#Reminder : I am not the OP.
Original by u/macbookcouch
I had some of my friends over at my house and one of my friends invited one of her other friends to come over. She had her MacBook on my couch when I sat on it and broke it. Since it was completely my fault I offered to pay her the money for it and she agreed. She got it 3 years ago and it cost 2200 dollars at the time. I told her I’d wire you the money in a week to her bank account.
She’s now emailed me saying that as per our conversation she’s expecting the 2700 that I have agreed for!!! I didn’t know why she added the extra money so I got her number from my friend and called her to find her telling me she’s now expecting me to pay for her new upgraded MacBook since she was “upgrading anyway”. She said if I don’t agree to do that she’ll be suing me in small claims court. Can a judge agree to that?
Should I wire her the $2,200 or should I just tell her go sue me?
I went through every single comment from the 200+ ones and I sincerely thank each and every one of you.
I did some research specifically for repairing the screen for the macbook and for her particular model it’s around 310 for the screen + the labor cost so I wrote her back saying that since she didn’t accept my initial offer of $2200, I’m withdrawing that offer, and offering to pay for the repair cost. She sent me an email calling me a bitch and that she’s going to take me to court.
I got served a few days later and went to court. I told the judge I gave her three options to choose from. 1) either to write her a check for a brand new one which was 2200 dollars. 2) Get her a refurbished one from apple or a third party or even used which would be around 1400 dollars or 3) fix her current MacBook since the screen is the only thing affected here and it would cost around 300 dollars plus money for labor. (I printed out the email I sent her and the mail she sent back refusing demanding the 2700 and calling me a bitch and saying we’ll go to court + screenshots for the price quotes from different websites for a new/refurbished and the screen fix for her particular model) and gave it to the judge. I also told him that when I offered at the very beginning to get her a new one from the apple store she said no I want the money in cash. When I told her I’d give her 2200 for a new one she said okay but later came asking for 2700 because she wants to upgrade. I tried to show him how it’s clearly visible that she’s trying to take advantage of me.
She gave the judge an attitude almost the whole time which really pissed the judge off and helped my case I guess. After listening to both of us he ruled that I pay 50% of the repair cost since she negligently left her laptop on the couch. So I’ll only be paying not more than 200-250 dollars for the whole thing.
If it weren’t for you guys I would’ve paid $2,200 dollars instead of around $200 and I honestly loved her look at the end as we walked out.
Sorry for being topic adjacent, but… Is this the point of this community/magazine? To recycle old reddit content? Because I subscribed with the assumption that it would be about the best posts here in the fediverse, new content.
Probably for now tbh - as Lemmy gets more posts/content, I imagine it will swing over to best Lemmy updates. There’s a few communities/magazines re-created over here but not a ton of content to share just yet!
We arent gonna get more peolple if there isnt any content to retain people with. If you want fediverse updates, then please post some. Right now, there arent any instances that generate updates in the first place. So this is whats gonna happen until we get more instances made that generate stories.
I have been very active on the fediverse, but I can’t do so on every single community.
i dont really have a problem with that, i mean on reddit we had posts from every other platform like 4Chan, Twitter & co too
Difference here is that reddit is the source and will be for the first few weeks the main one because it has content
The point of this community is to be the fediverse version of BestOfRedditorUpdates. If you want to contribute content from the Fediverse you are free to do so, but until that point I’m content to read content from wherever it’s gathered.
If you don’t want to read it, nobody is forcing you to be here.
A day may come when the community of Reddit fails, when they forsake their subs, and break all bonds of modship. But it is not this day.
An hour of greed, and shattered promises, as the age of Reddit come crashing down, but it is not this day.
This day we repost!
By all that you hold dear on this good Fediverse, I bid you post, lemmites of the world!
Exactly! People need to put Reddit to bed over here. Let’s make it about here. Morn yes, but come up with new stuff. Or at least copy the model but make it fedi specific.