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Selling a gift?
So my dad bought me a really nice electric guitar and an amp for my 16th birthday last year, and I never use it. I prefer my acoustic a lot more, which my dad also bought me a few years ago. My question is, would it be wrong for me to sell my electric and the amp? I really have no need for it...it's just taking up space and I kind of need the money right now. My dad and mom are divorced so he doesn't live with us and he never comes over, so I guess he wouldn't really know if I did pawn it off or something...but my mom always raised me to believe that selling a gift without the giver's consent was wrong. I don't know, what do you guys think? Should I try to sell it for a little bit of extra money? Or would that not be morally right?
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Well, try to put yourself in your Dad's shoes. So imagine you bought him a super nice gift that you thought he would really love. You spent a lot of money on it and were excited for him to use it. A few months later you go to his house and see that the gift is gone. You ask him what happened to it and he tells you that he appreciated the gift, but he didn't really use it so he sold it a few months back for some extra money. How would that make you feel? Personally I don't see anything wrong with selling it, but maybe just not now. Its still so close to when you first got it. It may hurt your dad to know you sold his gift, even though I know that's not what you mean to do. So in the end, its YOUR guitar and you can do what you want. Whatever you decide, just be ready to deal with the consequences (if there are any). Good luck.
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I wouldnt personally sell it, but your situation sounds hard. If hes never around, and you REALLY need the money, i would say go ahead. Its not like he would ever know, and you said it yourself you use the other guitar he bought you on a pretty regular basis. Its a waste for this guitar to be sitting around in your room when someone else could be using it all the time. Its not like you'd be doing it to spite your dad.
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