Crosslist from StockX to Depop — No Fee, and No Verification Either
Depop takes no selling fee from UK, US and Australian sellers, and offers no authentication. What that trade means for stock arriving from StockX.
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- Sellers in the UK, US and Australia pay no Depop selling fee. Payment processing still applies, which makes Depop the cheapest place most StockX stock can land.
- Depop has no authentication service at any price. Everything StockX’s verification was doing for your buyer, your listing and your reputation now have to do instead.
- Depop’s audience is young and fashion-led. Trainers do well; watches, cards and LEGO do not.
- Depop reports its sales to FLUF Connect, so a Depop sale ends your StockX listing on its own. A StockX sale does not work the other way round.
- You can try it with 7 days for £1, then from £9/month.
The fee arithmetic is unusually simple
Depop removed its selling commission for sellers in the UK, the US and Australia. What remains is payment processing, charged as a percentage plus a small fixed amount per transaction, set out on Depop’s own seller fees page. Sellers outside those three markets still pay a selling fee on top, so check which side of that line you are on before you model anything.
Compare that with StockX, where a transaction fee of 7% to 9% by seller level sits alongside a flat 3% processing charge and a per-sale shipping cost. On a £200 pair the gap between the two platforms is real money, repeated on every sale.
The obvious question follows: if Depop is that much cheaper, why not move everything? Because the fee is not what StockX was charging you for.
What you were actually buying from StockX
StockX’s fee bought verification. Every pair passes through a verification centre before it reaches the buyer, which is why a stranger will send several hundred pounds to an account with no history and no photographs. The seller is anonymous and irrelevant; the process is the guarantee.
Depop offers nothing equivalent. There is no authentication step at any price point. Counterfeit enforcement is reactive, a mix of automated flagging and moderator review after the fact, with account suspension as the consequence and a refund window for a buyer who receives a fake. That protects buyers from bad sellers over time. It does nothing to reassure a buyer about you on the day they are deciding.
So the trust has to come from your listing and your profile. Complete photographs of the actual pair rather than stock images. A visible sales history. Fast, plain replies to messages. Receipts where you have them. A seller who arrives from StockX with an empty profile and three photos will take weeks to sell what an established Depop shop sells in a day, and it will not be the price that is wrong.
What Depop’s audience wants from your stock
Depop skews heavily young, and the browsing behaviour follows. Buyers scroll a feed rather than search a catalogue, and they are shopping for a look as much as for an item. That has clear consequences for a StockX inventory.
Moves well: trainers, especially recognisable silhouettes and anything with a colourway people name. Streetwear and branded apparel. Vintage and Y2K-adjacent pieces, which Depop’s audience actively hunts.
Moves badly: the non-fashion half of a modern StockX account. Graded cards, watches, electronics, LEGO and collectible figures have no real audience here, and listing them mostly clutters your shop. Deadstock in extreme sizes also sits longer than it would on an exchange, because the pool of buyers is smaller and less determined.
Price points sit lower than StockX generally. Depop moves volume at £40 to £150 far more readily than it moves a £400 grail, and a seller used to the top of the StockX market should expect the middle of their stock to be the part that performs.
Listings that the feed will actually show
StockX gave you a catalogue entry and a price box. Depop gives you a social post, and it behaves like one.
Photographs carry the listing. Four or more, shot on a plain surface in daylight, with at least one that is styled rather than clinical. Depop shoppers respond to an image that looks like it belongs in a feed, which is an uncomfortable adjustment for a seller whose previous platform never showed a photo at all.
Titles and tags are how the listing is found. Brand, model, colourway, size, and the hashtags Depop’s audience actually uses, which tend to be aesthetic rather than technical. Freshness matters too: recently listed and recently updated items surface more than dormant ones, and engagement in the first hours after posting affects how far a listing travels.
Describe condition honestly and specifically. Creasing, sole wear, yellowing, any mark. Depop has no verification step to catch a disagreement before the parcel ships, so a description that oversells is a dispute you will have with a buyer directly.
What FLUF Connect does for this pair
| StockX | Depop | |
|---|---|---|
| Import listings and crosslist | Yes | Yes, as the destination |
| FLUF detects a sale here | No | Yes |
| FLUF ends the listing here when it sells elsewhere | Yes | Yes |
| Relisting and offer management | No | Yes |
| Browser extension | Not needed | Not needed |
When it sells on Depop: FLUF picks up the order and ends the StockX listing for you. Nothing further to do.
When it sells on StockX: FLUF has no visibility of that. Mark the item sold in FLUF and the Depop listing comes down at that point. Do it before you pack the parcel, because StockX allows two business days to ship and a Depop buyer taking the same pair inside that window leaves you an order to cancel.
Depop is one of the channels where FLUF’s relisting and offer management both work, from the Seller plan upwards. Relisting matters more here than on most channels, because Depop’s feed rewards freshness and a listing that has been sitting for a month is effectively buried. Offer management handles the haggling that Depop’s audience does as a matter of course.
Moving a first batch
- Connect both channels in FLUF and pull your StockX inventory into a single catalogue view.
- Filter to footwear and apparel. Leave cards, watches, LEGO and electronics where they are.
- Pick the middle of your price range, not the top. Twenty pairs between £40 and £150 will teach you more than three grails.
- Photograph each pair properly: both sides, sole, insole, size and style-code label, box label, every flaw, plus one styled shot.
- Write for the feed: brand, model, colourway and size in the title, aesthetic hashtags in the tags.
- Reply to messages quickly. On a platform with no authentication, responsiveness is the trust signal you have.
- Turn on relisting so your shop keeps resurfacing, and mark StockX sales in FLUF the moment they land.
What FLUF Connect costs
You can try it with 7 days for £1, then from £9/month. Starter is £9/month with unlimited listings and includes crosslisting, inventory sync, order sync and bulk operations. Relisting, offer management and smart pricing are included from Seller upwards, and on this route the Depop side uses all three.
| Plan | Monthly | Crosslisted products |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | £9/month | Unlimited |
| Seller | £29/month | Unlimited |
| Pro | £99/month | Unlimited |
| Super Seller | Custom pricing — tell us what you need | Unlimited |
Sources
- Depop: seller fees and charges
- Depop: 2026 fashion trends report
- StockX: updates to the seller program
- StockX: what happens if I do not ship on time
- StockX: what verification involves for sellers
Sources checked September 2026.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Not for sellers in the UK, the US or Australia. Payment processing still comes off each sale, charged as a percentage plus a small fixed amount. Sellers based elsewhere do pay a selling fee on top, so check Depop's own fees page for your market.
Not automatically. Depop runs no authentication at any price, so the reassurance has to come from your listing and profile instead: real photographs of the actual pair, a visible sales history, receipts where you have them, and quick replies. An empty profile sells slowly regardless of price.
Trainers and branded apparel, mostly in the middle of your price range. Graded cards, watches, electronics and LEGO have effectively no audience there. Very high-value grails also sell more slowly than they would on an exchange.
Yes, that direction is automatic, and the StockX listing is ended for you. The reverse is not: StockX sales are invisible to FLUF, so mark the item sold there yourself and the Depop listing will come down.
Depop's feed favours recent activity, so a listing that has sat untouched for weeks is close to buried. Relisting keeps your shop resurfacing in front of browsers. It is available from the Seller plan upwards and is one of the few real levers on that platform.
Four or more. Both sides, the sole, the insole, the size and style-code label, the box label, and a close shot of anything you are declaring as wear. Add one styled image, because Depop shoppers respond to photographs that look like they belong in a feed.
You have to cancel one, and the cancellation costs you standing on whichever platform you let down. The exposure window is short but real, since StockX expects the pair at verification within two business days. Marking the sale in FLUF before you pack is what closes it.