Comment on This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The book is for sale for ten pounds on the Oxfam website. Looks like the ebay seller found this book in a sale or something.

  I don’t see why they can’t ask a reasonable price. They put a little time and effort into listing and posting the thing, they could’ve just recycled the thing if they were done with it, and OP could’ve looked around and gotten the book for cheaper.

  I think this mildly infuriating because OP clearly missed a good sale, but this isn’t bullshit.

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  • ElCanut@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    X10 markup on a product you bought from a charity is not a reasonable price imo

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    • eskimofry@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then you should have not bought it

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    • ma11en@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could be worse, they may have been gifted the book from someone that stole it from the shop.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could see it if the book was new and just being resold. But I gathered tgat it is used from the post and the text

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was the price when new though

  Welcome to capitalism!

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  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This behavior is literally millennia older than capitalism.

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  • gbin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” almost to the letter.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well yeah that is why it’s bull

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