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There can be bad backing. And that's exactly what seems to be the case here.

Op was the wrongest.

And what difference makes that?! If a deal is bad you shouldn't agree on it in the first place, once you agreed on it....well, a deal is a deal. Having agreed on a bad deal is no justification for misappropriating/stealing 200 bucks.

Agree with ratslla, this thread is an excellent resource for finding people to never do business with going forward

Theft is theft regardless of backstory

and that kind of thinking is exactly what is wrong with our world.

business and greed and business again, do you realize that there is a human compound in this?

there was a life destroyed, becuase the backer made a mistake.

To sum it all up:
Backer chose wrong horse
Horse goes on mental breakdown bc of backers mistake
Horse doent want to pay back 200 dollars bc he felt " entlitled"
Backer ruins rest of horses life bc of 200 dollars?

Who is at fault here honestly?

$200 Posting photo ID of ex friend and horse on the internet, to permanently cripple his life,
doesnt matter if horse went on mental breakdown, couldnt work, due to bad business decision of backer. backer is always in the right no matter what. (even if he is a mad lunatic)

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you are looking at this the wrong way. when his life is permanently crippled another persons life is uncrippled since the job still has to be filled. why should an employer have to hire an untrustworthy and unstable person in ignorance? not everyone can be a lawyer. somebody has to clean up the bathrooms.

Actually Lold

me too lold!!. and thats exactly how I felt.
Its not black and white everything just as op said.

I deleted a series of posts and links since I have no idea if any of that was real or fake. Even if the link was real I would still probably delete the posts from this thread.

Oh c'mon, was really looking forward to the $1,400 scam vs $200 arguments and whether that was essentially the same because $200 goes a lot further in eastern Europe

PLOT TWIST: OP is a paid shill or owner of pokerscam.rip using this thread to drum up business by acting like a moronic scumbag.

This is surely illegal right?

This is important. We need a list of people who are capable of criminal actions as revenge for 200$ stolen so we know who to avoid doing any kind of business with. it doesn't matter if 200$ was really stolen or not. If they think someone owes them in the future they will retaliate instead of going to mediation or court. Doing business with them is just too high risk unless you are desperate (which I guess OP was).

As to the OP I think the only interesting question is what you can really do about it. Write a letter to the domain registrar threatening legal action? Ask Google to remove the search results? (If you are in EU they will because the right to be forgotten thing). Anything else?

This thread is why no one should stake nowadays. All these ****ing losing players siding with the obvious scammer over the guys who gave him an opportunity he otherwise wouldn't have had and which he abused.

"It's only $200" is the most ******ed argument in this thread. Maybe don't steal even $1, how about that?

You make a number of assertions that are untrue. A life was not destroyed because of the backer. The thief destroyed his own life because of theft, and his refusal to make amends. You also take the scammer on his word that he tried to pay his debt and the staker has blocked him. Highly unusual. The only reason a staker would block the stakee and prevent himself from receiving repayment is bizarre or hostile behavior from OP, perhaps this has more to do with his inability to find steady employment than an obscure website.

It is absurd to believe anyone had a mental breakdown over a small stake. It is more absurd to claim that a backer caused the horse to have a mental breakdown because he received a small stake.

Yeah, the poor backers. Surely they do it for charity, not to make a bunch of money and kill the games in the process. Stables should die out.

Many people coming with this same strawman. It’s not about OP paying back the 200. Absolutely he should. The question is whether it’s ok to allow this unregulated, predatory website to publish people’s information as a form of vigilante justice. Especially since there is no way to know whether any of the other claims on the site are legitimate or not.

Its probably not "OK" for that type of website, but the reality is that website did nothing close to what the OP claimed in his rambling, bizarre mixture of claims. That site did not ruin his life, he did with his choices.

Does that mean that website is "OK?" Not really, and I suspect most backers (contrary to what the always cheery Kelvis would say) would avoid throwaway sites like that, as they do nothing, and in the end they are not entirely "OK," and they even make people who steal seem relatively sympathetic.

Debating about that website is fine, and threads have been done discussing what details should be posted about people who steal and cheat, and that has led to some changes with some backers that in my opinion were going too far with their postings (ie: Facebook pictures featuring other people, addresses etc).

That debate has nothing to do with this OP, who has long since vanished (as OPs do in threads like this). This OP stole money, and is now making clearly absurd claims about the impact that theft had on his life, and he puts all the blame on others. The website his name is on (assuming it even is - who knows what is truth from that guy) did not force him to make all the poor life choices he made (as an adult) that got him where he is today.

I agree. And only if op told us the absolute truth his behaviour is somewhat defendable.

I somehow doubt his claims now since he said 2 buy ins, which would mean 2x 100= 200, then changes to 7 dollar regular. It all makes little sense...

The only thing I feel is really absurd here is people who can see this only one way. That any horse, no matter what the situation, is subject to whatever information publishing the staker chooses. Or that no one, no matter what they've done, should ever have information published. Now admittedly perhaps those are a couple of straw men - I don't know if any went to those extremes. But there have been a few people that have gone pretty far out there on both sides. Not everything is black and white, nor should it be.

In this specific situation, if everything is as OP describes (and that's a BIG if), obviously there's a problem here. At the very least, there needs to be some way for a person to clear their name. And whether the information should have been published in the first place, I'd want to have more information before deciding. I'm far from convinced that we have the whole story here. Even if OP is being 100% truthful with everything he has said, there could be missing information. And he and the staker may have different stories to tell even when both are being honest.

What is?

Perhaps there's a lesson here, not to jump all in on one side of a dispute that none of us know the whole story about. And this isn't directed at you alone; it's something a lot of people like to do.