TESTIMONIALS – Unscrupulous sellers use well-established techniques to scam customers. Marine, Léolia, Mérième and Dominique paid the price and lost, for some, more than a thousand euros.
On Vinted, thousands of ads, each more attractive than the last, are put online every day. From luxury to more affordable brands, there is something for everyone on the leading platform for reselling second-hand products. An ideal playground for unscrupulous sellers, who have developed foolproof techniques to scam customers and slip through the cracks of Vinted's controls.
Léolia, 36, paid the price this summer. The press officer had been looking for a Yves Saint Laurent bag for a long time, the Icare model, in raffia. If it is worth 4,500 euros new, Léolia manages to negotiate it for 1,400 euros on the resale platform, which has more than 20 million users in France. A godsend, at first glance, according to the thirty-year-old: “I received the bag at the beginning of August, with its papers, its dustbag (protective pouch, editor's note) and its serial number, everything seemed perfect.”
The buyer validates the sale, delighted with her new purchase. But a few weeks later…
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