Re-selling items that you have bought from me

[itfciain]

Hi chaps

Have had a few requests recently asking if it is OK to sell on items that have been purchased from me. All have had the same response and that is of course. As far as I am concerned, as soon as your money hits my PayPal account then the item is yours - if you want to sell it the day it arrives then that is fine by me. With prices fluctuating rapidly then I also have no problems if you manage to sell for more that you paid.

I know one of the FB groups operates a no sell policy and I respect that - but for me there are no such issues at all

Cheers
Iain

 

[jedi_masters]

I have never understood why people would feel the need to ask the seller they bought the item off previously if it's ok for them to sell it. As far as I am concerned, you've paid the money for it so it is your item to do what you want with.

 

[Mr-shifter]

Totally agree. It's a bullshit rule.

Unless you are selling your childhood collection or Mocs you brought yourself from a shop then any item you are selling has come via someone else. Yes, flipping stinks but as long as there is money involved there will be greed.

I think people don't give enough weight to the buyers rep. If someone I know is probably going to try to flip an item is trying to buy an item then I'm going to make sure I get a price I am happy with before i sell them the item.

If someone is buying an item for their collection and I know them I'm going to do them a favour with the price. If they then want to sell the item for whatever reason then so be it, none of my business. But, they may not get such a favourable deal the next time.

I have had some great deals from friends. All of the pieces are still in my collection room. But then I only buy what I want to keep and sell very little anyway.

 

[skywalker]

Yeah can't see a problem with this it would be like me phoning curry's and asking them is it ok to sell my T.V I bought from them last year.

Although it would be nice if the items were offered on the forum for sale but it is up to the seller I guess.

 

[Andyclarke]

Iain,

Could the title of this thread be a Freudian slip?

Andy

 

[itfciain]

Iain,

Could the title of this thread be a Freudian slip?

Andy

hhaha - fat fingers look like they have slipped in an extra E :lol:

 

[lejackal]

Despite taking the proverbial out of the rule on that FB group I was one of the people that asked Iain as on this occasion when I was going to sell something I'd bought from him it wasn't to fund something else it was to fix a small financial crisis in the week so I felt obliged to (a) get as much as possible and (b) tell him I was doing it and why.
Fortunately my partner told me not to and another small rectangular piece of plastic saved the day.
Anyway, thanks Iain for not being fussed and more importantly thanks to Sue for making me keep the figures

 

[indianawars]

The only time I ever had an issue with re-selling an item brought from me was on eBay when a guy pestered me regarding a clear bubble Vader MOC I had.
He would constantly go on about how it was the missing piece to his entire collection of clear bubble MOC's, but he didn't have enough money so would I cut him a deal. Never one to deprive a collector of a missing piece I decided to sell it to him at a reduced price. Fast forward 3 weeks later - BAM, back on eBay with a price tag of £80 more than he paid me for...

We all have our reasons for having to sell on a piece or two, but as along as the original motive wasn't buying it with the intentions of flipping it, then I see no problem whatsoever.

 

[Michael Sith]

The post that Iain has put up, the openness of the post from Carl and the ethos that Damien has displayed within his post, goes to show the calibre of the members of the SWFUK.
Very refreshing in this day and age and reiterates why so many of us are members on here.
Long may it continue

 

[itfciain]

The only time I ever had an issue with re-selling an item brought from me was on eBay when a guy pestered me regarding a clear bubble Vader MOC I had.
He would constantly go on about how it was the missing piece to his entire collection of clear bubble MOC's, but he didn't have enough money so would I cut him a deal. Never one to deprive a collector of a missing piece I decided to sell it to him at a reduced price. Fast forward 3 weeks later - BAM, back on eBay with a price tag of £80 more than he paid me for...

We all have our reasons for having to sell on a piece or two, but as along as the original motive wasn't buying it with the intentions of flipping it, then I see no problem whatsoever.

Yes, I agree with that - it hasn't happened to me on here but I would be disappointed if I'd cut someone a deal for their collection only to find it on eBay / FB in a couple of weeks - but hey, from my point of view, the sale price is the price I am happy with - it I am not happy I won't sell it. I was looking back at some of the pictures I have of items listed 5-6 years ago and I would love to have some of those now (and would sell them for a lot more) but that is the nature of collecting

 

[Palifan]

I must admit that I'm not a big fan of people buying items from places like this and then flipping them. If I sold something on here I really would like to see it get to a collectors hands and not someone who has little real interest in the item other than making a quick profit. It's not the money at all and I totally understand the fact that when someone has bought something that it's theirs but certainly with a place like this, built for collectors and enthusiasts, it really would feel like it's been taken out of someone's hands who would really enjoy it and then they are being made to pay more for it (if they can now even afford it). This also goes for eBay to a certain degree but it's much harder to gauge who's buying your stuff and you can't really complain if you put it to auction and it only makes a half of what it's sold for the next week, annoying but that's just the way things go sometimes.

With all of that said I do understand that there are sudden reasons that people have to need to to let things go and also I'm sure we've all made the odd mistake when buying something we thought we wanted and the realised we didn't. For me the people who have reached out to Iain have done the right thing and it's clearly something that played on their minds or they would have just sold it on regardless. It sounds like they wanted to do the right thing and Iain clearly has no problem with it so it's all good.

There are always different factors that come into this type of situation but I'd hope that if someone sold something and made it clear in their listing that they really want the item to go to a good home that people would respect their wishes ( I think everyone knows more or less what something's worth on places like this so I doubt anyone's going to get away with a complete steal unless the seller wants to do a solid for a member they feel deserves it).

Now I just feel bad about that extra 80 quid I made off of that clear bubble Vader MOC I sold :lol: (hopefully that seller has had their comeuppance in one way or another for their sob story :twisted: )

Ian

 

[theforceuk]

The post that Iain has put up, the openness of the post from Carl and the ethos that Damien has displayed within his post, goes to show the calibre of the members of the SWFUK.
Very refreshing in this day and age and reiterates why so many of us are members on here.
Long may it continue

This as well in a nutshell.

 

[ODB]

Do we have to ask permission to keep an item as well now?

 

[Palifan]

Do we have to ask permission to keep an item as well now?

Only if you're planning on taking it outside of your house, there really has to be limits to this sort of thing!

Ian