Selling clothes through resellers

sara_darkshines

Hi, I'm moving house soon and have bags and bags of clothes to get rid of. Mine and also some baby/toddler clothes. I've separated out stuff that isn't in good enough condition to sell on and will recycle that. But I don't have much luck or time to use Vinted or similar. I swear I've previously seen there are companies that re-sell your clothes for you and give you a percentage of the profits but can't seem to find them when I google anymore. Does anyone know of any? Thanks

soolin

sara_darkshines said:

Hi, I'm moving house soon and have bags and bags of clothes to get rid of. Mine and also some baby/toddler clothes. I've separated out stuff that isn't in good enough condition to sell on and will recycle that. But I don't have much luck or time to use Vinted or similar. I swear I've previously seen there are companies that re-sell your clothes for you and give you a percentage of the profits but can't seem to find them when I google anymore. Does anyone know of any? Thanks

Unless it’s designer stuff I doubt any re sellers would be interested. Vinted is now a strong market for clothes and stuff sells for £1 or so, and baby/toddler stuff in bulk goes for a pound or two as well.no reseller is going to want to wait months to make 10p profit on something.

It’s probably best offered out in bundles on Facebook marketplace or give Vinted another try. 

Buster_Danog

I doubt it would be a sustainable business. A shop opened near me in London based on this business idea a few years back and closed shortly after. They would be competing with people who are getting clothes for free and stealing donated clothing from donation bins and outside of charity shops.

DullGreyGuy

There are places that will buy the clothes but its generally by the kilo... they will sell some of it on, donate some to charity etc... clearly they hope to find a few bits of decent branded (or "designer" as some seem like call branded things) items.

Little margin in selling M&S shirts for £1 for 5 to then pay the owner anything esp when adding the logistic complexity that it creates.

There used to be places which you could pay to sell items for you but its easy to end up paying them more than the items sell for.

forgotmyname

Buster_Danog said:

I doubt it would be a sustainable business. A shop opened near me in London based on this business idea a few years back and closed shortly after. They would be competing with people who are getting clothes for free and stealing donated clothing from donation bins and outside of charity shops.

Same here, one opened as a shop end of the high street and that lasted a couple of months. Another opened a small unit
on the industrial estate and that was gone a month later. Those opened when Ebay started getting busier also.

They would need to take a fairly high percentage to pay business fees and wages, good idea in priciple but premises
and wages are too costly.