Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
A better way would be to do what most people do: recognize that this world is at times tough, it's not always fair, and there's a whole lot of people out there that are either incompetent or no good...ready to take advantage of others however they can. Then, just let it go. You deal with ten's of thousands of dollars when you play poker. 20 bucks lost via other people's stupidity should be inconsequential.
I don't like rewarding stealing, scamming, or incompetence.

It's the principle of the matter.

Those who say "It's just $20, who cares?" interestingly always refuse to give me the $20 out of their wallet to solve it. For some reason $20 is supposed to matter to them, but not me.
Dan, handing you the twenty bucks isn't gonna help you or teach you a thing, just like Obama didn't help anyone with all his freebies. Those people you believe you're not rewarding for stealing, scamming, or being incompetent---they actually win whenever somebody gets so lathered up over so small a thing. I think if the next time something like this happens you just give letting it go a try instead of dwelling on it, you'll feel a whole lot better about everything moments later.
I don't need you to teach me anything, Rob.

It's very simple.

If $20 is so inconsequential that I should forget about it when cheated out of it, then you should have no problem making up the $20 that I just lost.

If $20 is consequential enough to where you don't want to give it to me, then it must be worth enough for me to argue about it.

I would agree that spending 10 hours chasing down $20 would be overkill, and at some point I do give up on this sort of thing if the money involved is small. However, I will definitely put a moderate effort in to recover something like $20.