To think it's cunty to buy up popular toys then flog em on eBay for several x the price??

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There are a few things my dc want for Christmas that are sold out everywhere. So I've looked online and I've seen them all on eBay (on buy it now) for loads more than they cost in the shops

I think it's grabby, vile and morally reprehensible. Cashing in on children. wtf

Mind you I also blame the manufacturers to some extent as I suspect they deliberately don't release new stock to create hype. And also the parents that are blithely handing over their money to these cunts are dipshits as well

Yanbu it's grabby and mean last year ds4 wanted a specific marvel toy that was £25 in the Disney store, sold out everywhere but on eBay brand new in boxes for crazy money. He didn't get one.

Toys are fair game as far as I'm concerned.. You have all year to do your christmas shopping, it's the same day every year so doesn't sneak up on you. If you don't buy something in time that's your own lookout.

Gig tickets I agree with though.

Totally cunty!

Well isn't that just fine and hypocritical of you Methe?

OP I would agree with you but I really, REALLY hate the word "cunty". It makes my teeth itch.

I much prefer "mean spirited"

Well not really. Gig tickets by their very natures are a limited resource.

Toys aren't, They are on sale all year in a multitude of different outlets.

It's greedy and cunty but that's the world as it it.

My brother used to buy end of the day doughnuts with the yellow stickers in sainsbury and sell them at school for first break the next day and was always flush ...

No new toys often come out just before Xmas and we budget building up money to do our shopping in Dec. The marvel super hero toy was released at the end of Nov, I went to the shop the day it was released straight after school drop off and it was sold out! It was then on eBay or local Fb selling pages that day for crazy prices so bought with the intention to sell on at massive profit, that is cunty.

I don't like it. Its grabby and its why we end up with prices sky high for things. It distorts true market forces.

Luckily I seem to be out of that game as DD is older and not so much in need of the must have toy/game.

I always refused to buy from the rip off merchants. Partly, because I am never 100% if it is going to be legit and not stolen too when BNWT.

I generally tried to buy early, or if we missed out, we missed out - and no doubt bought it after Christmas when they came back into stock at normal prices.

I do like it when these items end up as BIN at silly prices - and they come back over and over again, unsold. I often wonder what those people end up doing with them. And there are many that go unsold - you only have to watch ebay for a while to see it. Yet, no one ever seems to admit to it do they?

Mintyy - agree with concert tickets too. It is why now we have sales restricted to only xxx number at a time, and ebay, etc are starting to move away from allowing it when they are sold above their retail price.

I don't think many people really do it to be able to afford to by their own child a present. Like most things, its normally about greed.

It's greedy and cunty, but it's capitalism.

Capitalism is also greedy and cunty.

No-one forced anyone to buy a £300 teletubby ffs.

Actually Methe - it is hypocritical. Many of the toys involved are limited as the manufacturers don't always predict demand.

As for the entrepreneurial bit - meh, its greed pure and simple in almost all cases.

Well it's lovely that you all want a specific toy but aren't prepared to put the effort in! You see, most of the sellers on ebay will have invested a lot of time and effort getting the supposed "must have" toys, they don't often come about by sheer luck. I would suggest you just say no to your children......?

Otherwise put the same effort in as the ebay sellers?....... But no! That would be too hard I suspect

I never use ebay, so I've never seen this. I do remember rushing upto Woolworths every Tuesday morning to get the power ranger figures for my son .I can still remember how excited he was when he unwrapped them.Probably today he'd have to do without, because I wouldn't pay the inflated prices.
I agree with the OP.

It is distasteful, but I don't think that wanting to make money is greedy. Certainly no more greedy than having to have exactly the right toy for a child who will have a lovely Christmas no matter what.

I can't get too worked up about it, it's only Christmas toys.

Is that not wanky of the manufacturer or retailers?

How many times on here has it been said on a thread by some desperate woman who has £14.46 to live on for 4 months

"Have you got anything you can sell?"

This is no different.

Just because a person is feeling hard done by that they haven't Managed to buy little Horatio the newest bit of plastic tat doesn't meant a person who has bought some and sold them on ebay is a wanker, a cunt or a twat.

They're only toys.

Snow Flow Elsa OP?

WD41 the purchasing parents didn't have the same chance though. Because if other people weren't buying stock to sell on at inflated prices, shops would be stocked for much longer.

That would explain the Black Friday madness. Grabby people grabbing stuff to flog on. Probably making a few quid for Christmas.

Must be Snow Glow Elsa.

metheit is different, because the woman with £14 to live off for 4 months wouldn't be able to buy toys to sell on ebay, would she?

YY to Methe and WooWoo

"Have you got anything you can sell?"

This is no different.

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But it is different.

By purchasing items purely with the intention to sell on the purchaser artificially affects the market forces. This is turn with mean that demand is increased and prices will increase. Probably why we have plastic castles now on sale for £120 in store.

Selling something you already own, that has been used and is second hand, is a very different thing altogether.