[1nd1ansumm3r]

Fun to see this issue get talked about. Ancedote- I bought some car parts from a semi-scammer. Not a full-on scam but the guy wouldn't ship the complete order even though he had my money for several weeks. We had communicated on a few different platforms. Each platform offered up a little piece of his identity. Last four of this. First four of that. It was enough to piece it all together. I gave him a call at his place of employment which happened to be in the exact same industry as the parts that were being sold. I asked him to ship the parts and casually asked if his employer was involved in the sale. He perked right up and the next day he shipped everything I had bought and a few extras.

[1nd1ansumm3r]

I re-read this, not to fire back but to understand how you arrive at your conclusion. I think you are interpreting (or assuming maybe), from when I asked about his employer, that I suspected he stole the parts from his employer. That's not the case at all. I just needed a pressure point.

[sweetjuly]

Why are you replying to yourself and staging arguments? This is just...confusing.

[ahoka]

Didn’t you basically blackmail the guy?

[Lord-Jobo]

From a legal standpoint blackmail requires the "receipt of money or valuable thing". Because the thing being received is an even exchange of goods already agreed to by both parties, and the threat on not receiving is not an illegal action in itself, it is not likely or plausibly blackmail.

-not a lawyer, just work with too many of them

[mavamaarten]

Pressuring to follow up on a made deal does not really count as blackmail imo.

[ikekkdcjkfke]

Pressure and coercion is part and parcel of existing

[dylan604]

your point?