OT: 113th Obsequious Banter Thread: 1 of 13, a baker's dozen

[Kermit the Prog]

Growing up I swear to God if you heard a guy speaking French or with a French-Canadian accent at the shore and were on the beach there was like a 50/50 chance they were wearing a 'banana hammock'

I just speak with a French accent so I can wear them on the beach,

 

[DancingPanther]

I have an infuriating ticket selling situation going on right now.

So I sold a pair of tickets for the Luke Combs concert to a guy in a Facebook group a few weeks back with the caveat that the tickets weren't created yet so I can't transfer them yet. It had a countdown of 20 or something days until they were populated.

I took a $50 deposit with the understanding that it was non-refundable in the event that the person decided to not buy the tickets and payment on the balance would be expected when tickets were transferable.

So the weeks go by, I give the guy the guy updates like when the tickets showed up in my account but they weren't yet transferable but i'd keep an eye out on them.

Last Thursday I saw a reddit post that said that the transfer button usually becomes active one week before the show so I let the guy know this. So Friday morning I see it's available and send him a text. I don't get a response until 10:22PM saying "good, they are" and I respond yeah with a screenshot showing that they are. Twenty minutes go by and I say that i'm about to go to sleep so if he sends the money and I don't respond that's why so it's probably best to wait until tomorrow. He likes that message.

Tomorrow comes and I send a text in the morning say that i'm free all day so whenever he's ready. I get a response at 1:24AM on Sunday saying that he's out of town until tomorrow and the he's sorry just seeing the message. I respond when I wake up saying it's all good but does tomorrow mean sunday or Monday and that i'd like to have this all squared away by Tuesday.

Sunday and Monday go by with no responses.

Yesterday I say that I know he's been out of town but I need payment by the end of the day as the tickets became transferable five days ago and the concert is in a couple of days.

I hear nothing.

So this morning I send a text saying that I am relisting the tickets as the lack of responses and payment up to this point tells me that they're no longer interested in the tickets.

What do you know? I get a response. The guy is still out of town, his bank account is locked, he has a "whole situation here," and that he if I want to relist the tickets again then I have to send the $50 back.

I send a response explaining how if he's having all of these troubles he could have said something but he didn't, the tickets can still be bought by him by paying the balance, and that the $50 will be kept as it was protection for me against non-payment.

He then gives a run around about how he can't be dealing with this shit cause he's got kids and he'll be damned if he's out that money.

I provide a screenshot of him saying "how about i send you $50 now and you keep it if I don't buy them" and say the ball is in his court, I have a kid too and i'm not going to risk having to eat the tickets by waiting until the last minute.

He goes on to say that he told me that he was out of town and when he says something he does it and that he's not going back and forth about this because "I don't move like that."

I respond saying he said he'd be home tomorrow which at the latest could have been looked at as monday and that he was on Facebook/Messenger several times yesterday. He could have said anything about these situations and he didn't. I say that he can still buy the tickets by sending the balance but i'm not going to hold them and risk being stuck with them.

"Bruh, did I not just tell you what's going on? So how the hell a payment getting sent?" "Like I said if you putting them back up send my 50 back then if you. It comfortable cool. But I need that"

My response is asking how is that going to get magically fixed then? Would you trust me if I wasn't going to send the tickets until 5:45 on Friday (showtime)? I again explain that i'd keep the $50 if he didn't buy them and as of now you don't have a path to buy them and I still have presented you the option to buy them. I also say that if they sell for more than what we agreed to i'll send the money back but not before then.

No response since.

Am I The Asshole? The concert is on Friday.

I'll remember these tactics for my next Phillies tickets

 

[Lord Defect]

I have an infuriating ticket selling situation going on right now.

So I sold a pair of tickets for the Luke Combs concert to a guy in a Facebook group a few weeks back with the caveat that the tickets weren't created yet so I can't transfer them yet. It had a countdown of 20 or something days until they were populated.

I took a $50 deposit with the understanding that it was non-refundable in the event that the person decided to not buy the tickets and payment on the balance would be expected when tickets were transferable.

So the weeks go by, I give the guy the guy updates like when the tickets showed up in my account but they weren't yet transferable but i'd keep an eye out on them.

Last Thursday I saw a reddit post that said that the transfer button usually becomes active one week before the show so I let the guy know this. So Friday morning I see it's available and send him a text. I don't get a response until 10:22PM saying "good, they are" and I respond yeah with a screenshot showing that they are. Twenty minutes go by and I say that i'm about to go to sleep so if he sends the money and I don't respond that's why so it's probably best to wait until tomorrow. He likes that message.

Tomorrow comes and I send a text in the morning say that i'm free all day so whenever he's ready. I get a response at 1:24AM on Sunday saying that he's out of town until tomorrow and the he's sorry just seeing the message. I respond when I wake up saying it's all good but does tomorrow mean sunday or Monday and that i'd like to have this all squared away by Tuesday.

Sunday and Monday go by with no responses.

Yesterday I say that I know he's been out of town but I need payment by the end of the day as the tickets became transferable five days ago and the concert is in a couple of days.

I hear nothing.

So this morning I send a text saying that I am relisting the tickets as the lack of responses and payment up to this point tells me that they're no longer interested in the tickets.

What do you know? I get a response. The guy is still out of town, his bank account is locked, he has a "whole situation here," and that he if I want to relist the tickets again then I have to send the $50 back.

I send a response explaining how if he's having all of these troubles he could have said something but he didn't, the tickets can still be bought by him by paying the balance, and that the $50 will be kept as it was protection for me against non-payment.

He then gives a run around about how he can't be dealing with this shit cause he's got kids and he'll be damned if he's out that money.

I provide a screenshot of him saying "how about i send you $50 now and you keep it if I don't buy them" and say the ball is in his court, I have a kid too and i'm not going to risk having to eat the tickets by waiting until the last minute.

He goes on to say that he told me that he was out of town and when he says something he does it and that he's not going back and forth about this because "I don't move like that."

I respond saying he said he'd be home tomorrow which at the latest could have been looked at as monday and that he was on Facebook/Messenger several times yesterday. He could have said anything about these situations and he didn't. I say that he can still buy the tickets by sending the balance but i'm not going to hold them and risk being stuck with them.

"Bruh, did I not just tell you what's going on? So how the hell a payment getting sent?" "Like I said if you putting them back up send my 50 back then if you. It comfortable cool. But I need that"

My response is asking how is that going to get magically fixed then? Would you trust me if I wasn't going to send the tickets until 5:45 on Friday (showtime)? I again explain that i'd keep the $50 if he didn't buy them and as of now you don't have a path to buy them and I still have presented you the option to buy them. I also say that if they sell for more than what we agreed to i'll send the money back but not before then.

No response since.

Am I The Asshole? The concert is on Friday.

Repost, keep the 50. You have been far more patient than I am.

 

[Embiid]

Growing up I swear to God if you heard a guy speaking French or with a French-Canadian accent at the shore and were on the beach there was like a 50/50 chance they were wearing a speedo or the occasional 'banana hammock'

No marble smugglers thankfully

 

[Flybynite]

Guess that explains all the crashes

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Sounds like he wanted the tickets for a friend or to re sell them and it fell through on him. You were up front about the deposit and he agreed to the terms, so no you are not the asshole. How and or why would you go out of town with your bank account frozen? Makes no sense.

I have no clue what the end game really was. I don't know if he expects me to wait until showtime on Friday for him to pay just because he says he will or what.

I'll remember these tactics for my next Phillies tickets

COD for you and you know i'm quick on the draw of sending tickets, bb.

Repost, keep the 50. You have been far more patient than I am.

We all know that, Mr. Lord.

 

[Rebels57]

I have an infuriating ticket selling situation going on right now.

So I sold a pair of tickets for the Luke Combs concert to a guy in a Facebook group a few weeks back with the caveat that the tickets weren't created yet so I can't transfer them yet. It had a countdown of 20 or something days until they were populated.

I took a $50 deposit with the understanding that it was non-refundable in the event that the person decided to not buy the tickets and payment on the balance would be expected when tickets were transferable.

So the weeks go by, I give the guy the guy updates like when the tickets showed up in my account but they weren't yet transferable but i'd keep an eye out on them.

Last Thursday I saw a reddit post that said that the transfer button usually becomes active one week before the show so I let the guy know this. So Friday morning I see it's available and send him a text. I don't get a response until 10:22PM saying "good, they are" and I respond yeah with a screenshot showing that they are. Twenty minutes go by and I say that i'm about to go to sleep so if he sends the money and I don't respond that's why so it's probably best to wait until tomorrow. He likes that message.

Tomorrow comes and I send a text in the morning say that i'm free all day so whenever he's ready. I get a response at 1:24AM on Sunday saying that he's out of town until tomorrow and the he's sorry just seeing the message. I respond when I wake up saying it's all good but does tomorrow mean sunday or Monday and that i'd like to have this all squared away by Tuesday.

Sunday and Monday go by with no responses.

Yesterday I say that I know he's been out of town but I need payment by the end of the day as the tickets became transferable five days ago and the concert is in a couple of days.

I hear nothing.

So this morning I send a text saying that I am relisting the tickets as the lack of responses and payment up to this point tells me that they're no longer interested in the tickets.

What do you know? I get a response. The guy is still out of town, his bank account is locked, he has a "whole situation here," and that he if I want to relist the tickets again then I have to send the $50 back.

I send a response explaining how if he's having all of these troubles he could have said something but he didn't, the tickets can still be bought by him by paying the balance, and that the $50 will be kept as it was protection for me against non-payment.

He then gives a run around about how he can't be dealing with this shit cause he's got kids and he'll be damned if he's out that money.

I provide a screenshot of him saying "how about i send you $50 now and you keep it if I don't buy them" and say the ball is in his court, I have a kid too and i'm not going to risk having to eat the tickets by waiting until the last minute.

He goes on to say that he told me that he was out of town and when he says something he does it and that he's not going back and forth about this because "I don't move like that."

I respond saying he said he'd be home tomorrow which at the latest could have been looked at as monday and that he was on Facebook/Messenger several times yesterday. He could have said anything about these situations and he didn't. I say that he can still buy the tickets by sending the balance but i'm not going to hold them and risk being stuck with them.

"Bruh, did I not just tell you what's going on? So how the hell a payment getting sent?" "Like I said if you putting them back up send my 50 back then if you. It comfortable cool. But I need that"

My response is asking how is that going to get magically fixed then? Would you trust me if I wasn't going to send the tickets until 5:45 on Friday (showtime)? I again explain that i'd keep the $50 if he didn't buy them and as of now you don't have a path to buy them and I still have presented you the option to buy them. I also say that if they sell for more than what we agreed to i'll send the money back but not before then.

No response since.

Am I The Asshole? The concert is on Friday.

You are not the asshole. Re-list the tickets and try to sell them. Send him a link to the listing in case he wants to buy them. Keep the $50 either way. Keep record of the entire conversation in case he tries some shit with Facebook.

 

[Chinatown88]

I have an infuriating ticket selling situation going on right now.

So I sold a pair of tickets for the Luke Combs concert to a guy in a Facebook group a few weeks back with the caveat that the tickets weren't created yet so I can't transfer them yet. It had a countdown of 20 or something days until they were populated.

I took a $50 deposit with the understanding that it was non-refundable in the event that the person decided to not buy the tickets and payment on the balance would be expected when tickets were transferable.

So the weeks go by, I give the guy the guy updates like when the tickets showed up in my account but they weren't yet transferable but i'd keep an eye out on them.

Last Thursday I saw a reddit post that said that the transfer button usually becomes active one week before the show so I let the guy know this. So Friday morning I see it's available and send him a text. I don't get a response until 10:22PM saying "good, they are" and I respond yeah with a screenshot showing that they are. Twenty minutes go by and I say that i'm about to go to sleep so if he sends the money and I don't respond that's why so it's probably best to wait until tomorrow. He likes that message.

Tomorrow comes and I send a text in the morning say that i'm free all day so whenever he's ready. I get a response at 1:24AM on Sunday saying that he's out of town until tomorrow and the he's sorry just seeing the message. I respond when I wake up saying it's all good but does tomorrow mean sunday or Monday and that i'd like to have this all squared away by Tuesday.

Sunday and Monday go by with no responses.

Yesterday I say that I know he's been out of town but I need payment by the end of the day as the tickets became transferable five days ago and the concert is in a couple of days.

I hear nothing.

So this morning I send a text saying that I am relisting the tickets as the lack of responses and payment up to this point tells me that they're no longer interested in the tickets.

What do you know? I get a response. The guy is still out of town, his bank account is locked, he has a "whole situation here," and that he if I want to relist the tickets again then I have to send the $50 back.

I send a response explaining how if he's having all of these troubles he could have said something but he didn't, the tickets can still be bought by him by paying the balance, and that the $50 will be kept as it was protection for me against non-payment.

He then gives a run around about how he can't be dealing with this shit cause he's got kids and he'll be damned if he's out that money.

I provide a screenshot of him saying "how about i send you $50 now and you keep it if I don't buy them" and say the ball is in his court, I have a kid too and i'm not going to risk having to eat the tickets by waiting until the last minute.

He goes on to say that he told me that he was out of town and when he says something he does it and that he's not going back and forth about this because "I don't move like that."

I respond saying he said he'd be home tomorrow which at the latest could have been looked at as monday and that he was on Facebook/Messenger several times yesterday. He could have said anything about these situations and he didn't. I say that he can still buy the tickets by sending the balance but i'm not going to hold them and risk being stuck with them.

"Bruh, did I not just tell you what's going on? So how the hell a payment getting sent?" "Like I said if you putting them back up send my 50 back then if you. It comfortable cool. But I need that"

My response is asking how is that going to get magically fixed then? Would you trust me if I wasn't going to send the tickets until 5:45 on Friday (showtime)? I again explain that i'd keep the $50 if he didn't buy them and as of now you don't have a path to buy them and I still have presented you the option to buy them. I also say that if they sell for more than what we agreed to i'll send the money back but not before then.

No response since.

Am I The Asshole? The concert is on Friday.

Who the heck is Luke Combs?

Also you're in the right here. This guy is just making shit up so he doesn't get caught with the tickets and can't flip em to someone else.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Who the heck is Luke Combs?

Also you're in the right here. This guy is just making shit up so he doesn't get caught with the tickets and can't flip em to someone else.

The weird thing is that up until this morning when they released some more tickets tickets were substantially more expensive then what I sold them for on the resale market.

Hrr durrr country guy.

 

[BernieParent]

Guess that explains all the crashes

This confirms that the entire pandemic was the result of left-left-right-right-start-select instead of right-right-left-left-select-start.

 

[Rebels57]

Who the heck is Luke Combs?

Also you're in the right here. This guy is just making shit up so he doesn't get caught with the tickets and can't flip em to someone else.

You don't want to know...unless you like god-awful pop country.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Found a new buyer and I sent the guy his $50 back because I got paid more and because i'm a good guy.

My better judgement told me to keep it but oh well.

 

[Rebels57]

Found a new buyer and I sent the guy his $50 back because I got paid more and because i'm a good guy.

My better judgement told me to keep it but oh well.

*auto-merge*

Cape May crew, anyone been to Willow Creek Winery? Our Air B&B is right across the street from it.

 

[Tripod]

Found a new buyer and I sent the guy his $50 back because I got paid more and because i'm a good guy.

My better judgement told me to keep it but oh well.

The drama and hassle wasn't worth the $50 so I would have done the same. I prefer to live a simple, less stress life. Now your life moves on and you have have no worries about him, Facebook, etc... He could be a psychopath for all you know...and you didn't set him off over $50.

And hey, you sold them for more so still come out ahead, worry free.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The drama and hassle wasn't worth the $50 so I would have done the same. I prefer to live a simple, less stress life. Now your life moves on and you have have no worries about him, Facebook, etc... He could be a psychopath for all you know...and you didn't set him off over $50.

And hey, you sold them for more so still come out ahead, worry free.

The fact that I think he actually may be a psychopath is the main reason that I did it.

 

[Chinatown88]

Found a new buyer and I sent the guy his $50 back because I got paid more and because i'm a good guy.

My better judgement told me to keep it but oh well.

This will work out in the end and somehow you'll get a game used jersey in the future now.

 

[Embiid]

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*auto-merge*

Cape May crew, anyone been to Willow Creek Winery? Our Air B&B is right across the street from it.

I have not but intending on possibly checking it out.

Lucky Bones was great last night. Got the prime rib and swordfish specials. The brussel sprout app was amazing. Good portions and reasonable. Will go back.

 

[Danko]

Non Human Biologics could mean i guess animals or whatever to...but sounds like the government is covering up aliens.

 

[Flybynite]

Non Human Biologics could mean i guess animals or whatever to...but sounds like the government is covering up aliens.

It's the cockroach bipedal evolved beings that took over the Earth after humanity was wiped out and are sending ships back in a time portal from 4 million years in the future.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I have an infuriating ticket selling situation going on right now.

So I sold a pair of tickets for the Luke Combs concert to a guy in a Facebook group a few weeks back with the caveat that the tickets weren't created yet so I can't transfer them yet. It had a countdown of 20 or something days until they were populated.

I took a $50 deposit with the understanding that it was non-refundable in the event that the person decided to not buy the tickets and payment on the balance would be expected when tickets were transferable.

So the weeks go by, I give the guy the guy updates like when the tickets showed up in my account but they weren't yet transferable but i'd keep an eye out on them.

Last Thursday I saw a reddit post that said that the transfer button usually becomes active one week before the show so I let the guy know this. So Friday morning I see it's available and send him a text. I don't get a response until 10:22PM saying "good, they are" and I respond yeah with a screenshot showing that they are. Twenty minutes go by and I say that i'm about to go to sleep so if he sends the money and I don't respond that's why so it's probably best to wait until tomorrow. He likes that message.

Tomorrow comes and I send a text in the morning say that i'm free all day so whenever he's ready. I get a response at 1:24AM on Sunday saying that he's out of town until tomorrow and the he's sorry just seeing the message. I respond when I wake up saying it's all good but does tomorrow mean sunday or Monday and that i'd like to have this all squared away by Tuesday.

Sunday and Monday go by with no responses.

Yesterday I say that I know he's been out of town but I need payment by the end of the day as the tickets became transferable five days ago and the concert is in a couple of days.

I hear nothing.

So this morning I send a text saying that I am relisting the tickets as the lack of responses and payment up to this point tells me that they're no longer interested in the tickets.

What do you know? I get a response. The guy is still out of town, his bank account is locked, he has a "whole situation here," and that he if I want to relist the tickets again then I have to send the $50 back.

I send a response explaining how if he's having all of these troubles he could have said something but he didn't, the tickets can still be bought by him by paying the balance, and that the $50 will be kept as it was protection for me against non-payment.

He then gives a run around about how he can't be dealing with this shit cause he's got kids and he'll be damned if he's out that money.

I provide a screenshot of him saying "how about i send you $50 now and you keep it if I don't buy them" and say the ball is in his court, I have a kid too and i'm not going to risk having to eat the tickets by waiting until the last minute.

He goes on to say that he told me that he was out of town and when he says something he does it and that he's not going back and forth about this because "I don't move like that."

I respond saying he said he'd be home tomorrow which at the latest could have been looked at as monday and that he was on Facebook/Messenger several times yesterday. He could have said anything about these situations and he didn't. I say that he can still buy the tickets by sending the balance but i'm not going to hold them and risk being stuck with them.

"Bruh, did I not just tell you what's going on? So how the hell a payment getting sent?" "Like I said if you putting them back up send my 50 back then if you. It comfortable cool. But I need that"

My response is asking how is that going to get magically fixed then? Would you trust me if I wasn't going to send the tickets until 5:45 on Friday (showtime)? I again explain that i'd keep the $50 if he didn't buy them and as of now you don't have a path to buy them and I still have presented you the option to buy them. I also say that if they sell for more than what we agreed to i'll send the money back but not before then.

No response since.

Am I The Asshole? The concert is on Friday.

Yeah I got no time for people like that. As soon as the tickets came through on your end he should have had the money sent over right there.

If you borrow money, have someone front money, etc. you should have your end in order. I don’t like asking people for money so in turn I don’t put people in situations where they have to ask for money from me.

I don’t know if the guy thought you were like playing games with him or some shit because the process to obtain the tickets so he felt the need to throw it back to you or not? Either way I’m not playing games like that.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Speaking of time portals, they are super close to confirming a possible wormhole at Skinwalker Ranch. I have a love/hate relationship with that show, but they've seen some wild stuff this season.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[BernieParent]

To continue the theme (stretch?) of big physics discoveries, I came across this tweet (come at me, Elon!):



The Cornell University group has prepublished an abstract of their work. My physics was spotty even when i was doing college physics courses so I won't even try to discern whether this holds any weight.

 

[Embiid]

More aliens..

US pilot says he dodged 'mysterious dark cube floating in the sky'

He can't explain how it was able to fly.

metro.co.uk

 

[Beef Invictus]

I think HC should get the 50 back and send it to me. Then I'll launder it.