Last updated: 13 July 2026
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Catherine appears on BBC Radio 4's consumer affairs programme You & Yours to discuss the Sad Vinted Faces evidence: 5,497 UK responses, over 3,400 banned accounts, £450,000+ in reported losses and the pattern of automated decisions without meaningful human review.
Catherine appears live on ITV's This Morning, interviewed by consumer champion Alice Beer alongside a Vinted seller case study, covering the wave of account bans, stuck money and the calls for human review of Vinted's automated decisions.
BBC News runs a full nine-minute feature and a written article on the wave of Vinted account bans, suspensions, stuck money and counterfeit accusations, drawing on stories from the Sad Vinted Faces campaign. Additional short-form coverage runs on the BBC News Instagram Reels and TikTok channels.
The Tab picks up the wave of Vinted buyer scams surfaced through the Sad Vinted Faces campaign, covering the "printed picture" trick where sellers ship a printed photo instead of the item and Vinted's dispute system sides with the seller.
Thred covers the pattern documented by Sad Vinted Faces: automated systems suspending users at scale on undefined grounds ("commercial selling", "counterfeit", "fraudulent activity") with no meaningful human review of appeals. Style vertical picks up the sustainability angle: a broken second-hand marketplace is a broken circular-fashion story.
Sellers like Elisha Wright, 19, say their accounts on the resale platform have been suspended or banned, damaging their business. Featuring Wright Attire (Cheltenham) and Andrew Pidgeon (Nottingham). Written by Emily Braeger, Money Reporter.
Sellers say a heavy-handed system is blocking them from the resale site and making it harder to reach customers. Written by Jessie Hewitson.
The resale site is losing fans because of frustrating customer service that makes getting a refund a gargantuan task. Written by Jessie Hewitson.
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