Greedy Bastard

[Butterfr33]

I know he is doing nothing illegal but morally, he is a twat.

A man on Facebook has bought a good few 'fingerlings' that are now sold out everywhere. Their RRP is £15, he's sells them for £25. It just makes my blood boil .

AIBU to think he's a CF?

I guess it depends on what you find more ‘twattish’.

A parent desperately trying to make their child happy at Christmas, or an adult exploiting that desperation to make an easy buck.

I know where I lean.

I'm more amused at the parents willing to pay ridiculous mark ups for cheap tat every year for their little darlings. 😂 Really???

People get more upset over this than they do over pump and dump stockbroker scams and rich foreign investors parking their cash in property to push prices up and hoard their cash.
I see much more vitriol towards people doing what the OP describes than the above.
Pathetic really.
Buy it if you want it that badly, don't buy it if you don't...

Ha. The only reason they want it is that some faceless organisation is exploiting parents desperation to make their children happy at Christmas by focusing their marketing campaigns at making some shitty toy the Christmas MUST HAVE that your children will be DEVO if they don't get.

But ignore them and focus on the little man trying to make a buck. Yep let's do that. Just like the good tories taught us too

It’s also mean, if it means children will miss out at Christmas.

Maybe it's time to learn that Christmas just isn't about the latest 'must have' toy?

OMG, those are hideous. I should have known better than to google stuff mentioned on Mumsnet (usually applies to unusual sexual practices but could be all sorts...). Thank goodness my children are too old and grandchildren too young for me to have to explain why I'm not getting them one.

How do people know what his tax situation is?

If you're worried, report him to HMRC.

Maybe he earns below the tax limit trading his stupid fingerlings. Whatever they are.

I have never, ever given in to the latest craze with my DC. Luckily they are now old enough not to care.

A parent desperately trying to make their child happy at Christmas

Really - with a ridiculously unattractive overpriced plastic toy (even at retail price) that is going to linger in landfill for ever?

Christmas - all about the consumer.

Why would anyone pay more than a quid for these?!

On the subject of top toys - that Luvabelle doll that everyone's rushing madly for this year is the scariest looking doll I've ever seen! It's horrible! Thank god DD is too young to ask for specific things yet.

ridiculously unattractive overpriced plastic toy

I don’t even know what these toys are. I’m talking generally.

I've never heard of a fingerling. I just asked my DC's, 10 and 8, and they've never heard of them either . We must be living in some sort of parallel universe!

I don't see an issue with it, it's supply and demand. They are only "worth" what people will pay for them.

On another note, as these really that hard to find? I have seen them in both Smyths Toys and the Entertainer recently and people didn't seem to be buying them!

I wonder what the responses would be had this been about something else i.e. someone finding an item from 'littlebluecup' and then selling the item for a large amount of money?

Supply and demand? Same thing but morally disgusting.

What's littlebluecup?

If some gullible twat wants to buy their little Timmy an overpriced toy for Christmas, more fool them. I also thought society had evolved passed the point of thinking buying your children crap is a display of your love for them. Get a grip the lot of you!

I also thought society had evolved passed the point of thinking buying your children crap is a display of your love for them.

Yes, society has evolved way past that. You are right. (Have you been under a rock for the past few weeks?)

Some years, a child might only want one particular toy. Some children do not get bought boatloads of crap. If they don’t get it because some greedy twat has bought them all up, then yes, I think that’s fucking mean.

What's he done wrong?

I really don't get the issue here!
He buys stock that he thinks will sell well.
He buys low and sells high. No-one is forced to buy his goods - if his asking price is too high he won't sell and ends up with unsellable stock. The fad may die out and he ends up out of pocket and paying storage for stock gathering dust.

The fact that he is able to set a high price and people are stupid enough to cough up doesn't mean he is greedy! Blame his customers!

Plenty of people in London who bought huge houses for a couple of thousand pounds a few decades ago, now trying to sell them for 1 million. Much greedier than someone trying to make £10 profit!

OP do you own a house? I hope if you sell it you don't take any more than you paid for it. What a greedy immoral bastard you would be if you did, amirite?

I can't believe how hideous they are!

Tried to get the pink one on Amazon for my friend's daughter - £90. She'll be getting something else from me...!

Much greedier than someone trying to make £10 profit!

Yes but they aren't targeting kids Christmas are they?

And I'm sure he's declaring his extra income to HMRC

If he isn't, he might be in for a shock. eBay and Facebook share seller data with HMRC where requested.

My dad once lost her favourite teddy. It was no longer being sold in the shops but someone on eBay was selling one for roughly twice what we'd paid for it new. Not a special or limited edition bear, just a normal teddy. In the hope that some desperate parent would fork out to soothe a heartbroken child!

Slight digression, but I can't be the only person who refuses to buy anything marketed as 'must have'? It triggers my bloody-minded instinct. Usually I've managed fine without the item for the last 40 years, and it's probably hideous anyway.