IdreamofHIME
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Sounds like a successful cl story...as you're still alive.
I would never drive past 30 minutes to sell something.
What's so funny?
how about monitoring your kid ? Maybe not let him use the Internet unsupervised ? At the very least have some parental blocks on sites where this kid can naively set up unsavory meetings at his house.
It sucks now but in a few years (if not sooner) it will be one of those experiences you'll look back on and laugh.
Nobody is laughing at you.
The fact you couldn't write it off as a bad experience and expected to be compensated for it.
Sounds like a successful cl story...as you're still alive.
I don't know how it works in the US, but where I live that would be a perfectly valid way to do it (immediately of course, not hoping his parents would do it at night). In my country he could have called his parents and have them transfer the funds to your account and they would have been available to you instantly.
I also don't understand this paranoid fear about giving people you bank account information. That's its purpose, you give it out so people can make deposits on it. You obviously don't have to give any passwords or anything.
I guess I'm just baffled that in a first world country no way could be found to make this transaction and it turned out to be a huge waste of time for everyone involved.
Identity theft?
You can't just freely give out your bank account info to literal strangers off the street. That's asking to be robbed blind.
with a 64gb card? yeahi don't know how much in demand they are right now, but would someone actually pay 200 bucks for a used vita?
i don't know how much in demand they are right now, but would someone actually pay 200 bucks for a used vita?
With a $100 memory card in it? I don't think I'm ripping people off with this deal :/
Sorry for wanting a little cash and asking for a little accountability on behalf of the parents who leave their autistic kid unattended at home who could quite possibly get himself hurt through his actions.
Yes, and read that sentence back to yourself.
Be honest with yourself, if that was your kid. Just exactly how much money would you give up?
Sorry for wanting a little cash and asking for a little accountability on behalf of the parents who leave their autistic kid unattended at home who could quite possibly get himself hurt through his actions.
I wasnt before, but now Im laughing at you.Sorry for wanting a little cash and asking for a little accountability on behalf of the parents who leave their autistic kid unattended at home who could quite possibly get himself hurt through his actions.
I wasnt before, but now Im laughing at you.
With a $100 memory card in it? I don't think I'm ripping people off with this deal :/
OP, if this is the great greek tragedy of your life, then you've lived an extraordinarily blessed life. Mazel tov.
You seem pretty fired up over this, Count. What do you propose we tell the OP?This is taking those "it could have been worse" posts and amplifying it to some pretty dumb fucking levels.
You seem pretty fired up over this, Count. What do you propose we tell the OP?
i understand you are pissed op, i would be too.
but only one question. why didn't you wait until the dad is home? (i mean, you still had the vita so wastin some time shouldn't be that hard.)
thats the part i don't understand. you lost money anyway, did you make more in these few hours u didn't wait or were you just to pissed and/or prideful to wait?
It's a bit too easy to be titled a asshole in your eyes when you're being so sensitive.Maybe not be an asshole?
You seem pretty fired up over this, Count. What do you propose we tell the OP?
Sorry for wanting a little cash and asking for a little accountability on behalf of the parents who leave their autistic kid unattended at home who could quite possibly get himself hurt through his actions.
It's a bit too easy to be titled a asshole in your eyes when you're being so sensitive.
God forbid you are ever in a horrible financial situation and doing everything you can to stay afloat. Then when you have a spark of hope it's doused and puts you even more under.
I don't know how it works in the US, but where I live that would be a perfectly valid way to do it (immediately of course, not hoping his parents would do it at night). In my country he could have called his parents and have them transfer the funds to your account and they would have been available to you instantly.
I also don't understand this paranoid fear about giving people you bank account information. That's its purpose, you give it out so people can make deposits on it. You obviously don't have to give any passwords or anything.
I guess I'm just baffled that in a first world country no way could be found to make this transaction and it turned out to be a huge waste of time for everyone involved.
I've got an autistic step-son, and he's fully capable of doing stuff he knows he shouldn't if he thinks he can get away with it.You're dealing with a kid with autism. Sorry, different rules apply. Also, that kid did know what he was doing on some level.
God forbid you are ever in a horrible financial situation and doing everything you can to stay afloat. Then when you have a spark of hope it's doused and puts you even more under.
Try putting the price down on your item if it's not getting attention. Driving 3 hours to a kid off craigslist is not a good way to do it.God forbid you are ever in a horrible financial situation and doing everything you can to stay afloat. Then when you have a spark of hope it's doused and puts you even more under.
i understand you are pissed op, i would be too.
but only one question. why didn't you wait until the dad is home? (i mean, you still had the vita so wastin some time shouldn't be that hard.)
thats the part i don't understand. you lost money anyway, did you make more in these few hours u didn't wait or were you just to pissed and/or prideful to wait?
Wait from 10am in the morning until 5pm?
Not to mention he'd have to wait SEVEN HOURS with a kid who went to this length to buy the Vita to maybe get it sold. Wouldn't want to spend seven minutes with that. And he would not have gotten the money in the end. If the kid lied about having the money, he definitely didn't tell the dad he'd be buying it at all and wouldn't have paid at 5. Remember how the kid called the dad AFTER saying to come back after 5pm?Dude, the dad never agreed to buy the Vita. The kid just sort of volunteered his dad's money. Oh, and did you miss the part where the dad told OP to get off his property ?
Sorry, but asking for gas money is pretty hilarious. Mainly because you just found he was autistic.
7 hours? yes. you already invested 3. now you lost the 3 hours + 20 bucks (or whatever the amount of gasoline was worth) and you are still pissed.
if i am short on cash, yes i would've waited.
Dude, the dad never agreed to buy the Vita. The kid just sort of volunteered his dad's money. Oh, and did you miss the part where the dad told OP to get off his property ?
So 10 hours total ? Lol
You need to read the OP again, or for the first time apparently. There never was any money ! The dad never agreed to it. OP spoke with the dad on the phone and he told the OP to get off of his property.