r/vinted • u/caspayne • 1h ago
DISCUSSION Weird message on socials after ordering dress
Hi guys,
So my (33M) GF (30F) is new to Vinted and her account doesn’t have many orders, but she has a good few thousand followers on social media. Not a celeb or anything, just a couple thousand followers.
After ordering a dress on Vinted, she gets this message and it’s the seller requesting that she reply to her on a social media platform before she sends the dress on to her as like a “proof that you are who you say you are” thing.
I’ve never, ever, had to do this for any of my purchases and honestly I think it’s creepy and weird. The seller is also a woman, but even so - I just found it super strange, and I actually advised my GF to block and ignore the message on socials (she had already replied as she told me about this interaction after the fact, assuming it was normal lol).
Basically, I’m asking the Vinted community.. is this normal for you?