Marks & Spencer Resale Launched on eBay
29 August 2025
As of August 26, 2025, Marks & Spencer has launched a second-hand shop on eBay, teaming up with Reskinned to give clothes “Another Life.” Shoppers send in old M&S items (free courier drop-off), Reskinned cleans and refurbishes what can be resold, and you get a £5 voucher off a £35 spend if at least one piece makes it online. Non-wearables are recycled, and 15% of profits go to OxfamHow the Model Works
- Donate: Fill a quick form on M&S’s site or scan in‑store QR code.
- Ship: Use free local courier to send in M&S items to Reskinned.
- Voucher: If at least one item is listed, you get £5 off £35 online, valid four weeks; up to six vouchers a year
- Resale or recycle: Reskinned cleans, repairs, resells wearable items on M&S’s eBay store; the rest is recycled or repurposed responsibly.
- Charity share: 15% of resale profits are donated to Oxfam
Why It Matters for M&S
- Strategy: This completes their full “wear, repair, recycle, resale” circle and shows they’re serious about Plan A sustainability.
- Benefits: Drives loyalty (vouchers = repeat spend), builds eco-cred, and taps into eBay’s huge resale audience.
- Partnerships: eBay provides reach; Reskinned handles the tricky cleaning, repairs, and recycling.
Is This Competing with Vinted?
Kind of, yes, and in a good way. Vinted and Depop dominate peer-to-peer resale, but M&S’s model is more brand-curated and circular: it’s not just selling the clothes in someone’s first-hand closets, it’s brand-sanctioned items, cleaned and refurbished, with pricing and profits partly going to charity:
- Vinted/Depop: Worn-by-you, sold by-you, full control, peer marketplace.
- M&S x eBay: Branded, quality-controlled, refurbished, profit-sharing with charity, helping durable garment re-commerce.
So while both serve second-hand demand, M&S’s service leans more towards regulated, sustainable resale with an eco and brand twist, rather than casual resale flipping.
Bigger Picture
- Fits the wider fashion trend, H&M, John Lewis, River Island and others are already running similar resale or repair schemes.
- Different to Vinted/Depop: instead of peer-to-peer flipping, this is brand-approved, quality-controlled resale, with charity built in.
M&S has taken a bold step, closing the loop on clothing, rewarding customers, and putting sustainability front and centre. The question now is whether other giants, like Amazon, will step up their green game to keep pace with the shift toward circular fashion.