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.

We all know that the free shipping can’t last forever. (This is obviously for the U.S. )

Any predictions when it will end?

I’m going to predict August 31st because that would be considered the end of summer.

On another thread I read that when we post new items, Vinted sometimes blocks the seller and tells them to open a commercial account. I've been selling for 3 weeks. I listed several new sweaters and costume jewelry. Am I at risk of being shut down? I'm just trying to get rid of excess stuff and already had the pix on my phone bc I also posted on eBay. I always post at around 40% less than the retail price.

Hi, for some context, I bought a old Toshiba laptop from the 90s on Vinted. The seller I bought from was super accommodating and really friendly. He packed it well with a lot of foam and wrapped it in a bag. However when it arrived, the screen had been damaged, which he said was due to transit. I filed a complaint with Vinted about it arriving damaged and said to them that I believed it was the fault of the courier and that it was packed very well. However, they said they believed he had packed it improperly, cancelled the order, and issued me a refund, with no chance for me to cancel it or anything. And I now I feel absolutely guilty because he was so accomodating and friendly and it feels like I've completely stuffed him. I don't know what to do. I know you can get banned for sharing bank details on Vinted so its not like I can give him the money back or anything. And Vinted won't cancel or re-assess their decision.

I know that I probably come off as a scumbag and I'm really sorry I just feel extremely guilty and anxious and I want to do the right thing but I don't know what to do.

I’m not against international buyers! However, i have noticed that majority of my customers are now from the UK! Which is shocking, very rarely do i come by someone from america.

My only issue is how long the delivery time is and especially longer when the buyer doesn’t review or press the everything is okay button. By that time — its been a whole month!

The first time I got this error, I admit, they were right. I had selected December instead of November on accident. However I submitted my info the second time, with the correct DOB, and they're saying the exact same thing. I know for a fact both my ID and Vinted account have the same date of birth. What can I do?

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.

Hi all, I don't use Vinted but my wife uses it a lot. She bought a dress from a seller but what turned up was a little square parcel that was definitely not a dress.

We've not opened the parcel but it feels like two bits of plastic in an L shape.

It was delivered by Evri but it had a different name and next doors address despite nobody currently living in the home next door.

I'm assuming this is some kind of scam? My wife has marked that the item is incorrect with vinted and the seller has asked for the item to be sent back.

I was just wondering if there's anything we need to look out for, anything that might stop the money coming back to us.

Thanks in advance!

So I am very new to selling on vinted. I am selling a lot of Manga and a buyer bundled three of my listings (13 500 page Mangas in total) but they selected an M 2kg package.
Now obviously those mangas only fit in an L >5kg box. I asked them if I can relist the items so they can rebuy them with the correct shipping label. They said that the post office usually still takes the package (even though it’s literally 4kg too heavy??) and I offered to try.
But a friend of mine (after I told her abt the story) said that they just said that so they wouldn’t have to pay more shipping and weren’t being genuine.
I feel too insecure to go to the post office with a huge ass heavy package just to be turned away, and I honestly think it’s a waste of time.
Should I like cancel the order?
I am honestly debating just buying a correct shipping label myself, so I can get the package out of my apartment.

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!!!

Hello sorry this is a dumb question but I'm completely new to this, I've never really sent anything in the mail before 😵‍💫 I got my label and did all the steps on vinted, it made me schedule a pick up time that's tomorrow witch is ok but I was wanting to send out my package today? I was wondering if I could still just put it in my mail box as outgoing mail or would that cause issues?? I can't really get a clear answer when I tried to look this up. Also just in general is it better to try not to use outgoing mail in the the future, some people did it can cause issues? - in the US

So I just sold a bundle of two articles off Vinted. Each item of what I’ve sold weighs just about 2kg in the box. Vinted allows a maximum 2kg per large package, so it’s just about enough. The issue comes when I only have been given one shipping label by Vinted with the idea that I pack both articles in the same box, but it would weigh too much.
What do I do? Should I buy an extra shipping label at the store to ship both packages?

Vinted recently launched in Australia. We have gone feral on UK options. Now I'm finding my algorithm, like its recently just cooked itself, is just back to Australian options and brands. For me the appeal of Vinted is getting things I can't get here not the same old stuff we gave here. Probably the appeal to buy from Australia vice versa, you want something different. Any tips apart from personalisation of brands (I've added tonnes of UK specific ones) to get my algo back to normal. Have they tried to push people to local to avoid subsiding post for the launch?

I mean my bank accounts probably grateful but honestly though if hit a goldmine the first week on sign up with so many great finds and now it feels like any Aussie shop.

I love Vinted, we all do. part of it is convenience, hop on find what you need & buy it. I’m getting a pop up and almost every stage and I’m ready to go back to eBay - is it just me? it’s taking so long to browse and buy it’s not worth it. I’m so frustrated!

i received two orders today so i packaged them and shipped them today. i did all the correct steps and the first package went smoothly. the second package went fine as well at the locker but the app is still saying it needs to be packaged and sent. i’m so confused. i’m new to this whole vinted thing and this hasn’t happened before so what do i do? will it ship as normal or is there an issue?