Vinted for fashion and everyday items, eBay for international, tech and collectables, Leboncoin for local and bulky items, and Vestiaire Collective for authenticated luxury. Vinted, Leboncoin and, since 1 September 2026, eBay.fr (for a private seller whose address is in the EEA) take no commission from the private seller. But the real answer is almost never "which one to choose": it is to publish the same item on the ones that match your product, without locking yourself into a single one.
You have an item to sell and three tabs open: Vinted, eBay, Leboncoin. Each has its audience, its fees and its strengths. This guide compares the three marketplace by marketplace (with a detour through Vestiaire Collective for luxury) so that you know in 30 seconds where to list what, and why crosslisting settles the question once and for all.
Vinted, eBay, Leboncoin: the comparison at a glance
Before the detail, here is the essential: Vinted dominates second-hand fashion with no commission, eBay opens the door to international and tech, free for private sellers in the EEA on eBay.fr since September 2026, and Leboncoin rules local and bulky items, free for the seller.
| Marketplace | Ideal for | Private seller commission | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinted | Fashion, clothing, shoes, everyday accessories | 0% (Buyer Protection paid by the buyer) | 23 million users in France, the marketplace's No. 1 market worldwide |
| eBay | International, tech, electronics, sneakers, collectables | 0% for a private seller whose address is in the EEA, on eBay.fr, since 1 September 2026; professional: 5 to 12% depending on the category, with lower rates above certain price thresholds + €0.35/order + 0.35% regulatory fees | Worldwide audience, 150 free listings/month |
| Leboncoin | Local, bulky, in-person (furniture, household appliances) | 0% (Secure Transaction fees paid by the buyer) | Around 30 million unique visitors per month |
| Vestiaire Collective | Authenticated luxury and premium | 17% from €75 to €15,000, flat fees outside that band, plus 3% payment processing | International audience specialising in luxury fashion |
This table gives the general trend: the detail for each marketplace, just below, helps you decide for your own stock.
Vinted: for which products, and at what price?
Vinted is the number one reflex in France for fashion and everyday items, with zero commission for the seller: all the fees linked to the sale are paid by the buyer.
Vinted has more than 23 million users in France, making it the marketplace's No. 1 market worldwide, far ahead of the other countries where it operates. The economic principle is simple for the private seller: you set your price, you receive it in full. It is the buyer who additionally pays the Buyer Protection (around 5% of the price + €0.70), which covers secure payment and after-sales support in case of a problem.
The Vinted format suits items that are easy to send as a standard parcel: clothing, shoes, accessories, household linen, small objects. It is the channel to favour for clearing a wardrobe, selling off recurring fashion stock, or reaching the buyer who compares prices every day. It is less suited to bulky items (furniture, household appliances) or to very specific pieces that a more technical audience actively looks for; this is where eBay or Leboncoin take over.
eBay: for which products, and at what price?
eBay is the marketplace for international sales and for actively sought-after categories (electronics, sneakers, collectables), and since 1 September 2026, eBay.fr no longer charges a commission to private sellers whose address is in the EEA, like Vinted and Leboncoin.
For a private seller whose address is in the EEA, eBay.fr takes no commission since 1 September 2026, nor regulatory fees; it is the buyer who pays the Buyer Protection. A professional seller still pays 12% in fashion (5 to 12% depending on the category, with lower rates above certain price thresholds), plus €0.35 per order and 0.35% in regulatory fees. A private seller benefits from 150 free listings per month: beyond that, each additional listing costs €0.35.
What distinguishes eBay is the type of buyer it attracts: someone looking for a specific reference (a spare part, a particular sneaker model, a collectable) rather than scrolling through a fashion feed. It is the right channel for high-value or technical items, or for reaching a buyer outside France. On generic textiles or everyday items, eBay brings little more than Vinted.
Leboncoin: for which products, and at what price?
Leboncoin is the reference for local and bulky items: zero commission for the private seller, and in-person collection that avoids shipping constraints.
With around 30 million unique visitors per month and around 800,000 listings published every day across all categories, Leboncoin remains one of the most visited sites in France. As on Vinted, the private seller pays no commission: the Secure Transaction fees (€0.70 + 5% for a delivery, or a flat €0.99 for in-person collection) are paid by the buyer, who can also choose to pay in person without going through online payment, in which case there are no fees at all on either side.
It is the most relevant channel for everything that is heavy, bulky or complicated to ship: furniture, household appliances, large bundles of items, bulky sports equipment. It is also the one that best captures the local buyer, in a hurry to collect an item the same day without waiting for a parcel. However, for textiles or fine fashion, Vinted generally remains more effective: that is where the audience used to this type of purchase is found.
And Vestiaire Collective, for luxury?
Vestiaire Collective stands out for a systematic authentication step before shipping, which makes it the reference channel for selling luxury and premium with confidence.
The marketplace applies 17% on items priced from €75 to €15,000, with flat fees outside that band, plus payment processing fees. This is higher than Vinted or eBay, but the authentication reassures a buyer ready to put several hundred euros into a bag or a designer piece, a service that neither Vinted nor Leboncoin offers natively. For occasional luxury or a collection to sell off, it remains the natural complement to the other three marketplaces rather than a direct competitor.
This fourth player illustrates the logic of the comparison well: it is not the "best" marketplace in absolute terms that wins, it is the one that matches the product you have in your hands. A single seller can very well use all four across their stock, with no contradiction.
Do you really have to choose a single marketplace?
No, and it is often the real question badly put. Most resellers gain more by publishing on several complementary marketplaces than by betting everything on one.
The table above shows clearly that each marketplace serves a different audience and use: Vinted for everyday fashion, eBay for tech and international, Leboncoin for local and bulky items. A single item (a sought-after pair of sneakers, for example) can very well sell on Vinted to a passing buyer, and sell for more on eBay to a collector who has been hunting for it for weeks. Choosing a single marketplace means depriving yourself of a whole segment of potential buyers for no reason.
Take a concrete case: a wardrobe clear-out with clothes, a pair of branded sneakers and a chest of drawers. The chest of drawers goes on Leboncoin, by in-person collection, with no shipping costs or logistics. The everyday clothes go on Vinted, where the audience is used to this type of purchase and where you receive your full price. The pair of sneakers is worth publishing on eBay too: that is where the buyers who are specifically looking for this model hang out, even if it means paying a bit more to get it. Three items, three marketplaces, one wardrobe.
If you are starting on Vinted and thinking of widening to eBay, the guide selling on eBay when you come from Vinted details the differences in how the two marketplaces work. And if Vinted remains your main channel, our guide to the Vinted algorithm 2026 explains how to sell faster on this specific marketplace.
How do you sell on all three without spending your days on it?
The real obstacle to publishing on several marketplaces is not strategy: it is the time it takes to retype each listing by hand, marketplace by marketplace, and the risk of selling the same item twice if you forget to unpublish in time.
This is exactly what crosslisting covers: publishing the same product page on several marketplaces at once, with stock synchronisation that automatically unpublishes everywhere as soon as a sale happens elsewhere. StoFlow works on this principle: you create your product once, publish it on Vinted, eBay and Leboncoin (as well as Vestiaire Collective and Etsy), and manage orders and messages from a single dashboard, without juggling three interfaces. The Free plan covers up to 100 products, plenty to test cross-publishing before generalising to all your stock.
In the end, the question "Vinted, eBay or Leboncoin" often does not need to be settled: the best answer, for most resellers, is all three, each in its own niche.
