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Is it permissible to take an item for sale from someone, then sell it at a certain price and inform him that it was sold at a lower price while keeping the difference, even though he appointed me to sell it and did not sell it to me?

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The agent is not permitted to inform his client of a price other than the one at which he sold [the item], because doing so constitutes a betrayal of trust. He could have stipulated a fee from him.

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