For Sale section and eBay

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How would forum members react if supposing they sold something cheaply in the For Sale section to help out other forum members and then found it was being sold on eBay for a profit.

Against the spirit of the forums or a free country?
 
wizard said:
How would forum members react if supposing they sold something cheaply in the For Sale section to help out other forum members and then found it was being sold on eBay for a profit.

Against the spirit of the forums or a free country?
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It's against the spirit of the forums and it's a free country.
 
I think it is pretty cynical to pick up stuff on here and then turn a profit on ebay and against the spirit of the forum.
The radar reflector I had from you is going on my boat as are all the other bits and bobs I've picked up on here...eventually

When we did the Essex boat jumble last year to raise money for the RNLI, most of the stuff was donated by forumites. I sold a bronze fitting to a bloke for a few quid and saw it on his stall later on for x5 what he gave for it :mad:
 
wizard said:
How would forum members react if supposing they sold something cheaply in the For Sale section to help out other forum members and then found it was being sold on eBay for a profit.

Against the spirit of the forums or a free country?
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Name and shame, so that other people are aware, partic if its that scanstrut!
 
flipper said:
I sold a bronze fitting to a bloke for a few quid and saw it on his stall later on for x5 what he gave for it :mad:
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Why be mad though. You have his money, and as far as you have evidence, he hasn't actually sold it. He may still have it to this day, unable to shift it for what he even paid you for it.
You did well, turned something you didn't need into cash for a worthy cause. If you'd asked more for it, you mightn't have sold it at all. Life's too short to worry about that sort of thing.
 
Does this mean that if you buy something on here you are stuck with it forever unless you either give it away, or sell it on here again for the the same, or a lower, price? How would you remember where you had bought it, anyway?

But if someone is in such desperate financial straits that he has to resort to buying things here and selling them on eBay, surely he is to be pitied.
 
I have been watching a Simrad TP10 tiller pilot which has just gone for £170. No instructions, no tiller pin, no mounting socket, no guarantee, no returns and £12.50 postage. You can buy a brand new one for £249.00! :confused:
 
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