AIBU or is this woman a bit cheeky?

[babybearsmummy]

Loads of shops in my local area have run out of paddling pools and lots of people with young children are all over the selling sites making pleas for pools.

We bought one a few months ago for dd (1y.o) to use as a ball pit but when we got it out of the box it was too big for our living room and I'm not using it as a paddling pool for dd in the garden as we haven't got a parasol or anything to shade her from the sun yet. So I decided to sell it.

As it's unused, I put it on a selling site for a few pounds less than what it cost us. Had a lady snap it up, collected it today etc and one hour later she's put it up for sale on the same selling site for, not only more than I sold it, but more than the RRP.

Is it me or is that a bit cheeky?!

If it's all fine and above board, then why do so many of us feel uncomfortable about it?

Wow - £199.50? Really?! That was a nice profit!

As I said, I went back...! I didn't know it was worth anything when I bought it (pre-internet/computer chez moi)

So programmes like Bargain Hunt are all full of cheeky blighters who should go back and share their profits with the shop they bought the crap from?

How much money are we talking here on the paddling pool?

Ah well .. you could have sold it for more..

That's it - Mimi, if you can sell something for more, then why not?

We've just got a fab bargain on Gumtree - 6 Ikea chairs, which are currently on sale at £50 each, for £30 in total, so a saving of £270!! If we ever have to sell them I don't think I'll be doing it for £30 for 6 - does that make me a very bad person? Oh well

But you didn't expressly buy them with the intention of selling them on immediately.

But so what if I had? He advertised them as wanting a quick sale - there was nothing to stop me reselling them.

People have been buying stuff and selling it on for a profit for millennia. I don't have a problem with it or feel uncomfortable. The seller still takes the risk (eg outlay with no promise of a return).

The only area I have a bit of a problem with is touts who bulk buy tickets so there are none available for anyone else, but then I've seen plenty of touts desperate to offload tickets at half price outside gigs before so I guess they win some, lose some too.

I'm confused by the need to pay her 'above RRP inflated price', even if your local shops have sold out. Amazon do next day delivery and very cheap prices, surely these desperate people on your selling pages could get a non-local pool delivered easily?

Buying something at a lower price and selling it for a profit the is ^basic foundation of selling^
Our economy would collapse if everything was at the first basic price sold by manufacturers.
Loads of business models are based on this: property development, the majority of eBay shops, supermarkets etc etc

If a charity shop is selling something for 50p that someone thought they could sell for a fiver then so what? That charity shop is getting the 50p they asked for.
If the item was stolen or haggled down or gotten for free then it would be different. But people are getting the price they want.