Vinted mystery. Can anyone explain the scam here?

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Recently I’ve noticed that in the early hours of the morning loads of designer bags appear in my recommended feed (Mulberry especially) The bags appear all in good used condition according to the pics. They are all priced at the exact same low amount. This is normally around the £6-£9 mark but always very specific amounts like eg £9.37. The sellers all have different names but all are made up of random letters and all have no reviews.
Now obviously I’m not a dafty, I know a Mulberry bag selling for under a tenner honks of a scam but I’m a curious fecker so I start favouriting them to see what happens. They seem to last until the morning and then suddenly vanish.
Yesterday there were stacks of them so I reported half a dozen. Vinted just sent feedback on the reports, saying on 3 of them that they had taken action and on 3 of them the item had been removed before they could view.
Thing is, I’m mystified how this can be a scam? You don’t get paid on Vinted until the buyer receives and accepts they’re happy with the item so how do these scammers make money out of this?

I’ve been awake very early this morning and noticed that all the fake listings came surging into my suggested items at 5am on the dot and swamped it. Totally pre-programmed bot activity.

It’s getting ridiculous, I’m getting loads of different ones clogging up most of my feed now, all premium brands, Dubarry, Molton Brown, Not bothering to report them any more, what’s the point? Apart from anything clicking on them to report seems the clicks tell the algorithm to send you more!

Also had a number of similar six digit random names with no reviews clicking favourite on some of my items. Blocking them tbh

currently in the process of making a sale of one of my items on Vinted . I had shipped the item last week. I get all the usual notifications with the vinted process. And the final one today saying that the item has been delivered - which means the buyer has picked it up right?
I’m now being told by buyer that the qr code was “not recognised” at the locker and that they went into the shop to receive a different package they were expecting. Is this a vinted/ courier scam or does it sound like the buyer is trying to scam me? I’m thinking the latter!

Well muggins here has indeed been scammed by one of these dodgy accounts. I know I deserve it for buying a Fairfax and Favor bag for £20 but I just hoped it might be legit! Silly me. First thing they did was tap into. The Evri courier instructions to instruct the item to be sent to my neighbour. I received the email of this in the week and thought “weird! But hey ho, this is prob just Evri being Evri”.
Then today I find out from my neighbour the parcel didn’t have my name on it (how? I don’t know but again maybe something sellers can do with Evri?) and contained an A4 piece of paper. No handbag, surprise surprise!
When I went onto Vinted full of righteous fury at being scammed, ready to submit that “there is a problem”, I then saw that someone (not me!!!! Promise) had submitted “everything is ok” with the order. So now I cannot raise the issue for a refund.
I take from this that there is a major security flaw with the Vinted courier integration system (at least for Evri and maybe Royal Mail too). The seller should not be able to access the delivery instructions for my parcel! And wth is up with “everything is ok” being submitted?
I know I have little chance of being compensated for this (and maybe it serves me right for buying gutter priced goods!) but I’m kinda infuriated too. I really hope Vinted looks into the case. Wish me luck with that… lol.

How long was it between delivery and you trying to report a problem? After 48 hours it's automatically marked as "everything is ok"...

You're on a list of people who are likely to buy designer bags so you get lots advertised to you in the hope that you buy one. Have you bought one before or enquired about one?

Sounds like deliberate delaying tactics so it was too late to complain by the time you found out.

OT I know, but Facebook is absolutely awash with scams - usually some entirely genuine looking ‘company’ with a supposedly U.K. base - ‘Sadly we are having to close our much loved family business…’ etc., followed by ‘amazing’ bbargains in knitwear etc.

Theres a Radio 4 podcast called ‘The Knitted Cardigan Scam’ - well worth a listen.

That explains so much! It indeed would’ve been 48hours between the “parcel” scam package being delivered Friday and me realising. One of the reasons for this delay is that the scam seller must’ve printed their own label and on that they changed the name from mine to someone else’s first name. All being a delaying tactic. Luckily I’m only £20 out of pocket but I do feel stupid and annoyed with the scam. I knew it was a risky purchase at the outset though!! Note to self for future purchases - no one sells true designer bags for that amount! Although what made it more believable was that the bag was only in “good” condition and had a few flaws. I thought that was reassuring but really that was just more scamming of a genuine seller’s honesty.