Best Second-Hand Selling Sites UK: 6 Sites Compared (2026)

In this guide

• Vinted — zero seller fees, king of second-hand fashion
• eBay — the biggest all-rounder for almost anything
• Depop — vintage and Y2K for a younger audience
• Facebook Marketplace — local, free, great for bulky items
• Gumtree — local classifieds, furniture and cars
• Preloved — long-running UK classifieds with low fees

The sites at a glance

Fees reflect publicly reported figures at the time of writing; confirm current terms with each platform.

1. Vinted — no seller fees, fashion first

Best for: second-hand clothing, shoes and accessories. Vinted has become the UK's default for pre-loved fashion, and the reason is simple — sellers pay nothing. Fees: zero for sellers; the buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee and postage. Audience: huge and fashion-focused, skewing towards everyday clothing rather than luxury. The downside is that non-fashion items sell poorly, and there is no open seller API, so listings can't be synced automatically. See our Vinted inventory guide for managing that by hand.

2. eBay — the biggest all-rounder

Best for: practically anything — electronics, collectables, spares, homeware and clothing alike. If an item is niche or valuable, eBay's auction format and enormous audience usually find the right buyer. Fees: a category final value fee plus a small per-order fee for business sellers, with monthly zero-insertion-fee listings for private sellers — full detail in our eBay fees guide. Audience: the largest and broadest of any site here, national and beyond. eBay is also the one platform on this list with a proper seller API, which matters for anyone reselling at volume.

3. Depop — vintage and Y2K for Gen Z

Best for: vintage, streetwear, Y2K and trend-led fashion aimed at a younger audience. Depop feels more like a social feed than a marketplace, and curation and styling matter as much as the item itself. Fees: around a 10% sale fee plus a payment-processing fee. Audience: heavily Gen Z and fashion-led — great for on-trend pieces, weak for anything mainstream or non-clothing. Like Vinted, Depop has no open API, so cross-listing has to be managed manually.

4. Facebook Marketplace — local and free

Best for: bulky items, furniture and anything easier to collect than post. Fees: free for local cash-on-collection sales. Audience:vast and local — you're selling to people in your own town, which removes postage costs and hassle entirely. The trade-offs are time-wasters, no buyer protection on local deals, and the practical need to meet strangers, so it suits sofas and appliances more than small valuables.

5. Gumtree — classic UK classifieds

Best for: furniture, cars, white goods and other large local items. Fees: free for basic listings, with paid options to feature or bump a listing. Audience:local and long-established, especially strong for vehicles and household furniture. Like Facebook Marketplace, it's built around collection rather than posting, so it's ideal for items too big or heavy to ship economically.

6. Preloved — the low-fee classifieds veteran

Best for: general second-hand goods across almost every category, from baby items to pets and hobbies. Fees: free to list on the basic plan, with an optional paid membership that removes some limits and adds features. Audience: smaller than the giants but loyal and UK-wide, with a friendlier, community feel and less competition than eBay. A solid extra channel rather than a primary one.

Reselling across several sites: keep stock in sync

If you're a casual seller clearing a few things, one site is plenty. But once you're reselling properly — sourcing stock to flip and cross-listing the same items across Vinted, eBay and Depop to sell faster — you hit a real problem. Each item is a single physical thing, but it shows as available everywhere you've listed it. Sell a jacket on Vinted, forget to pull the eBay listing, and it sells there too — now you're cancelling an order and taking a hit to your rating. This is the overselling trap covered in how to stop overselling across channels, and it gets worse with every channel you add — see our multi-channel inventory guide.

This is where Salync helps. It keeps one central stock figure and updates the channels that offer an open API the instant a unit sells — the API-connected ones are eBay, Shopify, Amazon and Etsy. Sell your last item on eBay and Salync drops it to zero across your other connected channels in seconds. Being honest about the limits: Vinted and Depop have no open API, so they can't be synced automatically and those listings stay manual — you still remove them by hand when an item sells. Salync keeps the API-supported channels honest with each other, which is where the overselling risk concentrates for higher-volume resellers. Free for up to 50 SKUs.