[quote name='Devin']I'm still
rooting for Carl (the thief). Anyone with me?
I mean,
oNeWiNgEdAnGeL didn't know who the hell this guy was, he's never seen or met him in his life, his address was a PO Box number, and the only thing revealed about our friend Carl was that... HE HAD A
ING RECORD OF BEING A BAD TRADER!!! Yet, what does
oNeWiNgEdAnGeL do? He ships out six games to Carl before he even recieved Carl's payment. Smart move!
Technically,
oNeWiNgEdAnGeL, you GAVE Carl those games. Technically, Carl doesn't owe you a damn thing. Technically, those games now
belong to Carl because, and only because, you GAVE them to him. Think of what I like to call "The Gumball Machine Effect". You put your money IN the machine, and OUT comes your gumball. Never do you get you gumball before you put your quarter in the machine. If so-ever the gumball comes OUT before you even put your money IN the machine, that gumball is now YOURS... or whomever is willing to take the gumball that was
GIVEN (reference to you GIVING Carl those games). Catch my drift?
Let's put it this way: If our man Carl is an idiot, he'll give the games back to you (even though they are his now). If he knows his rights, he will keep HIS games and hope that you learned a
valuable lesson (no pun intended). When you shipped those games to Carl without receiving his payment, you BASICALLY contracted to saying:
"Yo, Carl. That
thing that was mentioned about the $230 dollars.........
TOTALLY OPTIONAL, dude!"
So now Carl is faced with those choices listed above. And I hope to ALL THINGS that Carl reigns victorious in this bout! And, ya know,
bmulligan made a perfectly accurate assuption. Maybe this is your karma lashing out at you. It had to come sooner or later. Maybe next time you wont have your MOMMY commit your fraudulent acts for the sake of you having
video games. Games can be had cheaply without committing such frauds, and you might consider getting games on your own,
without your MOMMY. It's a step toward maturity, and, guess what?.... BAD KARMA IS WEAK AGAINST MATURITY!
So live and learn, and mature yourself. Maybe then, karma wont come from behind and bite you in the ass, but rather brush up against you, as a reminder that something like this can happen, yet again, if you're not mature enough.
Take a good look in the mirror,
oNeWiNgEdAnGeL and from this day forward, consider Carl to officially be your butt-plugger, because that's what he basically did - owned you up the "you-know-where". But, I'm off now. I hope you learned your lesson. I will leave you with these two words - the same two words
MANY of us where thinking after reading the very first post of this thread.........
GO, CARL!!![/QUOTE]
Dude, the gumball machine effect? It makes partial sence to me in the way that you RECIEVE the gumball, but IF you TAKE it without paying, then that would be called stealing. You STOLE a gumball, because you never PAID for it. If the gumball machine effect was true then we would have a lot of people say, "Oh, hey look at that car, it's not mine, but it's unlocked so I guess it's mine now!"
Devin, let's say you were in onewingedangel's position. I bet you wouldn't act like, "OH YEAH TOTALLY MY FAULT. SORRY CARL, YOU CAN HAVE ALL THAT STUFF FREE, I GUESS I LEARNED MY LESSON."