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Depop Review: No Selling Fees, but Boosting Costs

Zero Selling Fees, With Two Exceptions

Depop removed selling fees in the US, UK and Australia, and the app's own promotional screen states the exceptions plainly: payment processing fees and boosting fees still apply. Buyers carry the platform's cut instead, as a marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus up to $1, shown at checkout. That structure matches Vinted's almost exactly, which is what makes the choice between them about audience rather than economics. Both platforms therefore charge the buyer rather than the seller, which is a recent reversal of how resale apps used to work.

The Listing Tool Writes the Description

Photograph an item and the app drafts the text: the store screenshots show it producing a description of Levi's straight-leg 501s with hashtags attached, offered as a Use description button next to a shuffle for alternatives. For a marketplace where listings live or die on searchable keywords, that removes the step most casual sellers do badly. Everything else in the sell flow is standard — photos, category, condition, price — and the whole listing takes a couple of minutes. Photos matter more here than on general marketplaces, and the app pushes photo tips before publishing rather than afterwards.

Shop Stats Show What Boosting Bought

The seller dashboard reports revenue and sales over six months, then breaks out boosting separately: views and clicks for the period, and per-listing figures such as 1,200 views with a hundred per cent increase attributed to the boost. That is more honest reporting than most marketplaces provide, because it makes the paid promotion measurable rather than assumed. Google Play lists eight collected categories with personal information, messages and three others shared with third parties. The App Store rating is 4.8 across 986,000 ratings, and the Play score matches it, which is rare for a marketplace app.