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outsmarted (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Buage_@piefed.social to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[-] Doug@piefed.social 102 points 3 days ago

I had a roommate once ask me to come with him to buy a $40 table he found off Craigslist.

We show up, they show him the table.
"k I'm all ready to take this home, the thing is... I only have $20."

Motherfucker brought me in just to help pressure them into his haggling.
I mean yes it worked, but I was so goddamn uncomfortable. I have no idea what happened to him/we haven't kept in touch, but it sadly wouldn't surprise me if he was some god awful CEO.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 53 points 3 days ago

This happened to me in reverse. I had that stone top table, that was heavy beyond believe. Really nice table, but i didn't want it anymore and sold it for like 100 bucks or something. I said that they have to bring at least another dude, big enough car, and i would help them load it and whatnot. Dude showed up, with the weakest, most obese person he could find, so i called my neighbour for help and thought i'll just give him the 100 dollars, since the table was giving the table away for basically free anyway. So me and my neighbour did basically all the work, because of how out of breath and incompetent they were. When we were downstairs, we put it down and started to think about loadimg it in. Then the guy said somethimg like: btw, i only got 60 dollars, i assume that's fine. I tipped over the table, smashing it to pieces and told them that now it's 60 dollars. I hate people so much

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

I always give the money first when I buy something used to balance out the karma of those pieces of shit.

I would have taken the table out of spite and tell the guys to fuck off.

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Wait did you actually tip it and break it? That’s awesome I want to know this spite story is true.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

stone top table

Fliesentisch?

[-] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago

I've had people come by and try that shit. "oh, that's no problem. I can wait until you get the other twenty." "I really can't because blah blah but I can help you get it off your hands now!" "oh no, that's fine. I don't mind waiting. Plus we would both feel bad if you paid twenty. You would be robbing me!" "Blah blah." "Oh, it's just 20 dollars?" "Blah blah." "Oh no, I'm not as rich as you!" "Blah blah" " You know what? I like you but I really can't do that!" "Blah blah blah" "Then what's 20 dollars between friends?" "Exactly!" "Blah blah blah!" "Wow, I never considered that but you're gonna make me look bad in front of my wife. I have to think of my family." "blah blah." "oh yes of course, blah blah." "blah, blah, blah." "You're right I could use that twenty to get my wife something nice right now but really I'm not selling. We're saving up. There's an ATM around the corner." "Blah blah blah." "Banking fees? Of course, I didn't consider that. That wasn't very thoughtful of me! I don't mind holding on to it for you, if you want you can leave twenty behind as a deposit" "Blah blah blah." "No, you have my number plus you know where I live. We're both honest men or are we not?" "Blah blah blah?" "Yeah, I gotta get up early too. Maybe a cup of coffee before you go?" "blah blah blah." "Two sugars and no milk? No problem!"

It's the reason I stopped doing garage sales.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago

I've walked away from deals like that out of spite, just to see the look on their entitled faces. Fuck your $20 I'll just donate it.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Yeah fuck that shit. I'll haggle in the messages, but when we decide to show up I expect the deal to go through as agreed upon.

That's way too mich effort spent on those morons. If they don't have the money then I tell them leave and go back to what I was doing before. I am not about to spend any amount time entertaining someone who is trying to rip me off. I don't even care if they somehow "find" the rest of the money. I'm done dealing with them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[-] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 123 points 3 days ago

Not hard to outsmart someone that would pay 30k for a pair of shoes tbh

[-] TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 123 points 3 days ago

Depends on the currency tho

[-] brap@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago

100%. 30,000 Ugandan Dollars for example is less than 8USD. This could be anywhere.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 28 points 3 days ago

Well, they're speaking English in the text exchange, so that narrows it down to just all the countries where English is a commonly used second or third language. Which is uhhhhhh most of them.

[-] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Almost everything outside europe and south america lol

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It doesn't actually say the currency is dollars though, but I guess the language still rules it out, and it is unlikely to be £30k.

Some possibilities: Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, India

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Nah if it was Ugandan there would be booze in the picture 🤣

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 16 points 3 days ago

They meant shoes that cheap gotta be crap

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

I hope this is in like Turkish Lira

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

If you ask me "how much?", the price goes up, until you stop asking. Especially if I've added "firm" after the asking price. Because, I don't negotiate with idiots.

[-] MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago

Dear monsieur Seth Rogen, please make my movie about the man who changes the label on his wife's rock tumbler to say "cock tumbler" which inadvertantly turns it into some kind of magic lamp type device like in Aladdin. The dick genie inside can grant you 3 wishes but they all have to be cock related. The genie smokes a dick shaped bong and laughs heheheheheheheheheheheh.

Please give me 12 million dollars.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Why are we still letting this shitty LLM spam the comments with unrelated word soup still?

[-] MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Wowsers you still think I'm using an LLM and that I'm not just a complete moron with a boring desk job? Maybe you should go buy yourself some [insert adjective] ice cream.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Your clearly using madlib brand llm!

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago

30k each, won't break up the set, plus 10k transaction fee.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 3 days ago

I would ask who in their right mind would pay $30,000 for shoes, but then I remembered that rich people aren't in their right minds.

[-] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 days ago

It might be 30,000 Iranian Rials. The current exchange rate of one Iranian rial to the US dollar is 0.00. If so, those shoes are practically free!

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

$1 is only 1,341,580.19 rial, it’s not thaaat bad.

[-] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah nice, thanks for getting specific. Made me curious exactly how much OP was dealing with if it was 30,000 Iranian Rials= 0.02¢ 🤭, that is two one-hundredths of a penny. Those boots being sold for two one-hundredths of a penny 🤣

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There are a few nice free currency converter apps, I’ve had this one for ages and it updates with current exchange rates.

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 8 points 3 days ago

Note to self: make shoes to sell to rich people

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

Noted...don't ask a sneakerhead stupid questions after 4:20 PM.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

don't ask a sneakerhead ~~stupid questions after 4:20 PM.~~ about anything at any time, ideally

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago
[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -2 points 3 days ago

So just for some context the shoes in the image appear to be "Asics Gel-Nyc - Graphite Grey/Black". Which do not cost US$30'000. So I dunno what currency the price is in, if it is not just a fake image.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Sounds like rupees to me

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