Choose a side: Vinted v disabled users

Just get her a passport, dear god. It's going to come in useful anyway (even if only as ID, though of course you never know and she may well end up travelling in the future), and the £300 she will get back will more than cover the cost.

That is for people who already hold a driving licence.

But if you are applying for your first licence you have to declare if you require eyesight correction to meet the minimum standards required for driving.

Seriously, is that really so hard to understand?

Go through the first few questions in the online application to obtain a provisional licence and you’ll reach this one which asks if you can meet the legal eyesight standard for driving.

If you select NO then your application goes no further. If you can’t meet the legal minimum eyesight requirement then you cannot legally obtain a provisional licence.

If you select YES, WITH GLASSES OR CORRECTIVE LENSES, then when you receive your licence it will have the endorsement code 01.

If you fail to declare this at the time of your first application then you open yourself up to a fine.

Once you have obtained your licence any later deterioration in your eyesight isn’t something you have to mention to DVLA unless you develop one of the notifiable eyesight conditions or you no longer meet the minimum eyesight requirement.

Keep up people, this stuff isn’t that difficult. 🙄

It’s not being done to prevent crime because they didn’t care when I got in touch to say a bag listed on there was fake (I’ve done work for the company so I can tell).

And on many sm sites buyers have enormous issues with sellers and vinted don’t care.

I had this problem trying to get my son ID so he could get a DBS check. He can't have a driving licence due to his learning disabilities. We are on benefits as he can't work and I'm his carer. For his first adult passport he'd need a doctors letter to say he can't attend the interview as he wouldn't understand the questions. £30 for a doctors letter. Then the cost of the passport. That we'd never use as we can't afford to go abroad. So over £100 just to check he hasn't got a criminal record. We don't have that money spare a month, despite apparently getting tons of benefit money.

I found they also accept ID cards which some companies provide, so I got him one of those in the end - I think it was £40 (because I fast tracked it)

I don't know if Vinted would accept those?

I’m disabled and I have a passport for identity reasons (though hope to travel again one day). I don’t know why Vinted needs those types of identification documents and EBay and Etsy don’t 🤔

This is discrimination. Taken from the citizens advice website
Taking your disability into account Under the Equality Act, service providers ie banks must take your disability into account when dealing with you as a customer. This means they may have to change the way they do things so you’re not disadvantaged by your disability. If you've suffered a disadvantage because of your disability, it could be disability discrimination.
Your NDN has suffered a disadvantage because she cannot get her money
What counts as unlawful discrimination? Service providers eg banks must make reasonable adjustments if you’re disadvantaged by something because of your disability. If they don’t do this, it’s unlawful discrimination.
It may also be unlawful discrimination, if a service provider treats you unfairly because of something connected to your disability - for example, if you're disadvantaged because you can’t read small print or have difficulties communicating or understanding things.
This is called discrimination arising from disability.
If a service provider fails to make reasonable adjustments, you can also often complain about discrimination because of something connected to your disability.
Equality Advisory Support Service (EASS) If you have experienced discrimination, you can get help from the EASS discrimination helpline.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/check-if-youre-protected-from-discrimination/equality-advisory-support-service-discrimination-helpline/

@blackcherryconserve my Mum has neither passport nor driving licence, and she has a postal vote.

You have to declare eyesight correction when APPLYING for a licence.

That’s what many people on here have been suggesting - that the OP’s NDN applies for a provisional licence.

If she already had one that wouldn’t be an issue and Vinted would have happily paid out the money already.

Specsavers even have this on their website - it really shouldn’t be something people have no knowledge of if they wear glasses and want to apply for a driving licence!!

Do I need to inform the DVLA if I need glasses for driving?There's no need to notify them if you need glasses for driving.
When you apply for a driving license, however, you have to state at that time if you wear glasses when driving, in which case your license is usually endorsed with the code 01.

https://www.specsavers.co.uk/help-and-faqs/do-i-need-to-inform-the-dvla-if-i-need-glasses-for-driving

do they let you use paypal.have they got a blue badge, is there a complaint department they could use, put it all over twitter and facebook on their page, threaten to go to the papers,

If you read it, why did you state that the NDN had to have a passport then? You absolutely do not need a passport to get a driving license, it simply makes it easier (because you have already jumped through the necessary hoops)

From gov.co.uk

The vinted T&Cs say:
KYC Checks and depending on their internal procedures and applicable laws you may need to provide a copy of your passport, ID card, driver’s licence, bank statement and/or proof of residency.

So you just need an ID card, can she get a voters one?

Was going to suggest this. Vinted will take a cute from the ‘sale’ but she’d get more money than by getting a passport.

That is not a list of the only people who can sign. It says suitable people include blah blah blah.

I did read it, but I’m not convinced you did.

I have stated quite clearly that in order to obtain a provisional licence online you need a passport to verify ID. Other acceptable documents in that list are biometric ID cards which we don’t have in this country.

Alternatively applicants can get their form and photo signed by someone in one of the listed occupations on the proviso that the signatory knows them personally.

This can be a barrier if an applicant doesn’t move in the same social circles. 🙄

The list of occupations that can sign the form is the same for everyone, it's a giant pain and surely outdated, but it doesn't discriminate against disabled people as such. I get asked quite a bit to sign things. Doctors no longer do this for free.

Can someone explain how it’d be money laundering if the OP purchased an expensive item from the friends vinted account? Surely it’d just go through as a normal transaction? Well maybe not because of all of the back and forth but this may have been a good idea initially

But not all eyesight conditions will result in failure to meet the minimum standards - and even so you are not required to report every subsequent change in your eyesight unless it adversely affects your driving ability.

How? It’s not dirty money so it can’t be laundered 🤔
If you’re allowed to spend the wallet with no ID (as opposed to drawing it out) then there’s no issue.

Yes, you can use other documents if you don’t have a passport, but, as your link states, you have to get your application and a photo signed by someone in the following occupations:

The person signing the form and photo must:

• hold a valid GB photocard driving licence
• be resident in the UK
• know you personally
• not be a relative
• not be living at the same address as you

• local business person or shopkeeper
• librarian
• professionally qualified person, for example a lawyer, teacher or engineer
• police officer
• bank or building society staff member
• civil servant
• minister of religion
• magistrate
• local councillor
• Member of Parliament, Assembly Member, or Member of the Scottish Parliament

How many civil servants, MPs, magistrates and councillors do you know personally?

What makes you think the OP’s NDN has friends in those occupations?

😂

Have you actually read what you posted? You don't need a passport to get a driving licence.

OP, I'd contact your MP. If companies such as vinted want to trade in the UK they have to abide by UK rules. And UK money laundering requirements do not need passport / driving licence. But UK Equality law does mean that those with disabilities (preventing travel and therefore passport / driving licence) aren't indirectly discriminated against. Which is one reason why UK banks don't require those forms of ID.

Some posters on this thread are incredibly foolish and trusting. A company can write whatever they like in their own t&c. That doesn't mean the t&c meets legal requirements or is enforceable. Never, ever assume that the large multinational corporation can be relied upon to abide by the UK law.

Yes, you are required to declare if you need glasses or contacts to meet the minimum standards for driving when you apply for a driving licence. You then get the code 01 for eyesight correction. 🙄

Nope. https://www.gov.uk/id-for-driving-licence

Quite.

My parents both have passports, they haven’t left the uk for 30+ years.

They don’t use them as a travelling document but as an official document.