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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

Why would someone buy my bag of random tat on Vinted?

Woman sitting on a sofa at home unpacking a cardboard box and photographing an online order.
One person’s trash … Photograph: Posed by model; Igor Barilo/Getty Images

We have a lot of differing opinions about Vinted activity in my household. My son thinks [sic] “old people have a massively inflated idea of how much things are worth”, so he would never flog anything on my account, lest he get tainted with oldness. It was hard to know where to start on this argument, between “maybe we just have nicer stuff”; “the worth of everything is determined by the price people will pay for it, in a citizen economy”; and “I am not old”.

My daughter, conversely, is happy to funnel her wares through me, which is how I arrived at peak Vinted, its very spirit in a single item: I posted a bag of random tat for £2. It sold within five minutes.

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