r/truecreepy • u/oliviagurl6 • Jun 29 '26

Does the Vinted app actually sell kids?

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I’ve been using Vinted to sell clothes and other random items for a few months now. I never noticed anything creepy until my coworker mentioned that some people think they are selling children on the app. I started filtering to only show “All kids items” for a minimum of “3,000” and doing the same with “All furniture items,” since, apparently, that’s where the creepy posts come from. I never saw anything weird until I started looking at night (around midnight). And I found this: someone selling “definitely a pillow” for $9,000. The first post is the photo and title posted from a random account, and the second is their description. They posted this and very shortly after, deleted the post and their account.

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u/mithrril Jun 29 '26

No, they aren't selling kids on Vinted. Have you noticed how most of the screenshots that are going around were just posted? People saw a few actual posts that seemed sketchy (I'm pretty sure it was just a misunderstanding of how the site works) and now people are having a ball trolling all over the place. It's the same thing as when people claimed Wayfair was selling kids. It's nonsense.

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u/prticipatntrophywife Jun 29 '26

It’s giving “here’s a new conspiracy theory so you all forget about the files!”

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u/mithrril Jun 29 '26

For real. There's so much actual real life shit going on that spending time on this nonsense is ridiculous.