Depop | Buy & Sell Clothing 12+

Great brand exposure, horrible other ways

Started using the app after a friend recommended it to sell my luxury vintage items on. I use to use Etsy when I lived in the UK but was always so much of a hassle establishing your account.

Depop was super easy to set up and upload items and set up my account and start selling. Love the feature where you can make a quick video of your item your selling so people can get a bit more of a grasp what your selling but would like 1 or 2 more slots for photos.

But now going to the down side, with my items that I sell I don’t do it to make massive profits off my items but when the app takes 10% (even including 10% of shipping costs) it really eats into my profit margin. There should be % brackets in place so I can list some of my items worth up to 1000$ but I don’t really think it’s fair for Depop to take 100$ of that. I would prefer to pay a minuscule amount (eg .20c no matter how much the item is listed for ) when listing the items, this ensures that Depop gets their cut of every item that is listed and this will solve the issue of people listing items they do not intend to sell or just fake accounts.

Developer Response ,

Hey, thanks for the review. Our 10% fee allows us to keep Depop running smoothly. It contributes towards the cost of running the app, creating new features and improving our Community’s experience.

See our article about fees by going to 'Settings - Need help' and typing in ‘What about fees’.
Team Depop

Stupid app, currency issue never fix

Depop’s algorithm keep changing the currency from £ to AUD even I never set my region to Australia. When I listed out my item they are in £ and the app just automatically change it to AUD for me and there is no way I can change it back. This currency issue making me losing literally 100% of my profit. Reflecting this to the Depop team all they tell me is to relist my item and make me loss of all the like and comments, which means potential buyers. Can you even believe it? They charge 10% of your item selling price and the app performance is horrible, once you reflect the issue instead of helping you solving it all they imply is ‘deal it yourself’. Either decrease the portion of Depop fee and stop stripping us off or DO A BETTER JOB.

Following my most recent sale, the item was sell for £18 and somehow the currency sign changed. Asked from buyer that £18 was sent from her bank account and I have received AUD18 instead, which from conversion is less than £9. I have literally lost half of my sale price, plus stupid Depop fee and shipping cost. Contact PayPal and they declare that the rest has went to Depop. So Depop has received £1.8 + £9 pounds from this currency scam. More than £10 pounds in their pocket per single purchase, who the hell know how much they can make per day. Please guys, especially if you want to sell and have an eBay account stick with eBay, don’t even bother to try this app.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your review. We appreciate just how frustrating this must be for you. The good news is that our Tech team are working to resolve this as fast as possible. Please get in touch by going to; 'Settings - Need help - Technical issues - I've still got an issue' to submit a report to us in-app. Remember to include your username and further details regarding your listings.

We’ll get this sorted ASAP.

Team Depop

This is the most frustrating app to use

This is one of the most illogical, frustrating apps to use in the second hand clothing market space. Depop runs changes to the app layout and functionality on almost a weekly basis, which makes things inconsistent and confusing (particularly for regular sellers).

As a seller, the recent changes to the app layout (again) have made it incredibly difficult to find and keep track of the items I have sold that require shipping, and I have to go trawling deep within the app to find where my latest sales are sitting. How is this change going to help with the ongoing issue we have of sellers not shipping sold items in a adequate time frame? As a purchaser, I have frequently had to prompt sellers to send an item I have purchased, and have at times waited 2-3 weeks for a seller to ship!! These new changes to the app do absolutely nothing to assist with this systemic issue on Depop, and I suggest that yet another review of where “sold items” sit on the app is undertaken so that this particular function can sit top of mind for sellers.

With the extremely high fees we pay to Depop (not to mention they take a cut of postage charges which is almost criminal), I’m seriously considering looking at other app options in this space. I’m pretty well over it, and I’m sure thousands of other users are too.