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Input: Background: I ordered a cable online on a Monday for first class delivery, expected Wednesday. It’s an official Apple cable so yknow, it’s moderately expensive as cables go. Wednesday comes and goes, by Friday there’s still no update on the tracking since Tuesday so I ring up the delivery company, famed delivery-dodgers Royal Mail. They can’t tell me anything and tell me to speak to Apple.

So I speak to Apple and their customer support people can’t get any extra information on it either, so they say they’ll send another one out as it seems this one has gotten lost. They say if it does eventually arrive I can send it back “if I want”. I ask at the time to explicitly clarify and they tell me I can keep it if I want, or I can send it back, in the eventuality I end up with two cables.

(Btw, I asked not because I want two of these cables but because I don’t want the hassle of packaging, labelling, and going to the Post Office to return it. That seriously messes with my lazy, deliveries to my door, not leaving my house lifestyle)

One of my friends had recently mentioned that they were going to get one of these cables so I joke with them that they can have it if it turns up (although I am convinced it is lost forever in one of the many black holes I assume Royal Mail’s facilities are riddled with).

The second one that got sent out got delivered on Monday (thank you DHL and thank you Apple for sending it courier). Fast forward to today, Wednesday, and wouldn’t you know it but the first one arrives too (just one week late, 9 day delivery for 1st class post, good work Royal Mail!)

I mentioned to my girlfriend that I’ll be giving it to my friend. She asked why I’m not selling it. I explained that I thought that would be immoral, by rights I only paid for one cable and the other was sent out assuming the first was lost. I know Apple said I can keep it, but I’m only doing that out of laziness - if I wasn’t too lazy to go to the Post Office and ship it, I should send it to Apple rather than whoever buys it off me on eBay.

She thinks it wouldn’t be wrong to sell it, that Apple gave me the second cable to reimburse me for the hassle of not getting what I paid for (the cable by the specified date), the inconvenience of not having it when I needed it, and having to contact them to get things sorted. Apple told me I could keep it so both cables are mine, to do what I want with.

So, help me out here Reddit. Would I be morally wrong if I sold that cable, or am I entitled to?

selling an extra cable I was shipped instead of returning it