Who saw the show 7 à 8 on Sunday 09.21.25 about Vinted on TF1?

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We are not here to criticize, and I hope everyone here can one day achieve as much as these young people who give their all!

As explained above, their turnover doesn’t just come from sales (training, affiliate marketing, videos, etc.), but there are indeed sellers who are making 2x more today.
If you are on Vinted CRM and receive the weekly newsletter, you will see, for example, that there are two users of the app who had a turnover of over €6000 last week alone… So everything is achievable if you put in the effort!

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Exactly, and that’s where it gets interesting. Those featured on TV clearly don’t earn all their income solely from Vinted, and I also doubt they are the ones found in Vinted CRM’s top 3.

The most striking thing is to see that some exceed €6,000 in turnover per week, which is about €25,000 per month and nearly €300,000 per year. We’re talking about well-organized structures here, probably involving multiple people, with clearly defined roles (sorting, photos, listing, shipping).

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@Giuliano69 : I admitted a mistake. Please do not take advantage of it to be a know-it-all, and change your tone.

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Extrapolating to the cases that are at the far right of the Gaussian distribution is not very interesting…

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This topic was not intended for controversy but for discussion.

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Hello everyone!

I’m delighted to see that this topic is important to you, but there’s no reason to get worked up. Let’s stick to exchanging ideas and having respectful discussions. We won’t be able to allow this kind of topic in the future if it doesn’t continue in the right direction, and I think that’s a shame :hugs:

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Let’s keep our cool friends, we are a community of mutual aid :blush:

I’ll just add one point: We see today several streamers on Twitch or people selling their photos on specialized sites who earn hundreds of thousands of euros, even millions… But studies have shown that these people do not even represent 0.1% of the creators on their respective platforms, and that less than 1% of the people on each platform manage to make a living from it.

It’s exactly the same on Vinted!
Not everyone will be able to make €10K/month, and the overwhelming majority of those who try reselling cannot make a living from it.

It will depend solely on the means you are willing to devote to your activity.

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It always goes off the rails after these reports, you have to say that the interviewees annoy a lot of people with their bots that cheat:face_savoring_food:

Anyway, there’s a trend, so a lot of people are jumping in, and there will inevitably be an adjustment with many disappointed people left by the wayside.

On Facebook, I see quite a few people saying they make a few hundred euros a month, I read one who managed to make €1000 but by working 16 hours a day etc… it’s simply not sustainable in the long term.
For a large majority of people, it can only be a supplementary income but not a full-time activity.
I also have to keep a bit of my old activity, just a few hours but it’s a safety net. I could try to stop, and I thought I would this year since I was on a good roll last year. But 2025 has been so strange that I’m keeping this little security.

And then some will say « but no, it’s possible, I manage fine » etc… yes, that’s true. But having seen it for myself, there’s also an element of luck. Living in a place where flea markets are established, having a great local supplier, being in an area with big sales, meeting someone who will give you an amazing opportunity… It’s « worked for » but there’s an element of randomness.

I see it in my plans, two years ago I could work with just one supermarket and a cultural store, products that sold immediately, with a big margin, months with several thousand euros very easily (when you sell the same video game 100 times for €40, bought for €8, of course it goes fast) and all that collapsed overnight (closure of the supermarket chain and store that stopped its promotions and sales).
But that was just luck to live next to those two stores and know the staff because I worked 200m from them.

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I completely agree!

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You are right Lucile, I take note and I calm down. Sorry if my tone seemed sharp. I just wanted to point out that judging people without really knowing their background leads nowhere. Let’s stick to the facts, it will be more constructive for everyone.

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For your information, a bot, and the best known Vtools, is software that you have to program with filters, and that is used to automatically buy items on Vinted that you have previously defined with your filters.

For example, you set the filter Ralph Lauren, sweater, €10, you can also set other filters for color, condition, etc., and your bot automatically buys all Ralph sweaters for less than €10.

The idea is to have niches, I don’t know, Sézane dresses for €20, Longchamp leather bags for €10, Nike sneakers for €20, etc., and your bot buys everything by itself.

Then you receive your goods, and you resell everything for 2/3/4/10 times more.

It’s one way to source items, more or less morally, because you often take advantage of people who either don’t know the price of what they’re selling, or who sell cheaply to move stock and share items at low prices. It’s a bit the same principle as flea markets, except that you don’t have to do anything and you have access to a European flea market!

A system that won’t last, because reselling on the same channel you buy from leads to various processes that cause it to eventually collapse.

You can make €11K per month, companies make millions and generate no profit.

Revenue means absolutely nothing. And even less so the revenue for one month of sales.

I would add that this is the perfect example of media manipulation: taking one example and making it a generalization. Some figures from AE: 10% live off it, in other words, manage to earn a minimum wage. And here too, it’s vague, and when it’s vague, it’s manipulated.

Earning a minimum wage means what? That’s 12 times the minimum wage per year. Profit? Is 5 weeks of vacation included? What about social security contributions? Is it a minimum wage like an employee (that’s different)?

Same for this €11k. If they wanted to be less clear, they couldn’t be.

Don’t be fooled, all this artistic vagueness is only there to create division, and given the result on the forum, it’s working.

These resellers who promise income without doing anything also benefit from it by:

selling bot subscriptions (and also getting discounts)

selling their training courses

selling bundles

getting views on social media and earning money.

having partnerships and getting free merchandise. (To resell in bundles on or on their sites)

The more they boast about high revenue, the more impressive it is. And those who are not fooled are smart and manage things well, it works with the gullible, and there are many of them.

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Personally, I consider bot users to be market regulators: they make excessively low-priced listings disappear, returning them to the true market price, which suits me.

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Perhaps, I don’t know the method well enough to elaborate on it.

But I’m drawing a parallel with what I’ve experienced with flea markets. At one point, it was a « paradise, » then certain practices emerged, notably professionals who would go through everything before anyone else during setup, even rummaging through boxes with flashlights without permission, only to then place the items a few meters away on their stalls at three times the price. And in the long run, this resulted in many people saying they didn’t come for that, and that if items were going to be resold at a high price, they might as well do it themselves online and avoid the hassle of waking up early. For buyers, there were fewer and fewer good finds, leading to weariness from making the effort to come for nothing. As a result, where I live, flea markets have become moribund, with stalls that are like dumps or professionals selling at higher prices than in stores.

And I’m already hearing comments from Vinted users I know who are starting to echo what I heard about flea markets a few years ago and are beginning to give up.

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What I find regrettable is this young man who goes around flea markets, shamelessly haggling over all the clothes… and especially driving down prices intended for a charity. He should be boycotted!!!

It’s pathetic to use a system meant to circulate second-hand items to sell new ones, clothes originating from Temu or Shein; morality takes a hit. One must be attentive when searching!!

We live in a world that is losing its fine values…

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This has always existed, from the very beginning of eBay, there were people who cleared out video games to resell video games, vinyl records, comic books, etc.
Beyond the practice itself, it’s especially the way they do it. I’ve seen them, and I really have no other words than to call them sewer rats. Scamming old ladies by telling them it was worthless when the base price already offered a good profit margin. I know one who was outright robbed in her home by a second-hand dealer known in my area, of vinyl records. She had shown him what she wanted to sell and keep, and when he left, she realized that some records had disappeared.

Well, that also needs to be nuanced for two reasons. Firstly, it’s the natural cycle of platforms. eBay or PriceMinister were also intended for reselling used items between individuals, then little by little new items and professionals flooded in, and they evolved. This is an inevitable scenario; as soon as a platform takes off, this will happen, and eventually, the platform realizes it’s more profitable and easier to integrate this rather than fight against it.

And secondly, Vinted is responsible. Firstly, selling new items isn’t forbidden there; it’s selling ONLY new items that is, so it’s a loophole to exploit. I sell new items and despite reports, they have always lifted my restrictions. It’s even in their arguments when they ask you to switch to a professional account. Moreover, they have decided to integrate professionals onto the platform, so it’s bound to happen. Furthermore, they wanted to expand the catalog and diversify from clothing. So, naturally, by allowing video games and toys, it could only happen like this. The latest idea is to add household appliances, and that will also develop. I know a Leclerc supermarket that sells irons for 3 euros during sales (among other things), Vinted resellers will jump on them now.

I’ve always said that Vinted is an obligation and not a choice for me; you go where the customers are. If they had really refused new items and professionals and had contented themselves with staying in their original niche, I wouldn’t have a single listing on Vinted.

But hey, I find that people like to bash professionals, yet individuals who operate entirely in the black market, without the same legal obligations, can also be criticized.

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That was the case, but it no longer is since platforms communicate the figures to the tax authorities and beyond a certain annual amount, it is taxed. So when I resell what’s lying around in my closets, if I sell too much, my items are taxed several times. When I bought them and when I resell them.

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Absolutely not, these are reporting thresholds for the platforms and not declaration thresholds. You can sell well above these thresholds if you are indeed selling personal items. In your case, there is no problem, you can go ahead.

Basically, once these thresholds are reached, the platform is obliged to transmit a DAC7, which is a summary of your sales (not very detailed either). Then, the tax authorities may decide that something is wrong, but it is absolutely not systematic.
Moreover, for the moment it has not had much effect, I think we have to wait because the process is recent. When they start to see people accumulating DA7s of several tens of thousands of euros annually, then there may be some nice surprises.

And I would like to point out that I am not targeting those who make a little money to get by. 99% of pros started like that :sweat_smile: I’m talking about another level, those who handle several thousand euros per month, while receiving RSA and all the associated benefits, but who arrive in a big new Mercedes to go shopping (based on personal experience, of course).

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In principle, control/recovery services are evaluated on the amount they bring in. (If a tax officer or former tax officer is reading this, please correct me).

Therefore, the « normal » behavior is not to act immediately when fraudulent behavior is detected, especially if it is thanks to a new type of data, but to wait three years, in order to recover from the individual over three years and not just one, with the associated penalties, and to guard against a challenge based on good faith. This is good management of a portfolio of potential taxpayers :slight_smile:

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To prove that it’s possible, I personally made +3000 gross and found myself several times in the top 20 of this ranking while being a university student, so with a reduced available working time of about twenty hours per week.
Without any other income, without being from a bourgeois background, without going out of my room too much or having seen any flea markets, as a micro-enterprise, so there are expenses but far from the ceilings, so the net income is not insignificant at all.

On the other hand, yes, with Clemz, Vinted CRM, and especially a full external database, are my essentials.

So you are right to believe in it :wink: Strength to you all, we are in the same boat.

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They don’t just do Vinted bots, they have some wholesalers in France. They each have a YouTube channel where they detail their business every week. And they are adults, but some started at 15/16 years old and also generate such turnover. The technique on Vinted to sell well is to have at least 300 clothes in rotation and republish ads every day with a bot like Clems for more visibility and add new items every week…

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