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Vinted UK Profit Calculator (2026)

Vinted UK has zero seller fees — buyers pay Buyer Protection (3-8% + £0.30-£0.80) on top of the listed price; you keep 100% of what's shown. Your real margin depends on your sourcing cost, packaging, and any Item Bump promotions. This calculator works it out and tells you how close you are to HMRC's reporting threshold.

Last verified: 25 April 2026 Source: Vinted UK pricelist (Buyer Protection) Next review: 25 October 2026
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The amount Vinted pays into your balance. Buyer Protection is paid by the buyer on top — you receive 100% of this figure.
Reselling? The wholesale or thrift price you paid. Personal item from your own wardrobe? Leave at £0.
Polymailer, tape, tissue paper. Per-item; rule of thumb £0.20-£0.60.
Buyer normally pays Vinted's pre-paid label. Only fill this in if you're absorbing postage as a 'free shipping' tactic.
Optional 3-day or 7-day promotion. Vinted shows the cost at checkout — typically £0.50-£5 for 3 days, more for 7 days.
Calendar-year total of Vinted sales. Used to show how close you are to the HMRC reporting threshold (£1,700 OR 30 items).
How many items you've sold this calendar year. Crossing 30 items also triggers HMRC reporting, separate from the £1,700 sales threshold.
Gross received from Vinted —
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Less: packaging —
Less: postage (seller-paid) —
Less: Item Bump —
Total costs —
Net profit —
Profit margin —
HMRC reporting status —
Personal item from wardrobe — £20 jacket, no costs
Sale £20 · Sourcing £0 · Packaging £0.40 · No bump

Vinted takes nothing. You receive £20 into your Vinted balance, spend ~£0.40 on a polymailer and tape, net £19.60. Margin 98% — typical for personal-item resale. (Buyer paid Buyer Protection on top; that doesn’t touch you.)

Charity-shop find resold — £8 in, £25 out
Sale £25 · Sourcing £8 · Packaging £0.50 · No bump

Bought a vintage shirt for £8 at a charity shop. Sold for £25 on Vinted. After £0.50 packaging: £16.50 profit, 66% margin. Note: this is trading income for HMRC purposes — buying with intent to resell triggers the badges of trade test. Add to your trading allowance running total.

With Item Bump and seller-paid postage — £15 sale
Sale £15 · Sourcing £5 · Packaging £0.30 · Bump £1.50 · Postage paid £3.50

Listed at £15 with ‘free shipping’ (you cover £3.50 postage), bumped for 3 days at £1.50, sourced for £5. Total costs £10.30. Net £4.70 — 31% margin. The bump and seller-paid postage cut a 67% margin in half. Worth running this calc before you bump.

Vinted is the rare UK marketplace where the headline rate matches reality: there are no seller fees. None. Not on small items, not on big-ticket items, not on cross-border sales within the supported markets. The platform makes its money from the Buyer Protection fee charged to the buyer at checkout — added on top of your listed price, never deducted from your payout.

That makes the maths on Vinted simpler than Etsy or eBay, but two things still bite sellers’ margins:

Sourcing cost — what you paid for the item, if you bought it to resell. Personal items from your own wardrobe have a sourcing cost of zero; charity-shop finds, eBay job-lots, wholesale clearance bundles all have real costs that need backing out before you know your real margin.

Promotional spending — Item Bump and Wardrobe Spotlight. These are optional and seller-paid. The calculator above models Item Bump per-item; Wardrobe Spotlight is a flat-rate ad spend you’d track separately.

Packaging is the third silent cost. £0.30 per item across 100 items a year is £30 you didn’t account for. Most sellers don’t.

The Vinted seller’s two HMRC questions

Two distinct questions, often confused:

1. Will Vinted report me to HMRC? Yes if you cross £1,700 in sales OR 30 items in a calendar year. The calculator above shows how close you are if you supply year-to-date totals; the HMRC reporting checker covers it in more depth. Reporting is a data event, not a tax event.

2. Do I owe tax on what I make? Depends on whether what you’re doing is trading. Selling old clothes from your own wardrobe at a loss is not trading and not taxable. Buying clothes specifically to resell at a profit is trading and is taxable beyond the £1,000 trading allowance. HMRC’s badges-of-trade test sorts the two — see the trading allowance calculator for which side of the line you’re on.

The two questions answer separately. You can be reported and owe nothing (a teenager clearing out three years of festival outfits and crossing the 30-item threshold). You can owe tax and not be reported (a side-hustler doing 25 items at £60 each — under both reporting thresholds but well over the £1,000 trading allowance). Run both calculators if you sell on Vinted regularly.

What the calc above doesn’t model

A few cases where you’ll need to add maths on top:

  • Bundle discounts — work out the final agreed price per item or per bundle and feed it in as one sale.
  • Wardrobe Spotlight (~£6.95) — flat-rate, applies across your whole wardrobe for 7 days. Track separately and amortise across whatever sells in that window.
  • Cross-border sales — when a buyer in another supported market buys, Vinted handles the customs paperwork; the calc still applies (just be aware the postage labels are slightly different).
  • Refunds — if you refund a sale, you don’t owe Vinted anything; the maths simply zeros out.

For the everyday “what do I actually keep on a £25 sale of a £8 charity-shop find” question, the calculator above is the answer.

Common mistakes
  • Believing Vinted charges sellers a fee. It doesn’t, and hasn’t for the entire UK history of the platform. The Buyer Protection fee shown at checkout is paid by the buyer — it’s added on top of your listed price, never deducted from your payout. This is the most-Googled mistake about UK Vinted by a wide margin.
  • Forgetting that personal-items-at-a-loss isn’t trading. If you’re clearing out your wardrobe — items you bought to wear, sold for less than you paid — this generally isn’t trading income for HMRC purposes regardless of how much it adds up to. The £1,000 trading allowance and Self Assessment registration only apply to trading, not to disposing of personal possessions.
  • Conflating reporting and tax. Vinted will share your details with HMRC if you cross £1,700 in sales OR 30 items in a calendar year. That’s separate from owing tax. You can be reported and owe nothing (personal items at a loss); you can owe tax and not be reported (sourcing-and-reselling under the threshold). Use the HMRC reporting checker for that side of the question.
  • Pricing without packaging cost. Most sellers forget the polymailer, tape and tissue paper add up to £0.30-£0.60 per item. On a £5 listing that’s a 6-12% margin hit. Build it into your minimum-viable price.
  • Bumping listings that don’t need it. Item Bump shows the cost at checkout (often 3-5% of item price for 3 days, more for 7). Effective on slow-moving items; pure margin sacrifice on items that would have sold anyway. Run the calculator with and without the bump cost to see the impact.
What this calculator doesn't cover
  • Doesn’t model Vinted’s optional Wardrobe Spotlight (~£6.95) — that’s a flat-rate ad spend across your whole wardrobe, not per-item. Track it separately if you use it.
  • Doesn’t model Item Verification — that’s paid by the buyer, doesn’t touch your maths.
  • Doesn’t model bundle discounts. Vinted’s ‘Make a Bundle’ negotiations happen between you and the buyer; you decide what to accept. Apply this calc to the final agreed price per item, or to the bundle as one transaction.
  • Doesn’t account for Vinted balance vs withdrawal. Vinted holds your money in a Vinted balance until you withdraw to a UK bank account. Withdrawals are free; the timing matters for cashflow but not for profit calculations.
  • Tax is not modelled here — see side hustle tax for trading income calculations and trading allowance for the £1,000 threshold.

Frequently asked questions

Why does Vinted have no seller fees?

Vinted’s revenue model is the Buyer Protection fee — paid by the buyer at checkout (3-8% + £0.30-£0.80 of the item price, typically). The platform deliberately positions itself as ‘sell for what it’s worth, keep all of it’ to attract sellers from competitors that take 10-13%. Vinted has held this position since UK launch and shows no sign of changing it.

Wait, what's the fee that came up at checkout?

That’s the Buyer Protection fee, and the buyer paid it. It’s a separate charge added to your listed price; the buyer’s total goes up but yours doesn’t. You can verify by looking at any sale: the amount credited to your Vinted balance equals exactly the price you listed at, no deductions.

Will Vinted ever start charging seller fees in the UK?

Speculation only — Vinted has consistently positioned the no-seller-fee model as a core differentiator. If they did add seller fees, this calculator would update; until then, it accurately reflects what you receive.

Does selling on Vinted mean I'll be taxed?

Selling personal possessions (clothes you owned, used, then sold) is generally not trading and not taxable, even at high volume. Buying things specifically to resell on Vinted is trading and is taxable beyond the £1,000 trading allowance. The trading allowance calculator handles the threshold; the side hustle tax calculator handles the actual liability if you’re over.

Why is Vinted asking for my National Insurance number?

From January 2024, UK platforms must collect identifying details from sellers who cross either £1,700 in sales or 30 items in a calendar year. The NI request means you’ve crossed (or are about to cross) one of those thresholds. The platform is fulfilling its reporting obligation under the OECD Model Reporting Rules — this isn’t HMRC asking you for tax. See the platform reporting checker for the full picture.

Is Item Bump worth it?

Sometimes. The cost is shown at checkout — typically 3-5% of your listed price for 3 days, around 5-9% for 7 days. Run the calculator above with the bump cost included; if your margin still works, fine. The use case is items you’ve listed for weeks without traction. The misuse case is bumping items that would sell anyway.

Can I deduct Item Bump from my taxable income?

If you’re trading (and over the £1,000 trading allowance, with actual expenses claimed instead of the allowance), then yes — Item Bump is a legitimate business promotion expense. Keep your Vinted balance statements as evidence. Personal-item resale doesn’t generate taxable income in the first place, so deductions don’t apply.

Why does this calc ask about year-to-date sales?

Optional — but if you provide it, the calc tells you how close you are to crossing the £1,700/30-item HMRC reporting threshold for the calendar year. Useful for sellers who want to know in advance when the platform will start reporting them, separate from any tax decisions.

About this calculator. Maintained by Jordan — a UK seller and creator who actually uses these platforms (Etsy, eBay, Vinted, DistroKid). Built to be accurate, mobile-fast, and honest about its limits. Spot a bug? Email hello@payoutmath.co.uk.