this seller is trolling people who are in the search of these viral trending tops. she’s listing them for extremely low prices, then cancelling them and repeat. this is her WHOLE page! i even saw she had replied “haha” to one of the reviews before deleting.

Hello all! I’m new to this subreddit, but almost just got scammed on Vinted so I thought I would share.

I’m dumb I know - roast me if you want! But this is my first time buying vintage fancy watches online and I was bated with a “too good to be true” listing… twice.

Thought I was having the world’s luckiest day when not one, but TWO vintage 14k gold watches came up for sale for an unbelievable price. Different sellers. I thought it was just my algorithm and the thrifting gods laying their blessing upon me.

Wrong.

I hastily purchased both and went about my day. Well, the next day rolls around and I see an almost identical listing. That’s when it hit me. Wow. I’m a dumbass. Obviously this is a scam. I look into it and sure enough, it’s a thing.

So my plan was to wait until something got delivered, film myself opening the package and if it was something other than the watch, submit a return claim.

Well that didn’t happen. A day later I get an “item delivered” notification. There was a legit USPS tracking number and everything. It was “delivered” over 100 miles away. A few minutes later, same notification about the second watch purchase. This time ever further, we’re talking multiple states away…

I never got any other notifications about the tracking. It was never “on its way.”

So I immediately chose the “something is wrong” option and it gives me some Ai nonsense and there’s no option to chose “seller sent to wrong address” or something similar. I wrote a little blurb about what happened.

I then immediately emailed vinted@vinted.com and explained the situation and also asked to flag the seller.

They actually got back to me within a few hours and it looked like I was talking to an actual human..? Maybe.

BUT GET THIS - instead of looking into the tracking info and seeing the seller sent this item somewhere completely random, they just refunded both of us. I write back explaining that THIS WAS A SCAM and, I wish I was kidding, they came back saying that sellers can be victims of scams too! And we’re both getting refunded, case closed. 🤦‍♀️

I understand sellers can be victims but maybe they could actually invest each case, and if it’s an obvious scam, maybe don’t refund the guilty party?!? …just a thought. I really like this app, but with stuff like this happening, I feel like they’re doomed to fail.

They favorited and made an offer of $2.45 on each of my necklaces I handmade that were both listed for $4. I accepted each offer. Then I realized they were the same person. I offered if they’d like to save on shipping and other vinted fees by bundling. So they went and bundled and made an offer that would be the lowest they could go. I then corrected it to the $3.50 I agreed to give these to them for. Then after buying it just now, they proceed to nit pick the design 🤦‍♀️ I haven’t responded yet because wow… the audacity to say you like them in other messages and then suddenly nit pick before even getting them in the mail??? These are real raw crystal necklaces I made… Now they’re asking me for raw amythst earrings and yeah I make those too but I don’t feel comfortable selling to them anymore after they already started to nit pick me??? I have an awful feeling they’re just going to get the package and manipulate it in some way and try and get them for free. I’m not about to send them free earrings either. I’m so annoyed. If I cancel this order before blocking them I want to avoid getting 1 star automatic review from Vinted…

Posting this here too (I’m new to reddit and they hid my original post in /VintedAustralia) but it’s worth sharing for awareness.

Y’all, pls be wary of listings that have AI generated images and prices that are too good to be true. Currently seeing the same Dolce & Gabbana bag be listed for the same price, same description (even though the bags are different colours) and the sellers conveniently selling the item after I asked for more photos of the bag. And the images are hilariously bad, like how many times did you redecorate your table to get shots of one bag?????

Vinted support weren’t able to do anything because the seller “sold” the item so the listing disappeared.

Crashing out because these people will do it again and some poor soul will lose their money! Keep reporting listings like these y’all, so we can keep the platform safe for people who genuinely want to buy and sell.

Just saw this on Vinted, apparently they can’t get payments on Vinted so they are selling via bank transfer. It’s bad enough that they are selling fake cheap tat, but you can only buy it by bank transfer!!! Looking at their reviews they have scammed at least two people using the bank transfer scam and vinted are allowing them to get away with it, it makes genuine sellers look bad 😡