A sweep passing over a window of identifiers, again and again, with nothing between two passes. That is the shape of the Vestiaire watch.
Two marketplaces, two different jobs
Every figure below is measured. The language line was measured on both marketplaces on the same day, 16 August, each of them under identical conditions, held still for the whole reading — otherwise a comparison of that kind means nothing.Two facts explain everything else on this page. The first: nothing exists publicly on Vestiaire before a human has validated it, so there is no starting gun to listen for. The second: because the marketplace applies none of your criteria, the same sweep can serve every client at once — which is why your filters cost the watch nothing, however many of them you write.
Vestiaire has no screen of its own, and that is deliberate
There is no “Vestiaire” entry in the menu, and you never have to go looking for one. The marketplace is mixed into the screens you already use: a Vestiaire listing arrives in the same feed as a Vinted one, on the same card, with the same buttons, and it says which marketplace it comes from.
Vestiaire detections in the main feed: the marketplace is written on every card, and the three chips above choose which ones are painted.
The marketplace tag is written on both sides, always. A Vinted card says “Vinted” and a Vestiaire card says “Vestiaire” — never one and not the other, because then the absence of a tag would itself be the information, and an absence is a poor thing to read at speed. The colour beside the word only confirms it.
Every listing is validated by hand, and that is the whole story
A seller submits an item. It goes into verification and photo retouching at Vestiaire, and then a member of staff validates it or refuses it. Generally a few minutes to a few hours — and sometimes several days. That range is the marketplace’s own, not a delay we time, and nothing on our side shortens it by a second.
A queue of items waiting on a human decision, and only one of them lit: the moment a member of staff validates a listing is the moment it starts to exist.
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Nothing exists publicly before the validation
The listing is at no address at all. Any search for a “fresher door” placed before the validation is looking for something that does not exist. There is no early view of Vestiaire to be bought, borrowed or negotiated.
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The public birth is a gesture of the staff, not of the seller
Which means it is predictable by nobody: not the seller, not an insider, not a competitor. Everyone finds out at the same moment — and from that moment on, it is a race about seconds.
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A listing's number tells you nothing about its freshness
The number is assigned at submission; the validation lands later. On one real case we measured 66.7 minutes between the two. A listing validated one second ago therefore carries an old number, scattered somewhere in the moderation backlog.
What we do instead: a window, swept without pause
The window is read listing by listing. Reading hundreds at a time is possible and it is tempting, but we measured what it costs: it sees 54 listings out of 77, and the 23 it misses are precisely the freshest — created 149 to 229 seconds earlier. That way of reading lags 3 to 5 minutes, and leaning on it would make us miss 30 % of fresh listings. It serves completeness, never speed.The site’s own “New in” page lags 5 to 10 minutes. It is refreshed in batches of about ten minutes, and it is exactly what every other buyer is watching. That gap is where your seconds of advantage come from.
The size of the window, and why it stops there
The radar sweeps from 2,000 numbers below the frontier to 240 above it — about 2,240 numbers, over and over. That figure is not a guess; it is where a measured curve flattens out.
The 0.7 % that stays out of reach is not a defect to be fixed later: those are old items put back on sale, sitting some 700,000 numbers below the frontier. No window, however wide, catches them by enumeration.
The pass is the pace. There is no wait between two sweeps — the next one starts as the previous one ends. That is why the delay you see is about half a pass, and why shortening the pass is the only thing that makes a listing arrive sooner. There is nothing else in the model.
The pace we measured
Each of these rows is a real run, with its own sample. None of them is derived from a setpoint.
In the first regime, the full distribution over 101 detections: 34.7 % seen in 15 seconds or less, 51.5 % in 30 seconds or less, 97.0 % in a minute or less, and 100 % in two minutes or less.
The model has one term in it, and only one: the usual delay is about half the length of a pass. It was checked at both regimes — a pass that predicted 15.5 s measured 18 s; a shorter one that predicted 5.5 s measured 6 s. There is nothing else in it, because the marketplace adds nothing: the shortest delay we ever recorded is about zero seconds, over 54 detections. Vestiaire serves the listing at the very instant it validates it. There is no propagation floor to buy back.
What is honestly not measured. The watch has held about 15 cumulative minutes without a single refusal from the marketplace, on the bench and then in the product. A round-the-clock regime is an extrapolation, not a measurement — and no screen shows you those refusals today. That limit is written out at the foot of this page rather than left for you to discover.
One sweep, for every client at once
This is the founding rule of rega, carried over to a second marketplace: the watch is enumerated once, and shared. Sweeping once per client would make the cost of the watch grow with the number of clients, which is the one thing this product cannot afford. It is possible here for a precise reason: the sweep carries none of your criteria. What the radar asks for is a list of numbers and nothing else. Brands, categories, colours, materials, sizes, prices, countries, keywords — all of it is decided here, on our side, against what came back.Your filters cost the watch nothing
Ten filters or a hundred, the radar does exactly the same work. What changes is only how much of what it brings back is kept for you.
The radar holds no account
Everything it reads, it reads anonymously. Your Vestiaire accounts are for offering, favouriting and buying — never for watching. Nothing about the watch can put them at risk.
Having an active filter is the arming
You do not have to click anything else: an active Vestiaire filter is the arming request. To stop detecting, deactivate the filter.
The first pass never alerts you
It is an inventory. Without that rule, arming would pour the couple of thousand listings already online into your screen as if they had just been born.
Where the marketplace does apply your criteria: the preview, and nowhere else. The “On Vestiaire right now” counter in the filter form is a real question asked of Vestiaire, and asking it does send your brands, categories, universes, conditions, colours, materials, sizes, countries and your two price bounds to the marketplace. Your words are the one thing that never goes: what to find and what to rule out is read here, on our side, and nowhere else. Detections are a different path entirely — which is worth knowing, because a fault in one shows up on the counter and not on your detections, or the reverse, and that makes the two easy to believe in agreement when they are not.
Nothing to arm: an active filter is the arming request
There is no “arm the radar” button anywhere in rega, and you never needed one. Having at least one active Vestiaire filter is the arming request. It is the same grammar as Vinted, where nobody arms the radar either: you switch a filter on, or you switch it off.1
Open Filters and press “+ New filter”
Both marketplaces live in that one list, so this is where a Vestiaire filter is born too.
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Choose the marketplace
A window asks “Which marketplace?” and warns you underneath: “The two share neither their criteria nor their settings. This choice cannot be changed later.” Pick the “Vestiaire Collective” card. A filter never changes marketplace afterwards — if you got it wrong, make another one.
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Fill the form in, leave “Active filter” on, and press “Create the filter”
That is the arming. Nothing else to press, no other screen to visit.
Both marketplaces in one list: every row says which one it belongs to, and the switch on the left of a Vestiaire row is what puts the watch to work.
Language is a setting here, an address at Vinted
Measured on 16 August, from production, on the same items, under identical conditions, asking first in French and then in English:
The same day, from one single address,
www.vinted.fr answered “petit” and www.vinted.co.uk answered “small” — and asking the French site for English was simply ignored. On Vinted, the address decides. On Vestiaire, a setting does.
Why the radar still sweeps in French, once. Because the sweep is shared by every client. Sweeping it in each client’s language would multiply its cost by the number of languages, and that is the one thing the shared sweep exists to prevent. So the radar reads once, in French — and the screen translates afterwards, which it can do because the identifiers do not move. A condition, a colour, a material, a category: the word changes, the identifier behind it does not.
From validation to purchase, end to end
Everything between the validation and your feed belongs to us and is measured in seconds. Everything after it belongs to you: no gesture on Vestiaire commits your money without a click, and the last one of all belongs to your bank.What changes once you decide to buy
The rest of the marketplace is as different as the watch is. Each of the four below has a page of its own; here is the shortest honest version of each, so that nothing surprises you on the way.The price on screen is not the price you pay
And the gap is neither constant nor proportional — it is not a percentage you can learn. Four real baskets, measured:
Taking the third one apart, since it is the one we measured line by line:
The basket belongs to the account, not to the item
On Vinted, two purchases can run at once on one account. Here, the basket is global to the account: preparing a purchase empties whatever was in it, and one account can only carry one purchase at a time. It is also why the pick-up point map needs a basket with something in it before it can be drawn at all. That is what the banner at the top of your dashboard is for. When a Vestiaire payment is still open it says so — “A Vestiaire payment is under way” — and it offers you the two gestures that unblock the account: resume the payment, or cancel it and empty the basket.Your bank is always the last word
We took the payment chain to the end and measured the bank’s step: four times out of four, the card we used was sent to a full challenge — 18 seconds and three form submissions. That is a policy of the card issuer, not a limit of the marketplace, and another card may well be exempted. What it means for you is simple and it does not change: rega prepares, you confirm with your bank, and it is your answer that moves the money. Nothing is charged before it. Automatic buying exists here, and it stops exactly there. On a filter you have armed for it — the “Autobuy” switch on the filter’s row, or the same switch in its form, one filter at a time and never in bulk — rega reserves an account, fills the basket, sets the delivery and opens the payment, then tells you and hands back. You have fifteen minutes to answer. If you do nothing at all, the purchase is simply dropped, the account goes back into service, and nothing has been charged. Not one line of that path can charge a card.A sale is announced, not deduced
On Vinted a sold item vanishes, and we only conclude after two consecutive absences. Here, the page stays up and says “sold”, with the hour of the sale, so one reading is enough. A listing that was withdrawn answers something else again, and it is never counted as a sale — the two are told apart, which on Vinted they cannot be. And because both timestamps come from the marketplace itself, the time an item took to sell is genuinely measured: on the Sales screen a Vestiaire card reads “sold in …”, with none of the “at most” that a Vinted sale forces. Two real ones, to show the range: 398 seconds for a Dolce & Gabbana coat, and 3,886,847 seconds — 44 days, 23 hours and 40 minutes — for a Dior dress.What surprises people
The watch does not need you to be watching
The watch does not need you to be watching
The radar runs on our servers. Closing the tab, closing the browser, shutting the machine down: none of it changes anything, and none of it is needed for a detection to be filed.What starts it is not a button but a fact: an active Vestiaire filter is the arming request. There is no arming button anywhere in the product, and none is missing — a filter’s own switch is the whole of it.
One notification setting covers both marketplaces
One notification setting covers both marketplaces
Settings → Notifications lists kinds of event, not marketplaces. A Vestiaire purchase raises exactly the same kinds as a Vinted one, so switching “purchase confirmed” off switches it off for Vestiaire too. No screen says so, which is why it is written here.It is deliberate, and it protects you in the direction that matters: a Vestiaire alert can never slip past someone who has turned everything off.
A listing seen in “0 s” is not a rounding error
A listing seen in “0 s” is not a rounding error
The shortest delay we ever recorded is about zero seconds — and, once, a second below zero, which is clock drift and nothing more. Vestiaire serves the listing at the very instant it validates it: there is no propagation delay hiding between the two. When a pass happens to land on that number right then, the delay really is nil.
At 2 a.m. a quiet filter is not a broken filter
At 2 a.m. a quiet filter is not a broken filter
The marketplace itself slows down. We measured 24.2 births a minute during the day — with a spread from 13.5 to 46.0 — and 7.2 a minute between 22:30 and 00:30 UTC. That is roughly a third of the daytime rate. A filter that produced ten lines an hour in the afternoon and one overnight has not changed; the marketplace has.
The preview counter stops at exactly 10,000
The preview counter stops at exactly 10,000
Past that, Vestiaire stops counting. The filter form therefore writes
{n}+ rather than a bare “10,000”, because printing the round number would pass a limit off as a measurement. If you see the +, your filter is wide — much wider than the figure suggests.Two filters can carry the same name
Two filters can carry the same name
A filter’s name is yours to choose, and nothing stops the same name existing on both marketplaces. Where the product has to tell them apart it writes the marketplace beside the name: in the panel where you pick a filter to follow on the Sales screen, the option reads “Vestiaire · your filter name”.One place still shows the name alone: the filter selector at the top of the Sales screen. If you keep twin names across the two marketplaces, that is the one spot where you cannot tell which of the two you are looking at.
The first pass is deliberately silent
The first pass is deliberately silent
When the watch starts, the two thousand or so listings already online are all, technically, new to it. Filing them as detections would be true and useless. So the first pass is an inventory: it fills the window, and it alerts nobody.
Where to go next
Writing a Vestiaire filter
Every criterion, what it does, what it rules out, and what happens when two of them contradict each other.
Your Vestiaire accounts
Connecting one, what we keep of it, and the connection that is valid for one thing and refused for another.
Making an offer
The floor, where it comes from, and why it rises to your own amount and never comes back down.
Buying on Vestiaire
The two steps, the delivery choice, the full cost of an item, and what happens if you walk away halfway.
Following what sells
What a Vestiaire sale tells you that a Vinted sale cannot, and the watchlist across two marketplaces.
The dashboard
Where your detections land, both marketplaces together, and every gesture a card offers you.
If you are new to rega altogether, the first ten minutes is the page to read before this one. And Money is the page that says, for the whole product, who authorises a spend and who bounds it.
What this marketplace does not let us do yet
We would rather write it here than let you find out halfway through.No screen shows the state of the Vestiaire radar
Not its passes, not its delay, not its refusals. The radar indicator in the header and the listings-a-minute counter above the feed count Vinted only — they say nothing about Vestiaire, in either direction. What tells you the watch is working is your detections arriving.
Some listings are out of reach
The 0.7 % the window cannot cover are old items put back on sale, sitting hundreds of thousands of numbers below the frontier. Widening the window does not help — it was measured, and past 2,000 there is no gain.
Round-the-clock is not proven
The watch has held about 15 cumulative minutes with zero refusals. A day and a night without a refusal is an expectation, not a measurement — and, as above, no screen would show you the first one.
Detections are wiped after 48 hours
The clean-up runs on its own and nothing warns you first. Anything you want to keep — a favourite, a tab, a place on the watchlist — take it out the same day.
Item models cannot be chosen
The marketplace publishes no list of models, and the field is missing from 79 % of listings. A filter that already carries models keeps them and lets you remove them; you cannot add one.
No purchase history
rega’s Orders screen follows Vinted only: a purchase made here never appears on it — not even when the notification that announces it points you there. Your Vestiaire orders live on Vestiaire, and that is where you follow them.
“Requested” is the last word we ever get
Once your bank has answered and the confirmation has gone, the marketplace says nothing more, and no page anywhere re-reads the state of a payment. rega will not claim a purchase went through when it cannot know.
No automatic offer
An offer is always a click, and always yours. This is a decision, not a gap: an offer here is irreversible, and nothing should send one on your behalf.
A favourite cannot be removed from rega
You can set one from here; you take it off on Vestiaire. We would rather not offer a button that would fail silently, on a marketplace where a wrong gesture costs an account.
Pick-up points need a full basket
Measured: zero points on an empty basket, twelve on a full one. There is no way to draw that map without an item, so rega borrows one for the length of the reading and empties the basket afterwards.
Addresses are only located in France
Outside France, the map says it does not know where the address is rather than dropping a pin in the wrong place.
Groups are filed afterwards, and import stays on Vinted
The Vestiaire filter form has no group selector: you file the filter into a group afterwards, from the row’s ⋯ menu. Filter import and export still speak the Vinted format only.
Duties are in the total, not on their own line
The marketplace does send a duties figure — €23.12 on the basket above — but rega does not pull it out yet. It is inside the total you see, and only there.
One last thing that is a limit of the marketplace rather than of rega: the moderation delay itself. A listing can wait minutes or days on a human decision, and no watch, however fast, changes that. What we can promise is the part that is ours — the seconds between the validation and your screen — and that part is measured on this page, run by run.