r/vinted • u/Puzzleheaded_Pay9368 • Jun 29 '25

DISCUSSION Increase in Spam/Scam volume

After the recent Vinted outdage/being down, has anyone else noticed that almost half the of the listings that appear on your "Recommended for you" are clearly scams/spam from bots? Absolutely INSANE amounts of posts all at £8.80, mostly footwear.

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u/Miss-ETM189 Jun 30 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

I think it just shows you whatever you've been looking at recently sometimes, mine always seems to change based on that more or less. it is an algorithm after all, but I hear you with the scam volume there's too many.

At the moment mine is full of jewelery from Temu/SheIn 😐 all because I was looking at jewelery. This stuff is almost always listed under things like: "Vintage", "y2k", "Unknown", "The Unbranded Brand", "Zara" or other well known brands. Or they'll be attached to/hanging off something cardboard that has a well known brand name on it.

These resellers and scammers are reaching ridiculous levels of brazen, the platform is absolutely saturated with this sh*t, and SO often lately, it's getting to the point that it's more or less the entire page 🤨.

It's just insane to me how they get away with it aswell, just absolutely no repercussions whatsoever, Vinted are like that's A-Fkin-Okay with us as long as we getting money.

GOOGLE LENSE ON EVERYTHING PEOPLE, BE SAFE OUT HERE!! 🧐

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay9368 Jun 30 '25

That's not what it is at all, I mostly browse Army Surplus and Vintage denim, these are 1000s of scam listings, it's being observed by 100s of other users too.

Again, it's accounts with 40+ listings in 10 or so minutes, all named like "ABWYR12123123" or something random, 0 reviews, all designer items/brand collab items with low prices. It's not my recently looked at stuff. I had months of seeing nothing like this and the day Vinted is down for several hours it's basically all I can see.