Would you refuse to sell someone something that had no particular significance to you if you thought they wouldn't take care of it?

In all honestly probably not. If it’s extra money in my pocket, I’ll be happy to take their money. What they do with the goods afterwords is their business.

However there are certain exceptions to that. I’m a health care advisor for a pharmaceutical company and sometimes we do have to refuse to sell certain items if we feel the customer might misuse or abuse the product. But this will always be a medicine that might cause them serious medical harm. If we feel they are going to abuse a medication, we will not sell it to them. It saves our business and possibly saves their life.

But say if I was to sell my iPad to a person who was buying it for their 4 year old and I thought the 4 year old might drop it and break it? Well that’s a chance the parent is taking. I might advise the parent by saying that they are delicate devices and need to be handled with care. After that they are their own.

As a business owner, we would have gone broke if I’d refused to sell stuff to people who I thought were irresponsible!

I’m selling it. Why do I care? I’m not the maintenance police.

Nope. Not my business once their money is in my hands/pocket/account. It’s theirs to do with as they please. I get a kind of icky feeling when people buy good furniture to shabby chic it up as that look makes me gag but again, their money is now mine and the wood is now theirs. I don’t have to look at the shabby chic crapped-out furniture.

Nope none of my business,if they want to throw their money away.

FRoA #21: “Never place friendship above profit.”
Also applies to pointless emotional attachments to things.

^^^ One of the reason our business didn’t go so well. My husband thought everybody was his friend! Oh, pissed me off so bad. I finally wrestled pricing away from him, and set my own. We finally started making headway after that, but never made enough. After 4 years I feel lucky to have broken even.

Take money from wasteful people?
Heck no, I would have no qualms about selling something I don’t need to somebody who might not treat it nice. Better that than they spend their money on some other guy’s junk.

I have a friend who wanted some of my china. I was all for it until I saw how they’d care for it, and I’d have to watch them ruin it every time I went to their house. Nope!

Nope, why would I care to not sell.

But if it was something of importance and circumstances pushed me to sell then I wouldn’t like when I had to give away my pet for health reasons. I would do the best in my ability to find the most caring home.

Usually no, I am not overly attached to things but, I must say, that some months ago I gave a beautiful, vintage, persian rug I had had for years to someone I kind of know, a friend of a friend thing and come to find out, instead of using it in their home they are using it in their garage as an accoustic enhancement for their band practice sessions. Kinda bummed me out but, I was ready to part with it anyway sooo…oh well.
It is being used but it really is a gorgeous rug and its current usefulness is rather degrading to its beauty and class. Kinda like using a thoroughbred to pull a garbage cart. haha

The reason I asked this is because on another thread I was yelling about this woman who took our SUV for a test drive, prior to buying it, and she really pissed me off with her imbecilic driving. Two people said, “I wouldn’t sell her the car!”
I kept saying,“Why wouldn’t you sell her the car?”

@Dutchess_III I would reconsider selling the car to her because she is a dangerous driver, and a general flake. I’d be concerned about everything from her tearing down my fence as she drove away, to running over someone a mile away. I wouldn’t be able so live with myself if that happened.

I am not responsible for her actions.

No