• Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    You chose to buy it at that price. What does it matter what the original price was or how much the seller made? You thought the price was fair, had the choice to not buy it or buy it somewhere else.

    This isn’t like scalpers buying up items, creating artificial scarcity and driving up prices for profit. This is just plain old capitalism.

    Presumably the price also included shipping and handling fees, since you bought it online. So in the end the seller probably made just a couple of quid, he deserves to get paid for what he does no?

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      2 months ago

      12£ is just the book, no shipping included.

      Making a X10 markup on something you bought from a charity is infuriating imo

      And sorry for finding basic capitalism infuriating.

      • fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net
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        2 months ago

        The seller took the time and gas to go and get books from oxfam so that you could have it shipped to your house

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          2 months ago

          I’m sorry I’m not English so I’m used to Euros, I wasn’t sure if the £ was supposed to be before or after