Vinted Bump: what it costs and whether it works (2026)

A Vinted Bump is a paid boost that shows one listing higher in the newsfeed and in search for 3 or 7 days, or until it sells. There is no fixed price: Vinted works the fee out from the item’s price and the length you pick, and only shows it at checkout. It does work, in the sense that bumped items get seen more. Whether it pays depends on the item. On a piece with a decent margin that just needs eyes, it often does. On a cheap item, or one that people are already seeing and skipping, it rarely does.

What a Bump actually does

Vinted’s Bump help page, checked on 30 October 2026, describes it as “a paid feature you can add to any listing to increase your chance of selling the item”. Bumped items “appear higher in member newsfeeds and search results” in your registered country. The rules that matter:

• It lasts 3 or 7 consecutive days, or until the item sells. You pick the length when you buy.
• One Bump per item at a time. You can buy as many Bumps as you like across your wardrobe, but not stack two on one listing.
• It stays with the listing. A Bump cannot be moved to another item or another member.
• You can lower the price, not raise it. Lowering the price of a bumped item does not change the Bump fee, and you get no refund of the difference. Vinted’s price list also says it reserves the right to change the fee if the item’s price is changed after purchase.
• If the sale is cancelled before you post, you can re-upload the item and the Bump runs on until its original end date.
• No refund if the listing is removed for breaking the catalogue rules. Vinted’s how to buy a Bump page says this plainly, so check the listing is in the right category and has one item in it before you pay.

Vinted also shows you how many people viewed and interacted with your bumped items, on your profile, while the Bump runs. That number is the only way to judge whether a particular Bump did anything.

What a Bump costs

Vinted does not publish a price table. The price list, last updated 8 October 2026 and checked the same day as this guide, says the fee “will vary depending on the chosen duration and item price”, that it includes VAT, and that you see the exact amount at checkout. The pattern sellers see in practice follows from that: a 7-day Bump costs more than a 3-day one on the same item, and a £40 item costs more to bump than a £4 one.

So the only reliable way to know the price is to start the purchase. From Vinted’s how to buy a Bump page, it goes:

1. Open the Listings section of your profile.
2. Press Bump under the listing.
3. Choose 3 or 7 days. The fee for each is shown here.
4. Press Review order, add or pick a payment method, then Pay now.

You can press the plus symbol on the order screen to add more listings to the same order, each with its own fee. Nothing is charged until you press Pay now, so you can look at the price and back out.

When a Bump pays for itself

Treat a Bump as a bet. You pay a fixed fee to raise the chance the item sells this week. It pays off when the extra chance, multiplied by what you keep from the sale, is bigger than the fee.

Vinted charges sellers no selling fee, so what you keep is roughly the item price minus what the item cost you. Put the numbers in:

Example Bump maths at different item prices

Item price	Example Bump fee	Extra chance of a sale the Bump needs to add
£3	£0.75	25 percentage points
£12	£1.20	10 percentage points
£30	£2.00	7 percentage points
£80	£3.50	4 to 5 percentage points

Read the last column as the question to ask yourself. Bumping a £3 top makes sense only if you believe the Bump turns a one-in-four chance of selling this week into a one-in-two. That is a big claim for a boost that lasts a few days. Bumping an £80 coat only has to tip the odds a few points, which a week near the top of search can plausibly do.

Two things sharpen the sums:

• Use your margin, not the price. If you bought a £30 item for £15 to resell, the Bump has to add twice the extra chance in the table.
• A Bump ends when the item sells. On a 7-day Bump that sells on day 2 you paid for seven days and used two. That is fine, you got the sale, but it means the 3-day option is usually the better first try.

Bump, Showcase, price drop or offer

A Bump is one of four ways to move a listing that has stalled. The others are cheaper, and two are free.

Ways to get a stalled Vinted listing moving

	Cost	Who sees it	Best for
Bump	Fee set by item price and length, 3 or 7 days	Everyone browsing the feed and search	One good item that needs views
Showcase	Fee set by how many listings you have and their value, 7 days	Members Vinted thinks are likely to buy from you, up to 15 of your listings	A full wardrobe with at least 5 items
Price drop	The amount you drop	Everyone who already has it liked or saved, plus search	An item with likes but no sale
Offer to a liker	The discount you offer	That one member	An item with a few likes

The order to try them in is cost order. Start with the free moves:

1. Offer to likers. Anyone who liked the item has already told you they want it. An offer of 10% to 20% off reaches exactly those people and costs nothing unless it works. Vinted lets you send one from the listing.
2. Lower the price. A price drop notifies people who have liked the item and moves it in price-sorted search. If the item has had plenty of views, this usually beats a Bump, because the views were never the problem.
3. Bump. When the item has few views and few likes, and the photos and price are already right, a Bump is the tool that fixes exactly that.
4. Showcase. For sellers with a bigger wardrobe who want the whole shop seen rather than one item. Vinted’s Showcase page says it runs for 7 days, highlights up to 15 listings, needs at least 5 items listed, and is priced on how many listings you have and what they are worth.

When a Bump does not work

Vinted’s page on how it ranks and recommends items explains the limit. Promoted content, including paid promotions, is one important factor, but the filters a buyer applies come first, and then “item attractiveness” signals such as recency, interactions, price and condition. The same page says promoted items are shown under “rules that limit how often they appear to avoid overwhelming members”. So a Bump moves you up within the results a buyer is already looking at. It does not put a size 8 dress in front of someone filtering for size 14, and it does not override a price that looks wrong next to the items around it.

A Bump is usually wasted when:

• The item already has plenty of views. Fifty people saw it and none liked it. More people seeing it will not change the answer.
• The price is above what it sells for. Search for the same item and filter to sold. If yours is dearer, the Bump pays for people to notice that.
• The first photo is poor. The Bump buys a higher slot; the photo is what gets the tap.
• The item is out of season. Bumping a bikini in November reaches people who are not looking for one.
• It is cheap. Under about £5, the fee is a big slice of the sale and the maths above rarely works. Bundle cheap items instead.
• The listing might be removed. Vinted does not refund a Bump on a listing removed for breaking the catalogue rules.

Timing helps a little. If you buy a 3-day Bump on a Friday evening it runs through the weekend, when more people are browsing; our guide to the best time to post on Vinted covers what is known about that.

Does a Bump beat relisting?

They do different jobs. A Bump keeps the listing, its likes and its history, and pays for a short window near the top. Relisting deletes the listing and uploads it again as new, which costs nothing but loses the likes, and Vinted limits how often you can do it. For an item with likes, a Bump or an offer is the right tool. For an item nobody has touched in a month, see our guide to how to relist on Vinted before you decide.

Before you pay: a checklist

1. Send an offer to every liker. Free, and it reaches the warmest buyers first.
2. Check sold prices for the same item. If you are above them, drop the price instead.
3. Look at the views. Lots of views means the listing is found and the problem is further down.
4. Fix the first photo and the title. Brand, item, colour and size in the title. Whole item, good light, in the first photo.
5. Check the listing follows the catalogue rules. Right category, one item, nothing Vinted might remove. There is no refund if it goes.
6. Start with 3 days. If it sells, you saved the difference. If it does not, the 7-day version was unlikely to either.
7. Note the view count when the Bump starts, then compare it when it ends. Your profile shows the Bump stats; the before-and-after tells you whether to do it again.

How SaleLinx helps

SaleLinx is a Chrome extension for Depop, Vinted and eBay sellers. It cannot buy a Bump for you, and nothing can; Vinted sells them only through its own checkout. What it does is the free steps that come before one. The Dead Stock tab sorts your Depop and Vinted listings by age, views and likes, so you can see at a glance which items have likes but no sale, which have views but no likes, and which nobody is finding. The Auto-Offers tab sends a discounted offer to the people who liked a Vinted item, with a floor you set, and scheduled price drops lower a price in steps on Depop and Vinted, never below your floor. Vinted’s terms restrict external software tools, so keep Vinted activity to what a person would do by hand. From £7.99 a month, with a 14-day free trial.

Questions

How much does it cost to bump an item on Vinted?

Vinted does not publish a price list for Bumps. The fee depends on the item price and whether you choose 3 or 7 days, and includes VAT. You see it when you press Bump on a listing and choose a length, before anything is charged.

Does bumping on Vinted actually work?

It raises the listing in the newsfeed and search for the paid period, so it gets more views. Whether those views turn into a sale depends on the price, photos and condition, which the Bump does not change. It works best on items with a good margin that have simply not been seen.

Can I bump the same item twice?

Not at the same time. You can only have one Bump on an item, but once it ends you can buy another. Bumping the same item repeatedly is rarely good value; if two Bumps have not sold it, the listing itself needs changing.

Do I get a refund if the item sells on day one?

No. A Bump ends when the item sells, and there is no refund for the unused days. There is also no refund if you lower the price after bumping, or if Vinted removes the listing for breaking its catalogue rules. If a buyer cancels before you post, you can re-upload the item and the Bump carries on to its original end date.

Is Showcase better than a Bump?

Showcase promotes up to 15 of your listings for 7 days to members Vinted thinks are likely to buy from you, and needs at least 5 items listed. It suits a seller with a full wardrobe. A Bump is for one item. If you only have one strong piece, bump it; if you have a shop of similar items, Showcase spreads the cost across them.