This is a bit late, but thanks for all the feedback! I really appreciate it - it was very helpful. My daughter did decide to 'put it down to experience' in the end. She was quite upset at the time, but is OK now.
She did mention imperfections and put pictures of them on Trade Me. But the buyer found an extra scratch and used that as an excuse not to complete the sale for the agreed price. And I got it wrong - he offered $50 and she accepted it because she was so frustrated. The first buyer found a different scratch/defect. This was a structurally sound, one-year-old bed that had hardly been used, with a matching mattress in mint condition (I know because I bought it). These buyers were obviously trying to bargain by pointing out every little imperfection they could find. My point is this is not the ...
My 20-year-old daughter sold a bed on Trade Me. The buyer was loading it into his car, and halfway through said the bed had a scratch on it that she hadn't mentioned and didn't want it any more. (He was picking it up and paying cash.) This is the second time this had happened to her (when she first tried to sell the bed on Facebook Marketplace). She didn't know what to do, so she offered the bed to him for a price far below what he had won it for (bed sold for $140, she offered it for $50). She only did this as she is inexperienced, and the buyer took advantage of that. Afterwards she felt ...