Felt sick over customers wearing disposable gloves when shopping

The buyer is trying to pull a fast one, hoping you will knock down the price. I would ask her to return it to you. There are many scammers out there and she seems like one of them. I find it hard to believe a burn mark could have been created in transit.

Has any of you experienced problems with VINTED buyer? I would like to know your opinions and advise on this matter please

I have been using Vinted to sell off items that I no longer wear.
I just sold a hardly worn Mint Velvet parka coat ( I put on weight so doesn't fit me any longer). I put photos of the coat from every angle and I got an offer for & I accepted and post it on the same day. Despite the buyer received the packaging she delayed collecting it for some reason. Finally she collected the parcel today & soon after I received a message from her claiming that the coat had a burnt/ singe in the front of the coat. She informed Vinted, the payment suspended until we come to an agreement .
Basically, she was telling me that I mislead her with my listing but from the photos I posted it is crystal clear that there was no burnt or singe to it.
I packed it very well, if it got damaged during transportation shouldn't she be taking it up with YODEL? If it has happened during the transit shouldnt she have taken the photos of the packaging when she collected the parcel? Obviously the parcel would have been damaged before the coat got a burnt or singe.
She told me that "she wasn't going to leave a bad review" !! for not informing her the damage before I sold it to her but there was 100% no damage to it before I put it on the Vinted or before I post it.
I just need your honest opinions on this matter. I am incredibly upset for being accused of being dishonest also feel that she is trying to pull a fast one. I think she wants it heavily reduced to get it for next to nothing .
I have already got in touch with Vinted obviously it takes 48 hours for them to get back to me in the meantime it would be hear your wise advises
Thank you in advance for all your input and opinions

Don't see how you can be responsible for the cleanliness of your hands without considering the liklihood of their contamination from surfaces contaminated by others.... but ok.

Why should I?

I’m responsible for the cleanliness of my own hands and no-one else’s.

If I went round worrying about what all the other shoppers do with their own hands, I’d end up a nervous, snivelling Mumsnet wreck.

Usually an FFP2

Doesn't mean its not true

What kind?

Never heard of this or seen it either.

No. I’m wearing a mask that’s protective for me

THIS 😁

You are correct. They are probably spreading more germs by using disposable gloves like that. They are not meant to be re used. I have actually seen supermarket staff on the till wearing latex gloves. They may be protecting themselves but not the general public. However I still spray my hands when I get back to the car after shopping. Then wash my hands at home. It is the touch screens that get me. How many unwashed hands have touched them? I watched the one at my Dr's surgery and nobody bothered to clean their hands before or after they touched the screen.How many have been sneezed over? I try to use my knuckle to press buttons on lifts or road crossings. I recently went to London, using the underground and this weekend to Alton Towers. At both places I wore gloves (ordinary ones) when using the hand rails. My gloves went in the wash when I got home. Yes I know people still cough and sneeze all over the place and still spread germs. However I still like to mitigate my germ exposure. I think people have forgotten Covid.

This seems like a big over-reaction to something that literally affects you in no way at all.

You just witnessed two oddballs behaving a bit strangely, that's all.

People are generally pretty gross a lot of the time. That's why we have immune systems.

(Says me, who has taken a day off work because I have an absolutely FOUL cold.)

We were taught never to do that. You pull the bag a little to stretch it, there's no need to lick fingers - and if you've been handling people's money, putting your fingers anywhere near your mouth is a recipe for disaster!

It's not the gloves themselves which are the problem, it's people wearing the same ones over and over again....the behaviour you've seen isn't healthy at all.

I wear gloves in the supermarket as I don't want to touch all the trollies that people's hands have been all over. I also wear gloves when doing things such as filling up at the petrol station or public places where there are press button machines which everyone has touched but which are never cleaned (eg. ATMs).

I always put on a clean pair of gloves, once I've finished, the gloves are removed cleanly (first one peeled off inside out, placed in the palm of the second which is then peeled off inside out so no germ area touched) and disposed of immediately. I have fresh gloves in my handbag, in the car and in my work bag so I can always use a clean pair when necessary.

As I'm older with immuno issues, it's really helpful. It doesn't stop airborne germs (people sneezing for instance) but it does help with not picking up hand borne germs in public places. Of course I always wash my hands after going out but wearing gloves prevents transferring those germs to my shopping bag/car steering wheel/keys etc. before I get home. Since infection control emphasis the fact that so many bacteria are transferred via the hands, I shall be continuing the practice.

You can’t change it though so little point worrying. Just use a blob of sanitizer after handling trolleys and get on with your day

Is it not because masks don't stop the person wearing them from catching viruses, they just limit the wearers ability to transmit their own viruses to others?

Well they should! You're holding onto their basket or trolley and they don't wash their hands after the bathroom....

I’m have never, ever seen that.

That's more to do with preventing noro virus from improper hand washing after toilet use in service workers. But. One can wash gloved hands as well.

Does it matter? Not your issue if someone else is wearing a mask. Maybe they can’t have the flu vaccine because of an allergy or contraindication

i am sick and tired of people presuming to know more about my health than I do from random strangers to social media
i am neutropenic so sometimes I wear a mask especially if my count is low which inevitably gets whispers or comments because I “don’t look sick”

Yes it's the same when people in sandwich shops wear gloves and use the till with the gloves on. Unless you are willing to change them every ten minutes, just wash your fucking hands!

They're clearly referencing the pandemic. Covid is still around and it always will be but we are no longer in a pandemic.

Why are people past tensing covid? Are they talking about lockdown or do they think covid is a thing of the past?

Yuck. Thats a new one I hadn’t heard before.
If you are bug-adverse, female toilets are cleanest, followed by men’s then unisex. Unisex are the worst.