2nd hand shop want my purchases back!!

2nd_hand_shopper

What rights do i have? A 2nd hand shop/non profit making charity has now contacted me to request that i return an item of furniture as "it wasnt there's to sell" , need to know what rights i have before i return their call

googler

It can't have been that long since you bought it. Have you developed a particular attachment to it in that short time?

How did they know to contact you? Did you leave them your name and contact details when buying it?

If they want it back, they collect it at their expense, they refund your money and the true owner gets their furniture back.

What's the problem?

pinkmexican

The charity shop have no rights to demand the furniture back, if you wanna keep it you can.

chiefgoobster

Perhaps they've sold you an item of some considerable value.
I'd get a 2nd opinion on it's true worth.

Unless they can come to some very reasonable agreement , I'd tell 'em hard chedd.

iamcornholio

If it was not theirs to sell, then you have stolen it and the true owner can demand it back without payment

Leif

I would ask them to explain what happened. Did someone give someone else's property to them? Is it Ming dynasty and worth a fortune? Maybe it was probate furniture, and the person was not an executor hence no right to take it. Who knows.

McKneff

Take Leif's advice and ask them to explain.
Possibly someone has lloaned them something for a display, at the moment one of our charity shops has a display of world war 2 memorabilia in the window and it is all loaned to the charity, perhaps this is what has happend and they have sold an item from the display.

Ask them for a fuller explanation.
What kind of an item is it.

paddy's_mum

2nd_hand_shopper wrote: »

need to know what rights i have before i return their call

I think that in this situation I might be asking less what rights I have, more what good citizenship might dictate.

Nobody here can force you to surrender the item but when a "charity" "requests" something of you ...?

pacman2007

Yes, I agree with paddy's mum. If the item is not so so so important to you, why don't you just give them back:-)

garethgas

And another one for Paddy's Mum :T
I find the OP's attitude rather selfish. Something's gone wrong at the shop (anyone's guess as to what) and they just want to correct it.
Why is it so important? What benefit is it to make things difficult for a charity shop?
Personally, I'd happily forfeit any rights I may have and do the right thing...return it and wish them well.

Bob_the_Saver

pinkmexican wrote: »

The charity shop have no rights to demand the furniture back, if you wanna keep it you can.

If it wasn't theirs to sell they couldn't sell it to you so the OWNER
can ask for it back, you have not stolen it but it does not belong to you.