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08-15-2011 , 11:36 PM

#51

onecardpoker

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Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 773

If you want someone to be financially responsible then you damn well better get them to say that explicitly. Assuming that is a great way to get burned, and when it happens it's nobody's fault but your own.

08-16-2011 , 06:25 PM

#52

NajdorfDefense

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Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 17,563

Nobody ever said you should assume anything. We are correcting n00bs like the above who don't understand, literally, the meaning of the word.

08-16-2011 , 06:30 PM

#53

Bruut99

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,819

I doubt many people will 'vouch' for other people on twoplustwo ever again, might not be a bad thing though. Lets just use 'reference' as a standard, as said earlier.

08-16-2011 , 07:13 PM

#54

locoo20

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Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 113

Quote:

Originally Posted by ike

Linguistically, I agree. That's what the word means. In practice, it seems like a lot of people don't get it so I'm always careful to be very, very clear. If I'm looking for someone to vouch for someone else on a transaction I explicitly ask "if he doesn't pay, will you assume responsibility?" I think the real lesson here is to always make any financial agreement as explicit as possible. Shorthand like "vouch" can only leadto trouble, especially in a community where many people don't speak English as a first language.

+1, I had no idea to vouch for someone meant that you take full responsability in case they scam, I just thought it meant that you trust the guy. Non english native speaker.

08-25-2011 , 03:02 AM

#55

Ray Zee

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Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,918

if you vouch for the money you cover it. if you vouch for his character you put yours up.

anytime you so called vouch for the money it is confirmed what you are doing and the amount is stated.

08-25-2011 , 05:23 AM

#56

SamuraiJon

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Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 5,203

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Zee

if you vouch for the money you cover it. if you vouch for his character you put yours up.

anytime you so called vouch for the money it is confirmed what you are doing and the amount is stated.

Agree and this pretty much sums up what people mix up with their interpretation of vouching... Character vs money.

08-25-2011 , 07:27 PM

#57

Deldar182

adept

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,164

Quote:

Originally Posted by ike

Ike wins again in a sea of wrong answers

It'd be insane not to clarify what you mean by "vouching" when you consider the amounts of money being dealt with. In future I will definitely be clarifying- I had no idea of this.

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