Dispatches: Season 2024, Episode 9

2024 - 9: Vinted's Dirty Laundry

With the cost of living crisis still biting, Vinted, the online second-hand market-place app, is offering an alternative to fast fashion, allowing users to recycle their wardrobes and bag a bargain. It's proving very popular with the number of Vinted UK users rising from 2.5 million users in 2023 to over 16 million in 2024. It's now the first secondhand clothing app to turn a profit. Ellie Flynn travels across the UK to meet Vinted shoppers, to determine whether the boom is too good to be true and uncover the truth behind some of the products being sold on the platform.