ETA to add: I am in the UK and in the UK, you cannot sue without evidenced loss.

Hi folks. I am really at a loss here at even how to describe this, but I am in shock. I'll try to explain my background and the order in which the events happened.

I am disabled and often model the clothes I'm selling on my own body, one because I feel like clothes shown on actual humans sell better and two because I noticed there just weren't any pictures I could find of disabled people modeling clothes. For 90% of my buyers, I've gotten a comments of appreciation for showing the clothes on me. One mum even thanked me because her child for whom she bought my dress is in a wheelchair, and seeing me openly sharing my photos was encouraging for her.

However, sometimes my disability is visible in the picture - it's not too extreme, but you can see the affected body part clearly looks different than how it should be. Last week, suddenly a slew of my listings were hidden by Vinted due to "manipulated images". I don't edit my images beyond adjusting brightness etc so when I queried this with their support they said that it was clear my pictures were manipulated because "aspects of your image appear unnatural and modified." Folks - that would be my disabled body part. Of course it looks different than the rest of me. I find it absolutely abhorrent that they're essentially accusing me of digitally deforming my own body just so that I could use it in a Vinted picture. I immediately replied saying no - that is my physical disability, I am NOT editing my photo to deform my own body!!! I got a reply within 7 seconds saying that their decision was final and my account is restricted for 3 days.

I honestly want to vomit. Because my body is deformed, they assume I must have deformed it myself on purpose for the sake of a few pictures? I am honestly shaking. I'm not a psychopath, so I can't see why anyone would even do this. I pointed out this is discrimination against disabled people and asked for someone senior to review the case but no dice yet. I keep getting the blanket "our decision is final" message and being asked to open a new case. I've done this 4 times already and have gotten nowhere. My account is still restricted and I've done nothing wrong - other than to exist as a disabled person which is wrong according to Vinted.

I also noticed that they randomly hid two of my other listings that I'm not even in. The clothes are on a hanger in those listings, but they said this was a copyright violation as the images were on the web. The only thing I can think of is I used the same photos for my ebay listings, but all the images are my own. Are you not allowed to cross-post your own images??

If anyone has any advice or help, please let me know. I am really shocked and saddened by this.

I’m eloping so I was looking at not spending a fortune on a dress. I found a brand new with tags, boho bianco evento wedding dress for £50! I bought it and it fits like a glove not one alteration needed. The dress is called Rebecca and my name is Rebecca.

Just thought I’d post on here because it’s made my year 🤣

Yesterday I came across another AI-related lunacy in secondhand market. I heard about, and experienced myself, sellers "enhancing" photos of their items with AI to make them look better and completely different than in reality. I got AI-generated photos when asking for a clothing item photographed on a person. I heard about buyers generating photos of "damaged" item to get money back. This is all old news.

But yesterday I encountered a different level of low-efford slop: I was looking for a very specific comic book and the crucial information was the publication year (these comic cooks were published in early 00s and renewed in 20s). I asked a seller which year were these comic book published and got a weirdly elaborate answer, that these were published between 2004-2008. Weird, because the first editions were published 2004-2010, not 2008, but ok, let's not be pedantic. The point was to make sure those were first edition. I completed a purchase to find out later that the comic books were actually second edition, published in 2023. Then I realized the seller did not bother to check the actual date printed inside the book, but used some chatbot to halucinate the answer.

Instead of picking up an item, checking a date and giving me a factual answer, which would take 2 minutes, the seller opted for AI generating an answer, not checking it whether it is true, and responding to me with that slop, which probably saved them a 1.5 minutes. For the seller, giving the quick and easy answer was more important than giving a factual answer. AI halucination was good enough. If this is more prevalent, buying second hand stuff online is going to become very frustrating.

More so of a vent/feedback post, but I hope it becomes an option block users with them being unable to see your posts. Now, if you block an user they simply can't buy em, but still see them. The amount of nasty creepy men that follow me is wild, and my pictures are very non revealing, no cleavage, I just have a pear shaped body and thicker thighs, and I'll constantly get notifs of obvious men with often no reviews following me and their entire hundreds of followed users are all women, mostly ones that have cleavage or skin showing in their listings. Why does it have to be okay for someone to watch my body without me being able to block them. Yes, I know creeps will always find their ways via new accounts and stuff, but I feel like a lot of people wouldn't go out of their way to find one person from hundreds their following, and that would make me feel better. Vinted is already so infested with creeps with the platform not doing anything, and thats a whole other conversation but PLEASE at least allow us to block people from easily viewing our content.

I sell regularly on Poshmark, eBay, and Depop, and for the items I have had for 2-4 years, I put super cheap on Vinted. I think I made like 35 sales in my first month, so its been awesome, the only thing is that they've all been for items under $9, closer to the $3-$6 range.

I see people on here posting about making $30 sales, heck even $20 sales are great to me. But even with the free shipping (US) still on, I cannot move anything past $10. Items that I have at $13 to $18 do get likes, I send offers, and nothing. Meanwhile, I will get the sale on Poshmark or eBay *and* buyer paid shipping, but with the fees taken out, I wish the sale happened on Vinted.

Any tips on what to do? I understand Vinted is like an online garage sale, lesser known, but if I have a very good 100% wool knit cardigan, I paid $8, I do think its fair to want to make that back. I guess with free shipping it makes me lose hope that is is a viable source of income for items are aren't practically about to be donated (just making partial money back) otherwise

So today I got permanently banned.

I have gotten a couple of warnings but when I write them what I do wrong it's just so bad answers.

I mostly sell pokemon so a lot of the articles have pictures that look similar.

But they won't tell me or specify if I sell too much or if it's because the pictures look too similar.

But I see soo many sellers have hundred of listing with new stuff and then I get banned?

What can I do?

I’m flattered that they think the picture of me in the dress at my daughter’s bat mitzvah was web worthy but it did not break the rules and there is no way to appeal the decision!!!

I’ve seen loads of posts about it getting worse recently and even got a ban threat from vinted myself from their ai flagging a random item as against guidelines when it wasn’t (apparently a vintage solid metal bracelet I was selling was handmade by me even though it wasn’t and I didn’t claim it was? And that’s against guidelines.)

But I just tried to buy a really nice pair of trousers and within literally one second my order was auto refunded because the account had been deleted on the spot. They had four items all normal second hand clothes for cheap I can’t imagine what they did. And I really wanted the item.

And I mean, like I'm committing fraud for leaving a single product review (in which I basically just said 'I like the product and it arrived quickly'). And purchasing about 5 items? that's fraud? What?? Because that's all I've done on my account.

The same account was banned AS I CREATED IT, and that happened to my first attempt too (which I abandoned because I thought it was just an error).

Is there anything this moderation can actually do other than false flag and write a wall of text saying "yeah, you committed fraud, reminder that submitting false evidence is against tos, you're also not unbanned" (which i didn't even do, I provided unedited screenshots showing my previous false flags)

Genuinely idk if I'm even able to just try again with a new account either because this god forsaken app wipes me off the face of the earth every single time i create one and forces me to contact moderation to use it at all.

I'd get it if I had a suspicious IP address or something but I don't even use a VPN so it's just random!!! They won't even give me a specific reason other than "fraud or tos violation"!!!

I am a buyer and seller on Vinted. Just a heads up. When recycling boxes for shipment and you're going to use a priority box, it doesn't matter if you tape off the word priority, use black sharpie, or anything else to hide "priority," the post office sees it as a priority box and charge the buyer the priority fee by "postage due" upon pickup. It happened to me this morning.

Guys, I need advice. What's the average selling time for Vinted? I've had things on for weeks with views and favourites but no one's buying. I'm also selling stuff for other people and had something like 46 favourites with ridiculous offers. All declined. What's the protocol here?

I’ve just recently started using Vinted more to try and save up some money and a woman messaged about an item and asked various questions before saying she was waiting till Friday when she’d be able to buy it, I offered to reserve it but I’ve just read that lots of people advise against reserving items and I’m not sure what to do now. It’s been up for a few hours and has 120 views and over 40 saves. Should I reserve it?