{"id":59228,"date":"2026-08-22T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/banned-over-a-pair-of-2-sandals-why-some-sellers-are-complaining-about-vinted\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:03:41","slug":"banned-over-a-pair-of-2-sandals-why-some-sellers-are-complaining-about-vinted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/banned-over-a-pair-of-2-sandals-why-some-sellers-are-complaining-about-vinted\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Banned over a pair of \u00a32 sandals’: Why some sellers are complaining about Vinted"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Single mum Emma Neil was a huge fan of Vinted, using it most days to sell old things and buy clothes for her children.<\/b><\/p>\n

That was until she bought a pair of sandals for \u00a33, found they didn’t fit so relisted them for \u00a32 then was permanently banned. Vinted said there had been “fraudulent activity, such as selling counterfeit items”.<\/p>\n

“I did feel like a criminal,” says Neil – 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

Vinted’s preloved buying and selling community has grown rapidly with 17 million UK users – it says the “overwhelming majority” have a positive experience.<\/p>\n

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<\/div>\n


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Single mum Emma Neil was a huge fan of Vinted, using it most days to sell old things and buy clothes for her children. That was until she bought a pair of sandals for \u00a33, found they didn’t fit so relisted them for \u00a32 then was permanently banned. Vinted said there had been “fraudulent activity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[922,16419,6584,16418,3840,4187],"class_list":["post-59228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","tag-banned","tag-complaining","tag-pair","tag-sandals","tag-sellers","tag-vinted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59230,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59228\/revisions\/59230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}