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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I sell a dress back to the seller for the same price I paid?

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  • Emerion
    Emerion Posts: 70 Forumite
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    I agree with @CapeTown. Of course she isn't missing the dress.
  • iclayt
    iclayt Posts: 460 Forumite
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    My first instinct was the same as a previous poster - she just wants to sell it at a higher price herself.

    Assuming that completed listings are showing it sells for £100+, carry on. Hope it sells!

    (Who misses a dress?!)
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,810 Forumite
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    iclayt said:
    My first instinct was the same as a previous poster - she just wants to sell it at a higher price herself.

    Assuming that completed listings are showing it sells for £100+, carry on. Hope it sells!

    (Who misses a dress?!)
    Somebody who sold it for a specific amount then belatedly realised that she could perhaps have made more money...?
  • catkan
    catkan Posts: 3 Newbie
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    Pass me the tissues.I would suggest that the seller realised that she could potentially get more for the dress than she sold it for.  So no...I wouldn't sell the dress back to her. 
  • CapeTown said:
    I see what is going on here. She has realised that she undersold the dress and wants it back to sell it herself again at a higher price. She is emotionally blackmailing you. It isn't her dress anymore. It is yours. If you sell it at the higher price then donate a little bit to charity.
    This is it in a nutshell.
  • tenuissent
    tenuissent Posts: 342 Forumite
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    This happened to me after I bought a piano from a friend for about £200. She missed it, and asked to buy it back. I sold it to her for less than I had paid, to recognise the fact that I'd had the use of it for several years.

    Have you worn this dress much?
  • anotheruser
    anotheruser Posts: 3,485 Forumite
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    If someone sells their house for £20,000 but it's now worth £1 million, if the seller comes back and says they want to rebuy the house but pay the original £20,000, is that okay?

    A bit different but same theme.

    Not sure of anyone who would miss an item of clothing though.
  • Ed264
    Ed264 Posts: 149 Forumite
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    I'm a little suspicious here. If she really misses the dress, perhaps she wouldn't have sold it in the first place. I suspect she has got wind of the chance of selling it on for £120 herself. If you want to sell it, put it on the auction site and see what you can get for it yourself. What puzzles me is - if it can sell for £120, how come you managed to buy it for £25? 
  • Sparky6_9
    Sparky6_9 Posts: 12 Forumite
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    If you sell it back to her for £25 what is to say she will not then try to sell it for the £120?
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