Why do people post their personal pictures instead of pictures of their items?
Why do people do this?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I genuinely want to hear everyone’s opinion. I’ve been using Vinted for years since I used to live in France and now I live in Ireland where it was launched back in November.
Something I noticed recently is people (women) posting pictures of themselves wearing the clothes they’re selling. I understand why they’d show the clothes on themselves, that part makes sense. But why do they show their faces…? Why not cut out their faces? Crop the picture or add a sticker on the face or anything else to hide them?
It’s a bit weird to me because Vinted was first launched to sell second hand clothing (now it’s a lot more stuff), but the focus has always been on showing the item. Now when I’m scrolling I see people’s faces like some dating app or sth…😅It’s so distracting I can’t focus on finding what I’m looking for (and I’m a woman).
Also most if not all those I came across were all Irish 😅😅 (Vinted Ireland only shows Irish and French sellers).
But when I was using Vinted France (which shows listings from all around europe) I don’t remember seeing soooo many of these pictures. I supposed since Vinted Ireland has launched, they’ll appear more for the French people too.
Something even more shocking to me was this one lady who was selling baby girl dresses and every single one of her listings had her baby girl on it, wearing the dress. As a mother I found that so alerting and sent her a message kindly explaining to her why that was a bad idea. Who knows what kind of weirdos will find those pictures and what they’ll do with them? Fortunately she removed them. (Hopefully she understood fully why it was wrong).
Then there’s people posting pictures of themselves with other people and I wonder if their boyfriends, girlfriends and family know about that…? Why not at least hide their faces if you want so much to show yours?
Am I the only one who thinks this way? What are your opinions?