How To Buy And Sell Designer Clothes LINK

While any time is a good time to do a wardrobe sort-out, the new year feels like a particularly appropriate moment for a fresh start. However, sorting your wardrobe will inevitably result in finding clothes you no longer want, use or need, and there's no better way to repurpose those items than to sell them online.

how to buy and sell designer clothes

Why? Well, firstly, it's the perfect way to practice circular fashion (opens in new tab), or at least offset the money you spend on clothes (opens in new tab). And secondly, it's great to send unwanted clothes off to a loving new home.

What you might not realise is that eBay isn't the only way to do it. There are plenty more options out there to ensure you get the best experience (and ) possible. With that in mind, keep scrolling for the best sites to sell clothes online.

Best for: Instagram hits. If you've seen an items you love all over on Instagram, chances are you'll find it on Depop. Many influencers also sell their clothes on there, and it's super quick to use.

Best for: High street clothes. This differs from eBay in that there is no auction, so your item will go for asking price, though buyers get the option to try and negotiate the price. You can also swap items with other sellers.

What's the commission? It's free to list and sell on Vinted, which is a big bonus (though buyers are charged a small fee). However you do only get paid when your item is received (you have to post a picture of your Post Office receipt as proof of postage), however, I've never had an issue with this.

Best for: Designer clothes. Selling designer items on eBay can be tricky, I've had authentic items taken down before as the site didn't deem them authentic. Vestiaire authenticates everything for you. You can either list it yourself and then send it to Vestiaire once it's sold so they can check everything and send on to the buyer. Or you can send the item for Vestiaire to list from the start.

What's the commission? Yes, it's quite high but worth it for the hassle. If you sell yourself you get about 80% of the purchase price, and if Vestiaire sells it for you that goes down to about 75%.

Working with customers, independent designers and brands, Reluxe authenticates every item and takes care of the entire process to minimise effort on the seller's part, which is great if you are time-poor.

Best for: Good quality pre-loved clothing, designer or high-street. Browns has launched a partnership with on-demand donation service and secondhand retail platform, Thrift+. This service allows you to easily donate unwanted clothes and accessories, giving them a new life elsewhere, all whilst making a pledge to your chosen charity and in turn earning Browns credit.

What's the commission? One-third of your sales goes to the charity of your choice, another third goes towards Thrift+ costs, and the remaining money is converted to Browns credit. So if you sell an item for 120, you'll get 40 as credit in your Browns account, after the 40 Thrift+ and 40 charity deductions.

Best for: The Collabory allows you to sell a range of high-end designer brands, as well as a mix of contemporary mid-priced brands. They make the re-selling process as seamless as possible and will send you a pre-paid label and an eco-friendly shipping bag once your products sell.

Best for: The new Resell service at Selfridges is perfect if you're looking to sell pre-loved designer handbags. It works a little differently than a normal resell site in that instead of getting paid, you get store credit to spend in-store or online at seldrifges.com. Great if you want to refresh your style.

Best for: Cos clothing. Sure, it's a bit niche, but if you have loads of old clothes from the brand that you'd love to sell then it's a great way to do it. You're also supporting Cos's efforts to become more sustainable.

Best for: Launched by a mother and daughter team, My Circular Wardrobe's 'preloved at first sight' aim is to encourage people to fall in love with buying second-hand instead of new. Whilst environmentally friendly, they want to make the experience of shopping second-hand inexpensive and luxurious. You can sell and buy items by designers and high-street brands including Chanel, Christian Louboutin, ASOS and Zara.

Best for: Bulk sales. ASOS Marketplace is a great place to establish your vintage online store, as you need to sell at least 15 items at a time. You'll need high-quality second-hand or vintage pieces, and to shoot them on a model, so it's a bit more time-consuming.

Best for: Local sales. Preloved is a bit like Gumtree, so while you can sell items to anyone, you can also search for items based on location, which will save you postage fees. You might not make as much on here as on other sites though, so it's better for high street pieces.

Best for: It's pretty good if you want to sell clothes online across any category, but as eBay doesn't have an authentication team, it's safer to stick to high-street brands here and use specialised platforms such as Vestiaire for designer items.

What's the commission? You can sell up to 20 items for free, after that it goes up to 0.35 per item. Opting for a 'buy it now' listing instead of an auction will also cost a little more. If you're item sells, you'll be charged 10% of the sale including postage. eBay charges you once a month so make sure you remember as if you sell loads in a month it'll likely sting a bit.

Best for: Local sales. It's a similar system to Preloved, a quick and easy way to get rid of unwanted clothes, though again you might not make the most cash out of this one. This works really for things like clothing bundles.

Best for: Kids' clothes. How often have you bought or been gifted the prettiest baby clothes but have only managed to dress your tot in them once before he or she has outgrown them? This platform is the perfect antidote to this. You can shop or sell clothes and recoup the financial loss of unworn or barely worn items. There are loads of brands, from high-end (Bonpoint) to high street (Zara).

Penny Goldstone is the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire, covering everything from catwalk trends to royal fashion and the latest high street and Instagram must-haves.\n\nPenny grew up in France and studied languages and law at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris before moving to the UK for her MA in multimedia journalism at Bournemouth University. She moved to the UK permanently and has never looked back (though she does go back regularly to stock up on cheese and wine).\n\nAlthough she's always loved fashion - she used to create scrapbooks of her favourite trends and looks, including Sienna Miller and Kate Moss' boho phase - her first job was at MoneySavingExpert.com, sourcing the best deals for everything from restaurants to designer sales.\n\nHowever she quit after two years to follow her true passion, fashion journalism, and after many years of internships and freelance stints at magazines including Red, Cosmopolitan, Stylist and Good Housekeeping, landed her dream job as the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire UK.\n\nHer favourite part of the job is discovering new brands and meeting designers, and travelling the world to attend events and fashion shows. Seeing her first Chanel runway IRL at Paris Fashion Week was a true pinch-me moment.","contributorText":"With contributions from","contributors":["name":"Zoe Anastasiou","role":"Fashion Editor","link":"href":"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/author\/zoe-anastasiou"]}; var triggerHydrate = function() window.sliceComponents.authorBio.hydrate(data, componentContainer); var triggerScriptLoadThenHydrate = function() if (window.sliceComponents.authorBio === undefined) var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = ' -9-5/authorBio.js'; script.async = true; script.id = 'vanilla-slice-authorBio-component-script'; script.onload = () => window.sliceComponents.authorBio = authorBio; triggerHydrate(); ; document.head.append(script); else triggerHydrate(); if (window.lazyObserveElement) window.lazyObserveElement(componentContainer, triggerScriptLoadThenHydrate, 1500); else console.log('Could not lazy load slice JS for authorBio') } }).catch(err => console.log('Hydration Script has failed for authorBio Slice', err)); }).catch(err => console.log('Externals script failed to load', err));Penny GoldstoneSocial Links NavigationPenny Goldstone is the Digital Fashion Editor at Marie Claire, covering everything from catwalk trends to royal fashion and the latest high street and Instagram must-haves.

Although she's always loved fashion - she used to create scrapbooks of her favourite trends and looks, including Sienna Miller and Kate Moss' boho phase - her first job was at MoneySavingExpert.com, sourcing the best deals for everything from restaurants to designer sales.

Her favourite part of the job is discovering new brands and meeting designers, and travelling the world to attend events and fashion shows. Seeing her first Chanel runway IRL at Paris Fashion Week was a true pinch-me moment.

Selling designer clothing over the internet does not require as much capital budget as opening a fancy boutique. There are no heavy shop renovation and security deposit costs. All it takes is to build a website and get started.

However, before you can create a website and start selling designer clothes, there are certain other steps that you need to take. In this post, we will be discussing those steps or strategies. If you can follow these, nothing is stopping you from starting an online business selling designer clothing.

To sell designer clothes successfully, you need to have certain personality traits and skills and take concrete steps to get the business running. These will propel you forward and help you get your first few customers quickly. 041b061a72