How every number on this site is calculated

Where the data comes from

We continuously read public live listings, and watch which ones leave the shelf, across all five main EU Vinted domains — Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Nothing is bought from a third party. Prices and counts trace back to listings that actually existed; momentum and sell-through are ratios computed from them, not predictions.

We anchor on listings that left the shelf, not active ones. Active listings tell you what sellers hope to get. Here is the honest version of what a departure tells you: we do not see a receipt. We see a listing disappear from a Vinted search shelf, and we record its last asking price as the departure price. A departure can be a sale; it is also consistent with the seller delisting it, an account ban, an offline sale at a different price, or the seller relisting the same item under a new id — which we cannot always tell apart from a genuine sale. That last case matters more than it sounds: a seller relists what is not selling, so the items most likely to generate a fabricated “sale” are exactly the slow-moving ones a reseller most needs an honest warning about. We have not yet measured how often this happens. The price shown is therefore an asking price at the moment of departure — a real, useful proxy, and the closest honest signal Vinted's public data supports — but not an observed sale price. Most tools quote active-listing asking prices because they are far easier to collect; we go one step further and track departures, but we do not claim to have watched money change hands.

A departure on this site means we watched a listing go from active to gone. Listings we first saw already gone are in the catalogue count, not in weekly departures. That is why listings tracked can be millions while weekly watched departures are in the hundreds or thousands — not because the market died, and not because a refresh zeroed the table.

How fresh it is

So right now a new listing is usually in the dataset within an hour — worse than our 30-minute target while a scraper backlog clears (see the measured cadence above). The signal computed from it — buy-below, sell-through, confidence — can lag up to about 2 hours behind that. We publish the measured cadence rather than a rounder number that sounds better, and this table is the one we correct first if the schedule changes.

Sell-through rate — the formula

Sell-through is the share of the universe we actually watched: items we saw listed and then saw leave the shelf, versus items still listed. It is not weekly turns (departures ÷ active × 100), which can exceed 100% and must never be labelled sell-through.

str = sold_observed / (sold_observed + active_listings) × 100

The numerator is only transitions we watched (sold_observed=1) — a listing leaving the shelf, never a discovery-stamped sold_at. Null, not 0 or 100, when watched departures are below 30 or still-listed is 0 (active≤0 is the only way this share hits 100%). Raw departure and listed counts still show.

Buy-below price — the formula

buy_below = typical_asking_price × 0.70

typical_asking_price is the p30 (lower third) of the de-duplicated live asking prices for that model on Vinted, and the typical range runs from p25 to p50. Departures do not set the price: they back the confidence band and the counts. There is no fee factor: Vinted charges private sellers no selling fee, and the percentage-based charge on its fee card is the buyer's Vinted fee, paid on top of the item price. The 0.70 is 70% of the typical resale price. Business accounts and other platforms can differ, so check their own fee pages. The profit calculator applies current per-platform rates across Vinted, Depop, eBay, Poshmark, StockX and GOAT.

Typical resale price: based on current asking prices for this model on Vinted (lower third of the market). The range shown is the typical range.

How accurate we were

The buy-below price for 50 individual models, with observed departures and sample sizes, is in the Buy-Below Sheet.

Verdict confidence — HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW

Every BUY / WATCH / SKIP carries a confidence band from the data we actually have: data-quality score, comparable watched departures, and snapshot recency. It is not a model guessing how sure it is.

The authenticity check is a confidence score, not a verdict

This one needs stating plainly because the downside of a misunderstanding is someone buying a fake. The check never sees the physical item. It reads a listing and weighs three things: how far the price sits below the real market for that model, seller trust signals, and patterns in how the listing is written and photographed. It returns a 0–100 confidence score in one of four bands.

What this data cannot tell you

Every dataset has edges. Ours are these, and we would rather you learn them here than discover them after a bad buy.

• "Sold" timestamps are when our tracker first saw a listing leave the shelf — not a sale timestamp, and not necessarily a sale at all. Vinted does not publish transaction data, so a departure can also be a delisting, a removal, an offline sale at a different price, or a relist under a new id.
• A seller who cannot sell an item tends to relist it, which reads to us as the old listing departing. We have not yet measured how often this happens, but the direction is not neutral: it means the slowest-moving items are the ones most likely to show a fabricated "sale," not a random sample of all items.
• Days-to-sell measures time to departure, not time to sale, and is only directly observed for a very small fraction of items, because most departed items are first seen already gone. Speed is therefore inferred from weekly momentum against a monthly baseline for nearly all models, not measured per item.
• Momentum needs roughly 30 days of history to rank models against each other. Before that the board collapses onto STABLE — and we now say so in the product rather than showing confident labels we cannot support.
• Around 30–45% of listings fall into an 'Other' category because our multilingual keyword matching did not hit a term. That is a real bucket, not a discard bin, but it means category volumes understate reality.
• We track a fixed set of brands. A brand we do not track has no data here — that is coverage, not a market signal.
• For some of the tracked brands we have no per-model breakdown, either because the brand genuinely does not name its products (for example Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Mango) or because our model catalogue has not been extended to them yet.

What we will not do

• Show an accuracy figure without its method. The figure on the accuracy page compares our typical price with the median asking price of the listings we then watched leave the shelf: asking prices, not receipts. It is re-run every Monday and the misses are listed. How accurate we were
• Overstate the dataset. We publish two counts and name both: 4M+ listing records (one row per listing per Vinted domain, so an item listed on several domains counts once per domain) and 2,792,350 distinct items (COUNT(DISTINCT external_id), each item counted once). We never present the records figure as unique items, and we never add up per-country volumes. We previously said 30M+, which came from a development database that does not serve this site; that was corrected.
• Count the same listing five times. Vinted's five domains are largely one shared catalogue — most listings appear on several at an identical price. Summing per-country volumes inflates the total by roughly 2.5–3.5×. We publish one aggregated figure.

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