Lately I’ve been getting heaps of good deals (selling-wise) on Trade Me – a New Zealand edition of eBay. But the problem is, I feel guilty for selling things as such astronomical prices, when I know that they aren’t even valued anything near that.

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For example, I sold a broken graphics card for $72 a few years ago after seeing a similar broken item selling for $30. It was far beyond my expectations. More recently, I sold this power adapter for $50, again far above $30, what it truly should have been valued at… when new.

Every time I send these packages off, I get this gut feeling that they’re going to figure they got ripped off and give me an after-trade negative feedback. But is it my fault? Probably not, they have the choice. Likewise, petrol stations sell things with a tremendously higher mark-up than super markets do, yet they seem to still thrive with customers.

There’s a price for convenience, or is that just the price you pay for being lazy?