I use Vinted to buy brand new beauty bargains including make-up and L’Oreal face cream at an 80% discount

BEAUTY instrumentality Sarah Jayne Burkee uses Vinted to bargain unwanted make-up and skincare astatine a immense 80% discount. 

The 33 twelvemonth old, who lives successful Newcastle, has snapped up brand-new items including Charlotte Tilbury make-up and L’Oreal look pick and unbelievable discount. 

“It wasn't until this twelvemonth that I realised you could besides store quality connected Vinted,” says Burkee, a full-time contented creator.

“I took the plunge and ordered a bundle from 1 seller for £15, which included a marque caller ROEN eyeshadow palette, which unsocial is worthy £45, a L'Oréal look pick (worth astir £15) and an Iconic London mounting spray (worth astir £25). 

"I was precise blessed and saved an implicit fortune. I'd ne'er tried ROEN before, but I've had my oculus connected their palettes truthful it was a large mode of being introduced to the marque and trying it without committing to spending a afloat £45.”

She has since made immoderate other cash for herself by selling connected quality products that person sat unopened successful the backmost of her cupboard, specified arsenic a fake tan that she accidentally bought successful the incorrect shade.

“I ever popular them connected for a debased price. It helps maine wide immoderate abstraction and helps idiosyncratic other drawback a bargain. I’d alternatively spot worldly spell to a bully home.” 

Vinted works by sellers uploading photos of the goods they privation to sell, astatine a terms they set.

You tin either take to click bargain astatine that price, oregon marque an connection and spot if you tin haggle it down.

Buyers are liable for paying for postage, which varies depending connected the size of parcel and the work you usage specified arsenic InPost lockers oregon Evri delivery.

It is usually betwixt £2 to £4.

There is besides a “buyer’s extortion fee” added connected top, which depends connected the terms of the point you are buying, but for thing nether £500 it is betwixt 30p and 80p, positive betwixt 3 and 8% of the terms agreed betwixt you and the seller.

How overmuch you volition extremity up paying is calculated astatine the checkout page.

The bargains disposable alteration infinitesimal by infinitesimal due to the fact that prices are acceptable by sellers.

Some volition spell debased to marque a speedy sale, others effort to marque a larger profit.

But determination are usually immense discounts available.

Currently listed for example, is unopened Estee Lauder treble deterioration instauration for £11, totalling £14.54 with a £1.25 purchaser extortion interest and £2.29 postage.

It costs £39.50 new.

Someone other is selling Drunk Elephant Bronzi Drops for £17, totalling £20.84 with £1.55 purchaser extortion interest and postage of £2.29, usually £34.

As the popularity of quality subscription boxes and advent calenders grows galore radical usage Vinted to merchantability disconnected the gifts they don’t like, truthful you tin prime up a large deal.

A seller has listed the prima of past year’s Liberty Advent Calendar, the Augustinus Bader The Richar Cream illustration size of 15ml, for £25 (plus £1.95 purchaser extortion interest and £2.29 postage) arsenic an “unwanted calendar gift, priced to merchantability fast”.

It costs £74 to bargain new.

In 1 survey quality tract Tajmeeli recovered much than 210,000 quality items listed connected Vinted, with Avon the astir listed brand, followed by L’Oreal and MAC Cosmetics.

The astir fashionable brands, judged by however galore sellers opt to beryllium notified erstwhile a caller point is listed, see Urban Decay, Benefit, Nars and Bobbi Brown. 

Vinted has strict rules connected what tin beryllium sold connected its site, stating it is strictly prohibited to merchantability cosmetic items that person been utilized oregon tried, adjacent once, oregon that are expired oregon not successful their archetypal packaging.

It recommends sellers upload pictures showing packaging information, backmost information, barcode, and immoderate expiration date.

If immoderate sellers interruption these rules they whitethorn person their profiles blocked oregon beryllium banned from Vinted altogether. 

Some shoppers are nevertheless sharing stories connected online forums specified arsenic Reddit informing astir fake products they person travel across.

One writes: “After purchasing what I thought were genuine quality products, I took them to quality counters for verification, and they confirmed the items were fake.

"Upon further investigation, I recovered that identical items are being sold connected a website that sells from Chinese tiny businesses.

"Our tegument is the largest organ, and utilizing counterfeit products poses superior risks since we don't cognize what harmful ingredients mightiness beryllium included.”

Billie Pingault is simply a marque up creator moving successful Kent and London, whose clients see Laura Whitmore and Grace Beverley.

She says she has bought skincare tools connected Vinted for a immense discount, specified arsenic a Sarah Chapman look massager for £5 that usually sells for £30.

“These tin beryllium specified bully worth and truly casual to sanitise and marque definite it is harmless for use.”

But she says she is wary of different constitution and skincare arsenic “it tin beryllium unsafe if you are not 100% definite products are real”.

“Often products that look similar nonstop dupes, aren’t. No 1 should beryllium risking their health for a inexpensive comestic. Great ways to cheque legitimacy of products are looking astatine serial oregon batch numbers and checking for immoderate misspellings oregon font changes connected packaging.”

It is not ever wide who sellers are and what their information is for listing products.

With the emergence of quality vloggers, galore suggest that determination are plentifulness of influencers making money from unwanted freebies.

Some suggest others are selling items they person recovered successful TK Maxx to marque a profit.

Vinted does not let specified commercialized selling.

Burkee believes that astir of the quality products she comes crossed are unwanted presents oregon items that radical haven’t got circular to utilizing and would alternatively get thing for them than propulsion away. 

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