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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: tulagirl on June 12, 2012, 12:52:58 PM
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I was wondering what people would do in this situation. Its kind of one of those issues thats hard to know what the best thing to do is. A lady is giving away her childhood collection and has forgotten years of Christmas or Birthday money she had saved inside. :shocked:
I voted I would write the seller as I think I would feel guilty keeping it. LOL :lol:
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I would write to the seller. Tho if this happened in Finland the money would most probably be in our own currency (finnish marks) that was replaced by the euro ten years ago. It's not possible to exchange marks to euro anymore... So the money would be useless anyway.
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I voted write the seller.
After all you might get to keep some as a finder's fee and for being honest :)
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I would write to the seller. Tho if this happened in Finland the money would most probably be in our own currency (finnish marks) that was replaced by the euro ten years ago. It's not possible to exchange marks to euro anymore... So the money would be useless anyway.
Oh man that would be soooooo sad. Our currency has stayed the same for so long. I can see where depending on where you are that would be a huge disappointment...blaaaaa
I voted write the seller.
After all you might get to keep some as a finder's fee and for being honest :)
I totally agree! ;)
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I would write the seller, too. I would feel guilty if I didn't. But I wonder who would put $300 in a pony? Who would put ANY money in a pony? Maybe I should look through all of mine. XP
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I would write the seller, too. I would feel guilty if I didn't. But I wonder who would put $300 in a pony? Who would put ANY money in a pony? Maybe I should look through all of mine. XP
lol...I just thought about going and ripping all mines head's off to see. Just Kidding!!!!
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I would write the seller, too. I would feel guilty if I didn't. But I wonder who would put $300 in a pony? Who would put ANY money in a pony? Maybe I should look through all of mine. XP
Honestly I would. Its a perfect hiding place. Mine don't have cash. I got this idea from a friend of mine that bought antique dolls all of the time and they would take a look under the heads and sometimes would find money there. It was too old to use as sometimes it predated the civil war..but still so cool what you can find. Others have found jewelry in dolls. So..toys and things were hiding places for treasures.
What I do is get a flashlight and when its dark in the room I can shine it through the pony and tell if anything is in there. So far its a bust at my house. :P
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I would write the seller too, seller her collection must mean she needs money to began with and keeping the money just wouldn't feel write. If it was only a dollar bill then I'd keep it, though.
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We had something similar happen at the Goodwill store I worked at. Someone donated a bunch of junk from their daughter's room. While we were sorting everything we found a diamond engagement ring hidden away in one of the boxes under the lining. I don't know if she secretly got engaged and didn't want her mother to find out or what the story was behind the ring. We looked over the camera footage but there was no way to find the woman. And if it was a secret the girl must not have ever fessed up because we kept it for a long time waiting for her and she never came back. It was really sad actually. They eventually sold it. And the money went to their charity programs. But still I always wondered what the story was behind that ring. And I still sometimes wonder if someone out there is missing it.
So I voted to contact them. If it was me and my money, wallet, ring, etc I would hope folks would return it to me.
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I would definitely write to the seller, it is the honest and goof thing to do :)xx
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I voted to send the money back, I'd just feel too guilty to keep that much. (Although that it a heck of a lot of money for a child to have squirrelled away and if we were talking about only 10 or 20 pounds I probably would keep it - and if it was jewellery I would definitely send it back)
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i would contact the seller and be a lil more steathy about it.....you may find that the seller is just "reselling" ponys that are were not childhood toys or a friends or long since grown child..... ...in which point imo..a "flipper" doesnt deserve the "extra profit" of found moneys...now if its someone who is honestly selling theyre own childhood memorys cause they need the money then by all means send the money back..if they are selling them just to clear out theyre "old junk" again they probably dont need it back
thus my vote for passing it on to someone who genuinely needs the money
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I have to tell you. I have watched kids age 4 get 100.00 bills for Christmas. In fact in some of the families I have worked with over the years...the kids had more money than I did. So thats why I picked that number. For me that is totally possible....that over time a child would have saved that much. When I was 8 years old my grandmother gave me 100.00 but I opened a savings account with it. The rest of my money was in a piggy bank in my room as a kid. I saved up loads of cash too because, I babysat starting at age 12. I didn't buy much with my money back then so I had quite a bit. So I can imagine that say Firefly was your favorite pony and you kept her out in your room for many years..you could stuff 300.00 in her if you exchanged small bills for larger ones. I did that a lot as a kid.
Wow thats something about the ring. One could think up all sorts of reasons it was there.
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I would definitely contact the seller too. I like to keep things honest :)
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Contact the seller no question. Money comes and goes, but you can't put a price on your integrity.
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Wow thats something about the ring. One could think up all sorts of reasons it was there.
Yea we never found out. It was in the liner of a box but it was loose and we heard it rattling around. I don't even know if they knew it was there or if it has an older story. I've often wondered about it. It wasn't a huge ring maybe $300-400 but I'll always wonder about it. I wish we had found the original owner.
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A lot of sellers are just flipping their ponies, I'd try to find out if they really were hers. And for the record, I keep my valuable info in a pony, at least what will fit curled up.
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Haha, I clicked "contact the seller," but as I went to click 'submit poll,' I got a little click-happy, and somehow changed my answer to "SPEND THE MONEY IMMEDIATELY ON PONIES" and managed to click submit before I could fix it. What can I say? THE HEART WANTS WHAT THE HEART WANTS. :lmao:
Logically, I know I'd have to send the money back to the person who lost it, but isn't it nice to pretend for a bit that we suddenly had $300 to spend on ponies? ;) And I'd certainly hope that the person who lost the money would give me a little reward for finding her money for her!
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oh I'd write to them about it, most definitely. Anything I bought with that money would have guilt attached to it D:
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Haha, I clicked "contact the seller," but as I went to click 'submit poll,' I got a little click-happy, and somehow changed my answer to "SPEND THE MONEY IMMEDIATELY ON PONIES" and managed to click submit before I could fix it. What can I say? THE HEART WANTS WHAT THE HEART WANTS. :lmao:
ROFLOL yea this is funny...
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I'd buy ponies... I feel like a bad person, so I'll take out my guilt on fakies!
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I´d definitely let her know :) and I feel it'S the only right thing to do in the situation
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Since I could not make up my mind I voted for keeping the money.. I'm a bit of a finders keepers person due to my childhood, we never had a lot of money. But I'd probably save it for future use and send some to charity funds (such as eddsworld legacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGD-4TuGLY8)).
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I would probably write to the seller about it. As much as I would like some extra cash, I would just feel so guilty and bad about it. :blush:
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Honestly, I'd probably try to contact the seller. If it is really that person's childhood collection, I'd return the money - it isn't mine and they deserve to keep it. But if it's a flipper, I'd probably donate some of it and keep the rest because there's no way to find the original owner at that point.
If it was only a little money ($5 or so) I'd probably just keep it, though.
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I am a terrible person.....I would be very tempted to keep the money.
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I will always vote for honesty. Write to the seller and tell her what you found, and that you'd be willing to mail it back to her. The choice is yours of course but... I would suffer a very guilty concience should I do anything else.
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Write to the seller and offer to wire the money back. The seller is probably selling off her childhood collection due to financial problems, and it's fair that the money goes back to her to help her out.
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Contact the seller no question. Money comes and goes, but you can't put a price on your integrity.
This.
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I would write the seller, too. I would feel guilty if I didn't. But I wonder who would put $300 in a pony? Who would put ANY money in a pony? Maybe I should look through all of mine. XP
The person may have had a sibling or relative that would steal money. I actually did that with my own cash. I'd stash it away in my ball joint doll's head because my niece would steal any money she'd find anywhere in the house. @_@
I'd also say write the person and let them know, definitely!
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If I still had the address of the person on hand I'd probably mail it right back with a note without asking first. It would be a nice surprise for her, heh heh. But the chances that I'd still have her address after a month is slim, so messaging her would be the next best thing :)
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to be honest... as I know myself, after a month or two I would have forgot who I bought that pony from. When I get new ponies that have to be cleaned they have to sit and wait in a box with other "have-to-clean" ponies. I have to admit, Id never ever truly remember after month who I bought this and that from. Well, lets say, it depends ;) Bus most of the times, I dont remember. So, if I find 300.00,- inside a pony and dont remember truly where I did get that pony from : I keep it.
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Yea sadly I buy ponies in small amounts and I clean them pretty quick and since the places I buy them keep a record of what I get...unless the photo was gone I know I would be able to figure out who sent them.
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So everyone says they'd contact the seller.. but looking at the votes that's not the only option people chose ;)
Not that it matters, i wouldn't judge people who'd keep the money. It's all your own personal choise :)
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So everyone says they'd contact the seller.. but looking at the votes that's not the only option people chose ;)
Not that it matters, i wouldn't judge people who'd keep the money. It's all your own personal choise :)
Oh I have seen a few posts where people have admitted they would do something else. Then also there are people that vote and do not post...its pretty accurate I think. I admire the people that said they would keep it honestly...because at least they are honest about what they would do with it lol.
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Haha, I clicked "contact the seller," but as I went to click 'submit poll,' I got a little click-happy, and somehow changed my answer to "SPEND THE MONEY IMMEDIATELY ON PONIES" and managed to click submit before I could fix it. What can I say? THE HEART WANTS WHAT THE HEART WANTS. :lmao:
ROFLOL yea this is funny...
Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!
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Definately write the seller. That is ill gotten gain and who knows? Maybe she needs the money for something important. Either way, it was not part of the auction. Keeping it or giving it away just isn't right unless the seller agrees to give it to you/charity/ponies. Unless there is a note inside indicating that this was intentional and a random act of pony kindness, then informing the seller is the right thing to do.
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I would definetly keep the money. It would be her own fault if she forgot she put money in the ponies. I wouldn't count it as stealing as she sold me them.
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I would contact the seller immediately. It would be dishonest not to do so, unless the auction mentioned somewhere "one pony is stuffed with money!!" XD If it isn't knowingly part of the auction, then the seller had no intention of giving you that money and it is not yours. You bought ponies, not cash.
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Quite honestly I would just keep it, but then again I'm kinda terrible like that. I mean, she left it in there and forgot it... finders keepers.
Meh, karma would probably end up biting me in the butt, but oh well. XD
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Ok, I don't see many "I would keep the money" people, so I am going to say that answer (I am a bad girl!)
If I look at it from the seller's view, if I saved up some money and shoved it inside a pony and then forgot about it, I probably don't need the money. Sure, if I found out later that I forgot that I put money in the pony and then sold it, I would feel really silly and disappointed with myself. Kind of like ooops >_< oh well. It's only 300 bucks that I wasn't relying on anyway. Reminds me of when my husband lost my nintendo DS in an airplane and no one turned it in.
I am going to make an analogy here. What if say, instead of 300 dollars in a Firefly, the Firefly was a rare variant worth $300 dollars instead? If I got the rare $300 dollar Firefly for a low price, it would be like the seller losing money on their item as well. Like what if you saw an Ice Crystal for sale for 5 dollars and bought it, would you feel guilty about getting it for such a low price?
I am here to challenge your morals! ;)
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I'm in the same boat with a bunch of others, even if I were struggling for money I would have to write the seller about it. I would feel really guilty about just keeping something like that.
Post Merge: June 13, 2012, 11:20:40 AM
I am going to make an analogy here. What if say, instead of 300 dollars in a Firefly, the Firefly was a rare variant worth $300 dollars instead? If I got the rare $300 dollar Firefly for a low price, it would be like the seller losing money on their item as well. Like what if you saw an Ice Crystal for sale for 5 dollars and bought it, would you feel guilty about getting it for such a low price?
Actually, yes, yes I would. I mean that's no where near the ball-park range for an Ice Crystal. Most of the ponies we 'buy' have a range between them. I've gotten some minty ponies for less than mint prices, but when I'm bidding I always put in what I think the fair market price is - because bottom line is that is what I am willing to pay. If for some shocking reason, I did end up with an Ice Crystal for $5, my personality wouldn't allow me to just skate away with that. I would feel compelled to speak with the seller and offer a fair price.
Heck, I've had the opposite happen a couple of times, where I've sold something and it went WAY over market price and I felt guilty because I felt like I was ripping someone off. I realize it's not very realistic of me, but I still try and be mostly fair.
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I would keep it. This is a pony I won in an auction. There is no reason for me to continue contact with the seller -shrug-
If it was someone who found out I was a collector and gave me their ponies, or let me buy them but had no intention of selling otherwise, that's different.
I came across a dude who was selling polished rocks at a garage sale. Most of it was agate, but one was dendritic quartz - and a big chunk too. Everything on the table was three bucks each. I went through it, took the quartz and some others, paid the guy and went home. You know how much a nice polished piece of dendritic quartz can go for? Waaaay more than three dollars :P
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i would definiately contact her, ist hers, she earned and maybe someonev planned something for this money? maybe they need it for rent, medical care, et cetera.
even if i would find outr old currency mark, i would send it back for sentimental reasons. its nice to remember how you haad dreams you saved money for.maybe a new pony? colorfull stickers, sweets,..
i also found 30 mark (i guess 20 $) in an old pictureframe, a year after we changes the currency. XD i still keep it somewhere and it is precious to me.
once, i did send about 200 euro in a g3 from ireland to my friend at home in germany. she had to cut it open to get it, she told me. XD
soo, g3 doesen´t fit great!
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I voted that I would keep it, but in reality it would depend on the seller.
Ebay - sure thing, it's mine. I'm skint and it would be very helpful.
But an Arena or PonyCon seller? I would contact them.
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I would first find out if the seller was a flipper, and if it turned out that the pony was from a childhood collection, I'd send half the money back. Why half? I don't know, that just seems fair to me. Better than keeping all of it anyway. I'm not sure if I could bring myself to send back the entire amount, considering that I have bills to pay too. People have a much harder time giving up money when it's cash in hand.
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I think circumstances of how and where you bought the pony are a big thing - pony flipper or someone selling a childhood collection...someone on the Arena or an anonymous seller on ebay. I can see it from all angles...I like to think I would feel so guilty that I would return it.
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Depends how much money we're talking......;)
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I would feel too guilty to keep it.
I would write the seller.
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I would write the seller and offer to send it back... if it was maybe $10 I'd probably keep it, but $300 is a lot of money and I'd feel guilty keeping it. :(
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I would contact the seller for sure!
I bought something online from a US company, and there was a mix up with my order. They sent me my whole order twice! I wrote to them to let them know, and they told me I could keep it. I got to be Santa Claus, and pass out gift to my friends =)
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I would write the seller too!