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If you bought a used bike part on eBay and the seller included the original receipt for you to keep the manufacturer's warranty, would you be bothered if that receipt showed that they paid quite a lot less for the brand-new item than they sold it for?
What you mean is you paid over the odds for something that presumably a lot scareser than it was pre pandemic and now have buyer's remorse?
If it's any consolation the shop they bought it from would have paid the distributor even less, and they would have paid the brand less than that, who paid the factory even less again.
If you could just bury the sanctimony for a moment, in this case I'm the seller...
Is the warranty transferable anyway? If not I wouldn’t be providing receipts, if it is then what they paid is their problem (assuming it was an auction)
Is the warrenty transferable in the first place?
If you didn't mention the receipts I'd not include them unless it's transferable. Best case nothing happens. Worst case they open a meritless dispute with eBay over something minor and eBay sides with them.
If you could just bury the sanctimony for a moment
That would require effort that I'm just not prepared to put in.
I just bought an xBox of Ebay for a whole load more than the RRP - ( I wanted to guarantee I had one in time for Crimbo as the Oceanskipperlets want one. 🙄) I asked the seller to include the receipt so I could activate the warranty, which he did.
What the receipt showed was that he bought it from John Lewis for the RRP 1 day before selling it to me. Double 🙄🙄. I couldn't get one from JL despite having a stock tracker app running as whenever I got to whichever site popped up as listing stock they were already sold out. Triple 🙄🙄🙄!
Hey ho.
So to the OP I would only include it if the warranty is transferrable and I wouldn't be bothered that it shows you bought it for less. I would also only include a copy of it and keep the original just in case....
As the seller in that situation I’d not offer the receipt unprompted. If there was no mention of the receipt in the listing, I’d say it was lost / unavailable. It shouldn’t matter, but if a buyer thinks he’s been done over, there may miraculously be something wrong with the part when it arrives.
Don’t provide it unless you have to.
Price shouldn't matter.
The buyer has a agreed a price for the item he is happy with, he has paid that price, if the item is as described no one is being ripped off, he didn't have to buy it. If it was overpriced he wouldn't have bought it
Yeah, it's my fault. I said "boxed with receipt", so can't really get away without including it. It's gone for about 20% below RRP, but I originally bought it at half price.
The buyer hasn't said anything because I only sold it yesterday. It was only when I was packing it up and dug out the receipt this afternoon that I remembered.
If pushed, you could always say that you were owed something by the shop that you got it from - hence the lower price.
Buyer bought it for the sale price on eBay - completely irrelevant what you paid for it originally.
The house I bought cost the previous owner a lot less.
No I wouldn't be bothered, value and price aren't the same thing.