**This petition doesn't call for an outright ban of Fast fashion products on the platform. It aims to tackle the issue of the direct purchase of additional fast fashion stock and resale on the platform by profiteers. Avoiding adding more fast fashion to the landfill is the principal underpinning this call for action**

For many, Vinted is changing the way we shop for the better, being used as a tool for more sustainable shopping. As other platforms have become degraded by drop shipping (e.g. Etsy and Amazon), vinted is disrupting the market by providing a community led sales platform with sustainability at it's core. This makes it all the more frustrating when sellers mislead buyers into purchasing fast fashion products and the platform does not respond to buyer reports with action.

Vinted is being exploited by fash fashion profiteers. The bulk purchase and resale of Fash Fashion products for profit is being perpetrted through a number of easily identifiable and reportable tactics. Vinted's current community guidelines do not consider these activities a violation (as verified my multiple users who have reported these activities). The activities starkly contradict the values Vinted has been created and endorsed by users for. The primary misleading tactics deployed are:

1. Not Disclosing Fast Fashion Labels: Omitting the origin of clothing or mislabelling the brand to mislead buyers

2. Removing fast fashion tags from clothing (often paired with labelling clothing as vintage) to avoid detection from buyers

3. Creating Multiple Seller Accounts: When buyers try to warn others via negative reviews the seller deletes their postings and reposts them on another account.

4. Large stocks if products found on wholesale sites (e.g. Shein, Alibaba) -Reverse image searches online can evidence the products are sourced from wholesale fast fashion producers.

Unfortunately, while Vinted presents itself as a platform for pre-loved and ethically-sourced apparel, it's falling short of ensuring that continues. Sellers engaging in dropshipping and fast fashion profiteering are emerging on the site. This is a call for action to vinted to step up the protection for the integrity of it's community and ultimately the platforms business case.

By implementing stricter regulations that require transparency regarding the origins of clothing, Vinted can truly foster an environment where ethical consumption is not just encouraged but enforced. This will align their policies with their marketed purpose and impact.

Please join us in urging Vinted to revise its community guidelines to e corporate the following: 

1. Mandatory Labelling of Fast Fashion Products: It should be mandatory for sellers to disclose the background and origin of their items clearly and accurately. Fast Fashion Products in particular should be disclosed transparently.

2. Banning Multiple Seller Accounts: on Preventing the delete and repeat tactics of fast fashion profiteers when buyer beware warnings and negative ratings are posted on their accounts.

3. Committing to investigating reports of Fast Fashion profiteering and drop shipping. Where evidence is given and these bad faith actions are confirmed, banning those sellers from the platform.

This will substantially shift the platform closer to being a true ally in the fight against fast fashion exploitation. Let us preserve the heart of Vinted's mission: empowering individuals to make eco-friendly and informed shopping decisions.

*This petition doesn't call for an outright ban of Fast fashion products on the platform. It aims to tackle the issue of the direct purchase of additional fast fashion stock and resale on the platform by profiteers. Avoiding adding more fast fashion to the landfill is the principal underpinning this call for action.