Seeing your own items resold

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its only happened to me twice that I know of, but its so gutting when you see something you have sold to someone get sold on for more £. I can't see any glaring differences usually in why it has fetched more second time around, although for one thing (an Isabella Oliver top) the buyer/seller managed to find a stock picture and it looked a lot better than my photo. Has it ever happened to you? Or do you do this??

Ignore it some people will buy goods and resell sometimes it may make more cash other times not... ignore it, it happens.... I have done it myself bought something changed my mind and resold it and sometimes have made a bit extra, I am happy to get the original outlay back to be honest. If you took the stuff to a charity shop for free they would sell it one.

Never occurred to me to look although I know someone who buys on eBay to resell.

Perhaps they're selling on because the item doesn't fit right etc. and they are trying to recoup their expenditure.

If you take into account their fees and things, they might not have made a wildly better amount than you, anyway.

One of my justifications reasons for buying on eBay (without trying) is "Well, I can always put it back on again..."

I am doing this at the minute.

I bought a top that turned out to be a bit too low in the front for my aged modesty!

It finishes in a couple of minutes and will sell for what I paid (including postage) which is a result but not something that always happens

Oh I do this loads with shoes. Am forever buying the wrong sizes when drunk or not quite the right colour. Going to a wedding this weekend and I bought 5 pairs of shoes on eBay before I found the right ones. Some of the rejects have sold for less than I paid, some for more.

This happened to me recently with a bugaboo which I was a little bit too attached to . I sold it on eBay for £80 then saw it pop up on Gumtree a few hours later for £140 .

In general, I don't mind but with this item I was ridiculously sad to be getting rid of it so was quite annoying to see it for sale at a much higher price. I don't even know if it sold in the end.

Most of the time I have bought things pretty cheaply and I usually get a similar price when I sell it on so I'm not too bothered if someone else can make a few quid more.

mogs the Bugaboo market on eBay is ridiculous. There are loads of companies trying to buy them from owners down south, recondition them and sell them oop north for a profit. Seriously! Got almost what I paid new for my old Cam.

I've got a Bee to flog soon but am also quite attached to it, not quite ready to let go yet (though we need the money).

I have re-sold things which didn't fit or I didn't like (everyone does it), but only once did I buy something specifically to re-sell, because I knew I could market it better.

While I was browsing I spotted "two skirts" for sale (that was the limit of the description), with no branding mentioned, and a dumb auction finish time. The pic was terrible, but I recognised one of the skirts as Boden. I won the auction for a couple of pounds, then relisted the Boden skirt, which went for nearly £20!

DS once needed a suit for some mock trial activity he was involved in at school. Bought an age 14 suit from a terrible listing from which we could have been getting anything from one age 14 jacket (only thing shown in the photos) to two complete suits in age 14 and something smaller - this was what actually arrived. I sold the little suit for about 3 times what I'd paid for both suits.

The listing was terribly mystifyingly bad. The seller had even underestimated the postage!

I did have to dry clean both suits though.

Welcome to capitalism

wouldn't bother me so much as long as I'd got what I wanted in the first place. am selling loads of toiletries v cheap atm and i know people are buying them up to package nicely (i.e. gift wrap etc) and will make more than double what i'm charging but i'm too lazy(!)

with clothes / shoes / jewellery I always try to use stock pictures for brand new items but otherwise just photos...

I have done this before: bought something and it didn't fit or go with what it was supposed to go with and have then resold it. I try to list things like this so that I make my postage on the original purchase back as well (ie so I don't lose money). I can see it must be frustrating for a seller to see their stuff resold though.