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

carolineb5949

Absolutely no chance, if this was the case no body would ever make money buying and selling, they say buyer beware, but applies to seller as well, if she didn't want the dress back and you decided you didn't like it do you think she would happily give you a full refund, no, then their is your time and trouble purchasing the dress in the first place, if she wants it so badly let her pay the higher price, I used to do car boots and get early morning purchases for a few pence then sell them when customers started arriving for a few pounds, yes I am a millionaire now. No niceness or morals in business.

sinbinjack

Ask yourself the question would she have offered a refund if she discovered the dress was worth £5 rather than the 25 she got from you. . its called capitalism and it works for the most part even when there are greedy folk around like her. list it at a price you think it will get and that you will be happy with, after that she can make a higher or lower offer. There is no moral decision here just business.

altimate

"Misses her dress"!? Nonsense. She has realised how much it is worth and wants to relist it.

tastyfish

Yeah, I bet she wants it back now she knows its true value!

Keep it, or sell it, either way you don’t owe her anything.

crmism

I think the seller is doing you a favour; after all, you've had use of the dress, so it is worth less than what you paid for it.

JayD

Sell by auction with the starting price being what you paid for it. That way she has the opportunity to buy it back and if ,no one else bids on it, you have covered your costs.

maddogwoman

Just ignore her and sell it for what ever you want. Start by asking £75 and you can always reduce it if there are no takers at £75.  She should not have sold it if she wanted to keep it. She probably just wants it back to sell for more money anyway. If she keeps harassing you just block her.

anotheruser

anotheruser said:

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.

Although people have weird approaches to this stuff.

I have often made an offer after an auction has closed, even paying up to £10-£20 more than what the sale closed at but sellers usually (but not always) say no - they'd rather accept the lower offer than cancel it and get more money.

But when it comes to something like a house, they want as much as they can get.

I don't understand that logic because at the end of the day, money is money - I want the most I can get for an item.

Pollycat

anotheruser said:

anotheruser said:

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.

Although people have weird approaches to this stuff.

I have often made an offer after an auction has closed, even paying up to £10-£20 more than what the sale closed at but sellers usually (but not always) say no - they'd rather accept the lower offer than cancel it and get more money.

But when it comes to something like a house, they want as much as they can get.

I don't understand that logic because at the end of the day, money is money - I want the most I can get for an item.

I feel that is unethical.
I would be furious if I won an auction and then found out that the seller had accepted a higher offer after the end of the auction.

If I was selling my house and had accepted an offer and we were a way down the process and then I had another higher offer, I wouldn't accept it.

I want the most I can get for an item but that doesn't mean shafting a genuine buyer.