Would this worry you about a Vinted purchase?

[Mrgrinlingscat]

I’ve just received some books from a Vinted seller that were listed as “good condition” with no other content alongside a photograph of the 3 books fanned out with fronts showing. One of the books is a library book with Dewey decimal sticker on the spine & a library sticker on the inside cover (wasn’t visible on the selling photo as that part was missed off) It was only published 2 years ago so is unlikely to be from withdrawn stock. I’ve yet to leave a review for the seller as I’m feeling a little 🥹 about it as it feels like I’ve bought a stolen book. Would this bother you?
YAIBU - not a problem just confirm ok
YANBU - you’d say something to the seller

I think it depends, in the past my dog damaged a library book (not too badly)and we paid a fee and kept the book. Is it possible something like that has happened? You don't know it's necessarily theft unless you ask the buyer.

They probably paid the fine for the lost book, then found it in the back of a cupboard at home and sold it on Vinted.

You can buy used library books from the library. So it wouldn’t bother me no.

Libraries nowadays keep very little stock. I was trying to give some and they said my books were too old. I imagine they swiftly get rid of unpopular books too.

YABU to assume it's stolen. YABU to assume that even if it were stolen, it would have been by the seller. I've seen ex-library books in charity shops and sold at the library. I've seen books that I know to have been published 3 years ago being sold by the library, so don't have trouble believing it could be the case for a book published 2 years ago.

What on earth would you 'say something' to the seller about? Are you planning to ask them 'hey, did you steal this book?'

The only 'not quite right' you could raise is over the fact that it wasn't shown to be an ex-library book on the pictures, so the markings on it weren't declared and it was possibly 'not as described'.

If my library gets more than 1 donation of the same book they sell it. I often go in and buy quite new books.

just to clarify I wasn’t ever going to accuse them of theft only the fact that it wasn’t mentioned as an ex library book. In my library when they sell books there’s a ‘withdrawn from stock’ stamped across the inside cover which I assumed all libraries do.
Those saying a fine may have been paid then book found, you’re right I don’t know.
However I’ll keep the book & leave no feedback as I’m not exactly happy but not enough to be unhappy!

Mine doesn't. It's a community run library (which are common in Scotland) they don't do the 'withdrawn from stock' update. I don't think this is any different from buying an item from a charity shop then selling it on. It's not a requirement on Vinted to say where you purchased/got it from. If the condition is as described that's all that matters. Good luck 😃