For the past month I've been running an hourly scrape of Vinted — the EU secondhand fashion + tech marketplace — across all 26 countries where it operates. Same items, same brand, same condition class, normalized for currency. This article is the data — what the arbitrage gaps look like, why they persist, and how I'd think about sourcing if I were trading the flow.
The headline finding: the average cross-country price gap on the top 1000 most-listed items is €18.40. On sneakers it's €27. On gaming consoles it's €43. On designer bags it's €112.
If you flip on Vinted at all — or even just buy on Vinted and don't want to overpay — these gaps are money on the floor.
The 26 Vinted markets I track
| # | Country | TLD | Avg listing volume (per 24h sample) | Cheap-side indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | vinted.fr | 247K | mid |
| 2 | Germany | vinted.de | 199K | cheap on Nike/Adidas |
| 3 | UK | vinted.co.uk | 168K | expensive on designer |
| 4 | Italy | vinted.it | 142K | cheap on Gucci/Prada |
| 5 | Spain | vinted.es | 119K | cheap on tech/gaming |
| 6 | Netherlands | vinted.nl | 87K | expensive on Nike/Adidas |
| 7 | Belgium | vinted.be | 64K | mid |
| 8 | Poland | vinted.pl | 89K | cheap most categories |
| 9 | Portugal | vinted.pt | 41K | mid |
| 10 | Austria | vinted.at | 38K | expensive on luxury |
| 11 | Czech Rep. | vinted.cz | 35K | cheap most categories |
| 12 | Sweden | vinted.se | 28K | mid |
| 13 | Denmark | vinted.dk | 22K | mid |
| 14 | Finland | vinted.fi | 19K | mid |
| 15 | Luxembourg | vinted.lu | 6K | expensive |
| 16 | Slovakia | vinted.sk | 14K | cheap |
| 17 | Lithuania | vinted.lt | 31K | cheap (HQ effect) |
| 18 | Romania | vinted.ro | 28K | cheap most categories |
| 19 | Hungary | vinted.hu | 22K | cheap |
| 20 | USA | vinted.us | 11K | beta, low volume |
| 21 | Canada | vinted.ca | 5K | beta |
| 22 | Croatia | vinted.com.hr | 17K | cheap |
| 23 | Slovenia | vinted.si | 12K | cheap |
| 24 | Estonia | vinted.ee | 8K | cheap |
| 25 | Latvia | vinted.lv | 9K | cheap |
| 26 | Greece | vinted.gr | 18K | cheap |
Total daily new listings observed: ~1.5M items / day across all markets combined.
Concrete arbitrage examples (verified May 2026)
Nike Air Force 1 '07 White (size 42)
| Market | Median asking | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 France | €35 | 247 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | €42 | 199 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | €48 | 142 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | €51 | 119 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | €58 | 87 |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | €55 | 64 |
FR → NL gap = €23 = 66% spread. Buy in France, ship €5 via Mondial Relay, sell in Netherlands for €23 net per pair.
PlayStation 5 Slim Disc (used, in box)
| Market | Median asking |
|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Germany | €167 |
| 🇫🇷 France | €175 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | €189 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | €212 |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | €228 |
DE → ES gap = €45. PS5 supply higher in Germany, demand higher in Spain. Stable spread for 4 weeks of measurement.
Gucci Marmont mini bag (camera bag style)
| Market | Median asking |
|---|---|
| 🇮🇹 Italy | €640 |
| 🇫🇷 France | €690 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | €720 |
| 🇬🇧 UK | €752 |
IT → UK gap = €112. Italian sellers consistently price 15-20% under UK. Gucci, Prada, Bottega Veneta all show similar patterns.
iPhone 13 (128GB, very good condition)
| Market | Median asking |
|---|---|
| 🇪🇸 Spain | €310 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | €325 |
| 🇫🇷 France | €340 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | €355 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | €378 |
ES → NL gap = €68 = 22% spread.
Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon (75257)
| Market | Median asking |
|---|---|
| 🇵🇱 Poland | €82 |
| 🇫🇷 France | €98 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | €115 |
| 🇬🇧 UK | €138 |
PL → UK gap = €56. Polish sellers liquidate Lego sets aggressively. UK Lego market is undersupplied.
Why the gaps persist
I've tracked this for 4 weeks and the gaps barely move week-over-week. Three reasons :
1. Vinted has no cross-country price normalization. Each country's marketplace operates independently. The Vinted app shows you only your-country listings unless you change region. Most buyers never compare across borders.
2. Shipping friction (real but lower than you'd think). Mondial Relay, GLS, DHL all ship cross-border on Vinted for €4-€7 within ~5 days. The European Union single market means no customs friction. The only friction is checkout language UI — Vinted's checkout autoswitches based on your IP.
3. Currency arbitrage when it's not Euro. PL (zloty), CZ (koruna), DK (krone), SE (krona) markets have minor FX advantages too — Vinted converts at mid-market rate but most sellers don't update prices when their currency strengthens.
The structural opportunity
For a small flipper (2-10 items/week), this is €100-300/week in arbitrage if you stay on top of the data. For a serious reseller running 50-200 items/week, this is a real business.
The catch: you can't manually search 26 markets every day. That's why I built Vinted Smart Scraper as an Apify Actor. It's the #1 Vinted scraper on Apify Store by user traffic (374 total users, 37 weekly, 105K+ runs since February).
The actor
Vinted Smart Scraper on Apify Store — managed Vinted API wrapper across 26 countries.
It does :
- Catalog search in any country with full filters
- Item detail extraction (price, brand, size, condition, seller, photos, favourites)
- Cross-country price comparison — give it a product, get prices from every market
- Seller profile scraping — track competitors, see their inventory + sell-through
- Pay-per-result pricing — pay only for what you get, no subscription
Compared to V-Tools (€80/month with weekend delays) it's cheaper per result and works across all 26 markets vs V-Tools' French-only focus.
Try it
The actor has a free tier on Apify ($5/month platform credit). Run it on 100 items in your favourite category to see if the arbitrage gaps work for your products :
# via Apify CLI
apify call kazkn/vinted-smart-scraper --input '{
"searchUrls": ["https://www.vinted.fr/catalog?search_text=nike+air+force+1"],
"maxItems": 100,
"country": "fr"
}'
Or run it through the Apify Console with point-and-click.
What I'd build next
If anyone wants to extend this for their niche, the actor source supports custom queries — submit an issue on the Apify actor page. Future v2 features I'm planning :
- Cross-country alert mode (Telegram ping when a gap > X% appears)
- Sold-listings tracker (Vinted hides sold prices — we infer from disappearance)
- Brand-specific seasonal analysis (when do French resellers liquidate winter Nike?)
Comments welcome — particularly from anyone with concrete cross-country flow numbers from the past 12 months.
Disclosure: I built and maintain Vinted Smart Scraper. It's the #1 Vinted scraper on Apify Store by traffic. Source: github.com/DataKazKN/vinted-smart-scraper (link in actor README).
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