This seems to be a very common theme on Facebook in regards to giveaway posts and such. You can always find a sob story contest taking place in the comments section and people trying to outdo each other with their tragedies du jour trying to win when it usually has 0 to do with the original post. I’ve never understood it.
I worked for a manufacturer for 6 years and we had a “customer” who wrote to us periodically to tell us some sob story about how he’d paid a ton of money for one of our products at some overpriced event & that the product was defective. He and his son were both disabled & very poor and we needed to replace his product for free, although he could never prove he even had the product. We had a file on the dude. We went through our standard procedure of requesting him send the product directly to us so we could replace it, but he could never prove he sent it, even though we asked him to use a tracking service.
He filed a complaint against us with the Better Business Bureau, which we, of course, won because he had no proof & we followed procedure.
He again sent us a letter about our defective “lamp” he’d purchased - we didn’t sell lamps, not even remotely close. He had form letters he’d just send to businesses. I even googled him & found one of his sob stories on a Russian message board - he’d sent that company a demand for free teddy bears for his kid & the messages on the board were basically asking WTF.
There’s nothing more annoying than people using a sob story to get free stuff. This is why I stopped posting stuff for free online ( Craigslist, Offerup, Freecycle, etc). Not only do they want the item, but they want to give a sob story so that you can hand deliver the item to them. Like if you have no money and am struggling, you don’t need a 40 inch Tv that you are going to have to pay for a Cable Plan to even watch (no HDMI and those receptor boxes don’t work).
PmMeYourCheesePics on March 31st, 2018 at 12:01 UTC »
This seems to be a very common theme on Facebook in regards to giveaway posts and such. You can always find a sob story contest taking place in the comments section and people trying to outdo each other with their tragedies du jour trying to win when it usually has 0 to do with the original post. I’ve never understood it.
thecatsmilkdish on March 31st, 2018 at 12:53 UTC »
I worked for a manufacturer for 6 years and we had a “customer” who wrote to us periodically to tell us some sob story about how he’d paid a ton of money for one of our products at some overpriced event & that the product was defective. He and his son were both disabled & very poor and we needed to replace his product for free, although he could never prove he even had the product. We had a file on the dude. We went through our standard procedure of requesting him send the product directly to us so we could replace it, but he could never prove he sent it, even though we asked him to use a tracking service.
He filed a complaint against us with the Better Business Bureau, which we, of course, won because he had no proof & we followed procedure.
He again sent us a letter about our defective “lamp” he’d purchased - we didn’t sell lamps, not even remotely close. He had form letters he’d just send to businesses. I even googled him & found one of his sob stories on a Russian message board - he’d sent that company a demand for free teddy bears for his kid & the messages on the board were basically asking WTF.
He’s probably still doing it.
PutASausageInYoButt on March 31st, 2018 at 13:18 UTC »
There’s nothing more annoying than people using a sob story to get free stuff. This is why I stopped posting stuff for free online ( Craigslist, Offerup, Freecycle, etc). Not only do they want the item, but they want to give a sob story so that you can hand deliver the item to them. Like if you have no money and am struggling, you don’t need a 40 inch Tv that you are going to have to pay for a Cable Plan to even watch (no HDMI and those receptor boxes don’t work).