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EciRonTog
07-08-2006, 07:08 PM
I few months ago I got 2 good videocards for the computer at a great price. Since I had an extra my friend had been bugging me like crazy to hook him up with one of them. Now this card, if I was to sell it, Iâ??d get around $250 or so depending on how lucky I got. My friend doesnâ??t have a lot of money, so we worked it out that I would give it to him and he would give me $200 worth of weed when his plants were ready. So I give him the card and hit him up about a week later asking about the dank. He says that his dad moved the stuff and he canâ??t get to it. For some reason I had thought that he had total access to the weed from his plants but it turns out itâ??s actually his dads plants. Still, he manages to pick enough to smoke constantly every day and never pay for it.

My problem is kinda that if I still had the card, then I could just say he could have it when I get my weed, but since he already has the card I feel like there is no incentive on his part to actually follow through on the deal. When I ask him I feel like a mom bugging their kid to do their homework or something. 2nd thing is that whenever he does anything now, he acts like its payment toward the card, even though itâ??s stuff he would have done anyway, and we never agreed on anything other than weed as payment. Finally, as more time goes by the price of the hardware (like all tech stuff) goes down. If he waits till itâ??s only worth $150 or so, I have a gut feeling thatâ??s all heâ??ll try to pay me for it.

Seems like I should just confront him about it, but guilt tripping people about stuff is this guyâ??s specialty, and he has somewhat of a warped sense of reality when it comes to what stuff is worth, etc.

insanity
07-08-2006, 08:19 PM
Just lay it out. Tell him that, while he is your friend, it is still fucked up.

Skink
07-08-2006, 11:30 PM
this is not barter etiquette,,,to me this is knowing yur friends,he lied to get the card,the end...

kwm
07-08-2006, 11:35 PM
I have many friends and about 3 that I have known for 6+ years that I would do anything like that for. Not cuz I'm a tight ass but acquaintences take forever to pay you back. Learn from experience and get the bud upfront.

lizzie on low
07-09-2006, 12:27 AM
Just plainly state that if you don' recieve "payment" for the card, you want it back. Pure and simple. Not much of a friend if he yanks you around like that. Honestly, I think the faux paus (sp?) is his - the minute he discoved he couldn't pay you, he should have returned the card.

Gothen
07-09-2006, 12:29 AM
...the minute he discoved he couldn't pay you, he should have returned the card.

Or at the very least, he should have offered to give you it back until he can pay you back.

I'd just tell him exactly what Lizzie said.

puffpuffand away
07-09-2006, 12:57 AM
not that good of a friend id say...

tell 2 up with the card or the smoke...
or give u back ur card...

dont take no shit from him...

i have had that happin 2 me, and i makes me so mad...

plz dont let that guy play u...

peace