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"Keith shouldn’t have insulted my wife"
"Lemme tell you about Keith.
I had posted some old video games for sale, N64 titles, and some side stuff related to it on Facebook Marketplace. Keith messaged me and told me my prices were too high, but he did not make an offer. I asked him to make me an offer, and he again told me the price was too high, but he did not make a counteroffer.
We go back and forth for a while until he is full-on insulting me, and admittedly, I’m egging him on. He never sent a counteroffer. Then he calls my wife a fat pig.
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Well, your first mistake is assuming someone on Facebook Marketplace can use a brain. Have you seen all those videos and memes about people trying to buy something on that site and then them just going off the rails? Like, they don't understand that if you message them first, you are now the lead of the conversation. If they ask you for a counteroffer, it is up to you to give one. If you don't want to give one, then it is up to you to let the person selling the item know that you are no longer interested. Or else they will keep messaging you to see if you are. It is that simple and, dare I say, common knowledge??
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So I look back in the messages. At one point in his insults towards me, he had started bragging about his business(roofing) and his money. He stated that he had 50k in cash at his house in a safe. So I googled his address and sent it to him. He laugh reacted it, claimed it was his parents' home. So I did another Google search, found another address the matched it to pics on his Facebook, sent the address to him. Big change
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Now he’s telling me he’s gonna call the cops and tell them I said I’d rob him, he’s still calling me names, but he’s clearly more panicked, he’s f*eaking out. I keep sending him messages back, making fun of him for being stupid and telling him he should’ve just made a counteroffer.
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Then I get a phone call. It’s a “cop”. Now I have no reason to doubt, necessarily, that it was a cop. It’s just funny to me they’d even call. The person on the line claimed to be a county deputy, said what I was doing could be considered stalking(lmao), etc., etc. I told her it wasn’t, I just googled something. She can go tell Keith not to insult strangers online, and that I had won.
Haven’t heard anything back. About once a month, I call his company and book a consultation for some random property. Last I knew, he does them himself, hopefully I’m wasting his time. lmao"
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Has Keith learned his lesson after this incident? Perhaps. It is a jarring experience when you first find out that most of your personal information is somewhere online already. I remember discovering that in like 10th grade… But for some, it is a new experience, new knowledge that leaves them shocked. So, hopefully, Keith has shelved his trolling days. The consequences of his trolling actions, however, are still rolling through IRL and he probably doesn't even realize it. Maybe someone he will catch on, but as I said, it takes much longer to realize that IRL than it does online… Maybe he'll start a new roofing business? Who knows?! The thing online and IRL share is that the possibilities are endless!
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