About FIL wanting us to flog stuff for him on ebay?

[Iklboo]

FIL has a nice range cooker & fridge freezer he wants to sell after moving house. They were already in the house when they moved in but he has bought new stuff. Unfortunately, we can?t have them as landlord won?t let us rip out half of the kitchen to get them in .

FIL has said we can (note ?we can? not ?can we?) flog them on ebay for him. He will give us the listing fee but he will, obviously, keep the proceeds.

Since listing will only be about £2 or £3 - and if anything goes wrong the negative feedback will be on our account - I honestly think he?d be better off advertising it in Loot.

Am I being unreasonable?

Oh - plus hassle of us getting money by Paypal and then having to transfer it to FIL's account etc

Just tell him that eBay isn't the place to sell big things like that, and more to the point, you are only supposed to sell your own stuff - i.e. what if someone wanted to see it beforehand, and you had to arrange as a middleman for a viewing. Just be straight and say that you are not willing to get into it (for the above reasons), he would be better advertising in the local ads paper/local shop ads etc. OR if he wants rid then on freecycle. I wouldn't go into the whole thing about the cost to you and the negative feedback etc. You don't need to do this for him, so don't enter into the discussion.

If he pushes it, just tell him that it is really easy to set up an eBay account if he is determined to sell it on eBay, but that it just wouldn't work for you to sell something on his behalf.

YANBU. He should get off his lazy bum himself if he wants some cash for it.

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i think loot is a far better option tbh hes more likely to get a price he wants in loot.

My points exactly...

Trouble is DH. Background...

MIL & FIL divorced when DH was 7. When DH was about 20 they moved to Rhyl. DH lived in Manchester and so they only saw each other about 4-5 times a year but spoke every 2 weeks or so on phone.
Every time DH is in same room as FIL or on phone he seems to revert back to being about 14

So - it's DH I'm going to have to persuade

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how about telling your dh you don't think it is a great idea for the reasons mentioned but if he wants to go ahead and help out his dad in this way then go ahead but you would prefer to stay out of it.

I'm going to do my best to persuade him loot is the best way to go

So FIL is not even close. Seriously, don't go there. Just refuse point blank and tell DH if he wants to be forced by his dad to do this, then you want nothing to do with it. Taht woudl be a nightmare selling something that is not even near you - total middleman role that you don't want to get into.

Dad's not too far away now - he's moved back to Manchester but still, I'm imagining getting questions, having to phone FIL for answer, him phoning us every day asking how it's going etc

I also think he'd get a better price in Loot too. People less likely to buy off ebay cos they can't see the item

[sigh]

We sold some stuff for my parents and it was a bit of a nightmare. Nothing drastic but just a pain trying to get them to take decent photos, then getting a description of the items out of them and then having to deal with all the questions (of which there were many).

We also had to relist 2 items due to problems with the buyers and a big item sold for nothing like its true value.

He'll be able to get a much better price through Loot for much less effort.

yanbu - My FIL asked DH to list a couple of items for him that he'd won in a competition. Given that he'd been given them, and he is loaded, you might have expected that he'd give at least something to DH for selling them, but no, he asked for the full proceeds. It was a pain, as the items lay in our house for weeks before they finally went on ebay. Also when you've done it once, you're more likely to be asked again!