These choosing beggars are stubbornly persistent as they are completely irrational. So often they'll come out of nowhere and bombard a seller's perfectly reasonable listing with perfectly unreasonable demands. Sometimes free goods aren't even cheap enough for the particularly evolved choosing beggar. The following choosing beggars are definitely in a league of their own.
money
It's extremely rare and extremely stupid, but sometimes money finds its way into people's hands for what seems like no reason. One chance encounter or ill-advised risk can land a very lucky few of us with randomly gotten gains. That said, once people have money, they tend to spend that money on the stupidest things.
What a splendid little example of calling someone's bluff. This landlord was completely unhelpful and thought their threat would let them illegally keep their tenant's security deposit. After getting caught lying in court, this tenant had their ex-landlord eating their stupid words. People sometimes win against their landlords, like this guy who got contractual revenge on his landlord or this person who staged a coup d'etat on their terrible landlord.
Every industry has its sketchy secrets, and once tons of companies realized they could use their popular brand to leverage their loyal customer base into paying more for less, you can find yourself looking at a creme egg going "whhaaaaa???". It's also easy to fall into the nostalgia trap of "remember the better olden days" when that product wasn't much better to start with, but shrinkflation has definitely attacked a variety of products and things from all sides.
The earth is filled with a huge number of reasonable and kind people who wouldn't think to return a Christmas tree in January. That said, there are a small number of entitled people with preposterous demands who feel like people should just give them stuff. It could be a bad boss, a self-centered influencer, or a complete stranger. The world has a small but persistent supply of entitled folks with ludicrous demands.
It's not a sin to want something for cheap or free, but things become clouded when you start ignoring people's effort, try tricking them, get weirdly abusive or display unwarranted pickiness. Prospective employers will demand people have 10 years of experience for an entry level job, strangers will demand to use your Netflix account, moms will lose it over free seashells, and other various entitled folks will make frustrating demands.
The world has its fair share of entitled folks and their frustrating demands, but sometimes it gets worse than someone just wanting a discount for no reason. Sometimes people's approach to haggling is writing out their intent to come over to your house and mess you up. It's pretty stupid. For another ridiculous person who wanted a deal, here's a choosing beggar raging after rejection and getting shut down again.
Whether you're trying to find a job, practice your craft, give away some scrap metal or just selling a lawnmower, you could run into one of these entitled folks and their ludicrous demands. It's gotta be free, close to free, or delivered for free, and get ready to have abuse hurled at you the whole time. A boss, family member or complete stranger could be an entitled person with unreasonable demands.
We're not sure what kind of a fantasy world entitled people are living in where they think they can be paid to take your things, but it seems like a world they'd be disappointed a lot. It's a world of influencers trying to pay for things with exposure, strangers making up fake discounts, random people demanding that the universe hand them their dream job and just about any unreasonable demands you can think of..
This guy's girlfriend of two years asked him to help pay off her enormous college debt, and he laughed in her face about it. The internet weighed in on whether that was an appropriate response. For other relationship disputes people took to the internet, here's a woman who emasculated her egotistical boyfriend and a man who tried to control his girlfriend's money.
Whether it broke immediately, was completely useless to begin with, cost too much or was literally stupid, most people have spent too much money on a dumb thing. It just seems like its in our nature to get tricked or trick ourselves into buying useless junk. It's probably better to give it some extra thought when pulling out the credit card to buy a collector's edition set of Robocop themed silverware or a do-it-yourself liposuction kit, but what's the fun in that?
People keep thinking they can demand free stuff, unpaid labor and steep discounts out of other people for no other reason that their own misguided sense of superiority. Whether it's a manipulative family member, an abusive stranger or a delusional potential employer, entitled people will take their unrealistic demands as far as they can go. Here's an entitled customer who chose the wrong free glasses and still got ridiculous about it.
We can't believe this scamming tactic ever works. How many people believe that a complete stranger claiming to be a CEO or government official or whatever would need you to pay them with gift cards? Either way, when it happens to savvy people, they try to have fun with a text message scammer. The person on the other end is apparently so desperate for those gift cards that scammers can get trolled for a ridiculously long time.
Usually if you hear a retail story it's gonna be about how horribly entitled a customer is. However, this time it's about a customer who seriously needed help and found exactly the right person in a mechanic on a slow day. For more wholesome stories, here's one about a senior who mistook a guy's car for a taxi or this lazy genius school project story.
Whether it's because they think haggling is just an excuse to abuse people, or have irrational expectations about the world around them, entitled people will continue to fill the world with their unreasonable demands. Sometimes it's a boss who expects you to work on the weekends for free, other times it could be a total stranger who thinks that it's a reasonable request for you to ship your dog to them so they can pet it. Entitled people just keep making laughable demands. Sometimes entitled people even go full Karen.
