{"id":391362,"date":"2026-04-10T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:17:09","slug":"is-vinted-really-the-villain-what-does-the-generosity-crisis-mean-for-charity-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391362\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Vinted really the villain: what does \u2018the generosity crisis\u2019 mean for charity shops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Does more people selling their clothes mean fewer donations to charity? It\u2019s complicated\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anne Crossan, regional retail manager for Society of St Vincent de Paul (left), with volunteer Anne McLarnon at SVP\u2019s Northern Ireland HQ on Belfast\u2019s Antrim Road\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/812c64de-874a-43d8-87e3-4ee7a3d5116f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Anne Crossan, regional retail manager for Society of St Vincent de Paul (left), with volunteer Anne McLarnon at SVP\u2019s Northern Ireland HQ on Belfast\u2019s Antrim Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As soon as Vinted launched in Ireland, a little over a year ago, Amanda Marques was keen to get signed up. Since then, she reckons she\u2019s made over \u20ac1,000 on the second-hand selling platform, most of which has been reinvested in buying more preloved pieces found scrolling on the app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI sold a Givenchy horn cap \u2013 never worn \u2013 for \u20ac50,\u201d she smiles, recalling some of her best sells online. \u201cIt felt good to pass it on to someone who\u2019ll actually enjoy it because clothes are meant to be loved, not left sitting in our closets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does more people selling their clothes mean fewer donations to charity? It\u2019s complicated Anne Crossan, regional retail manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,615,61,60,2443,6992],"class_list":{"0":"post-391362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}