u/Aggravating_Walrus69

For those of you flipping clothing (not electronics) across Vinted, Depop, eBay, Mercari — how are you actually watching multiple platforms at once for specific brands/items?

Everything I can find is either electronics-focused (saw someone mention FBM Sniper, which looks great but it's iPhones/consoles), single-platform Vinted bots, or built for the listing side rather than sourcing (Vendoo etc). For apparel specifically — where you're hunting a brand/size and the sold comps are messier than electronics — is there anything that watches across platforms and pings you, or is it still a manual grind across tabs?

Trying to work out if fashion sourcing is just inherently more manual, or if there's a tool the clothing flippers actually use that I haven't found.

I’ve been after a navy Better Sweater vest in medium for about three weeks now — secondhand, not paying full retail — and I’ve somehow ended up checking Vinted, eBay, Depop and Grailed every single morning, because the good ones go within hours and it could surface on any of them.

Half the time I’ll find one on Depop and then wonder if there was a cheaper one sitting on Vinted I didn’t get to. There’s no single place that just watches everywhere for “this exact thing in my size under £X” and pings me the moment it lists.

Is this just the cost of hunting secondhand Patagonia and everyone here does the same daily ritual? Or have the people who actually score the rare colourways got a smarter system I’m missing?

Genuinely curious how people shop secondhand for specific stuff. When I want a particular thing — a certain jacket, a brand, a size — I never know whether to just search Vinted and accept I’m missing stuff, or grind through Depop and eBay too in case it’s cheaper there.

Feels like I either pick one app and miss bargains, or check everything and lose an hour… or 4! Is there an in-between I’m not seeing? What’s your actual routine?