Host Liability for damages (4 Viewers)

[Taghkanic]

Yeah, TBH I thought this was bonkers *before* learning that this happened somewhere other than your own home.

As best as I understand it, you are an uncompensated volunteer providing a free service to a club, donating the use of your own equipment.

If anyone is liable, it’s the venue, not you.

But really it’s the person who carelessly left a delicate valuable somewhere it could be damaged.

As for their “compromise”: That’s a pathetic offer on their part. You seem grateful that they threw you a very small bone when the accident only happened because of their negligence. IDGI

I have to assume that the S/O’s relationship to the club president was the deciding factor here: that you didn’t want to get in bad with its management. Because in every other way it sounds like you got worked over.

 

[DuckFat]

The average age of the patrons at my game is 20, they don't know any better.

That explains a lot. These are stupid zoomers that take no responsibility for anything they do until it hits them in the face. It's like the Jason Kelce phone smashing incident, dumb kid fucked around and found out and now he's too scared to come forward and claim his phone because he will be eviscerated everywhere.

I feel no sympathy for these ass clowns. Sorry but you got scammed super hard. Can't afford a $1,000 phone? Well maybe don't buy a $1,000 phone. Somehow qualified for financing on it? Put a damn case and get insurance. Can't fix stupid and it shouldn't be condoned. Force them to face reality and be goddam adults.

 

[upNdown]

Sorry but you got scammed super hard.

I’ve followed this story, and though none of it makes any sense and so I have no reason to believe any of it, it doesn’t sound to be like he got scammed. It sounds to me like he’s either overly generous, has money to burn, feels responsible for this phone, and maybe all three. He sounds much more like somebody who’s eager to bend over backwards to make things right, than somebody who got scammed.

 

[Budha]

Overall though the $700 I paid means a cut in funding that they'll get. There will be no table toppers in the foreseeable future for when I bring the Tiger Palace chips...

Are these Paulson Tiger Palace or Tina versions? (You mentioned plastic chips in a subsequent reference).

If they are Paulson TP’s (aka NAGB’s), I would be remiss if I didn’t say I think that be incredibly unwise.

 

[DuckFat]

I’ve followed this story, and though none of it makes any sense and so I have no reason to believe any of it, it doesn’t sound to be like he got scammed. It sounds to me like he’s either overly generous, has money to burn, feels responsible for this phone, and maybe all three. He sounds much more like somebody who’s eager to bend over backwards to make things right, than somebody who got scammed.

- Valuable item left unattended at edge of table
- Item is older phone that is probably due for an upgrade
- Item has no physical nor financial protection
- Valuable item is broken but someone other than the owner pays for it

OP isn't even sure that he in fact knocked the phone off the table. It is assumed that he bumped it off while putting away chips. That's quite a convenient set of circumstances to get a free/cheap upgrade.

I agree that OP sounds like all of those qualities you stated. But those qualities were taken advantage of under suspicious circumstances which would be the basic premise of a scam.

 

[Huskerchipper]

I cannot imagine accepting money from someone else to cover my damaged phone that I had negligently left in a vulnerable place.

 

[erdried]

yea why do people not have iphone cases? these things constantly break.