Selling second hand clothes have brought several problems in the online world. Doubts also reach Petop or Wallapop.
The sale of online clothes, in the second hand, has become very popular in recent years. It is a seemingly easy, fast and sustainable path.
Became popular platforms such as Vinted, a Depop your a Wallapop, that have millions of users.
Vinted stands out, with a 330% growth in revenues over the last two years, which reached 813 million euros in 2024. Vinted has 70 million users and is worth about 5 billion euros.
There are no sales commissions for the platform – a point in favor for consumers, against the competitor, for example.
But this business is causing many doubts, many criticisms. More users, more problems, stresses the
It is a kind of “digital western”: teasing through artificial intelligence (AI), sexual harassment and companies that want data of users to train algorithms.
There are reports of clothes packed in diapers, articles different from the announced, or sellers who disappear.
Precisely focused on the twenty, an investigation of the denounced the accounts that take advantage of images created by IA To sell cheap Shein clothes and stared at inflated prices.
O, citing a study by Which?, Already warned that 32% of buyers in this type of platforms have already been mocked – Noteworthy for PECOP, with more than half (57%) of cases; Almost a quarter of the salespeople said that it was also the target of a scam.
In the twentieth, reports of photographs profile that were used for pornographic sites. The platform is already using IA to try to lock these problems.
At Wallapop, there are reports of phishing e Ghost sellers that disappear after receiving transfers.
Distrust has been increasing, with fears that the number of dropouts increase over the next few times.
