Two lines drawing closer without ever touching: the moment of the sale, and the moment we read it.
What “sold” means here, and why it is not the Vinted word
Three things separate the two marketplaces, and all three work in your favour on Vestiaire.
There are exactly three answers, and we measured them on 18 August against three real items, anonymously, with no account signed in.
One reading is enough to conclude. The two-absences rule of Vinted does not apply on Vestiaire, and this is not a relaxation of the standard: on Vinted an absence is a silence, and a silence has to be repeated before it means anything. Here the absence is a sentence — the marketplace tells us the product is no longer on sale. One sentence, one verdict.
What never concludes, whatever we read. A request to slow down, a server error, a dropped connection, an answer we cannot parse: none of these is a verdict. The check returns “unknown”, nothing is written, and it will be tried again. The reasoning behind that rule is worth keeping: treating a slow-down request as a withdrawal would wipe living items off your sales page the first time the marketplace asked us to ease off.
What one Vestiaire sale tells you, and nowhere else does
Five things come back from a single reading, and none of them costs an account.The two measured witnesses
Both are real items, read on 18 August 2026.
That spread is the point. On this marketplace the same filter can hold an item for a month and a half, and lose another in the time it takes to read a notification.
We do not print a typical time to sale in this guide, and that is deliberate. Two medians exist in our own measurements, they disagree with each other, and the better documented of the two declares itself censored: the tracking had been running for under twelve hours when it was computed, so its low end was cut off. Publishing either would be handing you a promise instead of a measurement. The median you should read is the one your own dashboard computes, on your own tracked items — see further down.
The two prices on a sold card, and the trap between them
A sold Vestiaire item can carry two prices, and the lower one is not a discount. Measured on the Dior dress: 4,747.11 € paid against a second figure of 4,380.00 €. The second is the price excluding buyer fees — what the seller takes home. The gap between them is what the marketplace charged the buyer, on top of the seller’s price. Not every listing carries both. On the Dolce & Gabbana coat, the marketplace served no price excluding fees at all — so REGA writes no buyer fee for that sale. An absent figure means not observed; a zero would mean no fee was charged, which is a different claim and one we have not measured.How an item enters tracking
Sales tracking is inert on Vestiaire until you ask for it. A filter can detect perfectly, day after day, and never produce a single sale: detecting and tracking are two separate gestures, exactly as they are on Vinted.1
Open the Sales screen and its “Tracked filters” drawer
That drawer is where a filter is put under tracking, removed from it, given its alert, or has its intake of new listings suspended and resumed. Nothing on the Vestiaire screen does it for you.
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Put a Vestiaire filter under tracking
From that moment, everything the filter keeps joins the watch as it is born. This is the normal path, and it is immediate.
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Let it run — the sweep costs nothing
Bringing a Vestiaire filter’s existing detections into tracking costs no network request at all: the radar has already done the work, once, for every client at the same time, and filed what it found.
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Come back the next day, not the next minute
A sale is a market fact, not a live feed. What the screen is worth reading for — what leaves, at what price, after how long — needs a day or two of intake before it says anything.
The same drawer carries that filter’s alert. A Vestiaire sale can notify you exactly as a Vinted one does — with one difference, and it is on purpose: the notification carries no link to the item. The reason is the next section.
How long before you know
The rhythm of the checks
The ten minutes and the hour are ceilings, not the rhythm: they say how long an item may wait, never how fast it is actually read. A new item is read far faster than that — because a new item is where a sale can happen in six minutes.
There is no tracking horizon for you to set, and that is deliberate. Tracking has one window and one only; putting a choice on screen that the server would immediately overrule would be a setting in name alone. What varies is the marketplace: a Vestiaire filter gets seven days where a Vinted one gets twenty-four hours.
What a check costs, and how many we can run
That Vinted line is a ratio of about 130 to 1 between the two routes, which is why the mix is worth measuring rather than assuming. In production it came out at 87 % on the cheap route and 13 % on the page, an effective ~313 KB a check. A Vestiaire check is lighter than both, and it never has to choose: there is no account to spend on it in the first place.
On the tracking side, production measured a population of about 850 new items a day entering the watch, and about 750 items alive at any one moment.
The lag between the sale and our reading — and why it costs you nothing
This is the measurement that justifies the whole design. Before the rhythm above was set, the last reading of a tracked item was, on median, 270 minutes old, and 870 minutes old at the ninth item out of ten. On the first thirteen sales recorded, the lag between the sale itself and our observation of it ran from 2,111 seconds to 26,880 seconds — up to seven hours. And the number of sales missed because of that lag: none. Zero disagreements across 70 items queried directly at the marketplace to check.A lag on our side does not damage the data, because the marketplace holds the clock. The sale’s hour comes from Vestiaire; our reading only decides when you find out, never what you find out.
- On Vinted
- On Vestiaire
The hour of the sale is the hour we noticed it — there is no other source. A check that runs late therefore writes a late hour into your history, and nothing will ever correct it afterwards. And the verdict itself waits: two consecutive absences are needed before a departure is even filed.
Two marketplaces, one numbering space
This is the rule that explains every oddity on this page, and it took three separate defects before anyone wrote it down. A Vestiaire product carries a number in the seventy millions — we measured 65,087,726 and 70,070,945. Vinted handed out numbers in that very range around 2016. A Vinted listing from 2016 that is still online can therefore carry exactly the same number as a Vestiaire product on sale today.
The fix is quiet and you never see it: every item is now filed under a key that carries its marketplace, and the marketplace is read back from that key rather than kept in a second field beside it — because two fields that can contradict each other eventually do.
What you do see:
- A marketplace selector on the Sales screen — “Marketplace · Both” — which disappears when you only have one marketplace, rather than offering a choice with one option.
- A chip on every sale, carrying the marketplace’s name in full — “Vinted” or “Vestiaire”. The name is written out, not just coloured: a colour alone is unreadable in greyscale and to anyone who does not separate green from amber. Hover it and the tooltip spells the sentence:
Listing seen on {place}.
What the Sales screen shows for Vestiaire
The screen is shared between the two marketplaces; these are the parts that are specific to this one.
The tooltips are where the care shows. Hover them once and you will not need to come back:
The watchlist, on this marketplace
The watchlist works the same way on both marketplaces — you set an item aside, and REGA re-reads it for you. Two things are different here.Two extra figures, and they cost nothing
A watched Vestiaire item carries, on top of everything a Vinted one carries:- the price excluding fees — what the seller takes home;
- the buyer fees — what the marketplace takes from you.
Watching an item does not favourite it on Vestiaire
On Vinted, adding an item to the watchlist can set the favourite for you. On Vestiaire it does not, and it must not: the gesture would send a seventy-million number to Vinted — at best it lands nowhere, at worst it puts a like on an unrelated Vinted listing, from one of your real accounts, on a marketplace that counts robot-shaped signals.The favourite on Vestiaire is a separate gesture, made from an item’s panel — “Add to favourites”. It is idempotent: setting it twice leaves one favourite, not two. Removing it is a different gesture again, and it is made on Vestiaire, not here.
Our tips
1 · Put a filter under tracking the day you create it
1 · Put a filter under tracking the day you create it
Back-filling reaches exactly as far as the detections we still hold. Those are wiped after 48 hours, and the deepest re-read is 10,000 of them — so a filter put under tracking a week late starts from an empty past, silently.The move: create the filter, check its hit counter an hour later, and if it is producing, open the “Tracked filters” drawer the same day.
2 · Read “sold in”, never our check interval
2 · Read “sold in”, never our check interval
The duration on a sale card is the marketplace’s own arithmetic between two of its own dates. Our rhythm — ten minutes, then an hour — decides when the card appears, not what it says.The move: when you compare two items, compare their “sold in”. Comparing the moments they turned up on your screen compares our schedule, not the market.
3 · Do not read a missing listing as a sale
3 · Do not read a missing listing as a sale
Here, a gone listing means withdrawn — the seller pulled it, or the marketplace did. REGA files it apart, on purpose, and it never enters your sales figures.The move: if a find disappears without a sale, do not count it as demand. It is the one signal on this marketplace that means nothing at all about price.
4 · Treat the buyer fees as the marketplace's cut, not as a discount
4 · Treat the buyer fees as the marketplace's cut, not as a discount
The lower of the two prices on a sold card is the seller’s price. The gap is what the buyer paid on top, to Vestiaire.The move: when you work out what an item resells for, work from the price paid. When you work out what a seller would accept, work from the price excluding fees.
5 · Set the favourite yourself on this marketplace
5 · Set the favourite yourself on this marketplace
Adding an item to the watchlist does not favourite it on Vestiaire. Nothing warns you, because nothing failed — the gesture simply is not attempted.The move: on an item you actually want, use “Add to favourites” in its panel as well as the watchlist. And remember the favourite comes off on Vestiaire, not here.
6 · Use the marketplace selector before you draw a conclusion
6 · Use the marketplace selector before you draw a conclusion
On the merged view, Vinted sales and Vestiaire sales sit side by side and the two markets do not behave alike — one is measured in seconds, the other in weeks.The move: split by marketplace before reading a median, a rhythm, or a brand ranking. The chip on each card — it carries the name, “Vinted” or “Vestiaire” — is the check that costs nothing.
7 · Judge a Vestiaire filter on a week, not on an evening
7 · Judge a Vestiaire filter on a week, not on an evening
Seven days is how long we keep reading a Vestiaire item, and it was chosen because 7.5 % of tracked items were still undecided after twenty-four hours. There is nothing for you to set here: the window is ours, and it is already the longest one tracking has.The move: read a filter’s numbers after a full week under tracking, not after an evening. And keep the tail in mind — an item still on sale after seven days leaves your tracking without a verdict, and we have measured sales that took forty-five days.
What surprises people
An item can sell in six minutes, and another can take forty-five days
An item can sell in six minutes, and another can take forty-five days
Both are measured, on the same marketplace, in the same week: 398 seconds for a coat, 3,886,847 seconds for a dress. There is no typical item here, which is precisely why we refuse to print a typical figure.
We can be seven hours late and still miss nothing
We can be seven hours late and still miss nothing
Because the marketplace holds the clock. On the first thirteen sales recorded, our observation trailed the sale by up to 26,880 seconds — and across 70 items re-checked directly at the marketplace, our verdicts and its answers disagreed zero times.
A single reading is enough to conclude, and it is stricter, not looser
A single reading is enough to conclude, and it is stricter, not looser
On Vinted we need two absences because an absence is ambiguous. Here the marketplace answers in words. Waiting for a second identical sentence would add a delay and no certainty at all.
A sale notification does not open the item
A sale notification does not open the item
It has no item link, because the number it would use belongs to two marketplaces at once. It carries the card instead — title, brand, price, photo — and lands you on the Sales screen.
The sales check never touches your Vestiaire accounts
The sales check never touches your Vestiaire accounts
Every reading is anonymous: 7 KB, 0.18 s, no session. Your connected accounts are spent on offers and purchases, never on watching.
Two prices on one card, and the smaller one is not a promotion
Two prices on one card, and the smaller one is not a promotion
Measured: 4,747.11 € paid, 4,380.00 € for the seller. The second figure is the price before the marketplace’s buyer fee, and reading it as a former price inverts the whole calculation.
Putting a filter under tracking costs no request at all
Putting a filter under tracking costs no request at all
The radar sweeps once for every client at the same time, and files what it finds. Bringing those detections into your tracking re-uses that work: it queries nothing, and it slows nothing down.
What this does not do yet
We would rather write it here than let you find out halfway through.No going back before the day you asked
Tracking reaches as deep as the detections already made — 10,000 at most, and they are wiped after 48 hours. A filter’s past on the marketplace is not recoverable, because no page of Vestiaire would give it back.
No published time to sale
We hold two medians, they disagree, and the better documented one declares itself censored. Until the distribution is rebuilt on a proper window, this guide prints individual measured durations and nothing else.
A sale alert has no item link
Deliberate: the identifier would open another item on the other marketplace. The card and the Sales screen are what you get.
Watching does not favourite
On Vestiaire the favourite stays a separate, manual gesture — and it is removed on Vestiaire, never from here.
No Vestiaire purchase history
The Orders screen knows nothing of this marketplace. What you bought here is read on Vestiaire; REGA follows what is on sale, not what you have ordered.
No withdrawal rate written out
The counts are there — a
{n} withdrawn by the seller tile, a “Withdrawn” column in the brand table, and a share of the departures bar. What is missing is the rate, spelled out as a percentage: of the figures on that dashboard, only the indecision rate gets that treatment.Where to go next
The Sales screen
The screen itself: the “Tracked filters” drawer, the two views, and the gestures that act on one filter only.
The watchlist
Setting an item aside, and what REGA allows itself to say about it — on both marketplaces.
The marketplace
Why there is no birth to catch here, and what a single shared sweep means for you.
Buying on Vestiaire
What an item really costs once delivery and duties are on it — the 34 € that became 102.12 €.
Writing a Vestiaire filter
Every criterion, what it costs, and what happens when two of them contradict each other.
The Vestiaire screen
The radar, the detections, and the panel where an offer or a purchase starts.