Would you think this is cheeky?

[SuzukiLi]

Is it cheeky to make money selling things that someone has given you for free?

I suspect I have sold on a few things people have given me - I tend to sell a few bundles of a particular brand once DD has gone into the next size cos I just don’t have room to store everything. I can’t remember where some of it came from - could be charity shop, bundle I bought myself or given by a friend. I rarely buy new things so it’s all secondhand, just from different sources. Where I remember I try to pass on for free to someone else, but it’s often hard to find someone prepared to take secondhand stuff.

I have had problems with one friend who keeps passing on stuff, despite me being overwhelmed sometimes and having said so. She will turn up with a bag of stuff at a place she knows I’ll be and then not want to take it back with her so I feel obliged to take it. Plus she acts like she’s doing a massive favour to me and insists on showing me the special things she’s passing on. Her children are a totally different shape to mine so the things often don’t even fit... I have tried to deal with this by saying things like ‘I’m only short of leggings now in that size so don’t need anything else thank you’ but This doesn’t seem to register!

Okay. I think what I'm taking from this is that people who give as gifts in this way and are likely to be offended will probably make a mental note not to pass on to me in the future - which is fine.

I've noted that people who pass stuff on seem to fall into two groups - those who feel that they're doing it as a favour, who might be upset if the recipient then seems to "disrespect" the favour by selling things on later, and those who pass on as a way to dispose of items that they no longer need and don't have the time/energy to list or take to charity shop for themselves. And this group probably won't much care what happens to the items after being received.

I'm part of a small private sell/swap group and some things are listed with a note saying this is free on the condition it gets listed back on the page. I won't take those items because again - just not likely to remember.

Wouldn’t bother me at all. I can’t be arsed selling most things on but bigger stuff I will, I will also sell if t was a gift they no longer use. I wouldn’t mind others doing the same. If I’ve recieved something for free of Facebook and the like I will pass it on for free if still useable, gifts from people etc I’d probably sell on.

Not straight away I might add, they will be grown out of before I sell on. People who get free stuff just to sell on are cheeky in my opinion. Everyone’s different I guess and your view isn’t wrong to ou and many others but your friends view wasn’t wrong either. Just different.

If given as gifts then yes, cheeky. Pass them on as donations. Put yourself in shoes of giver, would you like it if someone is making money out of your gift.

manicmij that’s the point, we wouldn’t mind or be bothered if someone sold a gift we had given after it’s been used so why should it be an issue if someone sells on something that was used. Let’s face it those that will sell on are more than likely short on money a lot and this would help buy the next size up etc also probably second hand.

Anything I was given (secondhand) free I passed on to someone else for free (third hand). Anything I was given as a gift / bought myself and was unused I sold.

Lord, people get so bloody precious about a bunch of old baby clothes! I couldn't give less of a shit what happens to the stuff I give away - I'm simply happy that they have a use for it, or can raise a bit of cash by selling it. Whether it's second hand, or new - it should be a gift, with no strings.