Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gripe of the gift

Recently i tried selling a couple of PS3 games i had completed and listed them on a forum. Among them was a game (Killzone 2) that Mabeline had bought for me sometime this year as a gift (i completely forgot it was a gift when i posted). Someone wanted to deal for the game but a day before we were supposed to meet, i happened to mention to Mabs that i was meeting someone who wanted to buy it. Her reaction was along the lines of 'huh? you're selling the game i bought you?' I then decided to cancel the deal and keep the game.

On my birthday, Mom and Brandon also got me a PS3 game (Ghostbusters) which i also completed and posted along with another game in the same forum. Just yesterday someone bought the game from me for $52 and when i saw Brandon today i gave him the cash.

His reaction was 'You sold my present?' I rationalized aloud that i had completed it and selling it was better than letting it collecting dust at home, to which his reply was you wouldn't sell a birthday present like you wouldn't sell a birthday card. I gave him the first answer that came to mind: It's different cause no one would want to buy mine(your) birthday card. But this incident got me thinking.

So it is wrong to sell a present? I never really had a firm stance on this, but i feel that if you give a gift to someone and then think its wrong for that person to give/sell/throw your gift away, can i suggest that in the first place, you have never actually fully given it away? Gifts (like Love) should not have Terms and Conditions attached to it. It's unconditional.

I can't expect everyone to understand or take my position on this, but i guess that will be how i treat any thing i give away from now on. Feel free to sell, throw, burn etc anything i give you. I don't mind. I shouldn't. It's all yours to do whatever you wish with it. Having said that i should also be more mindful and sensitive to dealing with gifts received.

5 comments:

Alex Logan Lee said...

I am with you on this.
Unless it's sometime that do not depreciate over time (e.g action figures, books).

You should sell it.

But with regards to letting the people who gave you the gift know about it, I would rather you keep it to yourself until someone discovers. Haha...

Anonymous said...

*waves*

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