i am a dealer/trader. used to when asked sell stuff for friends/do bootsales for them but stopped as ALWAYS turned into a nightmare (their stuff wasn't good, sold for barely anything then friends thought i had ripped them off as gave them alot less cash than they expected). dh came home last night with a knacked old metal tea set, filthy, been dumped in their garden, said it was a gift for me. if he had asked me if i'd of wanted it i wouldn't and would have declined but it was a nice thought. looked on ebay, they can't give them away, i was thinking of perhaps taking it to charity although will try and get a fiver for it. THEN i get an email in reply to mine thanking them (to be polite) and they sign it off asking for a cut in the sale of it. i am really hacked off. they can have it back as far as i am concerned. it is filthy and will take me ages to clean it up (metal so needs a wash and a polish, take me ages and not worth it for the amount i will possibly get for it, if anything). now i feel obligated to give them half, half of ie £5 when it had been a gift originally, a gift that i didn't ask for or want. they won't belive that i sold it for a fiver either, they will think i sold it for ie £50 and kept it which i wouldn't have done anyway, i had already decided that if i had sold it for more than £20 i would give them half anyway even though originally they hadn't wanted any money and this is how i make a living. rant over
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bitofcheese · 20/06/2012 19:47
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