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When you sell an account with 55900 points and you are told you will only be paid for 55K may the buyer then do BCKSTGR and use your 900?

He may not use it. it is stealing.
He may use it but then must pay for the 900
He may use it and does not have to pay for it as it was of no use anyway
He may use it because he now owns the account and can do as he pleases with it
None of the above

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Ethics/Halacha Question
« on: January 22, 2013, 01:50:13 PM »
I had a disagreement with someone about this and I would like to hear outside opinions.
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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 01:53:06 PM »
what is BCKSTGR

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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2013, 01:53:37 PM »

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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2013, 05:13:03 PM »
Let me preface by saying that I'm a total n00b, so I'm just going by what it sounds like....

It sounds like an interesting situation - you're selling the whole account? If so, it sounds like in effect, you're selling everything in the account, even though you're only being paid for 55k.

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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2013, 05:17:10 PM »
It would be the last time I would deal with that person.
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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2013, 05:28:03 PM »
It would be the last time I would deal with that person.
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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2013, 05:34:03 PM »
It would be the last time I would deal with that person.

Is the objection that he used what you consider "yours", or is it that he tricked you into taking less because you didn't know it was possible to use the other 900?

I can see an objection based on the latter, but that is not really related to whether he ultimately uses them; it is related to what he knows and what you know.

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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2013, 05:47:54 PM »
Is the objection that he used what you consider "yours", or is it that he tricked you into taking less because you didn't know it was possible to use the other 900?

I can see an objection based on the latter, but that is not really related to whether he ultimately uses them; it is related to what he knows and what you know.
My ojection is we are talking about 900 points. I would not think twice about giving the guy what he wants.
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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2013, 05:54:01 PM »
My ojection is we are talking about 900 points. I would not think twice about giving the guy what he wants.

Oh, ok. You mean we're talking about 10 bucks, so the guy is a jerk for not just paying for it. I get that.

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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2013, 05:54:52 PM »
It sounds like an interesting situation - you're selling the whole account? If so, it sounds like in effect, you're selling everything in the account, even though you're only being paid for 55k.

+1, that would be my thought.
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Re: Ethics/Halacha Question
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2013, 09:45:39 PM »
you're selling the whole account? If so, it sounds like in effect, you're selling everything in the account, even though you're only being paid for 55k.
That is what I thought.
The reason you don't pay for less than 1K is just because most people can't use it but in reality you are buying the whole 55900.
if not the whole account. If you figured out how to get United to top it off somehow that is just your gain.

on another note Just today I had someone dump sapphire into an old empty United account because it matched his passengers name.
it didn't matter cuz its garbage to me but I thought that he should've asked.

Oh, ok. You mean we're talking about 10 bucks, so the guy is a jerk for not just paying for it. I get that.
That is the question. Does he owe the 900 times X or is it understood that he can empty the account.
For example if the account were to be be shut down, would he owe you 900UA?
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