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Original poster

Would you keep a high value (ish) Vinted item sent in error?

42 replies

cherrypied · 18/04/2023 20:11

Sent an Xbox instead of a wonderbra due to a label mix up

Two people said I should have kept it!

I forwarded it on to correct buyer as seller send me a every label.

Would you keep or send on?

OP posts:
Thursa · 18/04/2023 20:11

I’d send it on to the person who paid for it.

Starhead69 · 18/04/2023 20:12

Send it on. It is not the buyers fault

SnuggleBuggleBoo · 18/04/2023 20:13

Obviously not. Anyone who would would be a really unpleasant individual.

TwilightSkies · 18/04/2023 20:13

Do the morally right thing

QueenAstrid · 18/04/2023 20:13

How can you even think about keeping it when the seller knows you have it and has asked you to forward it on?

violetskypurple · 18/04/2023 20:14

I'd send it on to the right person, I've received incorrect items a few times before and sent it to the right person (nothing high value though).

Yes, the original buyer of the Xbox would've got a refund but the seller would've lost the Xbox and lost the money for it for a silly mistake and if it happened to you then you'd hope someone would be honest and do the right thing!

JustFrustrated · 18/04/2023 20:15

Send it on!

Can't believe anyone wouldn't

maddening · 18/04/2023 20:16

I would have sent it - it isn't like it is a huge conglomerate that can absorb costs like that.

Seas164 · 18/04/2023 20:17

Well you know at least two people that you can't trust as far as you can thrown them.

Ballinluig · 18/04/2023 20:18

Is this even a real question?! Send it on!!

Phoebo · 18/04/2023 20:18

Well you should do what you'd want to happen if you were the seller or the rightful recipient.

Phoebo · 18/04/2023 20:18

Seas164 · 18/04/2023 20:17

Well you know at least two people that you can't trust as far as you can thrown them.

Yes!

Original poster
cherrypied · 18/04/2023 20:26

Of course I sent it on!

I haven't really told anyone as it's really dull other than DH and shop lady who both said keep it! ConfusedConfused

I though I was going a bit crackers sending it on! My moral compass was sent out of whack with what I now know are their crazy comments!

YES THIS IS A REAL THING!

OP posts:
RiktheButler · 18/04/2023 20:29

"Send it on or steal it

Fixed it for you

TheArtfulScreamer1 · 18/04/2023 20:52

Send it on or return it to do anything else makes you quite low in my opinion. Vinted isn't about a faceless multi million pound corporation it's Jenny down the road who needs to try and make a few quid out of the kids clothes that they've grown out of so that she can buy some more in the next size up.

StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 18/04/2023 21:58

violetskypurple · 18/04/2023 20:14

I'd send it on to the right person, I've received incorrect items a few times before and sent it to the right person (nothing high value though).

Yes, the original buyer of the Xbox would've got a refund but the seller would've lost the Xbox and lost the money for it for a silly mistake and if it happened to you then you'd hope someone would be honest and do the right thing!

This.

nosyupnorth · 18/04/2023 22:10

I'd send it back/on.

But if it happened to me or somebody I know, I'd also have said 'keep it'.
I wouldn't have meant it seriously, but 'haha it's mine now' is a pretty standard jokey response to make about being given something nice in error.

MagentaRocks · 18/04/2023 22:14

QueenAstrid · 18/04/2023 20:13

How can you even think about keeping it when the seller knows you have it and has asked you to forward it on?

The OP clearly says she sent it on.

Blossomtoes · 18/04/2023 22:16

You did absolutely the right thing.

SirVixofVixHall · 18/04/2023 22:17

Thursa · 18/04/2023 20:11

I’d send it on to the person who paid for it.

Same.

HappiDaze · 18/04/2023 22:20

You did the right thing

I've forwarded items on where I even had to do a bit of detective work to find out who it was from and to.

I was offered a gift for my troubles but declined because it was from a small craft business.

Skybluepinky · 18/04/2023 22:22

Send it on.

StoatofDisarray · 19/04/2023 04:49

I'd send it on to the owner. It wouldn't occur to me to steal it.

MrsTerryPratchett · 19/04/2023 04:51

Your DH is happy to rip someone off because they made a mistake. I'd be worrying I had.

IrregularChoiceFan · 19/04/2023 04:55

I'd probably prefer to send ir back to the seller to avoid a situation where the bother buyer says they never recieved it. Bur yes of course I wouldn't keep it.