Ethical ??? : Would You Stiff a Stiff Book ?

[Sam Odom]

Simple : If you had a sheet with an offshore Book which has suspended payments to her players, would you settle-up (send $$) with them next week?

[bigloser]

Suspend payments until the situation becomes clear.

[jjgold]

Sammy no sheet guys are going to stiff a book especially for big numbers because you will have a fukkin bullet in your head.

Maybe it is going to take an irate player to take out a book owner , I hope not but it could happen some day when the wrong guy is stiffed.

[Sam Odom]

Maybe it is going to take an irate player to take out a book owner

Bro !

[pags11]

I say yes I would because I believe in karma and I'd want to be paid up, otherwise it would come back on me somehow...

[EBone]

To answer the question: no. If I owed someone that is a stiff (whatever entity it may be), I still owe them. What they do with their money is their business. If I made the mistake of doing business with a stiff book, I would still feel that it was my obligation to pay them. Then, once everything was at a net zero, then I would re-evaluate. Either that or quit doing business with the entity but still pay them for the business I did. This may be simple and naive on my part but that is how I see it.

This is not unlike the business world. I know a few companies that have taken advantage of a situation like this and justified it by just not paying their vendor. Dirty, dirty pool. The almighty dollar is just that: almighty.

I think my view is definitely in the minority however. In my eyes, that's a very sad situation.


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[JoshW]

If it was obvious and long term no pay/closure. Would likely offer what I owed to players that were stiffed. Maybe a lottery for all players owed in the forum. That seems pretty fair. I certainly wouldn't pay the stiff book. If was agent who paid out to players obviously would still pay him.

[pags11]

agreed ebone...