That's not rules lawyering. That's not scamming. That's no sort of abuse at all. Business owner fucked up and is blaming the customer. It's not some obscure corner case or technicality.
Then why didn’t the customer warn him instead of trying to get the discount. This isn’t Cabelas or Bass pro shops. Apparently this is a foreign concept to most people here but a high trust society goes both ways.
Why did the customer use a coupon I gave him and expect it to do exactly what I said it would do? Why didn't the customer intuit that I was bad at this and run my business for me?
Are you fucking serious? The way this played out was high trust. Seller honored his own agreements and fixed his mistake. Once buyer was aware seller was retarded, he donated to seller's fund to make it right. That's about as high-trust as you can get. No one took advantage, everyone honored their agreements. The seller playing victim on Twitter instead of just saying, "coupons aren't valid on these items," is the only part of this that wasn't ideal.
Edit: That and the cringe "bullying works" post instead of just giving thanks for the donation.
Why did the customer use a coupon I gave him and expect it to do exactly what I said it would do? Why didn't the customer intuit that I was bad at this and run my business for me?
Your spiel here shows you’re incapable of existing in a high trust society. Let me help you understand what an actual high trust society looks like:
Jim owns a dollar store, his overhead is decent enough he decides to give a coupon to his regulars because he cares about his customers and appreciates their business.
Jim is now making enough at the dollar store so he decides to add radios, nothing huge price wise, but far higher than anything he sold before, he also decides to do so with a low overhead because he values his customers.
Jim starts rolling out the radios and Bob, one of his regulars still hasn’t used his coupon for the dollar store, Bob would sure love a radio and technically his coupon would work because it covers anything in the store.
Bob, not being a retarded piece of shit, also realizes that the coupon was meant for things far cheaper than the radio.
Bob warns Jim that he made a mistake and that he could lose his shirt if he doesn’t change the coupons.
The seller overreacted, sure, but the customer knew exactly what they were doing.
Do you understand why you had to make it a dollar store in your example? Do you understand why you had to reiterate "dollar store" three times in your example?
It's because without adding a reasonable expectation of item values offered to the example, it doesn't work.
Then why didn’t the customer warn him instead of trying to get the discount. This isn’t Cabelas or Bass pro shops. Apparently this is a foreign concept to most people here but a high trust society goes both ways.
Are you fucking serious? The way this played out was high trust. Seller honored his own agreements and fixed his mistake. Once buyer was aware seller was retarded, he donated to seller's fund to make it right. That's about as high-trust as you can get. No one took advantage, everyone honored their agreements. The seller playing victim on Twitter instead of just saying, "coupons aren't valid on these items," is the only part of this that wasn't ideal.
Edit: That and the cringe "bullying works" post instead of just giving thanks for the donation.
Your spiel here shows you’re incapable of existing in a high trust society. Let me help you understand what an actual high trust society looks like:
The seller overreacted, sure, but the customer knew exactly what they were doing.
Do you understand why you had to make it a dollar store in your example? Do you understand why you had to reiterate "dollar store" three times in your example?
It's because without adding a reasonable expectation of item values offered to the example, it doesn't work.
Do you understand the reason I made the comparison is everything else the guy sells in not in the price range of thermals?