Are people more arsehole-y at Christmas?!

[greyspottedgoose]

I know some people are always grabby but this post has given me the rage, and for his information you can get them for under £40 on eBay 🙄 Luckily there where loads in my local Aldi today so hopefully nobody will be ripped off.

Waiting patiently for someone to tell me they are worth what someone will pay from them, but that doesn't mean he isn't a grabby twat

Don’t buy them from him then!

The difficulty is that people will pay ridiculous prices for tat like that, so there will always be people making a few quid profit from it.

If people didn't buy tat, it wouldn't be for sale because sellers would realise the futility of trying to sell it. Same for the Facebook tat threads - it only exists because drunk people buy it.

Supply and demand, I think your being arseholey by even moaning about it....if you don't want it scroll on!

Those are the stuff of nightmares!

They’re... cuddly carrots? Why, just why?

If people want to pay that for a toy carrot, then more fool them.

I freely admit I don’t understand what these fucking carrots are all about tho.

Why would anyone pay £40 let alone £95 for a bunch of toy carrots?

Have I missed something?

I’m sure I’ve seen some squeaky ones in the local pet shop.

People see any chance to make a quick quid. It’s cheeky as chuff but more fool the person who buys them

Surely nobody is going to pay that for them ?

I was in aldi this evening and they had loads! I don't think the demand here in Ireland is at the level it appears to be in the UK so for that price you could probably get a Ryanair flight over here, buy as many as you like and fly home .

Christmas turns some people into money grabbing arseholes,
It also turns some into debt-riddled arseholes who queue overnight for cuddly carrots

I spotted some of the toy orangutans from Iceland, on eBay today. They retail at £5 and people are asking upwards of £20!

I suspect that this behaviour happens more at Christmas, because more people will be after the must-have toys, so people see an opportunity to cash in on other people’s desire to make Christmas perfect.

Think of it this way - some people are stsy at home parents and want a way to make some extra income without leaving kids and working full time. So they spooted a market - figure out what is hot for xmas and buy them at retail, sell at profit. For some it is just pocket money, for others it is the only way they can afford the gifts for their own kids. I did it one year - biught these $90 horse and sleigh toys for american girl dills from toysrus, sold in ebay for $260 each. I sold 6 of them and tge money paid for my family gifts. It was a lot of work though - i drove to 4 different stores all half an hour to an hour away, i could only fit 2 in my car at a time, it took an entire day to package tbem and 3 separate trips to post them.

Would it seem horrible to people who desperately want that toy and cant afford it? Sure. But to others who could afford it and couldn't spare the time to get it in store themselves, they didn't mind paying over the retail.

I don't know where I stand on the matter really... I don't like it and wouldnt do it again, but i see why people do. And if the items sell at 3 times the price, well, there is a market...