Sister selling DS furniture

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I'm quite upset about this. I sold my DS bedroom furniture to my sister 2 days ago. It's in excellent condition and it wasn't cheap when we first brought it, it's a good quality brand.
I'd sent her pics of the furniture before came to collect it so she knew what it was like. I only charged her 50 for the toddler bed/mattress and chest of draws.

I had a notification like night on my phone to say my sister had listed these items on the marketplace on social media. She's put the price on for £180. She didn't tell me she didn't want them, or unhappy about them.
I know it's now hers to do what she wants but 1) surely you would mention it to me first and as politeness say its not quite right I'm going to sell and 2) why is she charging so much more money. I feel like she's making a profit out of my kindness to charge her hardly anything for it because she's my sister.

Aibu to be upset about this?

Yanbu its a mean spirited and wierd thing to do.

Don't be too sour with her as there is just no point.
Keep things civil but take it as a lesson learned.
Also she wouldn't get one. single. handmedown off of me again.

Wow I’d say you’re a tight arse for SELLING her your unwanted stuff to begin with. I’m sure the general rule is if you buy it then you own it and can do with it as you wish. She’s clearly savvy.

chest of draws

And it's only 01/01/21!

YANBU. We once gave 2 sofas and a chair (great condition and expensive) to family who were struggling when we moved. When visiting their house I found they had got rid of/sold one of the sofas and the chair. If they didn’t want them we would have had them back we were just trying to help them out, so i know how it feels.

Two days! That’s cheeky and profiteering. If she really didn’t want them, she should have refused them in the first place.

She's in the wrong. If she wanted them to sell, she should have told you. I don't think she understands the emotional aspect of selling cheaply to a relative. The reason people do this with an item they love but no longer need is to reduce the pain of getting rid of it completely. Knowing the item is in some sense not completely gone is compensation for the reduced price. The recipient selling it has broken the deal. (If she'd used it for a few years then got rid of it however she chose, that would have been less of emotional wrench for the original owner.)

(I know someone who was sold a beloved car very cheaply by a close relative, and a few months later sold it because they wanted a smaller car. The seller was upset. I can see both sides with that one.)

YANBU .... very rude and I would definitely call her out on it.

She’s shot herself in the foot if your son is a bit older than her toddler - that’s years of hand-me-downs she won’t be getting now.

She's out of order. You could have got more yourself by selling them online, but you chose to offer them to her for a much lower price as a favour. She has taken advantage of you.

Well if she’s got form for it then you know never to give or sell her things in the future as she’s likely just to do the same thing.

@44PumpLane

Comment on the listing "oh is this the stuff I flogged you for £50 the other day" thus guaranteeing Noone else will buy it!

However, on a more serious note I agree with others, call her out and tell her you only sold it to her at a discount as you thought she really needed it and it's really underhand of her to be flogging it so quickly.

^^ this. Both paragraphs.

She del boy'd you the little snake.

She knew before she even took them she would sell them for a profit - CF unless she thought you realised this and just didnt want the hassle of selling yourself.

She is a CF to a degree, and she's no hope of selling that stuff at the price she's asking. However, I must admit, I'd have given it to her, not sold it.

This is awful yanbu at all! This really winds me up when so many people are struggling! I'd rather give stuff away than try and get any money out of it

I'd stop giving stuff to her, or selling it. She's shown she can't be trusted and doesn't understand how hurtful it is, so you can expect her to do it again.

In future, give your stuff to a friend who'll appreciate it, or list it on Facebook yourself.

what a sly, grabby CF, YANBU. Don't give or even sell her any more stuff. Sell it yourself and keep the money sounds like you need it more than she does.

Wow I’d say you’re a tight arse for SELLING her your unwanted stuff to begin with. I’m sure the general rule is if you buy it then you own it and can do with it as you wish. She’s clearly savvy.

Looks like the OPs sister has turned up ..

I take it you missed the OPs post where she said she was a single parent and could have done with the money but sold it cheap to do her sister a favour?

In my family we also generally offer unwanted furniture to other households first before we try to sell it/take it to the tip but that is different to how we treat items we are selling because we need the money.

If I was selling an item because I needed the cash, my family would get first dibs for anything they needed and would get it at "mates rates" and then it would be offered on the open market at a higher rate for profit/to fully cover the reason I needed the cash. If I sold a family member something cheaply out of familial kindness only for them to sell it for profit (especially if I sold it to them because they needed the item and I know they arent short on cash) then I would be pissed off because I would never have sold it to them that cheaply when I need the money and could have achieved the higher price myself.

One could equally argue that charging ones own sister for unwanted furniture is ‘grabby’.

No-one comes out of this well, including posters on this thread.

@TatianaBis oh give over. are you the sister?

a financially strapped single parent charging her own sister a vastly reduced price is not remotely the same as paying one's financially strapped sibling peanuts in order to turn it around for a quick buck. unless one's sister is a shark.

one's own grandmother would give herself to one for free, but would one pop her on ebay?

She had no intention of keeping it. Instead she saw a way to make money at your expense.

Absolutely shameless.

One could equally argue that charging ones own sister for unwanted furniture is ‘grabby
Meanwhile in the real world. No longer in need does not make it no longer useful or valuable.
OP could have easily sold this for £180 many pay this.
My Dsis sold her mama's and papa's bedroom set for 700, she sold the 2nd hand spotless bugaboo she bought 12 months earlier for the same price she bought it.
People love a bargain.
I'd ask her for the profit or fall out with her she isn't the type of person I'd want to be friends with anyway "Sisters eh"

I said no-one comes out of it well. OP tried to make a quick buck off her sister and the sister tries to make a quick buck off her. Much of a muchness.

Nor is it a vastly reduced price. Second hand toddler’s bed + chest of drawers won’t get much anywhere. It’s very difficult to sell beds - likely she’d only to be able to sell the base.

Wow she's a CF! Personally she's get absolutely zilch from me in future if that's how she is.