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Last year someone gave me a pair of Sennheiser headphones—dead ass gave them to me. I was ballin’. I got to be a homeless person with an iPhone 12 and a pair of Sennheisers. And then my idiot friend set off a series of unfortunate events that resulted in the loss of my headphones, along with everything else I owned at the time.

So last month when this very sweet devout Christian saw a comment of mine about being a homeless drug addict, and sent me $300. I bought a new pair of Sennheisers on Mercari. I’m pretty sure it was the same model even.

I finally got around to checking my mail and—the headphones are fucked off. They won’t pair or fucking anything.

I had to fight the screaming urge to slam them on the ground.

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago

No joke, reach out to their customer support and see about getting them replaced. I got a pair that was defective (to replace a pair on warranty) and sent it back and got a working one.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Sennheiser is usually quite generous with their warranties, one of the better companies in the audio space for it.

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[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

New rule: you don't get to fucking police someone's spending habits if you haven't fucking given them any money.

Nor if you have, for that matter. Fuck off with that moralism. Even having been homeless yourself does not give you the right to tell people how to live, you sanctimonious fucking pricks.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As far as I'm concerned every single homeless person on Earth has the God given right to beg everybody for all of the money and then piss it away on gambling, booze and drugs.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”

The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.

...

And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?

See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

-The Prophet, Gibran

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[-] sweeney@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 8 months ago

wait you're on here every few days asking for money but you recently dropped $300 on headphones??

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

Even if I hadn’t dude, that money wasn’t going to last long. Between survival-related supplies, laundry, food, my Spotify subscription, and your mom’s OnlyFans, it goes quick.

I may be about to become more self sufficient soon though.

Also, without my chapo friends sending me money I’d be extremely depressed and malnourished, and I’d just keep going downhill.

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

your mom’s OnlyFans

o7 thank you for the support

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

Yes. Someone gave them the money. Specifically gave them the money to buy new headphones.

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Uh this person just randomly gave me $300 because I’m homeless and he believed that his Christian faith commanded him to give away such a sum. I spent some of it on a pair of headphones.

[-] kfc@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

In that moment you were granted the mandate of heaven to buy yourself headphones

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

heard this once in either a book or sermon but it's always stuck with me as I undo my own bootstrap brainworms

[-] context@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

i've read plenty of different sacred texts in my life and not one says "give alms but only if you can get a full accounting of how it was spent"

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If someone asks for a cloak, give them the shirt on your back also and a QuickBooks invoice to create a paper trail

[-] context@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

yeah you're going to want a donation receipt so you can apply for a tax deduction, that's just how you incentivize the giving of means-tested alms

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[-] psychoplantkiller@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

slightly unrelated but I had to listen to my coworker complain about a homeless person he saw who was on his smartphone and smoking a cigarette yesterday. It wasn't enough to be homeless, you had to be a monk and a saint to garner his sympathy.

[-] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Ah rip. I hate Mercari. I tried to buy off there before for nice headphones and also got scammed but at least in this case the order fell thru and I got a refund. Only thing that confuses me, $300 for hd450bt? Those are like $180 new? Maybe Canada?

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

they said they were given $300 and bought the headphones, that doesn't mean the headphones were $300

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I paid $89 for them.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

They are $151 CAD new on Amazon.

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[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 14 points 8 months ago
[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Addendum: I fully charged them and they’re still fucking off.

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