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Flyp and Sella are two popular services that help you sell your stuff. However, the two services have some important differences. In this article, we’ll compare the features, costs, items you can sell, and other essential info to help you choose the best reselling service for your needs.
Flyp is a service designed to help people sell their clothing on consignment through online marketplaces. The company specializes in designer and name-brand clothing, shoes, and handbags; Flyp does not accept bargain brands or non-branded items.
To use Flyp, you first take photos of the items you’re selling and upload them as a ‘lot’ to the Flyp app, which connects you to a network of independent Pro Sellers. Flyp matches you to a Pro Seller, who then provides an estimated value for your lot (the high/low of what they think your lot will sell for overall). Next, you’ll review their price estimates and proposed commission, and if you decide to work with them, you’ll mail in your items using a shipping label that Flyp provides.
The Pro Seller handles pricing your items, listing them on various marketplaces, negotiating with buyers, and packing and shipping your items to the buyer when they sell. While you share your items as a single lot with your Pro Seller, they may choose to sell them as individual items and then release proceeds from each sale as items sell.
Sella is a reselling service with expert resellers who help you sell a variety of used items across multiple marketplaces. You can sell just about any item on Sella, including used designer clothing and designer handbags, with the exception of things like firearms, perishable and edible goods, oversized items such as furniture, alcohol and tobacco products, adult or explicit items, and unauthenticated designer items.
Working with Sella to sell your used items is simple. First, decide what you want to sell and click “Get Started” to submit your items. Then, you can choose how you want to get the items to Sella:
Sella’s resale experts take care of all the time-consuming tasks involved in reselling, like taking high-quality photos, conducting market research, and writing listings that are designed to help your items sell fast. Sella’s experts provide a customized selling plan, including pricing recommendations based on their experience and research — but you always have the ultimate say.
Once you’ve approved your selling plan, Sella’s experts list your items on multiple marketplaces (eBay, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, Mercari, Poshmark, and Craigslist), promote your listings, negotiate with buyers, and handle shipping or meetups. You can edit your listings — and your asking price — at any time during this process.
When your items sell, you can cash out your balance.. You’ll keep 90% of the profit from the sale of each item, which means you take home 90% of your items’ final selling price, minus marketplace fees and costs for item preparation, storage, and packaging and shipping.
Flyp specializes in designer and name-brand clothing, so its independent professional sellers also have experience reselling these types of items. Flyp charges a 5% service fee, and Flyp’s Pro Sellers set their own commissions. That means the fees you’ll pay can vary depending on the seller you’re matched with (and even from one lot to another with the same Pro Seller). In general, Flyp estimates that most customers make between 40% and 60% of the profit from their sales. The Pro Seller’s commission includes:
While you get to review and accept an estimated resale value price range provided by the Pro Seller, your Pro Seller determines pricing for the individual items in your lot.
Like Flyp, Sella also works with professional resale experts who handle the selling process and provide recommendations based on their experience and research. But with Sella, you’ll always keep 90% of the profit, and Sella’s fee is 10%. The profit is the selling price minus costs such as marketplace listing fees, shipping, and item preparation. Sella charges a nonrefundable $5 deposit for each item you send to cover initial costs.
With Sella, you have complete control over your asking price and can update your listings at any time. Sella’s pricing is completely transparent, and you’ll be provided with a full estimated cost breakdown before your items are listed for sale. Sella’s pricing is also more consistent: the profit split is always the same, although costs for storage, shipping, and packaging may vary depending on the item’s size, weight, etc.
Flyp’s unsold items policy requires Pro Sellers to give you four options if your item is unsold within 90 days of delivery. Per this policy, you can:
Flyp’s Pro Sellers are thoroughly vetted and they complete identity verification before they begin working with customers. The company’s protection policy assures customers that their team will help you “recuperate your estimated earnings based on the fair market value of your items and the commission structure you chose,” if your Pro Seller doesn’t comply with the unsold items policy.
Sella’s sales cycle is 60 days, and if your item is unsold after this time, you can cancel. If you elect to cancel, Sella processes your $5 initial deposit and any upfront costs (such as curbside pickup or mail-in shipping). Sella won’t charge you for any of the services or labor rendered during the selling process.
You have a few other options with Sella if your items don’t sell. You can opt for our Pay It Forward program, and Sella will donate your items to local organizations or community members in need, through free Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace listings.
You can also choose to have your unsold items returned to you. If you want your items returned, you can:
You can only sell designer or name-brand shoes, handbags, and clothing through Flyp. Boutique brands are prohibited, and there is also a list of specific name brands they can’t accept, including H&M, Banana Republic, Nine West, Jessica Simpson, and others.
Flyp explains that they exclude these brands due to low demand, low resale pricing, or over-saturation in the resale market. This means that if your lot includes a mix of designer brands and excluded brands, you’ll need to work with a different selling service to sell the shoes, handbags, and clothing items Flyp doesn’t accept.
With Sella, you can sell any item (within reason) that meets the following criteria:
There are some reasonable exceptions, including:
While both Flyp and Sella offer expert resale services and handle all the time-consuming tasks involved in reselling your stuff, there are a few important distinctions that separate these services.
If you’re selling your used designer handbag collection, name-brand clothing, or designer shoes, Flyp is a selling service to consider. It’s a good choice if you want to work with a resale professional who specializes in these types of items. If you aren’t looking for designer clothing expertise in particular, or if you have different brands or types of items to sell, Sella is the clear choice. With Sella, you can sell just about anything, aside from a few reasonable exceptions.
If you choose to sell with Flyp, you’ll receive a smaller portion of the profit (40% to 60%) and relinquish control over your items’ asking prices. With Sella, you keep 90% of the profit and maintain complete control over your items’ pricing and listings, making it an obvious choice for most people.
