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You could have both made a profit and let him make one, helping with his life after his injury. Your call though, of course.



That's an interesting take on it. On the one hand, it wasn't presented as "this would help my recovery/treatment," rather it was presented as "I threw out my rotator cup so I'm not doing swords, but if you wanted to sell, I can connect you with someone who wants to buy one."

I am acutely aware that one never knows what is going on in the other person's head in a conversation, so I have to accept the possibility that he was hoping to generate another sale to me, but I feel pretty strongly that if that was what he was hoping for he would have mentioned it.


"I am acutely aware that one never knows what is going on in the other person's head in a conversation"

True.

So due to that, different people can have different reactions to the same situation.




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