Sell on Bidzzy — The Complete Seller Guide for 2026

What Is Bidzzy?

Bidzzy is a UK-only consumer resale marketplace for pre-loved fashion, kids’ items, small homeware, books, collectibles and tech accessories. Sellers pay nothing at all — no listing fee, no subscription, no commission — and the platform is funded by a Buyer Protection fee charged to the buyer at checkout. It is app-first, with iOS and Android apps and a full web experience.

It is also new. BIDZZY LTD was incorporated in England and Wales in June 2026, and the iOS app launched on 24 June 2026, with Android following.

What it does have is a working, fully-featured marketplace: Stripe-backed payments and identity checks, prepaid postage labels brokered through Sendcloud across three carriers, a wallet, an offers system, a dispute process reviewed by humans, and separate rulebooks for private and business sellers. It launched as a complete marketplace rather than a beta.

One thing to know up front: despite the name, Bidzzy does not run auctions. Every listing carries a fixed price in pounds, and buyers negotiate through offers, which cannot go below 50% of your asking price. If you sell on Vinted or Depop, the format will feel familiar.

Why Sell on Bidzzy?

Bidzzy is not yet the size of the established UK resale apps — Vinted Group reported GMV of €10.8 billion for 2025 — so think of it as an additional channel with three clear advantages rather than a replacement for one.

The first is competition density. On a marketplace with around 190,000 items, your item is not competing against a million near-identical ones. Bidzzy’s default browse sort is newest-first, its search matches on title, brand and category, and its recommendation feed deliberately reserves a fifth of its slots for low-view items that have not been seen yet. A listing that would sink without trace on a large platform in four minutes can sit in front of buyers for days here.

The second is the fee structure, which is the most seller-friendly in the UK resale market.

Two things stand out. Bidzzy is the only one of the three that absorbs payment processing rather than passing it to either side — on a £40 sale that is £1.16 more in your pocket than Depop. And Bidzzy’s buyer fee is the only one with a published cap: £16.99, whatever the item costs, with a lower percentage on higher-value items. On a £400 designer coat, a buyer pays no more than £16.99 in protection on Bidzzy. If you sell higher-value items, that cap is a real conversion advantage for your buyers, and worth mentioning in your listings.

The third is that Bidzzy takes categories the fashion apps do not. Handmade and crafts, craft supplies (fabric, yarn, sewing patterns, haberdashery, beads), stationery, pet items, equestrian and books all have proper homes here. If your stock is a mixed loft-clearance rather than a wardrobe, that matters.

Because Bidzzy is new, buyer numbers are still growing and there is little published seller data yet. The low-effort way to test it is to add it alongside the channels that already sell for you, rather than moving stock across.

Bidzzy Fees Explained

This is the shortest fee section on this site, because there is almost nothing to charge you for.

What sellers pay

Nothing. Bidzzy’s terms state it plainly: “Bidzzy is free to use for sellers. We do not charge listing fees, monthly fees, or commission on the sale price. All fees are added on top of the item price at checkout and paid by the buyer.” Payment processing is explicitly absorbed: “Standard payment-processing fees are absorbed by Bidzzy and are not deducted from the seller.” Business sellers pay the same as private sellers — which is to say, nothing.

There is also no minimum withdrawal amount and no withdrawal fee documented anywhere in Bidzzy’s terms or help pages.

What buyers pay

The Buyer Protection fee is what funds the platform, and it buys the buyer real cover: an item that never arrives, arrives significantly not as described, arrives damaged or faulty, or turns out to be counterfeit. Buyers have 72 hours from delivery to open a dispute (or until they accept the order early), and Bidzzy states that every dispute is reviewed by a person rather than automatically.

One thing that is not covered, and that you carry: breakage caused by inadequate packaging is the seller’s responsibility. If a mug arrives in three pieces because it travelled in a poly mailer, that is on you.

Buyer reward-point discounts are funded by Bidzzy, not deducted from you — the platform is explicit that “sellers are always paid in full for their items.”

Worked example

You list a coat at £45. The buyer pays £45.00 plus the Buyer Protection fee (shown to them before they pay) plus postage. You receive £45.00. On Depop the same sale would net you £43.40 after processing; on Vinted you would also net £45.00, but your buyer’s fee has no published cap.

How to Set Up Your Bidzzy Account

Registration is ordinary, but two gates trip people up.

1. Create an account in the app or on the web with an email address and password.
2. Complete the Stripe identity check. Bidzzy uses Stripe for payments and know-your-customer verification. You will need identity documents.
3. Add a UK mainland bank account — sort code and account number. This is not optional and it is the reason the marketplace cannot serve Northern Ireland or the Crown Dependencies.
4. Finish Stripe Connect onboarding before you list. This is the gate that catches people. Until your Stripe account is fully onboarded, listings can be created but cannot be published — they sit as drafts that can never go live. If you crosslist in bulk before finishing onboarding, you will mint a pile of dead drafts.
5. Declare business status if it applies. Business sellers must supply their legal or registered name, a geographic business contact address and a contact email before they can list at all. Listings are blocked until that is complete, and business status cannot be reversed by the seller once set.

Private seller or business seller?

The payout difference is the practical one. A business seller waits out a 14-day cancellation window on every order before the money is even eligible for release; a private seller waits 72 hours from delivery. If your cash cycle is tight, that gap matters more than any fee.

How to Create Listings That Sell

Bidzzy’s listing form is conventional, but several of its constraints are unusually strict and a few will reject your listing outright.

The category tree is the part worth spending time on. Bidzzy groups its roughly 341 categories into seven families — Women’s Fashion (85 categories), Kids (69), Men’s Fashion (63), Entertainment & More (52), Home (48), Health & Beauty (16) and Tech Accessories (8). Because search matches category and subcategory but never the description, the difference between “Women’s Clothing” and “Midi dresses” is the difference between being found and not.

How offers work

Buyers cannot offer below 50% of your asking price, which spares you the worst of lowball culture. When you accept an offer, the buyer can pay at the agreed price whenever they are ready, and the item stays on sale to everyone else until someone pays. You can accept more than one offer, and the first completed payment wins.

That cuts both ways. It means an accepted offer is not a committed sale, so do not mark the item as gone elsewhere the moment you tap accept. It also means a full-price buyer can still buy in the meantime, which is in your favour.

Photography Rules

Bidzzy takes photo authenticity more seriously than most UK marketplaces, which protects buyers and keeps the feed trustworthy. The rules are simple to follow once you know them.

Only original photographs of the actual item, taken by you, are permitted. Explicitly banned: AI-generated images, manufacturer or retailer stock photos, images copied from websites, search engines, social media, catalogues or other sellers, screenshots, and photos of a different item even where it is the same brand, model and colour. Also banned: AI editing of any kind (including an AI background around a real photo), background removal or replacement, and filters or retouching.

Permitted edits are limited to cropping, rotating, brightness correction and blurring personal information.

This applies identically to business sellers. Stock photography is not allowed even for brand-new sealed stock, so if you usually list new goods from supplier imagery, plan to photograph them yourself.

Sellers tick an explicit attestation at publish time confirming the photos are original and unmanipulated. Flagged photos go to human review, with outcomes ranging from the listing being moved back to drafts through to account suspension, and one free appeal within 30 days.

Shipping and Returns

Postage is prepaid and automatic. When a buyer purchases, Bidzzy generates a prepaid label with your chosen carrier, brokered through Sendcloud. The buyer pays for postage at checkout — nothing is deducted from your earnings.

Three carriers are available — Evri, Royal Mail Tracked 48 and InPost lockers — and you choose which to offer in your shipping settings. Royal Mail Tracked 48 and InPost support printer-free QR drop-off; Evri’s Postable service needs a printed label, though Evri print-in-store options exist. Evri and Royal Mail Tracked 48 typically deliver in two to four working days; InPost locker-to-locker is usually next working day.

You must dispatch within 5 calendar days of payment, and you must use the label Bidzzy generated. Using a different carrier or service voids tracking, insurance and Buyer Protection cover for that order — which means a lost parcel becomes your loss rather than the platform’s problem.

Anything bigger than 60 × 38 × 38 cm or heavier than 15 kg packed cannot currently be sent through Bidzzy. One more rule to know: if a parcel is not collected and comes back to you, the buyer is refunded the item price and you receive no payout.

Where Bidzzy delivers

Buyers can be anywhere in the UK: Bidzzy delivers to Northern Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, with a small remote-area surcharge on some postcodes (InPost lockers are not available in Northern Ireland). Sellers need to be on the UK mainland, because Stripe payouts require a UK mainland bank account; Bidzzy says it hopes to open selling to the Crown Dependencies later. There is no international delivery.

How to Price on Bidzzy

Pricing here works differently from every other UK resale app, for three specific reasons.

Price does not affect ranking (unless a buyer sorts by price). Bidzzy says so directly. On Vinted or Depop, nudging a price down is a well-worn way to re-surface a listing. Here it does nothing — the levers are freshness, auto-renew, views and saves. So price for margin, not for visibility.

The 50% offer floor is a real anchor. Because no buyer can offer below half your asking price, your list price sets a hard floor on negotiation. List a jacket at £60 and the worst offer you can receive is £30. That makes deliberate over-listing a viable strategy in a way it is not on platforms where anyone can offer a fiver — though over-list too far and you simply get no offers at all.

The buyer fee favours higher-value items. The Buyer Protection percentage falls as the item price rises, and the fee is capped at £16.99 per order. On a £600 item a buyer pays no more than £16.99 in protection on Bidzzy, where an uncapped percentage would cost them substantially more. If you sell higher-value pieces, that is a genuine competitive argument to make in your listing copy.

Remember you keep 100% of whatever price you set. There is no commission to price around and no processing fee to absorb. Whatever number you write down is the number that reaches your wallet.

Disputes and Buyer Protection

Buyers have 72 hours from delivery to open a dispute — or from the expected delivery date, if a parcel never turns up — and the window closes early if the buyer accepts the order, which also releases your money straight away. That is a short window compared with most marketplaces, and it works in a seller’s favour: after three days the transaction is effectively settled.

The grounds are the usual four: the item did not arrive, it is significantly not as described, it arrived damaged or faulty, or it is counterfeit. Bidzzy states that every dispute is reviewed by a real person rather than an automated system, with both sides submitting evidence.

If a dispute is upheld against you, the buyer may be refunded and you may receive no payout for that order at all. There is no partial-refund middle ground documented. That makes accurate condition description the single highest-value thing you can do on this platform — more valuable than photography, which does not affect ranking, and more valuable than pricing, which does not either.

Two failure modes sit outside Buyer Protection and land squarely on you. Breakage caused by inadequate packaging is explicitly not covered. And shipping outside the label Bidzzy generated voids tracking, insurance and Buyer Protection for that order — so a parcel you posted yourself because it was cheaper becomes entirely your risk if it goes missing.

Private sellers do not have to accept change-of-mind returns; sales are final for fit, colour or preference. Business sellers do, under the statutory 14-day right to cancel, with the buyer paying return postage unless the item was faulty, wrong, counterfeit or materially not as described.

How the Bidzzy Algorithm Works

Bidzzy publishes its ranking logic, which is unusual and very useful. Most marketplaces leave sellers to guess.

• Browse defaults to newest first. Freshness is the dominant signal in the default view; a new listing goes straight to the top.
• Paid bumps place a listing in a small number of labelled Featured slots on Browse, the home page and search for the length of the bump. They never change whether an item matches a search or filter.
• Auto-renew resets the listing date every 30, 60 or 90 days, putting an old listing back at the top of browse. This is the single most useful lever on the platform.
• Search matches title, brand, category and subcategory — in that priority order. Descriptions are not searched at all.
• The “Recommended For You” feed is 40% saved categories and brands, 25% newest listings with a 14-day decay, 20% deliberately underexposed low-view items, and 15% random discovery. No seller appears more than twice in one feed.
• “Trending” is ranked purely by view count.

What helps: fresh listings, auto-renew, views and saves, correct category and brand, a keyword-rich title, and completing every filter field the category offers.

What does not affect ranking, according to Bidzzy itself: the number of photos, the length of the description, your seller rating, small edits, and price (unless the buyer sorts by price). That last group is worth reading twice, because it inverts habits learned on other platforms — endlessly nudging the price down by 50p to trigger a bump does nothing here, and neither does padding the description with keywords.

The 20% underexposed-items slice is the most seller-friendly design decision on the platform. It means a listing nobody has viewed gets deliberately promoted rather than buried, which is the opposite of how most large marketplaces behave.

Getting Paid, and Your Tax Obligations

Money lands in a Bidzzy Wallet and stays there until you move it. Payouts are never automatic. You have to tap withdraw, there is no minimum amount, and transfers typically take one to three business days to reach your bank.

The wait before funds reach the wallet differs by seller type: 72 hours after the buyer receives the item for private sellers, and after the 14-day cancellation window for business sellers, in both cases provided there is no open cancellation, return, dispute, delivery investigation or moderation hold.

In practice a private seller is roughly four to six days from delivery to cash. A business seller is closer to three weeks.

HMRC reporting

Bidzzy reports seller data to HMRC where a seller makes 30 or more sales or around £1,700 in a calendar year — the standard digital platform reporting thresholds that have applied since 1 January 2024. This is a reporting obligation on the platform, not automatically a tax bill for you: selling your own used possessions for less than you paid is not trading income. But if you are buying to resell, that is trading, and the £1,000 trading allowance is the number to know.

Crossing the reporting threshold on Bidzzy does not depend on what you do elsewhere — each platform reports separately, which means a seller spread across several apps can be reported by all of them.

What Sells Best on Bidzzy

In a snapshot of live listings we took on 15 August 2026 (Bidzzy publishes no category breakdown), the platform was about three-quarters fashion but genuinely multi-category underneath that.

The remainder spreads across women’s accessories, shoes and bags, kids’ clothing and shoes, home textiles, DIY and garden, music and video, pet care, stationery, equestrian and craft supplies. Since that snapshot Bidzzy has added a Sports & Outdoors category and opened up small portable electronics, so expect the mix to broaden.

The interesting read here is inverse. Women’s clothing at 41% is crowded; books at 1.5% and tech accessories at 0.7% are close to empty. On a marketplace whose recommendation feed actively promotes underexposed items, being one of 499 listings rather than one of 29,112 is a structural advantage. If you have stock in a thin category, this is where to test it.

What you cannot sell

Electricals are restricted. Bidzzy’s terms (version 8.7, in force from 21 October 2026) allow tech accessories only: phone cases, headphones, smartwatch straps, cables, chargers, screen protectors, and camera and gaming accessories. Phones, laptops, tablets and consoles cannot be listed. Other exclusions:

• Large, plumbed or hard-wired appliances — fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, cookers, boilers — and unsafe electricals such as damaged cables, swollen or loose lithium batteries.
• Large furniture and large furnishings — anything that will not fit the 60 × 38 × 38 cm Large band.
• Heavy equipment; food, drink and perishables; live animals and animal parts.
• Opened, used, swatched or expired cosmetics. Beauty must be unused, unopened and factory-sealed. Handmade soap and homemade cosmetics are not permitted, though handmade candles and wax melts are fine under Handmade & Crafts.
• Weapons, blades and imitation weapons; prescription medication and regulated medical devices; alcohol, tobacco, vaping and nicotine; adult content; hazardous or flammable materials including bleach, acids and petrol; counterfeits and replicas; anything prohibited by UK law.

Sports gear has a Sports & Outdoors category, though golf clubs, trolleys and golf bags cannot be posted and there is no fishing category yet.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Listing before Stripe onboarding is finished. You will create drafts that can never publish. Complete onboarding first, then list.
• Treating an accepted offer as a sale. The item stays on sale until someone pays, so do not take it down elsewhere when you accept.
• Padding the description with keywords. Descriptions are not searched. Put the keywords in the title, where they are.
• Using supplier or stock photography. The photo rule applies to business sellers selling sealed new stock exactly as it applies to everyone else.
• Shipping with your own carrier because it is cheaper. It voids tracking, insurance and Buyer Protection for that order.
• Selling from outside the mainland. Sellers need a UK mainland bank account, even though buyers can be anywhere in the UK.
• Expecting an auction. There isn’t one. Price the item as a fixed price you would be happy with, and let the 50%-floor offer system handle the rest.
• Forgetting to withdraw. Payouts never happen automatically. Money sits in the wallet indefinitely.

Crosslist to Bidzzy with FLUF Connect

Connect Bidzzy in FLUF Connect with the Sign in with Bidzzy button. No browser extension is required, and you do not need to leave a browser tab open.

Select your products, review their details and crosslist.

What FLUF Connect does and does not do on Bidzzy

Sales sync in both directions. If a coat sells on Vinted, FLUF takes it off Bidzzy; if it sells on Bidzzy first, FLUF takes it off your other channels. Bidzzy needs at least three photos per listing, so check each item has three before you crosslist.

Review your listings

Before publishing, review the title, description, photos, category, condition, size and postage. Complete the fields required for your item and describe any wear accurately.

Check the parcel size and postage options before publishing. Weigh and measure the packed item to choose a suitable service.

What it costs

FLUF Connect starts with 7 days for £1, then from £9/month. There is no free plan. Crosslisting and mark-as-sold are included on every plan rather than sold as add-ons, and every plan covers all supported channels — so adding Bidzzy alongside Vinted, Depop, eBay, Etsy and the rest costs nothing extra.

See full pricing details →

Related Guides

• Crosslist from Bidzzy to Depop — Automatically
• Crosslist from Bidzzy to eBay — Same Fee Model, Very Different Reach
• Bidzzy vs Vinted: Which Should UK Resellers Choose in 2026?
• Bidzzy vs eBay — Fees, Buyers and Which Suits Your Stock
• Inventory Sync Across Depop, eBay, Vinted, Shopify, and Etsy

Sources & Verification

Fees, postage bands, policies and rules below come from Bidzzy’s own terms and help pages, re-checked on 28 October 2026. Item and member counts are from Bidzzy’s homepage on 28 October 2026; the category breakdown is our 15 August 2026 snapshot.

• Bidzzy Terms of Service — seller fee position, Buyer Protection fee (typically 3%–7.5% + £0.25–£0.70, £16.99 cap), withdrawal terms, carrier requirements, one-account rule. Version 8.7, effective 21 October 2026.
• Bidzzy FAQ — shipping, carriers, parcel bands, printer-free drop-off, buyer protection cover and dispute window, what you can sell, offers, paid bumps, the published ranking algorithm, delivery coverage.
• Bidzzy private seller guide — 72-hour payout hold, 5-day dispatch window, minimum three photos, photo authenticity rules, HMRC reporting thresholds, no change-of-mind returns.
• Bidzzy business seller guide — 14-day payout hold, trader identity disclosure, statutory cancellation and rejection rights.
• Companies House, BIDZZY LTD (17259377) — incorporation date.
• Bidzzy on the App Store and on Google Play — app release dates.
• Vinted UK Buyer Protection fee and Depop seller fees and charges — the comparison figures in the fee table.
• Vinted Group newsroom — 2025 GMV and revenue, used for the scale comparison.
• GOV.UK: selling goods or services on a digital platform — the HMRC reporting thresholds.

FLUF data This week on Bidzzy via FLUF: 35k active listings (+16%).