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

it is possible for markets to be regulated within a capitalist system so as to mitigate the worst consequences of an unfettered free market

Sure, but do you seriously think regulatory price controls should be applied to toys?

'Cunty' ?????

123upthere- I know, it makes me shudder.

hehe, thank you fatlazymummy. Just what I thought a few days ago.

Ha ha to the Black Friday telly flogger eBay failures

Twats

Thinking that a Blaupunkt tv discounted by £80 was going to be selling at a profit a couple of days after Black Friday was not good thinking. They clearly didn't have the skills to make it work! Hopefully this will put them off fighting in stores next year.

If people are prepared to pay those prices then what's the problem. You don't have to, I wouldn't, but many are and do

I do hope that The Taxman has been keeping tabs on those eBay accounts.

Lol squirrelled

God forbid someone on ebay should get away without paying £20 tax, when AmAzon, Starbucks, etc etc don't pay any...

HMRC are quite clear that buying with the intent to sell on is classed as trading, and should any income should be declared. Failure to do so is tax evasion.

Amazon, Google etc are using legal loopholes to avoid tax.

There is a difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance.

I love the idea of these a-holes having a garage full of My Little Pony Knackers yards that they couldn't shift come Boxing Day.

I agree with you, OP. It makes me laugh when 'entrepreneurs' misjudge. Black Friday was a day I stayed home, didn't buy as much as a packet of chewing gum whilst many were out sourcing giant flatscreens for the pure purpose of selling to make a profit. Straight on Ebay... and still languishing there, I believe.

The only way to stop these people is not buy into their greed and let them waste their money trying to double-dip when they have no moral right to it, having neither researched, developed, manufactured or distributed the product.

Oh, fatlazymummy has just posted about that. Too funny.

It's greedy grabby behaviour, but as I'm sure has been mentioned several times already, it won't ruin Little Eric's Christmas if he doesn't have the latest plastic tat watting for him on Christmas Morning.

Seriously, some parents need to get an imagination, and instil one in their kids too.

A false dichotomy that's cropped up a few times:
"It isn't cunty because only food/utilities/etc should be regulated. For non essentials it's a free market and quite right too."

It's true we don't want the state regulating toy prices or anything quite so totalitarian.
But it is still cunty to buy 'em all up and mark them up on ebay. It's cunty because it is a zero sum game - if you've made £x, that's because some poor sods have forked out £x over the odds.

There are innumerable things that are perfectly legal to do which are outright cunty. This is one of them.

It's only cunty if you think RRP is both immutable and reasonable, which I don't.

Well perhaps the BIG ebay sellers will buy up all the stocks before they hit the shops next time and inflate the prices before the 'wannbe' sellers get their mits on them... and then nobody will buy them.

I don't ever remember it being like this when I was a child. I wanted a Sindy, even a specific one, and they were always available. Never this mad dash and grab for things on the premise of profiteering. It was better then.

What should we call this grabby phenomenon? 'Shylock-ing'? People complain about the credit cards with 000's% interest. This isn't any different. Just playing on people who are or put themselves under pressure to buy. Scummy behaviour nevertheless.

I always make negative assumptions about the people who do this. Was looking at Elsa dresses on e bay before they came back in stock, but couldn't shake the thought that it would turn up smelling of fags.

Ha ha at smelling of fags plantsandflowers

And great posts from lyingwitch

lyingwitch I can remember twice in the 80's/90's. Once was the cabbage patch doll craze, which my SIL drove around to get one.
Once was the power rangers figures ,which I went to quite a lot of effort to get for my son.
No ,it wouldn't have 'ruined' his christmas if I hadn't been able to get them, but it did mean a lot to him. He would probably have missed out today because I wouldn't have been able to afford the inflated prices. Obviously some posters don't care if other people's children are left out though.
I was brought up to just buy the things you need and leave enough to go for other people.
A concept that seems to go over some people's heads.

Me too, fatlazymummy, me too. It was just better then somehow. I know each generation berates the one before but really this, this is hell. Consumer credit is out of control and mad spending is an awful by-product of that.

I remember the cabbage patch dolls. I really, really wanted one, didn't get one and now I look at them and shudder. I do love my Holly Hobby doll though, still have it.