Why We Started Supplying Resellers — and What We've Learned From It

When we first started selling vintage online, we weren't retailers. We were resellers.

We sourced, we sorted, we photographed, and we listed. We knew what it felt like to spend a Saturday morning at a car boot sale pulling rail after rail looking for that one Carhartt or that clean Levi's. We knew the maths — cost per piece, time per piece, platform fees, packaging. We knew that the charity shop run that felt productive sometimes yielded nothing worth listing.

That experience is a large part of why Messina exists the way it does.

Over the years, as we built out our warehouse operation and our sourcing network, resellers started asking us if they could buy direct. Not one or two pieces — proper volume. Boxes, bundles, bales. They wanted what we had access to: consistent branded stock, graded before it arrived, without the hours of sourcing overhead.

That became Messina Wholesale.

Today it supplies thousands of resellers across the UK and the rest of the world — Depop sellers, Vinted traders, market stall holders, vintage boutique owners. People building real businesses around second-hand, the same way we did.

What we've learned from that community over the past few years is that the reseller market is far more sophisticated than it gets credit for. The people buying from Messina Wholesale aren't dabbling. They're running proper operations — tracking cost per piece, managing multi-platform listings, making decisions about which brands and categories to focus on based on sell-through data. They treat this like a business, because it is one.

We're proud to supply them.

If you're buying vintage for resale — whether you're just starting out with your first box or running a multi-channel operation — Messina Wholesale is built for you. The same sourcing network, the same grading standards, the same team. Just at the volume and price point that makes a reselling business work.

You can browse the full range and create a free account at Messina Wholesale. New accounts get 10% off their first order.

And if you're here on Messina Hembry because you love vintage rather than resell it — that's what we're here for too. Both things can be true.

Josh & Zac Founders, Messina Hembry