A Vinted seller has shared the ’50p hack’ that can increase sales on the fashion and beauty resale app. 

Zakia Moulaoui Guery has always loved vintage clothing, having spent her childhood scouring thrift shops in France with her mother. 

Now based in Edinburgh, Zakia, 37, uses the online thrifting app – that gained popularity among Gen Z and millennials during the Covid pandemic – to sell one-of-a-kind pieces from her own closet. 

Over the past two years, Zakia has earned £1,200 from the app – and picked up handy tricks to close a deal on the app along the way. 

For instance, if you find something is proving particularly difficult to sell, Zakia recommends reposting it with a price that’s 50p lower than your original listing since ‘reducing your items regularly works quite well’. 

This is especially helpful if you want to maintain your ‘Frequent Seller’ badge, she told The Sun, but don’t have enough stock to flog. 

She explained: ‘I always start by knowing what I would absolutely sell it for at a minimum, so that I can reduce the price if needed. Once it’s posted online, I just want it to sell.

‘So if I’m reposting, I knock off £1 or 50p. Reducing your items regularly works quite well.’

A Vinted seller has shared the '50p hack' that can increase sales on the fashion and beauty resale app

A Vinted seller has shared the ’50p hack’ that can increase sales on the fashion and beauty resale app

Zakia Moulaoui Guery uses the online thrifting app to sell one-of-a-kind vintage fashion from her own closet

Zakia Moulaoui Guery uses the online thrifting app to sell one-of-a-kind vintage fashion from her own closet 

The social entrepreneur, who runs a company that organises walking tours by people who have experienced homelessness, also shared some of her other tried-and-tested strategies to maximise earnings on Vinted. 

She recommended picking a niche so your shop front stands out to Vinted’s 16 million users, with Zakia focusing her collection on ‘vintage or retro-inspired pieces’. 

The founder of Invisible Cities also suggested looking through your wardrobe for branded items from labels like Cos or Uniqlo that don’t fit your style, since these can go for a pretty penny on Vinted. 

Finally, she advised that Vinted isn’t just for clothes; selling beauty and skincare products – so long as their unopened and still in their original packaging – can ‘make a lot of money’ as well. 

It comes after another ace Vinted user revealed the five most common mistakes first-time sellers make. 

In a clip titled ‘How I made over £4k selling on Vinted’, Chloe outlined the things you ‘shouldn’t be doing’ if you want to make big bucks on the app. 

Chloe revealed her very first step is to always check the account that she is selling to or buying from as there are some ‘scam accounts’ floating around on the app.

She said: ‘The first thing that you shouldn’t be doing on Vinted is not checking accounts.

Zakia is the founder of Invisible Cities, a company that organises walking tours by people who have experienced homelessness

Zakia is the founder of Invisible Cities, a company that organises walking tours by people who have experienced homelessness

‘I call this ‘account vetting’ and if I’m buying or selling to somebody, I will go to their account and check their reviews, check their bio, check everything that there is to do with their account.

‘If something feels a little bit dodgy, then I just either don’t buy from them or I don’t sell to them.

‘This is so important because so many accounts are made to scam people now, so if they don’t have any reviews, if their username looks really weird, if they have nothing in their bio or no picture, stay clear from these sorts of accounts.

‘Please, please, please before you buy anything or before you sell to somebody, you need to make sure that it is a genuine account and that it is an actual person rather than a scam account.’

Elsewhere Chloe revealed that you don’t have to spend money on fancy packaging to send items.

She said: ‘Please, please, please do not buy the TikTok shop bags to ship your items in – please recycle.

‘Ask your family, ask your friends, ask your partner, ask your neighbours, collect old packaging, because this is so much better for the environment and it really, really saves a lot of waste.’

Chloe also stressed that it is very important to collect packages quickly and if you will be away get the package delivered to the house.

Zakia has always loved vintage clothing, having spent her childhood scouring thrift shops in France with her mother

Zakia has always loved vintage clothing, having spent her childhood scouring thrift shops in France with her mother

 She said: ‘The third thing that you shouldn’t be doing is leaving your parcels when you should be collecting them.

‘Please, please, please, if you are a buyer, collect your parcel.

‘I buy and sell on Vinted and if something is delivered to the parcel shop, I try and pick it up straight away, because I know how frustrating it is when you are a seller and you’re waiting for somebody to pick up their parcel and they just don’t.’

She also urged Vinted sellers not to spray the clothes with perfume before they package them up. 

Finally, Chloe claimed it was very important to ensure that your bio was complete.

She explained: ‘The fifth and final thing that you should not be doing is leaving your bio blank.

‘Fill in your bio, put a nice picture, put in a little bit of information about you.’

Chloe said this makes sales ‘a little bit more personal’ and allows users to identify whether you are a real person or a scam account.

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