Where to Sell Second-Hand Clothes in Cape Town

Where can I sell second-hand clothes in Cape Town?

You have four routes in Cape Town: a market stall, a shop that buys or consigns, Facebook Marketplace, or a resale app with courier delivery. Which one pays best depends on what you are selling and how much time you have.

Sell at a Cape Town market

Several Cape Town markets take second-hand clothing sellers. The Thrift Fest markets are the easiest to get into and publish their stall prices. Milnerton Flea Market is the biggest.

Thrift Fest markets

Thrift Fest is a Cape Town market series in its 14th year, running up to seven events a month at different venues. Anyone can sell. You don’t need to be a vintage dealer or have traded at a market before. Email [email protected] with what you sell, and the organisers reply with upcoming dates, suggest a venue, and send booking details and the venue rules (Twyg, February 2026).

Lucky Clover has no ATM on site, so bring change, and a card machine if you have one. At R50 an item you need to sell eight pieces to cover a R400 stall, so bring more stock than you think you need.

Milnerton Flea Market

Milnerton Flea Market has more than 250 stalls and trades every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday, from early morning until about 2pm on Saturdays and 3pm on Sundays (CapeMarkets). Despite the name it is at the corner of Marine Drive (R27) and Milner Road in Paarden Eiland. It closes on Christmas Day and Good Friday, and trading depends on the weather.

To apply for a stall, email both [email protected] and [email protected] and say exactly what you want to sell, as the market asked on its Facebook page in October 2026. You can also call +27 21 512 1135. The market doesn’t publish its stall fee, so ask when you apply. Most buyers pay cash.

Observatory: Obs Thrift + Alt Fest

The Obs Thrift + Alt Fest is held monthly at the Observatory Community Hall, near Lower Main Road. In July 2024 it had 70 stalls, at R220 for a 2m × 1.6m space inside or R280 outside with your own gazebo (Observatory Civic Association). Prices may have gone up since, so check when you book. Nevernew and a St Luke’s charity shop are a short walk away on Lower Main Road.

Other Cape Town markets

• Muizenberg Flea Market trades every Sunday from 8:30am to 5pm at Sunrise Circle, on the corner of the M5 and Baden Powell Drive, with hundreds of stalls (Cape Town Tourism). It doesn’t publish how to book a stall, so ask at the market.
• Bay Harbour Market in Hout Bay is curated. Traders fill in an online vendor form with ID, a product description, up to three photos and a stall design, and approved applicants are interviewed. It suits a vintage label more than a wardrobe clear-out.
• Neighbourgoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock asks for an application form and supporting documents (Neighbourgoods). It centres on food and design, so a casual second-hand stall is unlikely to be accepted.

Shops in Cape Town that buy or consign clothes

A shop that buys your clothes pays you now and takes the risk of reselling them. A consignment shop sells them for you and pays a share once they sell. Consignment usually pays more, and you wait for it.

Vintage with Love, Zonnebloem

Vintage with Love is a non-profit shop at 46A Canterbury Street, Zonnebloem, open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm and Saturday 10am to 2pm. Send up to 15 items on WhatsApp to 079 239 3408 with your name, email address, a list and photos. It reviews submissions weekly and replies by Friday. If it accepts your items, you drop them off and it keeps them for up to seven days to check them. Then it makes a cash offer, paid by bank transfer, or arranges consignment by email. Collect anything it declines within 10 days. It looks for on-trend, in-season clothing from known brands, and the profits go to literacy charities.

Secondhand Rose, Claremont

Secondhand Rose has been a women’s consignment boutique since 1971. It is at Shop 8, Grove on the Square, Warwick Street, Claremont, open weekdays 9:30am to 5pm and Saturday 9:30am to 1:30pm. It takes vintage and modern women’s clothing, shoes, bags and accessories that are clean and unaltered. Leave your items for a few days to be assessed, and it tells you what it can sell them for. You are paid only when an item sells, and unsold items come back to you. It doesn’t publish its consignment share, so ask before you leave anything.

Luxity, V&A Waterfront

Luxity buys and consigns authentic designer clothing, bags, shoes and accessories from the brands it lists. You can send photos online for an offer within 72 hours, walk into its V&A Waterfront store without an appointment (open daily 9am to 9pm), or book a home visit for 25 items or more. Choose a cash buyout, paid on its Monday and Thursday payment rounds, or consignment, paid once the item sells and the buyer’s 7-day return window has passed. Luxity doesn’t publish its consignment share, so ask for both offers before you decide.

Kloset Cleanout

Kloset Cleanout is Kloset Klub’s done-for-you service. It collects premium pieces worth more than R800 each from selected Cape Town suburbs, or you drop them off at the V&A Waterfront. It checks, photographs, prices and lists them on Kloset Klub, and pays you 55% of each sale. Listing the same piece on Kloset Klub yourself keeps 95%.

Thrift stores in Cape Town: which ones pay?

Most thrift stores in Cape Town are charity shops, and charity shops run on donations. They don’t buy clothes. That includes St Luke’s Combined Hospices, which has charity shops in Observatory, Wynberg, Hout Bay, Maitland, Grassy Park, Tokai, Milnerton, Table View, Athlone, Vangate and Fish Hoek. U-turn takes second-hand items for its charity shops and voucher programme, and Oasis runs charity shops in Claremont, Fish Hoek and Elsies River.

Donate the pieces that would sell for less than the effort of listing them. For everything else, use a market, one of the shops above, or sell online.

Facebook Marketplace Cape Town

Facebook Marketplace costs nothing to list on, and Cape Town buyers search it by suburb. It suits pieces that are cheap, bulky, or easier to sell to someone who wants to try them on.

Meeting strangers carries risk. Western Cape police advise meeting a buyer “at a public place at a time when people are around or even in front of a police station”. A buyer who insists on somewhere else should raise a red flag (Cape Times). SAPS also advises you to avoid private homes, garages and yards, to tell someone where you are going, and not to carry large amounts of cash (SAnews, June 2026). Count cash before you hand the item over. If the buyer pays by EFT, wait until the money shows in your own banking app.

Sell online from Cape Town and courier the item

Three South African resale apps take second-hand clothing. All of them deliver nationwide and hold the buyer’s payment until the item arrives:

• Yaga charges sellers nothing. You drop parcels off with The Courier Guy (formerly PUDO), PAXI, Pargo, Aramex or PostNet.
• VaKoop takes no commission. It works with six courier partners, or you can arrange a local pickup with a Cape Town buyer.
• Kloset Klub takes 5% and only accepts listings priced at R400 or more. Every order goes through PUDO, from a locker, a kiosk or your door.

If you sell on Facebook Marketplace to a buyer in another city, you arrange delivery yourself. PAXI sends a standard bag of up to 5 kg from one PEP store to another for R59.95 in 7 to 9 business days, or R109.95 in 3 to 5 days.

For fees and payouts on each app, read where to sell second-hand clothes in South Africa.

List once on Facebook Marketplace, Yaga, VaKoop and Kloset Klub

Listing the same jacket on four sites by hand takes four times as long, and keeping track of where it sold is worse. On Kloset Klub, declining an order for something that already sold elsewhere counts towards the five declines that close a store. FLUF Connect lets you list each item once, send it to the apps you choose, and take it down everywhere when it sells.

If something sells at your market stall, mark it sold in FLUF and it comes off every app.

What FLUF Connect costs

FLUF Connect starts with 7 days for £1, then from £9/month. Every plan includes crosslisting and inventory sync across all supported marketplaces. Full details are on the pricing page.

Automatic relisting, offer management, smart pricing and listing boosts are included from Pro upwards. Starter covers unlimited crosslisting, inventory sync, order sync and Instagram posting without them. Accounting integrations are included from Pro upwards. Yearly billing is charged once a year. New accounts get 7 days for £1, then move onto a plan.

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Related guides

• Where to sell second-hand clothes in South Africa
• How to sell on Yaga
• How to sell on VaKoop
• How to sell on Kloset Klub
• Kloset Klub vs Yaga
• How to sell on Facebook Marketplace