Vinted and Depop in Egypt, and what to use instead

People in Egypt search for Vinted and Depop constantly, and both stop short of working here. Knowing that early saves a lot of effort.

Neither operates in Egypt

Vinted is a European marketplace and its shipping runs on European carriers and pickup points. Depop is strongest in the UK and the US. Neither supports Egyptian addresses for delivery or Egyptian bank details for payouts.

You can browse both for inspiration, but buying is where it stops.

Why forwarding usually is not worth it

The common suggestion is a forwarding address abroad. For a single secondhand garment the arithmetic rarely works once you add international shipping, the forwarder's fee and customs on the declared value. On a typical piece those costs comfortably exceed what it is worth.

Selling that way is harder still, since you would be shipping abroad on every sale and being paid into an account you probably do not have.

What works here

For buying and selling preloved in Egypt the practical options are Facebook resale groups, Instagram sellers, local vintage and consignment shops, and marketplaces built for this country, where delivery and payment work without leaving Egypt.

Libsy is the last of those. It covers every governorate, takes cash on delivery or card, arranges delivery for you, and carries more than fifty thousand listings.

What each is best at

Vinted and Depop have larger catalogues, having run for longer in much bigger markets. If you are hunting one specific rare piece, that scale genuinely helps.

A local marketplace handles the part around the sale instead: delivery that arrives, payment in your own currency, and a seller in the same country you can message directly. That is usually what decides whether a browse turns into a purchase.

On Libsy that means you can buy second hand clothes in Egypt or sell used clothes online in Egypt, with the delivery and the payment handled here.

All figures come from Libsy's own listing data as of August 2026. Sell-through is measured only on listings at least 90 days old, so a piece posted last week is not counted as unsold. Prices are what the seller sets, before the buyer-side fee.