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VINTED users person been near feeling "disturbed" aft realising that pictures of them modelling apparel person been stolen and sexualised online.
The online second-hand marketplace has 16 cardinal users successful the UK and has helped trim textiles waste, whilst allowing its users to marque immoderate other cash.
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However, the app has a hidden darkside.
In a caller Channel 4 documentary, Vinted's Dirty Laundry: Dispatches, presenter Ellie Flynn revealed that images of women selling their apparel connected Vinted, are being stolen and enactment connected different website, called Vinted S****.
The tagline of the website is 'when you merchantability your apparel but you privation the attention' and astir of the women featured connected the website person nary thought that their pictures are being used.
Ellie explained: "It's fundamentally conscionable massively oversexualising women who are trying to merchantability apparel connected Vinted, it has loads of antithetic profiles of antithetic women each implicit the world.
"Some of the images of women who are selling things similar bikinis oregon summer outfits that are much choky fitting.
"Some of them are conscionable mundane outfits but they are each being utilized successful a mode that is overtly intersexual and perfectly not what these women were intending.
"It's conscionable truthful gross. I volition ne'er cease to beryllium amazed by the things you tin find connected the net but this truly does consciousness similar a caller low."
After discovering the website, Ellie decided to interaction immoderate of the girls who are featured, to fto them cognize that their images are being used.
One of the victims, Lydia, 28 said that the find made her consciousness highly vulnerable.
I thought I scored a bargain connected Vinted – adjacent happening I knew I was threatened with GUN by antheral who wanted to termination my family
She said: "'It's precise disturbing. I had nary thought this was happening, and it has made maine consciousness highly unsafe."
Ellie past told Lydia that the website linked backmost to her Vinted page, which she said made her consciousness "really scared".
"We're conscionable guiltless radical wanting to merchantability our apparel and I'm guessing fractional of these radical connected this website don't adjacent cognize this is happening to them," Lydia said.
Due to the accent of discovering the website, Lydia decided to region immoderate pictures of her wearing items from Vinted, and replaced them with images of the apparel connected hangers instead.
Why I hatred Vinted, a real-life presumption
Fabulous Associate Editor Sarah Barns opens up connected wherefore she hates Vinted:
It's the king of second-hand manner but I hatred Vinted.
There I said it. Yes, it stops items going into landfill. Yes, it helps make further side-hustle income for many.
And yes, you tin get things astatine bargain prices. But it is conscionable not my (shopping) bag.
From idiosyncratic experience, I've bought 'cheap' bundles of children's apparel lone for them to get soiled and misshapen.
Plus, with postage and purchaser extortion they didn't consciousness similar specified a large deal. I overmuch similar going to my section foundation store oregon supermarket for kids' stuff.
I've besides bought much premium high-street items - a formal from Arket and a skirt from Cos - lone to find they didn't acceptable decently and the colours were faded.
I attempted a bout of selling worldly but gave up aft my £110 Veja trainers got mislaid successful the station and I spent 2 hours connected the telephone to Royal Mail.
A large gripe with it is that it inactive encourages you to spend, spend, spend. I'm not definite I needed the items I did purchase, I conscionable didn't privation to miss out.
Also, the reselling of fast-fashion items - a £5 Shein apical connected Vinted for £17.50 - makes maine consciousness a spot queasy.
Clothes buying has go a regular hobby for a batch of radical erstwhile truly it should beryllium thing that's done erstwhile oregon doubly a twelvemonth arsenic a necessity.
But the 18 cardinal Vinted app users intelligibly disagree with me.
Lydia reported the website to Vinted, commenting that the website felt precise intersexual successful quality and made her consciousness unsafe.
However, aft 11 days inactive hadn't received a response.
Thankfully, aft Dispatches reported the website, it was yet taken down.
Vinted said to the Channel 4 programme: "We are taking the allegations seriously…we 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.
"We person reported the website mentioned to petition an contiguous shutdown."
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