Vendora vs Vinted: which one sells better in Greece?

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• Vendora vs Vinted at a glance
• Scale: what each platform will and will not tell you
• Who pays, and when
• Escrow, cash and how the money moves
• What you are allowed to sell
• The business-seller path, and the Vinted Pro gap
• Reach: Facebook syndication, the islands and cross-border
• Listing mechanics: photos, lifetime, titles and condition
• Moderation rules that catch crosslisters
• Tax: DAC7 and the Greek trader test
• The verdict
• Selling on both without doing the work twice
• Sources and verification
• Related guides

Vendora vs Vinted at a glance

Two platforms are fighting over the same Greek wardrobe. Vendora is a horizontal classifieds site, built in Athens, dominated by fashion; Vinted is a fashion-first app expanding sideways into home, electronics, books and hobbies. They meet in the middle, and the middle is second-hand clothing.

Scale: what each platform will and will not tell you

Scale numbers on comparison pages are the least trustworthy thing on them, so here is where each of these comes from. The 3,630,972 live-ad count is our own reading of the Vendora listings index on 29 August 2026, and the identical figure on vendora.bg and vendora.cy shows the three sites are views of one shared pool. The 2 million registered users comes from a Greek press briefing in August 2026, which also described monthly transactions “worth millions of euros”.

Third-party estimates put vendora.gr at roughly 3.92 million monthly visits in July 2026, 91.36% of it from Greece, against the Bulgarian and Cypriot sites at a few hundred thousand each: a Greek platform with two smaller neighbours, not a balanced Balkan network. One correction — Vendora’s help centre still says “over 700,000 items”, which conflicts with its live index and appears stale, though you will see it quoted elsewhere.

Vinted runs the other way: detailed group financials, almost nothing country-level. For 2025 it reported €10.8bn of GMV on revenue of €1.1bn and net profit of €62m, and declares 31 million average monthly active EU recipients across ten markets at 31 July 2026.

But Vinted has never published a Greek member count, so we will not give you one; any you see elsewhere is an estimate. What can be said is structural: vinted.gr is a full localised market in Greek and euros, with its own price list updated 22 July 2026, catalogue rules and help centre.

Who pays, and when

Vinted: the buyer pays, the seller does not

Vinted charges the seller no commission. Revenue comes from Buyer Protection, paid by the buyer at checkout on top of the item price, described as “usually 5% + €0.70”, VAT included, and added automatically to every order. Vinted calls it variable — it depends on the item, the order value and single versus bundle — so treat it as typical, not fixed.

Vendora: nothing on the sale, a fee on the way out

Vendora charges nothing to list, no sale commission and no buyer fee, and buyer protection costs the buyer nothing. The single charge is withdrawal from the Vendora Wallet, at €0.99 fixed plus 5.1% of the amount withdrawn, plus VAT, with a €5 minimum.

For anyone who both buys and sells, the fee is avoidable: Vendora’s Wallet documentation lets you spend the balance on the platform, or convert it to a partner gift card at no additional cost, in Greece.

The same item, both ways

Take a €30 jacket, sold once on each platform, ignoring shipping.

• Vinted: the buyer pays €30 plus Buyer Protection of about €1.50 + €0.70 = €2.20, so roughly €32.20 plus the label. The seller receives the full €30 and pays nothing to move it to a euro bank account.
• Vendora: the buyer pays €30 plus delivery and nothing else. The seller’s Wallet is credited €30. Withdrawing costs €0.99 + 5.1% (€1.53) = €2.52 before VAT, so the seller banks about €27.48 less the VAT on the fee. Spend it on Vendora instead and the seller keeps all €30.

At €100 the gap widens: the Vinted seller banks €100 and the buyer pays about €105.70; the Vendora seller banks about €93.91 before VAT if cashing out, or keeps €100 in-platform.

So: if you sell to get cash out, Vinted leaves more in your pocket. If you sell in order to buy again, Vendora costs you nothing and your buyer pays less. The second case is ordinary in Greece, where the same person sells a coat and buys a pushchair. One optional Vendora cost either way: Boost at €1.49 per listing per week, Superboost €2.19, non-refundable if the ad is later deleted or sold.

Escrow, cash and how the money moves

Both are escrow platforms and both use Mangopay, licensed in Luxembourg — Vendora under reference 3812, Vinted as Mangopay SA under registration B173459. Past that the mechanics differ.

Vendora bans cash, and means it

Vendora’s “Buy via Vendora” escrow releases payment only when both sides are satisfied, and clause 5.2 of the terms requires the price to be paid exclusively through the app. Cash, COD and bank deposits are not merely discouraged — using them can get the account suspended.

Even a face-to-face handover routes through escrow: the return policy gives the buyer a 30-minute inspection window at the meeting to approve or reject, after which the funds release. Meeting a buyer and taking a €20 note is not an option here.

The timetable is published and tight. The buyer pays for item and delivery upfront; the seller then has two days to accept and five to dispatch, or the payment auto-refunds. Dispatch can be extended by one day, five times a month, and a returned item must be inspected within three days. Return shipping falls on the seller when the item differs significantly from the description or was damaged in transit, on the buyer when they changed their mind. Sellers complete KYC under clause 6.1 before any payout.

Vinted: the buyer buys the label

Vinted puts the label in the buyer’s hands: the buyer picks and pays for the carrier at checkout, and Vinted issues the seller a label or drop-off code. Using a different label auto-cancels the order. Dispatch is within five working days or the order auto-cancels.

Payout is narrower than Vendora’s: only to a euro-denominated account at an EU or EEA bank, no conversion offered. Funds move from pending to available within two days of completion — the buyer confirming, or automatic confirmation two days after delivery — and the payout itself takes up to five working days.

Greek carriers on Vinted are Box Now, ELTA, DHL Express and ACS; Vinted Go, its own locker network, runs in five markets, none of them Greece. Vendora’s Greek and Cypriot list is longer, adding Speedex, Geniki Taxydromiki, Kronos Express, DHL Greece, DPD, Speedy and Cyprus Post.

What you are allowed to sell

Vendora: 20 top-level categories

Vendora’s category tree has 20 top-level branches: Fashion; Books, Magazines, Music & Films; Collectibles; Home & Garden; Baby Items; Computers, Tablets & Peripherals; Vehicles; Telephony; Furniture; Sports, Hobbies & Travel; Real Estate; Video Games & Consoles; Professional & Industrial Equipment; Photography, Video & Cameras; Musical Instruments; Toys, Hobby & Craft; Art & Antiques; TV & Audio; Health, Beauty & Nutrition; Anything Else.

The live distribution on 29 August 2026 shows which are real. Fashion led with 1,103,802 ads; books, magazines, music and films came second at 859,557 (books 388,143, music 241,086, films 176,916, magazines 51,067). Then collectibles 373,540, home and garden 310,631, baby items 55,763, computers and tablets 49,300, vehicles 43,485, telephony 41,562, furniture 32,584, sports/hobbies/travel 17,535, and real estate just 1,923.

So Vendora is a fashion platform on a classifieds chassis, with media a strong second — and the categories that set it apart from Vinted, vehicles and property, are marginal in practice. Greek cars and flats live on car.gr and xe.gr.

Vinted: nine categories and a long refusal list

Vinted Greece shows nine: Women, Men, Designer, Kids, Home, Electronics, Books & Media, Hobbies & Collectables, Sport. That breadth is recent, following the “New Eras Again” expansion from September 2025.

What Vinted refuses is published and specific. The catalogue rules list, non-exhaustively: counterfeits; weapons and realistic replicas; drugs; Nazi and fascist items; official uniforms; human and animal remains; medicines and medical devices; tobacco and vapes; food and drink; adult items; fur, exotic skins and ivory; live animals and plants; SIM cards; jailbroken or GSMA-blacklisted phones; batteries over 100 Wh; bicycles including e-bikes; mattresses and duvets; sharp knives. Everything sold must already have been lawfully placed on the EEA market.

Two nuances deserve precision against that list. Beauty is restricted, not banned: new cosmetics in sealed original packaging are allowed; used cosmetics, therapeutic claims, bleaching products and pet cosmetics are refused. And the Home category adds sharp outdoor tools — chainsaws, axes, saws. By contrast the shed is Vendora territory; a sealed perfume is not.

Vendora’s own prohibited list runs to 12 categories, including weapons, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and nicotine, counterfeits, digital and intangible goods, mystery boxes, and carrier- or iCloud-locked phones. Note what is on Vinted’s list and not Vendora’s: bicycles, mattresses, food and large batteries. So a bike, a mattress, a car part, workshop equipment or an opened beauty product means Vendora and not Vinted; clothes mean either.

The business-seller path, and the Vinted Pro gap

The rest of Vinted’s European footprint hides this one. Vinted Pro is not available in Greece. The Greek catalogue rules say so, and the Vinted Pro service page lists where it does exist: France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and Austria.

That matters because Vinted has explicit tests for behaviour that requires a Pro account. Its commercial-selling guidance names them: reselling wholesale or dropshipped stock, listing identical items in multiple sizes or colours, selling for regular income, selling on behalf of a business, made-to-order goods, and using stock photographs. Those describe many small Greek resellers. An Italian seller who trips them upgrades and carries on; a Greek seller has no upgrade path — and the penalty ladder runs from a listing hidden with 24 hours to fix it, to deletion, to a seven-day or permanent block.

Be precise about what Greek sellers are missing, so the point is not oversold. Where Pro exists, sellers pay no listing cost and buyers pay a separate Buyer Protection Pro fee instead of the standard one — Vinted publishes no figure for it. Pro also brings obligations: registration as a sole trader, company or non-profit, a 14-day right of withdrawal, receipts or invoices, and VAT in the listed price where the seller is VAT-registered. The Greek problem is not that Pro would be expensive; it is that there is no compliant route at all.

Vendora, by contrast, has a business account with no registration cost and no subscription, unlimited listings, a verified-business banner, an account manager and three complimentary boosts. It is also the only sanctioned way to hold a second account: the terms allow one per person, a second only if it is a business account.

The trade-off is paperwork. Registration requires KYB documents — a registry certificate issued within the last three months, the representative’s ID, and bylaws for anything other than a sole trader. Once approved, business sellers must issue a receipt for every sale, take a consolidated invoice on the first of each month, and operate a 14-day return policy — you run consumer-style returns whether you want to or not. On this path the comparison is not close: one of the two will take a professional seller in Greece, and it is Vendora.

Reach: Facebook syndication, the islands and cross-border

Vendora posts your listing to Facebook Marketplace for you

Every Vendora listing is automatically syndicated to Facebook Marketplace across Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria, at no cost. You need no Facebook account, and your name and profile are not shown; messaging and payment stay inside Vendora, so the escrow protections still apply.

There is no opt-out; Vendora says it is working on adding one. If you object to your listings appearing on Meta’s platform, or already post to Marketplace yourself, there is no switch to throw. For context, Facebook had 5.10 million Greek users in late 2025, about 51.4% of the population.

One listing, three countries — kept in proportion

List once on Vendora in Greek and the item is in front of buyers in Cyprus and Bulgaria too. Cyprus was Vendora’s first international launch, April 2023; the interface runs in Greek, English and Bulgarian.

Vinted, by contrast, covers only Greece of the three. Its own market list names exactly 27 markets, and neither Cyprus nor Bulgaria is among them; vinted.bg resolves but serves the English site, with no Bulgarian locale or catalogue. We hold this at medium confidence, because it rests on absence from a published list rather than a company statement.

Proportion matters, though. Cyprus and Bulgaria are each roughly 7% of vendora.gr’s traffic, so about 93% of the business is Greek. This is a modest additional audience at zero effort, not three markets for the price of one — still a real edge, because the marginal cost is nothing.

The Greek islands problem on Vinted

Vinted’s Greek help centre publishes a list of postcodes for which cross-border selling and buying are unavailable, covering much of the Aegean and Ionian islands, Hydra and parts of Attica — and its cross-border connections are limited anyway: Romania, Hungary, Croatia.

Vendora is the reverse: cross-border shipping to all 27 EU member states, with EU-wide expansion via vendora.eu announced on 5 August 2026. Rather than excluding island postcodes, it handles them with DPD island and remote surcharges — Argo-Saronic, Kythira, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete — included in the checkout price. If you sell from an island this is not a nuance, it is the whole comparison: check your postcode against Vinted’s list first.

Listing mechanics: photos, lifetime, titles and condition

Vendora allows up to 12 photos per ad, and requires title and images, category, description, price, delivery method and contact details. Vinted allows up to 20 photos, and requires photos, title, description, category, brand (or an explicit “no brand”), condition, price and package size.

Package size is the one Vinted field with no Vendora equivalent, mandatory at upload because it decides which carriers the buyer is offered. Vinted moderation is “usually a maximum of one minute, but in some cases up to three or four days”.

Listing lifetime is Vendora’s quiet advantage

Vendora ads do not expire while the account is active, and after two months live an ad becomes eligible for a renewal at no cost that re-floats it to the top — one per day per account. Vinted publishes no equivalent. The catch is on the account, not the ad: ads go inactive after 60 days of account inactivity and are deleted after 120.

Vendora’s AI rewrites your title

Before you agonise over wording: on new listings, Vendora’s AI scans the title and description and creates an optimised version of the title. The title you write is not necessarily the one that goes live — so if you keep titles aligned across channels, the Vendora one may drift on its own.

Condition fields do not map cleanly

Vinted uses six condition options: New, Like new, Very good, Good, Satisfactory, and Needs repair (electronics only). The Greek set follows the same six. Note that “new with tags” is not one of them, despite being a phrase sellers use constantly.

Vendora is harder to describe. It uses two separate fields — a usage status (Κατάσταση χρήσης, e.g. “used”) and a condition grade (Κατάσταση), with observed grades including “Σε καλή κατάσταση” and “Εξαιρετική κατάσταση” on live listings. Vendora does not publish a full condition enumeration, so we will not print a ladder and imply it is complete. Compare the two against the live listing form, not any published table including this one. Vendora’s fashion listings carry size, brand and colour fields.

Vendora’s Super Seller badge

Vendora’s three-tier Super Seller badge — Bronze, Silver, Gold — needs at least 5, 10 or 20 successful sales in six months, plus a successful-sale rate of at least 90%, five ratings averaging 4.5 stars, a response time of 24 hours or better, and a response rate of at least 90% across 30 messages. The response criteria catch sellers out.

Moderation rules that catch crosslisters

List the same item on both and three Vendora rules bite before anything on Vinted does. First, duplicates: Vendora treats an ad as a removal offence if it copies a published or hidden ad, or republishes a deleted one. The hidden clause is the trap — hiding an ad rather than deleting it does not free the item.

Second, reusing your own photograph across your own ads pauses the ad — if you sell several similar items shot on the same background, this catches you. Third, and specific to anyone selling on both: photographs carrying a competitor platform’s watermark will pause a Vendora ad. A photo that has been through Vinted or Depop and picked up a watermark will not pass, so keep the originals.

Other pause triggers: unclear titles or quantities, unstated bundle pricing, fictional prices, fur not declared real or synthetic. Removal triggers: contact details in the listing, instructions to transact off-platform, wanted ads, swaps and services. Vendora’s clone-ad function is for building a different listing faster, not running the same item twice.

Tax: DAC7 and the Greek trader test

Both platforms report under DAC7 and publish the same thresholds — which are not the number Greek sellers should be watching. The rule comes from Annex V, Section I, paragraph B(4)(d) of Directive 2011/16/EU as inserted by Directive 2021/514. The exclusion is conjunctive, so a seller becomes reportable on 30 or more sales or more than €2,000 in a year. Greece transposed it through N. 5047/2023, with AADE’s implementing decision A. 1016/26-01-2024.

Vendora runs its own DAC7 flow with the same thresholds: pass 30 sales or €2,000 and you must supply your AFM and address, with account functions possibly restricted until you do. It notes the thresholds do not themselves create a tax liability. One point of accuracy: its DAC7 page never names AADE, so we do not say Vendora reports you to AADE. Vinted reads identically — the same test, a warning that failing to submit blocks you from selling and from your balance, and a statement that selling your own personal items is not taxed.

The number that actually catches Greek sellers is neither 30 nor €2,000. Under άρθρο 21 παρ. 3 ν.4172/2013, three similar transactions within six months constitute systematic activity (two years for property). AADE’s circular E. 2031/26-04-2023 is the authoritative gloss: three similar sales in six months with profit intent is business activity, the clock starts at the first sale, no business organisation is required for the test to be met, and the burden of proof then flips to the taxpayer. The statutory exclusions are narrow — items inherited or gifted from relatives to the second degree, or held for more than five years.

Three sales in six months sits far below either platform’s reporting threshold, and it is a Greek test rather than a platform one, so neither will warn you. That is why Greek sellers get it wrong: they watch the DAC7 counter and assume it is the line.

Two caveats: no primary source imposes a transaction threshold forcing a Greek individual to file ενάρξη εργασιών, and your own position is a question for a Greek accountant. Separately, GPSR obligations fall on Vinted Pro sellers — which in Greece means nobody.

The verdict

Choose Vendora if: you sell outside fashion at all — furniture, baby kit, electronics, books, tools, opened beauty products, a bike, a mattress or a chainsaw; you want the item seen in Cyprus and Bulgaria from one listing; you are on an island where Vinted’s restrictions apply; you want Facebook Marketplace reach for nothing; you sell professionally in Greece; or you buy as much as you sell, which makes the Wallet costless.

Choose Vinted if: you sell fashion and only fashion, and want the deepest pool of buyers who came specifically for second-hand clothing; you want the money in a euro bank account with nothing deducted; you want 20 photographs against Vendora’s 12; or you already live in the app.

Those two lists overlap on maybe a third of a typical wardrobe. A Greek seller clearing out has coats and dresses both take happily, plus a bicycle, a bedside table and a box of books that only one will. Picking one means either a smaller buyer pool for the clothes or nowhere for everything else. So the honest answer for most Greek sellers is both: Vendora for breadth and reach, with the Facebook Marketplace syndication riding along, and Vinted for fashion-buyer density and the clean payout. The reason people do not is that maintaining two sets of listings by hand is miserable, and a sold item left live on the other platform is how you cancel an order and damage your seller metrics.

Selling on both without doing the work twice

That is what FLUF Connect exists for: one inventory across 45 marketplace channels, with the sold-item side handled rather than left to memory. A few things specific to this pair:

• Use original photographs. Vendora pauses ads carrying a competitor’s watermark, so a picture pulled back off Vinted is a rejection waiting to happen.
• Expect titles to diverge. Vendora’s AI rewrites titles on new listings, so a mismatch is the platform, not your dashboard.
• Delete rather than hide on Vendora. Its duplicate rule counts hidden ads, so hiding an item does not free it for relisting.
• Check the conditions by hand. Vinted’s six options do not line up against Vendora’s two condition fields, and Vendora publishes no enumeration to compare with.
• Mind the dispatch clocks. Vendora gives two days to accept and five to dispatch; Vinted five working days. The tighter clock governs your day.

FLUF Connect works for any physical product type, not only fashion — which matters here, because the stock Vinted refuses still needs listing somewhere, and Vendora, eBay and the other classifieds sites are where it goes. Relisting, offer management and bulk operations are included in every plan rather than sold as an add-on. Pricing is £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter). There is no free plan. Every plan is unlimited on listings and marketplaces; the tiers differ only by how often we check your channels for sales — every 90 minutes on Starter, down to every 15 on Super Seller. Detail on the pricing page.

Sources and verification

• vendora.gr/items — the 3,630,972 ad count read 29 August 2026 and the per-category counts.
• Service fee, Wallet and buyer benefits — the €0.99 + 5.1% + VAT withdrawal charge, €5 minimum, that it is avoidable, and no listing or buyer fee.
• Buy via Vendora and the terms — escrow, the cash and COD ban, Mangopay, KYC, one account per person.
• Seller shipping, returns, couriers and boosting — dispatch clocks, the 30-minute inspection window, carriers, Boost prices.
• Facebook Marketplace syndication — automatic, no opt-out, GR/CY/BG.
• Business accounts, registration, finance rules — no-cost business account, KYB, receipts, 14-day returns.
• Paused ads and prohibited items — duplicate, photo-reuse and watermark rules; the 12 categories.
• Item renewal, AI titles, Super Seller, posting ads, account inactivity, clone ad and sitemap — ad lifetime, the title rewrite, badge thresholds, the 12-photo limit, the 20-category tree.
• Vendora EU shipping and its DAC7 page — 27-state coverage, DPD island surcharges, the DAC7 flow that never names AADE.
• Vinted Greece price list and Buyer Protection — no selling fee; Buyer Protection usually 5% + €0.70, added automatically.
• Greek catalogue rules and the Pro service page — Vinted Pro is not available in Greece; the markets where it is.
• Vinted Greece shipping — Greek carriers, the Romania/Hungary/Croatia set, and the postcodes where cross-border is unavailable.
• Catalogue rules, commercial selling, listing requirements — prohibited items, Pro triggers, 20 photos.
• What you can sell, Home exceptions, conditions — beauty restricted not banned; battery, knife and tool refusals; the six conditions.
• Vinted payments, its DAC7 page, DAC7 help and GPSR duties — Mangopay, EUR/EEA-only payout, DAC7 consequences, GPSR on Pro sellers.
• 2025 results, 2024 results, New Eras Again, the careers page and our-platform — €10.8bn GMV, Vinted Go’s five markets, the 2024 Greece launch, category expansion, the DSA user figure.
• vinted.gr and vinted.bg — the 27-market list excluding Cyprus and Bulgaria; vinted.bg serving the English site.
• Skai, Businessnews and Silicon Canals — 2 million users, the 5 August 2026 EU expansion, the April 2023 Cyprus launch.
• Semrush and Similarweb — the July 2026 traffic split, Greece at 91.36% of vendora.gr.
• Directive (EU) 2021/514, N. 5047/2023, AADE A. 1016/2024, άρθρο 21 παρ. 3 ν.4172/2013 and AADE E. 2031/2023 — the DAC7 thresholds and the Greek three-sales-in-six-months trader test.
• DataReportal Digital 2026 Greece — 5.10 million Greek Facebook users in late 2025.

What we could not verify, and therefore left out. Vinted has never published a Greek member count, so none appears here. Vendora publishes no title or description character limits and no complete condition enumeration, so we give only the two fields and the grades we have observed. Vinted’s Boost prices appear only at checkout and it publishes no Buyer Protection Pro figure, so neither is quoted. The Cyprus and Bulgaria claim rests on absence from Vinted’s market list and on vinted.bg serving the English site — medium confidence. Vendora’s help-centre “over 700,000 items” conflicts with its live index and appears stale. Because Vendora’s DAC7 page does not name AADE, this page does not claim it reports to AADE. Meta publishes no Marketplace user count for Greece.

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