3.99 vase sells for $100,000

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Following up on an earlier thread about a similar situation. Does it make a difference to anyone that it was a thrift store that "got took?" Should the thrift store sue?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/boug...171323818.html

[BobbyStrawberry]

What basis would the thrift store have to win a lawsuit? It sounds they offered an item for sale and someone bought it...

[G1911]

Sue for what? Sue somebody because they didn’t research an item and chose to price it at $3.99? I do not understand the popular desire of today to sue other people for one’s own conscious choices. ‘If I don’t like something I myself chose to do I get to sue someone else and make them pay me for my poor choices’.

[packs]

Why would the thrift store have any claim to an item it willingly sold? How exactly would that work?

I'm a retailer suing a customer for purchasing my goods? I don't think so.

[jingram058]

I bought a$10 book from ABEbooks and sold it for $600. Shouldn't I be getting a summons?

[packs]

Legal questions aside, thinking about things practically, who would purchase anything from a retailer that sues it's customers for being customers?

[Hxcmilkshake]

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[jcmtiger]

Purchased many items from flea markets, etc, that’s how it works, buy for the price asked, keep in your collection or sell for another price. No lawsuit here.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

Purchased many items from flea markets, etc, that’s how it works, buy for the price asked, keep in your collection or sell for another price. No lawsuit here.

I'm not saying there should or shouldn't be a lawsuit. Apparently nobody in this thread read the African Mask thread a month or so ago? I'm asking if there is a difference in the situations.

[ullmandds]

im familiar with the african mask incident. This situation is different. Goodwill received the object for free...priced it and put it up for sale. Someone bought it and sold for a profit.

Nothing to see here. No grounds for lawsuit.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I'm not saying there should or shouldn't be a lawsuit. Apparently nobody in this thread read the African Mask thread a month or so ago? I'm asking if there is a difference in the situations.

I recall that thread. I don't get how a lawsuit could even be entertained here. A business got an item, sold it for a profit, and then the buyer made a huge profit by bothering to put in some work and research. Do you think there's a real debate on if making a profit from something you buy from a seller who set the price should result in a successful civil lawsuit?

Would you sue one of your customers who sold a card they got from you for a profit? How would that be any different than this case?

[packs]

If a business exists to sell second hand items and it sues you for purchasing one of its second hand items, how can that business expect to survive? Wouldn't every customer of it assume they'll be sued?