Good morning,
I am a professional seller with a registered VAT number, specialised in the luxury resale market, with over 250 completed sales on Vestiaire Collective.
On February 26, 2026, Vestiaire Collective blocked my account without providing any specific technical justification, citing only generic doubts about the provenance of some items sent for consignment.
The core issue has six parts:
1. They reject legally valid documentation. I provided official Vinted purchase receipts (with physical “Item Verification” service) and StockX invoices (with certified multi-stage authentication). Both are internationally recognised leading platforms in the sector, whose documents are fiscally valid in Italy and across the EU. Vestiaire Collective rejected them, demanding “documents from the original brand” an impossible requirement in the secondhand luxury market, where by definition items do not come directly from the manufacturer.
2. They blocked my account for items that were NEVER sold. The contested items had been sent exclusively for consignment and they had not yet been sold to any end customer. Vestiaire Collective’s own consignment process already includes an internal physical inspection: if an item fails that check, it is simply returned to the seller. Blocking an entire professional account over items still sitting in their warehouse is a disproportionate and illogical measure.
3. Inconsistent and arbitrary criteria. Items of the exact same brand (Jacquemus, Toteme), same model, purchased through the same channels, were previously accepted by Vestiaire Collective and in some cases successfully sold on the platform. Those same items are now being rejected with no differentiating technical explanation. Vestiaire Collective had already conducted a similar review in April 2025 and fully reinstated my account at that time.
What I am requesting: the immediate reinstatement of my professional account. I have complied with every documentation request made by Vestiaire Collective. The documentation provided is legally valid. The account block is causing me growing financial damage every day, with approximately €30,000 of my inventory currently held in Vestiaire Collective’s warehouse.
4. The most scandalous aspect: they profited from the exact same items they now reject. Vestiaire Collective has physically inspected, accepted, listed, sold, and collected their commission (between 20% and 35%) on items identical to those they are now flagging. In other words: when it was profitable for them, those items were authentic enough to sell. Now that a new batch of identical items arrived for consignment, suddenly the same products from the same source are unacceptable. This is not a coherent authenticity policy but it is a selective and self-serving application of internal rules.
5. The account was not blocked because I sold counterfeit goods. I was never notified that any item I sold to a customer was counterfeit. No buyer ever raised an authenticity dispute. The block was triggered by an automated internal system that flagged too many consignment rejections in a recent period not because of any proven wrongdoing on my part. I received no prior warning, no alert, no opportunity to address the issue before my entire account was suspended. If Vestiaire Collective had concerns about the provenance of specific items, the proportionate response would have been to flag those items and ask for clarification not to shut down the entire account of a professional seller with a clean track record of 250+ sales.
Attached is the complete email exchange with Vestiaire Collective (February 26 – March 5, 2026), which documents all the contradictions described above.
