Did I get scammed? ethics question
- Thread starter Robert Mugabe
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I respectfully think you ought to give it up already. Sounds to me you did not need a car but thought you could give the women a low ball offer because she was in a desperate situation. Wow, it turned out she was not as desperate and that you maybe did not get a killer deal.
Get over it.
Get over it.
Frankly Mugabe, the story sounds made up to me. Are you out to score some attention? First you say you do not need the car and now you say that your current car is showing signs of needing replacement. You are modifying events to fit the situation. Whether you are a bull shitter or a fool that people can manipulate you do not make yourself look good.
And as the older saying goes:
In this case he just made an ass of himself, but same concept.
Technically speaking, all cars show signs that they need to be replaced as soon as they leave the showroom. If getting scammed is really your concern then you have to learn to look at things from a purely financial perspective, which you did not do here. You should only replace things when they actually need it i.e. the repair and / or down time costs far outweighs the replacement cost.
You did not get scammed. To get scammed, you should be told wrong information about the car, not the seller. It was simple "mild" negotiation technique. A "harder" negotiation would be if you were told good things about the car but were not told bad things about it. But even in this case it would not be a scam (think advertising). The only way it can be scam if you were told something good about that car that was, in fact, wrong.
And I am not sure why anyone who does not need a car wants to buy a car unless it is really cheap and he wants to actually use it to replace his own. And by cheap I mean cheap fro the final final customer (not for a dealer who buy with intention to resale). If you want to help some person in need - a much cheaper way is to simply give her cash. So, my guess, the topic started got a pretty good deal (in comparison with what he could have got from the dealer or on kijiji), but just unhappy that people do not tell them the whole truth (even wen such truth has nothing to do with the quality of the car)
Fall (poster above): I've got a hypothetical situation.
If a girl lists she has a 120hh special. You message her for her services and she responds bj/fs. You make an appointment, get there and give her the 120. Then she proceeds with a HJ. You say lets get to the main event and the girl says sorry, the special is only for a hand job only. The girl didn't lie. You asked for services she told you her services, but purposely left out that those were her services for her regular rate. Are you telling me this is not a scam?
When you purposely leave out extremely important information that you know would change the buyers mind completely, it is a scam.
If a girl lists she has a 120hh special. You message her for her services and she responds bj/fs. You make an appointment, get there and give her the 120. Then she proceeds with a HJ. You say lets get to the main event and the girl says sorry, the special is only for a hand job only. The girl didn't lie. You asked for services she told you her services, but purposely left out that those were her services for her regular rate. Are you telling me this is not a scam?
When you purposely leave out extremely important information that you know would change the buyers mind completely, it is a scam.
What your friend should of done was to give you her contact information after you expressed interest in buying the car. That would leave you and her to work out a price and he would have no further involvement. But he did not do that and I can not think of a good reason to explain that. I find that suspicious.
It would be a scam because the add was structured in a way to imply that $120 special include bj/fs. Note however that (1) it was the information about the "product" not about the "seller" (however, in case of SP the "seller" is a "product" in some sense, so, information about girl's looks would be considered as information about the product while information about the number of girl's siblings would be an information about the seller) and (2) the add was structured in a way to purposely say something about the service that any reasonable reader assume is true but it is not. Teh latter is a grey zone. In any advertising, it should be a small footnote with a fine print "special is for basic services only". Such ad would be similar to a toothpaste add that say "approved by doctors"
This
We need to know year, make, model, kilometres, and what the OP originally offered and what he ended up paying.
He doesn't seem to want to post that for whatever reason, so who knows if he got scammed or not, but he was definitely lied to by a guy who is either tapping that ass or wants to tap that ass.
Yes you did get scammed.
Later it turns out that she has a job after all and you were not told the complete truth.
The truth of the matter is that it was costing her a parking space or the expense of a parking space and it was not insured therefor vulnerable to theft or vandalism.
Why would she sell it if she can get a patsy to do all the work for her?
Her shill was doing a good job for her. He was going to get fucked for the deal ( sex ) if he fucks you first. ( scammed )
He told you a lie. She was not unemployed as he previously told you.
She is not broke and has a new car. It was her fuck buddy that was conning you.
I think by this time you have figured it out and know this too is a lie.
He called you to reassure you so that if he needs to scam you in the future he can call you up play you like a puppet.
You swallowed it hook line and sinker and the hook is coming out of your ass. I think she bought a new car and refused the dealers offer for the old car as a trade in because the trade price was low. She passed the job of selling the car on to her fuck buddy and he figured he would pawn the car off an a chump he knows ( you ) for a quick sale.
