Lily Blacker / 09 May 2025 / Categories: Opinions, Internet, Online Retail

Depop Listings How The Devil Do you Delete Them?

Using secondhand apps easy to post not so for deleting

I like reading Teen Vogue, I don’t fit their demographic anymore, a couple of years off thirty however the parent magazine feels a little more frumpy and matronly even with new (only 45) British Vogue editor Chioma Nandi at the helm.

I cut this article out in 2020. And a few months later I explored Depop as a way to clear my closet. It didn’t prove very successful. I set up the account listed a few things but it never got going and I didn’t sell anything so the account has just sat there for a few years now.

Recently I returned as I had an expensive designer handbag to sell to raise some cash for a holiday in a couple of months.

I took pictures, listed the item and then in a fit of conscience, the bag was a present from my parents I had an anxiety attack, if they saw me selling it and taking a big hit they’d be mortified and want to give me money; I needed to delete it.

OMG I am not an idiot but try as I might I went into every menu, there was no easy way to take this listing down.

I wondered why an app would make it so difficult not to edit a listing, that’s easy and a very visible function but to delete a listing it took me over an hour to figure out.

Completely frustrated by the Depop app I’ve decided to share as I am sure loads of other people have experienced this problem. The hilarious thing for me is when you ask Google the AI how to response is completely incorrect and tells you to navigate, look for a field button called “Listing Actions” not even there. At least I couldn’t find it.

So here’s what I discovered.

The deletion can only happen from the actual listing you want to get rid of. So you don’t do it from any of the menus from your profile where you can see all your listings. Pick, click on the listing you want to delete so it fills the whole screen, then top right corner of that screen you will see three buttons.

When you click here it opens a window that looks like you are no longer in the Depop app and you have to scroll down to find the delete button.

I think it’s fair to say they spend so much money to get you on there doing the work to list items, let’s remember content is king and new content royal with a capital R, the last thing they want is us changing our minds and deleting the items to sell elsewhere.

Depop are not the only app that make deleting very difficult. Fortunately there is help online via You Tube if my explanation doesn’t do the job for you.