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Like I’m gonna fucking spend my time trying to sell my old t-shirts for $2.
What I do to get back at them is to take all our decent donation stuff to local thrift stores and all the bulky crap that’s barely hanging together goes to Goodwill for them to dispose of.
Yeah I actually hear they’re a shit company, but the idea that they’re somehow pulling one over on the people who donate is fucking rich.
It is tacky to leave the sticker on there with the lower price, but you are the one who paid 12£. How does it matter what they paid? If they search for books to resell at a profit, that’s time spent, risk taken, and money earned.
It always sucks to know you paid more than the seller did - but that just means Oxfam undervalued the book.
Having worked in one, charity shops tend to have a habit of either really undervaluing or overvaluing their donated goods - cause the people who actually set the prices mostly just guess based on looks and nothing more. Only if an item looks expensive will they do any research, and even then never really enough.
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With the rise of ebay thrift resalers, I feel like all the charity/thrift stores around me price rather aggressively.
Ok, don’t buy it online then go get it from the thrift store yourself. Oh that takes valuable time and effort? Guess that’s why it was marked up, peoples’ time is worth money.
Because I live in another country, a non English speaking one, so there’s zero chance that thud book will make it to my country thrift store
My case rests, the seller of the book provided you a valuable service then by making a product available to you that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get, and you’re mad that they made a little money for their time?
So you’re annoyed that someone (who took the time to go to a charity shop, list the book online, and ship it to you) charged you the RRP for the book, that you didn’t have to buy from them?
I hope you have the same kind of energy for when mega-corporations charge anything from tens to thousands of pounds for products that often cost single pounds or even pennies to manufacture (due to underpaying for labour and materials that were in turn manufactured by underpaid labour as well), and the snowballing impact they have on the rest of the economy (by pricing out smaller companies, monopolising industries, avoiding tax, and so on).
The person you bought this from likely works for themsleves, trolling charity shops all day for bargains, and almost certainly pays tax on their income. I’m as anti-capitalist as they get, but even I can’t take issue with this. If they had charged you more than the RRP, sure, that’d pushing it, but if you didn’t want to pay full price, you should have spent your own time looking for the bargain. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Rofl. Imagine being mildly infuriated that someone marked up a bargain bin purchase by $10 to cover their time and effort to make it available to you to buy from the comfort of your home.
Why don’t you spend your own day rummaging through thrift stores for it next time?
We shit on ‘upselling’ all the time. If you cleaned those pages, pressed them back and touched up the spine of the book, sure. But I’d be annoyed too if there was a 500% markup on a resale of used material
You see 500% markup.
I see 10 pounds for the time and effort to shop around for bargains, then storing your haul, list the items online, and the cost of the other dozens of books that never sell, and then time and effort to package and ship, and whatever customer service along the way.
just write down the book from memory then
You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.
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I don’t think about the price, It’s about reselling something you got at a charity.
Plenty of stores sell cheap, used stuff that everyone can fit in their budgets. More and more of these resellers are picking the stores clean, leaving a lot less available for those who “need” it.
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Well, not according to these organisations, like Oxfam here who boast about the ecological and social aspect of second hand products.
Clearly you have no idea what these organisations do or stand for?
A used book for 12£ is maybe 8€ more than I normally spent on used books.
Putting the £ sign after the value is in itself mildly infuriating.
Mildly?
I’m going to assume they’re not British…
Maybe they just typed it out how they would say it?
It’s the way all other units are handled. I don’t get why money has to be treated differently. Maybe because currencies are the Gods of our time… (hits vape)
At least they didn’t write 1£99
For those curious:
The book is Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Most book sellers on the Internet roam around, buy used books, cut them to make them look new and then sell it as new.
Cut them? What does that man?
They take a bit off the edges, which, when done right, can make them look new at a first glance
Using a paper cutter, aligning the worn pages along the outside edge of the book into a nice looking rectangle
Bought where on the internet? I think that context is quite relevant tbh.
Costs money and time to package and ship stuff. They should’ve at least removed the sticker though.
Takes time and money to do that as well though, and I kinda feel like op would not have appreciated that markup
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