Hopefully the person this is about won't mind me posting this, there are no hard feelings and I will avoid identifying them in any way. I'm posting this as this interaction has proven to be a mildly humorous conversation topic with friends; I want to see what the OzBargain community thinks.
A while ago I commented in a deal on OzBargain that I bought some of the items in the deal but was not happy with some of them after they arrived. Another member, we'll call them Member1, slid into my DMs and offered to buy them off me since the deal had since expired. I was happy to try and help since it was a technically a good deal and they missed out. Turns out were in different states so I we just left it. Ah well.
About a week later, my parents (who live in that Member1's city) came to visit me on an impromptu trip so I flicked Member1 a message and offered to give the items to my parents and Member1 could pick them up from my parent's place at their convenience. Member1 agreed so I gave the items to my parents, they traveled home and I told them to wait for a message from a random person to arrange pick up.
Just before I connected Member1 to my parents, I double checked the expected payment amount with Member1. They would have seen how much I paid because of the deal but wanted to be sure we were on the same page. I confirmed with them the price of the items plus a proportion of the shipping I paid. E.g. If I bought 10 items of equal value and size from the store and Member1 was buying 8 of them, I calculated they should pay 80% of the shipping cost that the store charged me.
Note 1: The store has flat rate shipping cost which is in the single digits
Note 2: The store has free shipping at a certain order total but it is over 2x the value of this proposed transaction.
Member1 came back and proposed they pay none of the shipping costs. I said no. They then offered a shipping amount that was less than my proposed amount suggesting I should pay more shipping as I was keeping some of the items in the total order. I said no. They then cancelled the arrangement saying that they would have spent over the shipping cap and achieved free shipping if they were to have gone to the store as a regular customer.
I now have to get the items back from my parents when I visit them over Christmas. Not a huge issue, just mildly annoying.
Thoughts?
Your life must be boring to worry about this.
Also, you are now stuck with things you don't want, and no money for them, rather than getting rid of said things, and getting most of the money back. Cut off your nose to spite your face.