If you’re not already exploring Vinted for secondhand clothes, you need to be!

Vinted is now the UK’s third biggest fashion retailer, ahead of the likes of Zara, H&M and ASOS and it’s an absolute goldmine once you know how to use it properly.

Buying petite secondhand does come with its own challenges though. Fit is hard enough to judge from photos at the best of times, and unlike buying new, you can’t just return something if it doesn’t work. The upside is that you’re never really stuck with it either, since you can always resell it on and try again. So it’s a bit of a gamble each time, but one worth taking once you know what you’re doing.

So if you don’t know where to start, or you’re already using Vinted, here’s everything I’ve learned for finding the best bargains and buying items that actually fit, my top 5 tips.

1.The Filters Are Your Best Friend

With over 800 million items on Vinted, it can feel completely overwhelming, and hard to know where to even start or find what you’re actually after. This is where the filters come in, and I love using them. You can filter by category, size, brand, condition, pattern, price and material, so there’s no need to just scroll aimlessly.

You can also use the filters to sort the order of results, and if you don’t set this, it’ll default to sorting by ‘relevance’. When I’m just browsing, I always sort by newest first. It’s honestly my favourite trick on the whole app, and here’s why. When a seller lists an item, Vinted suggests a price based on what similar recently sold items went for, and those sold listings are shown cheapest first. That means sellers often end up pricing lower than they need to, without even realising it. So the freshest listings are usually the most underpriced, before the price has had a chance to correct itself. Get in early, and you’ll catch things at their absolute cheapest. If I could only give one tip in this whole post, it would be this one.

If I’m looking for something specific though, I switch to sorting by price low to high instead, so I can see the lowest prices items first within my exact search.