Zachary Parker:
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The fact that we didn't even discuss this till after we made the deal shoes how lax we were. You could have called it off then and gotten no argument.
You had all of the relevant info long before the deal was set in stone, and you did not back out.
Taxes are a contract between you and government of you country. Other people have no business knowing about it, asking about it or caring about it.
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I spoke to a lawyer, and his exact advice was to post just this #ignored I am going to do exactly what I said I would do if harassment continued, which is to not pay.
I feel entirely justified. I know you have no legal recourse.
He probably has legal resource but the way to make it most likely that you won't have to legally pay your debts is to ignore him and hope he won't sue. That's why your lawyer gave you the advice.
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A one sentence agreement on facebook is not a real contract.
You also accepted very real 8.5k USD and confirmed you owe 16k if FTP is back.
It counts as a contract.
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The idea of making a website dedicated to a perceived one time 4k scam that the perpetrator does not in any way view as a scam, and that none of my family and nobody in my life outside the Phuket community thinks of as a scam, is laughable.
You make a deal in a gambling world so you ask people from gambling world to settle any disagreements. People outside of gambling world are bound to make bad judgements about deals in the world they know nothing about. Treating opinion of your family/people in your life as definitive judgement on the case while they haven't even heard the whole story (only what you told them) and have no clue how deals in gambling world work just shows you are looking for any excuse to not pay money you owe back.
The thing with deals in gambling world is that often if you decide to just not pay the other side don't have many resources to force you to. Legal system is slow and expensive, sometimes impossible to use because of jurisdiction problems. The mechanism protecting against people who decide to just not pay is reputation.
So you are right that there isn't much OP can do to force you to pay. You reputation will be rightfully tarnished for that though.
If you really feel you were wronged here you should agree to adjudication by people from poker community preferably not connected with you or OP in any way.
You also have no right to say things like "I pay 12k or nothing" or "be nice to me or I won't pay". You agreed to pay long time ago. Any changes to that contract can only occur if both parties agree not when you feel like it.
Last edited by punter11235; 08-16-2014 at 10:18 AM.