{"id":742670,"date":"2026-08-19T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:38:09","slug":"banned-over-a-pair-of-2-sandals-why-some-sellers-are-complaining-about-vinted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742670\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Banned over a pair of \u00a32 sandals&#8217;: Why some sellers are complaining about Vinted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Single mum Emma Neil was a huge fan of Vinted, using it most days to sell old things and buy clothes for her children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was until she bought a pair of sandals for \u00a33, found they didn&#8217;t fit so relisted them for \u00a32 then was permanently banned. Vinted said there had been &#8220;fraudulent activity, such as selling counterfeit items&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I did feel like a criminal,&#8221; says Neil &#8211; one of several thousands complaining of being wrongly suspended or permanently banned, spending days trapped in a system of what they believe are AI generated responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vinted&#8217;s preloved buying and selling community has grown rapidly with 17 million UK users &#8211; it says the &#8220;overwhelming majority&#8221; have a positive experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Neil is one of more than 4,000 Vinted users who have logged their experiences on sadvintedfaces.com, a website set up by freelance marketeer Catherine Warrilow, who became so frustrated with the platform she decided to find out if others were having problems too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Single mum Emma Neil was a huge fan of Vinted, using it most days to sell old things&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}