First question Did you misrepresent yourself during purchase? Ethics matter.

Everyone in the comments acting like the seller is righteous and isn't lying. The seller relinquished ownership. End of story. The poster painted and re-sold it: new story.

A) why is seller stalking painter?

B) fuck off and put the work in yourself.

There's so much entitlement and sour grapes in this.

This is really, really stupid. I've sold a lot of stuff second hand and I price it for what I want out of it / how fast I need it gone. If I want it gone fast, I price it really cheap. If I don't mind holding onto it for a little while, I ask more and I wait.

I don't, like, ask or check on the neediness of the people buying it. That's ridiculous and none of my business.

If i want something gone fast, but then someone else is willing to put more time into it, I don't get mad about that. I am happy for them and glad the item is being recycled.

Also, I've bought a lot of stuff second hand, including from some people who clearly resell stuff on the regular, and let me tell you, some of those resellers were pretty desperately poor / seemed to be shut out of traditional employment for whatever reason.

But I feel like an asshole even typing this, trying to judge based on appearances who needs what. Even if I gave a discount on a dresser because I thought she was gonna use it herself, and it turns out she's solidly middle class and sold it at a profit, what the fuck do I care. I wanted to get rid of it, I didnt want to throw it away, and I got $25 out of it. I'm too mad at the billionaire class to worry about someone in my neighborhood with a little hustle.

People who buy cheap items on marketplaces and resell them for ridiculous up charges are gross, regardless of whether they painted a piece of wood or not.

Original seller is ridiculous for asking, regardless of buyers' grossness.

It's honestly annoying when you try to help poor people get cheap or even free stuff, and some grifter just hoards it and marks it up for them selves at whatever 'market price' they can squeeze out of it. You/she should not see everything as free resources to take advantage of, that's just selfishness. There are people scouring these places for profits, and they should at least be honest about their grifting..

If by "fixing" it means restoring old vintage dresser, then i dont see a problem with selling it for significantly higher price.

Also, demanding money for something that person does not own is stupid. The moment the person sells it to another person, they are no longer own this thing, and the other person is free to do anything they want with it.

I don't like people "fixing" and reselling items unless they were unusable to begin with, but it doesn't make sense for the original seller to demand money because they aren't the victim, the victim is the person with less money who now can't afford the dresser.

but to be fair i don't think there's any real shortage of cheap furniture, at least not in my area, so it doesn't really matter in the end

Block and move on is my opinion

This is why the people that want crypto love crypto, the first seller can make some money using the contracts.

If you didn't know that painting it would get you 250$ I hope you have learned that lesson now. Not saying everything would be upsold.

Also this person doesn't seem that nice, actually kinda entitled to be honest.

So, no, get bent and accept the outcome of your decisions.