you set is what lands in your Vinted balance. That makes Vinted unusual among US resale apps, and it changes how you should think about pricing and profit.

No selling fee for sellers

Vinted’s help center says it plainly: “There are no selling fees on Vinted.” Its how-it-works page uses the line “There are zero selling fees, so what you earn is yours to keep.” When an item sells for $40, Vinted credits you $40. You do not pay a commission, a payment-processing percentage or a per-order charge.

What Vinted does charge is a fee to the buyer. It was called the Buyer Protection fee and is now simply the “Vinted fee”; the rename did not change how it is calculated, and buyers keep paying it at checkout. According to Vinted’s US price list, the fee “typically includes a percentage of the item’s or bundle’s price, as well as a fixed fee — usually 5% + $0.70.” In return the buyer gets secure payment, order support and refunds where applicable.

Why this matters to you: a buyer looking at your $40 listing sees $40 + $2.70 (the fee) + shipping. That total is what they compare against Poshmark or eBay listings, where the fee is baked into the seller’s side instead. Price with the buyer’s total in mind, but remember that none of that fee comes out of your payout.

How shipping and labels work

Vinted US sales ship with prepaid, Vinted-generated labels. Shipping rates depend on the package size and on where the buyer and seller are, and the buyer sees the shipping cost at checkout. Two carrier routes are documented in Vinted’s help center:

• USPS. For a domestic drop-off at a post office you get a digital label, a QR code that is scanned at the counter, so you do not need a printer. If you schedule a home pick-up instead, or ship internationally, you print the label and attach it to the package.
• SpeedX. You download and print the label at home, stick it on the package and drop it at a Vinted Go Shop, where staff scan it.

Keep proof of shipping (a copy of the label, the drop-off receipt or the confirmation email) until the order is complete; Vinted compensates lost or damaged packages that were packed properly, up to $100 for domestic USPS shipments. If you print at home, see our guide on printing Vinted and USPS labels on a 4 × 6 thermal printer.

When and how you get paid

An order completes when the buyer presses “Everything is OK”, or automatically two days after the buyer receives the order without confirming or reporting an issue. Vinted says you then receive your payment within two days: it moves from “Pending balance” to “Available balance”, and from there you can transfer it from your Vinted Wallet to your bank account. One catch worth knowing: if you have money in your balance, Vinted uses it automatically when you buy something, so it may not all be there to withdraw.

How to compute your real profit

With no selling fee, a Vinted profit calculation is short, but “no fee” is not the same as “sale price equals profit”. Your real profit per item is:

Example: a thrifted jacket you bought for $12 sells for $40. You spent $0.60 on a poly mailer and nothing on the label, because it was prepaid. Profit: $40 − $12 − $0.60 = $27.40. If you paid to bump the listing, subtract that too; Vinted sells item bumps lasting 3 or 7 days at a price that varies with the item price and duration.

Two habits make this accurate over a year. First, record the purchase price the day you buy, not from memory months later; cost of goods is the number resellers most often lose. Second, record the sale on the day it completes, per platform, so your totals line up with the platform’s own year-end figures. Thriftkeep keeps exactly these fields (purchase price, sale price, shipping, fees) per item and shows gross sales, cost of goods, fees and net per platform and year, all stored locally in your browser.

Vinted vs Poshmark, Depop, eBay, Mercari and Whatnot

Here are the standard US fee rules for the platforms US resellers use most, as verified on October 19, 2026 against each platform’s official fee page, and what each would take from a $40 item sale. The example excludes buyer-paid shipping and sales tax; on Depop, eBay and Whatnot the processing or final-value fee is also charged on those amounts, so the real fee is slightly higher when the buyer pays shipping.

A few things the table does not model: promoted-listing or ad fees, eBay store subscriptions and category-specific rates, Whatnot volume tiers above the standard tier, instant-payout fees and currency conversion. Poshmark’s flat fee bites hardest on cheap items: a $12 sale costs $2.95, almost 25%. eBay’s rate applies to the buyer’s whole payment, so a $40 item with $8 buyer-paid shipping is charged 13.6% of $48, not of $40.

The comparison is not only about fees. Vinted’s buyer pays the fee and the shipping, so the same $40 jacket costs the buyer more on Vinted than the sticker suggests, which can mean slower sales or pressure to price lower. Mercari and Whatnot charge you but let buyers see a cleaner total. Run the numbers on the buyer’s total, not just your payout, when you decide where to list.

Keep the records anyway

Even with no fees, you still need per-item records: cost of goods, sale price and dates are what you need to work out whether a sale was a gain or a loss, and that matters if your sales are large enough that Vinted files a Form 1099-K for you. See Do you pay taxes on Vinted sales? 1099-K thresholds by state for the federal and state thresholds.

How Thriftkeep helps

Thriftkeep is a Chrome extension that keeps a local ledger of your purchases and sales across Vinted, Poshmark, Depop, eBay, Mercari and Whatnot, with a “worth the sale?” calculator that applies the fee rules above (editable, with the verification date shown), a yearly profit overview and CSV export. Your records never leave your browser. The 4 × 6 label cropper is free; the ledger is free for up to 25 items.

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Sources

All retrieved October 19, 2026.

1. Vinted Help: Buyer Protection fee renamed to Vinted fee — “There are no selling fees on Vinted.”
2. Vinted: How it works — “There are zero selling fees, so what you earn is yours to keep.”
3. Vinted: Price list — Vinted fee “usually 5% + $0.70”; item bumps
4. Vinted Help: USPS shipping (prepaid labels, QR code at the post office, home pick-up, compensation)
5. Vinted Help: SpeedX shipping (print at home, Vinted Go Shop drop-off)
6. Vinted Help: Getting paid for a completed sale (pending and available balance, bank transfer)
7. Poshmark: FAQ (US listing fee: $2.95 minimum fee, 20% commission)
8. Depop Help: Seller fees and charges (no selling fee for US sellers; payment processing 3.3% + $0.45)
9. Depop Help: Boosted Listings (12% boosting fee)
10. eBay Help: Selling fees (13.6% final value fee most categories, 2.35% above $7,500, per-order fee)
11. Mercari Help: 10% selling fee on item price and buyer-paid shipping, effective January 6, 2025
12. Mercari Help: Selling fees (page updated May 7, 2026)
13. Whatnot Help: Whatnot seller fees (US standard tier 8%, coins 4%; processing 2.9% + $0.30)
14. Whatnot Help: Reduced commission on high-value orders (0% above $1,500 in select categories)

Vinted, Poshmark, Depop, eBay, Mercari, Whatnot, USPS and SpeedX are trademarks of their respective owners. This guide is independent and not affiliated with any of them.