I thought I scored a bargain on Vinted – next thing I knew I was threatened with GUN by man who wanted to kill my family

A VINTED lawsuit and his household were threatened with a weapon by a crazed seller.

First-time idiosyncratic Amir was near fearing for his beingness aft helium was bombarded with convulsive messages from a idiosyncratic who sold him a rucksack.

The altercation broke retired aft Vinted cancelled the merchantability owed to suspicious activity - aft the seller had already sent the package.

Amir offered to nonstop the container backmost but was met with a barrage of assertive messages.

Despite Vinted cancelling the sale, the app's lawsuit work said they could nary longer help.

Sharing his shocking communicative connected Channel 4's Vinted's Dirty Laundry: Dispatches, helium said: “It was rather continuous the messages and they got progressively worse.

"‘I cognize wherever you live’, ‘ I americium going to travel to your house’, ‘ I cognize each your accusation and I’ll travel implicit with a weapon to find you’.

"And the adjacent time it was ‘I volition travel to your house’, and the past screenshot was conscionable them sending my address.

"The main contented is this idiosyncratic has my address, I unrecorded astatine location with a woman and 2 children, 2 young daughters. It was rather shocking.”

Trustpilot scored Vinted 2.5/5 and determination are videos online moaning astir however hard it tin beryllium to beryllium assisted by a quality subordinate of staff.

Vinted has gathered a whopping 65 cardinal users crossed 21 countries and revolutionised second-hand shopping.

It started successful Lithuania successful 2008 and has since gained popularity crossed Europe.

It has doubly the users of its closest rival Depop and is valued astatine implicit £4billion.

Presented by writer Ellie Flynn, the documentary delves into the hidden dangers of the second-hand app.

The Dispatches squad uncovered much than 100 products that are connected the government's callback list.

There were besides a fig of items recovered that were successful breach of Vinted's rules.

The items included unsafe babe products, utilized cosmetics, fire-hazard electricals and prescribed medicated products.

Katrina Phillips from the Child Accident Prevention Trust was horrified by a 'self-feeding babe pillow'.

She said: “The vessel is held successful place. And let's accidental they [a baby] can't propulsion it away. These are truly dangerous. They should not beryllium sold. It really, truly horrifies me."

Dr Jane Leonard, a GP and cosmetic doctor, examined immoderate of the laboratory results from tested products.

Yeast, mould and different bacteria were recovered successful immoderate of the tested items.

She explained that the findings suggested the products had been unfastened "for a while" and could origin tegument infections.

Vinted provided a connection to Channel 4: "We are taking the allegations earnestly and volition enactment arsenic swiftly arsenic we tin against thing that violates our presumption and conditions [including] measures that whitethorn effect successful the definitive blocking of sellers who repeatedly disregard our policy.

"We recognize that members are not ever alert that the point they merchantability oregon bargain mightiness beryllium recalled.

"Our teams are … perpetually moving connected improving and processing caller tools and technologies to amended our systems…

"We’re precise atrocious to perceive of these experiences and perpetrate to instrumentality the indispensable enactment against members who interruption our assemblage standards.

"We person a fig of measures successful spot to uphold information connected the level and are perpetually updating these processes and improving our level of idiosyncratic subordinate support."

The Sun has besides contacted Vinted for a response.

Vinted’s Dirty Laundry: Dispatches airs Friday 18 October astatine 7.30pm connected Channel 4.