Vinted US, UK & Australia Terms Update Renames Buyer Protection Fee, Changes Counterfeit Rules
Vinted is extending its latest terms and conditions update to the U.S., UK and Australia on October 8, carrying over several of the same changes already announced in Europe while leaving payment and counterfeit verification rules more dependent on the market.
The new agreements follow an October 5 update across ten European countries, where Vinted is moving affected Balance users from Mangopay to Vinted Pay, renaming its Buyer Protection fee and adding new rules for counterfeit items and account enforcement.
Liz Morton
Value Added Resource compared Vinted's current and updated terms in all three October 8 markets. The existing U.S. agreement has been in effect since December 2025, the UK version since April 2026 and Australia since June, with localized provisions varying between countries. As always, users are encouraged to read the updated terms in full.
Disclaimer: comparisons are made using both automated and manual methods and are provided for informational purposes only - no warranty of completeness or accuracy is expressed or implied and users are advised to do their own due diligence.
Buyer Protection Fee
Vinted is moving away from calling its mandatory buyer charge a Buyer Protection fee across all of the markets reviewed so far.
Current U.S., UK and Australian terms explicitly list Buyer Protection as a Vinted service, with buyers charged a separate Buyer Protection fee on each transaction. The existing agreements, for example, say Buyer Protection is applied for a fee on every transaction and later list the Buyer Protection fee as part of the amount paid at checkout.
The October agreements remove that terminology and instead call the charge a mandatory "Vinted fee" which contributes to the cost of operating the site. The new terms say the fee is included in the listing price breakdown and added to the final order total at checkout.
Refund rights that were previously part of Buyer Protection haven't disappeared, but are now laid out separately under a Refund Policy covering items that are lost, damaged, significantly not as described or counterfeit.
The terms themselves don't indicate a change to how the fee is calculated, but they do change what Vinted says the mandatory charge is for, shifting from a fee specifically tied to Buyer Protection toward a broader platform fee.
That decoupling of the fee from specific protection promises comes as Vinted's buyer-funded, seller-fee-free model continues to put pressure on competing marketplaces. UK regulators recently estimated Vinted captured 50% to 60% of consumer-to-consumer online apparel GMV in the country in 2025, with competitors including eBay and Depop responding to that growth with their own changes to consumer selling fees.
Liz Morton
eBay has also extended fee-free private selling and buyer fees into Australia, while Vinted officially entered that market in July. And in the U.S., eBay offered select sellers zero Final Value Fees in fashion, baby, home décor and jewelry categories earlier this year, less than two months after Vinted stepped up its American expansion with a New York-focused campaign.
Liz Morton
Counterfeit Items
Current terms across the U.S., UK and Australia give sellers just 24 hours to provide evidence that an item is authentic after Vinted says there is strong evidence of a counterfeit. The October version doubles that period to 48 hours.
The UK also gets the same new rule previously found in Europe, allowing Vinted to retain an item it verifies as counterfeit for six weeks while the seller challenges the finding. If the seller doesn't provide satisfactory proof of authenticity or formally object during that time, the new terms authorize Vinted to "dispose of, recycle, or destroy it without further notice or compensation." That provision does not appear in the new U.S. or Australian agreements, which may reflect the fact that Vinted does not currently offer Item Verification in either market.
Verification is becoming a bigger competitive battleground in Europe. Vinted currently offers designer Item Verification in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania and Finland, while its separate Electronics Verification service is currently limited to the UK and Germany.
eBay appears to be building similar electronics inspection operations in London and Germany, with recently posted roles calling for specialists to check functionality, condition and authenticity before items are sent on to buyers.
Liz Morton
Account Enforcement
Current terms spell out a lengthy set of circumstances where an account can be blocked, including repeated or serious violations, false information, failure to cooperate with verification, payment-provider concerns and security issues. They also provide much more detail about the explanation Vinted will give when it takes action.
Australia's current agreement, for example, says that statement will include the restriction imposed, facts and legal grounds relied on, whether automated means were used and information about available recourse. The October version instead says Vinted will notify the user in writing and tell them about their right to appeal.
The new enforcement language is also much shorter, allowing Vinted to take corrective action when a user's content, items or activity are unlawful, threaten public security or violate the Terms or Catalogue Rules. Possible action includes warnings, removing listings or content, blocking account features and temporarily or permanently blocking an account.
The UK and Australia also remove references to courts or broader dispute procedures from their enforcement-specific appeal sections, though both still preserve those options elsewhere in the agreements. The change therefore narrows what Vinted specifically lists as recourse against an enforcement decision without eliminating users' broader dispute or court rights.
Payments Remain Market-Specific
Unlike the European terms taking effect October 5, none of the October 8 agreements includes a new Mangopay-to-Vinted Pay migration. The UK was already further along with Vinted Pay before this update, with Vinted Pay receiving its UK electronic money institution license from the Financial Conduct Authority in March and Vinted saying the approval would allow its in-house payments business to begin offering wallet services there.
Vinted Pay Limited was already listed as a possible wallet provider in Vinted's April UK terms alongside Mangopay and Adyen. The October agreement keeps Mangopay and Vinted Pay on that list but removes Adyen, without saying users are being transferred from one provider to another. Vinted Pay's UK site now says it manages sellers' Vinted Balances and the earnings stored in them, while the U.S. and Australia continue to use Adyen with no Vinted Pay language added to either agreement.
Still No Vinted Pro For US Resellers
The new U.S. terms continue to say Vinted must be used “for your personal benefit only and not for any professional purposes,” with no new Pro Seller option for U.S. users.
Vinted's Help Centre says Pro is intended for members selling high volumes of secondhand goods as part of a professional activity, but currently lists availability in eleven European markets, not the U.S., though the company says users “might notice the service being available in other countries as part of our test.”
Meanwhile, its U.S. commercial selling policy prohibits business activity and warns listings may be hidden or deleted and accounts suspended or blocked when Vinted detects commercial selling. That has frustrated some users who say they have been flagged despite not considering themselves professional resellers.
In one Reddit post, a U.S. seller said in July that their account was suspended for commercial activity after selling unused craft supplies and children's clothes for about $150 a month, while another said in August that listing 25 gifted and unwanted items resulted in a five-day restriction followed by another restriction after they slowed their posting pace.
Those reports are anecdotal and Value Added Resource has not independently verified the circumstances of the individual accounts, but both sellers said they did not consider themselves professional resellers.
The October update leaves that restriction in place. Vinted Pro remains officially unavailable to U.S. sellers even as the company competes more aggressively for secondhand inventory with marketplaces including eBay and Depop, both of which accommodate professional sellers.
What Isn't Changing
The U.S. agreement also continues to include a binding arbitration provision and class action and jury trial waivers, with a 30-day opt-out period that begins when a user first becomes subject to the Arbitration Agreement. Those provisions were already in Vinted's December 2025 U.S. terms, and the October update does not provide existing users with a new opt-out period.
The artificial intelligence language that drew attention when Vinted's European terms were published isn't new in the U.S., UK or Australia either.
Australia's June agreement already gave Vinted and its affiliates a broad license to use photos, videos, descriptions and other user content for development and improvement of artificial intelligence and machine learning models, with a separate option to stop content from being featured in marketing campaigns.
The October version carries over the same language, and the same AI provisions were already present in the current U.S. and UK agreements as well.
