Aibu to make money from a charity shop purchase?

[Partnerprobs]

Recently went to a charity shop and found a couple of items for sale that I liked and were in very good condition. A handbag and a book. Both were in a locked cabinet. I bought them for £25 in total and have sold them on eBay for £75 and £34 pounds, so I’ve made about £84 (less eBay fees which I haven’t seen yet)

My best friend was really shocked and said it’s like stealing and I should donate the money to the charity - this has surprised and unnerved me as I thought it was fine (as they were in the cabinet so had been picked as higher end items, and also they were more expensive than normal items)

I thought it was a lucky break and was looking forward to treating myself.

Aibu?

I don't think this is wrong. You bought the item at the asking price.
The person who donated it wanted the charity to resell it to make money for the charity which the shop did at their chosen price.

If a customer wants it to go to the poor as well-news flash to donors everyone shops in charity shops even Kate Moss & Geri Halliwell to name a few multi millionaires-is this wrong???

The charity does have an option to sell on eBay and some do this -this shop made the choice not to.

It may be questionable if you worked / volunteered in a charity shop and they have a policy that you do not resell stock. Or you work their and just empty the shop of it's stock to resell.

I bought an exercise off Shpock for £40 a year later as I wanted the fold down version after lockdown I sold it for it's true value of £110 and accepted £90. Same difference what you do with your own property is your own business IMO.

fr the charity and it was against their rules.

You obviously bought these items knowing you could make a profit, else why would you sell them so quickly. Even so, you’ve done nothing wrong per se so I suppose YANBU.

THIS THREAD IS FROM AUGUST
The OP has probably come to terms with their decision by now.

@BlackberrySky

Your friend is bonkers. You bought them legitimately and paid the price that was asked for. What you do with your purchases afterwards is none of their business.

Haven't read the whole thread but agree with this. I'm a charity shop volunteer.

Listing stuff online takes time and effort, you have to take pictures, measure the stuff, write a description, upload. then handle queries, take payments, package it up, trek to the post office. We are SO short of volunteers that we just don't have time.

Say we have an item like the OP bought - we price it at £25, OP sells it for £40. So £15 more. For us to have got that £15 we'd have to spend all the time listing, packing and posting. Say 30 minutes. In that same 30 minutes, an efficient volunteer could have priced 20-30 items of clothing, which sell for £150. Where is the time better spent?