Is this a police job? Threatened by Vinted seller

Those messages are unhinged. Hopefully just some dumb little knobhead who's about to get the shock of his life when the police turn up.

Another one who'd be dialling 999. Good luck with the police, OP.

YANBU. That's a credible threat and the police need to step in.

This is one such advantage of getting things delivered to a locker.

I would find small comfort in the fact that he has got the image online I know that doesn’t help much. He’s a kid being silly and will soon regret it!

Have you got his address?

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I miss the randomness of being front desk cover. Some absolutely insane things happen at police front desks 😂

I think it actually is 999 worthy. I think you should call them now.

I'm an ex detective constable and work in intelligence now 😂😂

Ah of course! I always do digital label with drop off so I’d never seen anyone address

Sounds like a kid still living at home with his parents. His friends have conveniently just been released from jail and are going to come get you over £20? I’d print it all out and report to the local police station. They’ll likely be able to track him down. I wouldn’t be worried, it’s a troll/teenager but no harm teaching him a lesson and sending the police to his parents’ door.

Call the police now. That’s appalling

Are you sure he has your address? I've never had a person address while using Vinted.

Bloody hell, never mind calling the police, @PinkFootstool, you should join them as a digital investigator!

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Agree he's unlikely to actually have an ak47 (according to Google image search), which is slightly reassuring, and hopefully means he's just completely full of shit, but he doesn't need a gun to be a threat.

He does presumably have OPs address, which is enough to make his threats to her / her family credible, and tbh if he's selling fake goods an is that aggressive, it does make me wonder if he might be part of a group manufacturing counterfeit goods and possibly other illegal activities.

The police need to pay him a visit pronto. What a nasty bully. And Vinted need to bar him. What did 191 say.

Jesus. I would also reverse image search the gun, I am sure this is a scam, but as a single parent to a baby, i would feel scared like you.

He's a total tosspot and I'm sure the hardest thing he's ever done is throw his teddy bear out of the pram, but that's not the point. Threats while posting images of firearms, even stolen images, is absolutely something to contact the police over.

That's a bit unfair.

Ours is open for 4 hours a day, 3 days a week. That's a whole 12 hours out of 168!

This is a 999 job. If 101 fob you off, call 999. Your safety and that of your family has been threatened.

Where I live, parcels don’t get delivered to home addresses, so we don’t have the issue of sellers or buyers seeing where you live.

I’ve only had to report once for fakes; the seller was most indignant and trotted out the usual defensive line of the price being so cheap, I should have known. Regardless, it’s against Vinted rules to knowingly sell on fake gear.

Gosh that's absolutely awful op. What a stressful situation, I was only thinking the other day that there are so many counterfeit items for sale now. What happened to their strict measures? Seems that fakes are too lucrative to resist. It's obviously making them loads.

I personally wouldn’t call 999 as it’s unlikely you are in danger and he sounds underage (not saying they’re not dangerous).

I’d call 101 as you’ve done and then escalate it if needs be.

I don’t know how it works but I assume as it’s not an emergency 999 will push it far back whereas 101 may have more time to sort it out.

Definitely report to the police. Though it sounds to me like someone trying to say as many outrageous things as possible in the hope you'll be intimidated enough to let him keep your cash and alert noone to his dodgy sales, he has absolutely no right to say any of those things and make you wonder and feel unsafe. And you can't take the chance.

Let him find out what his stupid, disgusting behaviour can actually cost him.

The worst vinted can do to him is ban him because he's not allowed to sell the counterfeit goods he's admitted to sending, however they will of course refund your money and not required you to return the item.

Glad you are reporting the incident. Even if the picture he's sent you has been manipulated to perceive he's holding a gun, that's still threatening behaviour and I'm not surprised you are frightened. Screen shot everything - all messages, profile etc.

Sounds like a kid being a twat.

Hes going to shit himself when the police knock at his door.
You can’t go around threatening people and their kids like that, especially not with a gun even though the pic is fake.

I don’t know how vinted works but do sellers also need to provide their details.
Surely he won’t be hard to track down.

You can report a non-urgent crime to the police online, good luck. By the way, he says he never promised they were genuine goods but Vinted doesn’t allow the sale of fakes so I’m guessing he was trying to pass them off as real? (I know cos I tried to sell a fake Ralph Lauren jumper, fully disclosing it as a fake and they wouldn’t let me).