Depop

Fashion resale marketplace popular with younger sellers, owned by Etsy, with a per-item plus percentage fee

As of 1 September 2026, Depop is free to use. A vintage, streetwear and secondhand fashion marketplace with a strong younger-user base, acquired by Etsy in 2021. Softwr lists it under E-Commerce. Depop is made by Depop Ltd. (an Etsy company), available on iOS, Android, Web.

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Overview

What Depop does

Depop is a marketplace for secondhand and vintage fashion, streetwear and handmade items, with a browsing experience closer to a social feed than a traditional storefront, built around individually curated seller shops. Etsy acquired Depop in 2021 for 1.625 billion dollars, and it now operates as a subsidiary alongside Etsy's own marketplace and Reverb. The fee change is the material fact for anyone who sold on Depop before 2024. Depop replaced its original flat 10 percent transaction fee with a structure that charges sellers a percentage of the sale price plus a small per-order fee, alongside separate payment processing costs, a shift the company framed as reducing costs for higher-priced sales while increasing the relative cost of very cheap listings. Sellers who built businesses around high-volume, low-price items during the flat-fee era generally saw their effective cost per sale rise under the new structure. Buyers are predominantly younger sellers and shoppers, many discovering the app through social media rather than search, and the trade-off for a seller is that Depop's strong discovery and aesthetic-led community comes bundled with a fee structure that has moved against high-volume, low-price sellers since the Etsy acquisition, a dynamic worth checking against current published rates before committing inventory.

What people use it for

A younger seller building a curated vintage or streetwear shop with a distinct aesthetic identity
A buyer who discovers items through a social-style feed rather than direct search
A seller moving higher-priced individual pieces where the current fee structure is more favourable than the old flat rate
Someone who wants social features like likes and follows as part of the buying and selling experience

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Depop.

The 2024 shift away from a flat 10 percent fee increased the effective cost per sale for sellers moving high volumes of low-priced items, a group that was previously well served by the app.
Payment processing is a separate fee on top of the per-order seller fee, so the total deduction from a sale is not fully captured by the headline percentage alone.
Discovery leans heavily on an algorithmic social feed, so newer sellers without an existing following can find it harder to get visibility without paying for Boost promotion.
As an Etsy subsidiary since 2021, Depop's roadmap and fee decisions are set within a larger public company strategy rather than independently, and past fee changes reflect that broader commercial pressure.
Buyer protection and dispute resolution for item condition or authenticity issues rely on Depop's own policies, which are less standardised than the seller-rating-driven trust systems on some competitors.

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What people choose instead of Depop

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Poshmark
Poshmark: If you want a marketplace with live-hosted selling and a tiered fee that favours very cheap items less
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Vinted: If you want the platform fee charged to the buyer rather than deducted from your payout
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Mercari
Mercari: If you want a flat commission rate regardless of sale price

Pricing

What Depop costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Selling

Free

Percentage-based fee on sale price plus a small fixed per-order fee
Separate payment processing fee applies on top
Sellers should check current published rates, as the fee structure changed from a flat 10 percent in 2024

Capabilities

Features

Curated seller shops
Individually styled profile pages functioning as a personal storefront
Social discovery feed
Following, likes and an algorithmic feed closer to social media than search
Per-order seller fee
Percentage of sale price plus a small fixed per-order fee, replacing the earlier flat 10 percent rate
Depop Payments
Built-in payment processing with its own separate fee
Offers and bundles
Buyer-initiated offers and multi-item bundle discounts set by sellers
Boost and promoted listings
Paid visibility options for individual listings

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Is Depop seller fee still a flat 10 percent?

No, Depop moved to a percentage plus small fixed per-order fee structure in 2024, replacing the earlier flat 10 percent rate.

Who owns Depop?

Etsy, which acquired Depop in 2021 for 1.625 billion dollars.

Does Depop charge for payment processing separately?

Yes, Depop Payments carries its own fee in addition to the per-order seller fee.

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