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bebepanales wrote on 2010-04-21 01:54
ok... i sold my friend something for particularly cheap. it was a desirable nice color~ he said he wanted it so i sold it to him at a lower price than he offered. next thing i know he has it up for sale for many times the price i sold to him for. well... i was just offended... he said he was a businessman. but still~ i could have sold it to someone else for a higher price. :c what are your opinions of this~ i wonder if other people would be offended too. i think i will stop selling anything to my friends... or if i do i shall have to resort to charging full price. ã… .ã…
:doom:
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Cannibal wrote on 2010-04-21 01:55
Well, I'd understand the way you feel if it's a friend, but I do this all the time.
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Arsik wrote on 2010-04-21 01:56
To me, all merchanting is bad, period, since it's too consumed by greed, as evident in your friend's actions. But if you're a merchant, you really can't complain about what people do with things they bought from you, since you did agree to the price already.
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Chiri wrote on 2010-04-21 01:57
I don't expect people to sell gifts. But this is probably something you could have talked about before deciding to be nice.
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bebepanales wrote on 2010-04-21 01:59
well he said he "wanted it" like... he said he wanted the whole set. and he even commented on the color and dyeing some parts. :c i so disappointed. heheh. i only discounted because i thought hed want to use it for himself.
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Lonesky wrote on 2010-04-21 01:59
I feel somewhat guilty whenever I merchant, and I would never buy an item from a friend just to merchant it :O
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Frawmus wrote on 2010-04-21 02:01
I don't really merchant.. I tend to give away things free ;(
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Chiri wrote on 2010-04-21 02:04
You can always just tell him: I'm disappointed in you, I thought you were going to use it.
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bebepanales wrote on 2010-04-21 02:06
well i did... and his response was "im a businessman" and that no one will buy that for that expensive anyhow. but i wonder why he has it up for sale in the first place.
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Intex wrote on 2010-04-21 02:06
When your friend gives you something at a lower price just for you, you don't turn around and make money off of it.
That's making money by taking advantage of someones kindness, I'd probably delete him off my buddy list if I were you.
I always make sure my friends are using the item I sell them cheap, I'm not selling an Imp ES to a friend for 100k just to see them sell it for double.
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Laconicus wrote on 2010-04-21 02:08
When people sell things for cheap in parties and people buy said things and sell them for higher in their houses, I don't consider that to be bad. The people selling things in parties don't have houses to sell things uber overpriced with, so everyone wins.
...On the other hand, in cases like this, merching is a bad thing. That's a very not-friend-like thing to do. I'd be mad at the person D:
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Intex wrote on 2010-04-21 02:12
I can't even consider this merchanting, this is taking advantage of someone :|
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bebepanales wrote on 2010-04-21 02:14
Quote from Arsik;13222:
To me, all merchanting is bad, period, since it's too consumed by greed, as evident in your friend's actions. But if you're a merchant, you really can't complain about what people do with things they bought from you, since you did agree to the price already.
im not really a "merchant" i don't go around buying stuff at a low price to sell them high. ok, once i bought a dye around 90k and it turned out i didnt need it so i sold it for 100k. when i sold my friend the item, i wasn't being a businessman/merchant, i was being a friend. that is why i was upset.
and in a friendly/joking way i told him i won't be selling him any more stuff, i mean because he has done this with other things i sold him cheap before, just a little. and now he is upset because i said that. :c i dont get why he is upset.... ã… .ã… i wonder what i can do.
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Swordslayer wrote on 2010-04-21 02:15
Quote from Intex;13264:
When your friend gives you something at a lower price just for you, you don't turn around and make money off of it.
That's making money by taking advantage of someones kindness, I'd probably delete him off my buddy list if I were you.
I always make sure my friends are using the item I sell them cheap, I'm not selling an Imp ES to a friend for 100k just to see them sell it for double.
^agreed.
That's just being a complete jackasss. If you guys are good friends then just suk it up this time I guess.... but those kind of ppl are either A) oblivious or B) just playing the game to play. Which don't get me wrong, that's wat ur suppose to do... but it's annoying how some ppl play as if all the other players were just computers =/
/ends transmission from the heart =[
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Chiri wrote on 2010-04-21 02:23
You don't owe him cheap items. I had a friend who was a HW supplier to someone, and when she mentioned raising her price from 10k to 12k a stack, due to market changes, they went crazy on her--- as if she owed it to them to sell them cheap [perhaps because they were reselling for high].