On a Vinted sale the buyer pays for postage and chooses the delivery option at checkout. The seller's part is smaller than most people expect: switch on the carriers you can reach, pack the item, and use the label Vinted issues rather than one of your own.
That last part is the one that costs sellers money. Vinted says plainly that a different label, or the wrong shipping option, cancels the order automatically, so the cheapest-looking alternative can lose the sale.
This page does not print a postage price. Vinted shows the price to the buyer at checkout, and the tables that circulate are usually a carrier's own list price, which is not what a buyer is charged on Vinted.
Read from Vinted's shipping help page on 30 October 2026 · buyer pays postage · no price table, deliberately
When a buyer pays with Buy now and picks one of the integrated providers, they buy a prepaid label for the seller to send the order with. The seller receives a digital label or a code, plus instructions for where to drop the parcel.
Sellers can pick the providers that suit them in their postage settings, which limits what a buyer sees. Vinted adds that some carriers may be set as the default on a profile, and those cannot be turned off.
Vinted says the selected shipping option cannot be changed after the buyer has bought the item and paid for the label. If the parcel is a poor fit for the carrier, the time to say so was before you listed.
Four steps, in order. The window is the part with a clock on it.
The shipping help page is short. This is what it says and, just as useful, what it leaves out.
| Question | What Vinted publishes | Where it is silent |
|---|---|---|
| Who pays? | The buyer, at checkout. The fees page has Vinted's sentence | What a particular buyer paid |
| Which carriers? | Evri, InPost, DPD, Royal Mail, Relay, AnyVan and DHL Express are listed as integrated providers | Which of them any one seller or buyer is offered |
| Which label? | The prepaid one Vinted issues, and only that one | Nothing about alternatives beyond cancellation |
| How long to post? | Five days to drop off, on the How it works page | Whether the help page for it agrees, which did not load |
| Parcel size? | Only that some providers cannot deliver larger parcels | Size classes, weights and limits |
| Lost or damaged? | Sellers are compensated within set compensation limits | What the limits are, on this page |
The compensation limits sit on a separate Vinted help page that was not read for this guide. Read it before you post something valuable.
Search results for Vinted postage prices are mostly carrier list prices and courier comparisons, which describe what a carrier charges its own customers. A Vinted buyer is charged what Vinted shows at checkout for the option and parcel size they chose, and that is not the same number.
A table here would be wrong within a year and unverifiable on the day it was written, so what Vinted publishes is listed above and the price is left to the checkout, which is where it is actually known.
Read on 30 October 2026. Carriers and rules change, and Vinted does not date its help page, so this is where to look first.
The buyer. Vinted's help centre says buyers cover shipping, and the buyer chooses the delivery option at checkout. Packaging you buy yourself is the seller's cost.
Vinted says the prepaid label it issues must be used, and that a different label or the wrong shipping option cancels the order automatically.
Partly. Sellers can select the providers that suit them in their postage settings, though Vinted says some carriers can be set as a profile's default and cannot be turned off.
Vinted's How it works page says to drop the parcel off within five days. The order shows the date that applies to you, and that is the one to trust.
Vinted says sellers are compensated, within set compensation limits. The limits are on a separate help page, so read it before posting anything valuable.
No. Vinted says the selected option cannot be changed once the buyer has bought the item and paid for the label.
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