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Input: I’ve only been on this subreddit a few times so this post might be weird but anyways...

So my grandma has an old iPhone that I offer to sell for her because it’s only a few generations behind (still fetches generally high price). She agrees to let me keep 25% and the rest goes back to her. A few days later I line up a deal to sell it to a friend of mine and all is good until my parents step up and tell me they need the phone because my sister broke her phone screen. Also if this phone goes to my sister, it would be a substantial upgrade from her current phone in terms of storage. I initially agree, but then they lowball me (they lowball the friend/family price which is already at a considerable loss). I deny the first offer they make and shit starts to hit the fan. They hold stuff above my head that they bought for me as a kid and all that, but I maintain my stance that this is for my grandma and the phone isn’t even mine. I also offer them a few options of my personal iPhone collection they could use for her instead but they’re not having it. They then proceed to guilt trip granny into giving them the phone for free because they “need” it so bad and she tells them to pay my 25% since I spoke up about it first (keep in mind that sisters phone still works fine but just cracked screen and low storage). They reluctantly pay me and  I hand the phone over,  and at this point they cut my grandma entirely out of the deal (which I still feel bad about but I’m in a financial bind right now and grandma knows it).

At this point  my parent are attempting to activate the phone for the network they on but have no luck. I look at the phone and realize it needs to be unlocked from the previous network. Call ATT, unlock code, Bada bing bada boom, done. I give the phone back and they try to activate it again but there are apparently network inconsistencies between ATT and other phone services, so company 2 denies the activation. 

Now my parents do a 180 and sell the phone for the full price I could have gotten for it and more on eBay, and as of writing this they are mailing the phone to this guy out of state for a high balled price (I warned them this is probably a scam but let’s assume this is legit) so they can buy my sister an even bigger upgrade. 

Side note: She broke her phone screen twice. The first was repaired but not the second. She also doesn’t know what a phone case is apparently

So am I the asshole for thinking my parents are spoiling my sister and scamming my grandma?


thinking my parents scammed me