Choose a side: Vinted v disabled users

100 for a passport to claim.300 quid means 200 profit still plus 100% of future earnings with none of this noise. Just get one!

66% of 300 is better than 100% of FA. This is just basic business sense.

It's also just good sense for her to get a passport. It's incredibly unwise to not have a single form of ID in this day and age

This has nothing to do with your NDN being disabled, and everything to.do with her being downright bloody minded.

Will Vinted accept one of the new voting ID cards? I think they’re free.
If not your ndn could try contacting her MP, if they are asking only for travel documents and a person can’t travel because of disability that could be construed as discriminatory. If MP not possible due to election try Citizens Advice.
@Littlebigcat wrote “ I think that the threshold that you can withdraw without verification is £100, or has been when I've done it in the past”
Could your ndn withdraw £100 each week for 3 weeks?

@Supersimkin2 it's amazing how a bit of negative publicity can make a company change it's tune, though I'm not sure this thread will do it.

I'm thinking more like yer man from the One Show, or Gloria Hunniford & her crew, or BBC Radio 4's money matters.

Had to get passport for my 80 year old aunty could not do checks for probate without it and the to sell house

Vinted aren't keeping her money though. She has a £300 balance sat in her Vinted account that she can buy stuff with to reduce that balance down and people sell all sorts on there (as people have pointed out, you could do this). I get that she would rather have the money but it will be in the T&C's and isn't that new a thing so I'm really big sure it is that discriminatory. I think that the threshold that you can withdraw without verification is £100, or has been when I've done it in the past

You 'garuntee' do you?
I hope you're not in the legal profession.

It isn't discrimination per-se. My 95 year old Mum still has a valid passport for id purposes, even though she isn't going abroad again.

Unfortunately, the reason that organisations are clamping down on this is because it's too easy to obtain other forms of ID that can then be used to scam people. I'm also in favour of a free UK ID card.

PS. This a lesson in why you should ALWAYS read the Ts&Cs.

I agree there, as I’ve said I don’t drive or fly but have a prov license just for id.

@OhmygodDont, that's why I'm in favour of government-issued ID cards. I don't understand why Brits are so opposed to them. The way things are, you are excluded from loads of things unless you fork out for a passport. Govt ID is free in most countries.

They cost £100! It's why I haven't got one.

I am excluded from certain things by not having a passport or driving licence. It pisses me off no end. You can get a student-type ID card, I think it's called PASS (?) for about £20 but fewer & fewer providers accept them now.

And are any of those Id’s generally accepted in other countries.

She can still get a passport though...

Edited to add just saw she can't travel to get a passport. Perhaps you could cite the Equality Act to get them to reconsider?

That's why l withdraw my money as soon as l get it released.. all small amounts... don't let it mount up.

This isn’t discrimination against disabilities, it’s simply accepting only these valid forms of ID. (That many disabled people do own)

I think the issue the OP is raising is that in question is physically unable to work or travel. It seems to me (although the disability hasn't been disclosed) that this particular person is completely housebound. They're physically unable to drive, so a provisional driving licence is out of the question and they aren't able to travel to the in person interview for a passport. I didn't realise this was necessary for a first adult passport, it wasn't when I applied for mine, but apparently it is now. So its quite a tricky situation.

That’s the issue isn’t it. It’s not a vinted policy it’s a requirement for banking purposes to follow and adhere to the laws set for such online money companies it needs to be a offical government issued photo Id.

We as the U.K. only have two, a drivers licence or a passport. Other countries have those plus a national Id card which is presumably cheaper than a passport or drivers license.

But this isn't discriminatory access to ID. Disability does not stop anyone from applying for a passport. Some of us even drive too! Fancy that.

If you're going to bring money into it, many disabled people work. We aren't all "poor".

This definitely reeks of when people accuse us of "playing the disability card" when we can't get our own way. It's insulting to us.

That’s been my experience too.

I’m not overjoyed that he will deal with people who lack the basic understanding that a single company (Vinted) is not responsible for the fact that the only official forms of photo id in the UK are passport or driving licence.

Your suggestion that Vinted’s insistence to perform id checks diligently is discrimination is shocking.

It’s an example of the kind of indirect discrimination disabled people face in many areas yes… but not from Vinted! They are only doing what they are supposed to.

There were tales of it having to be carried at all times and it would be an offence to be found without one. Losing it would be a nightmare etc. I have no idea if these were scare stories, although I assumed they were at the time.