B!TC# IT OUT!

[Mermaid Lunette]

omg.....the woman replied....i think she has a mental issue.
Her reply was that it simply does not work. She tried pointing it at the tv and it did not work..then she pointed it at herself to give herself magical powers and it does not work.....
She asked how she has to hold it, on the glitters or the pointy part.
I mean.....how i am to reply to that?
I was writing her a reply about magic but if she has a mental issue i do not want to encourage anything....what do i do?
Should i just write to her that it takes years and years of study and practice to use a magic wand and that she needs training with an actual witch or wizard?
I mean...what the hell?
Do i really need to write in my ad that it is not an actual real magic wand?
That would make no sense to me....why do i have to run into these idiots?!

Just a quick thought, do you think there is anyway this could be a child posing as an adult? Maybe they stole their parents credit card thinking the wand was 'real"and since it obviously is not she does not want to get in trouble so she is trying to get her parents money back? (Or maybe it is a child whom does not think it is real but stil knows she might get introuble for the above reason so thinks if she is ridiculious you will concede?) If this person is an adult well, maybe even contact etsy and see if they can handle this unusal situation?

[Adalira]

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[SeaGlass Siren]

... now i'm all for encouraging imagination, but when they seriously believe in magic wands well... i think you need to put in a disclaimer that they are not magical in anyway shape or form.

[QueenZero]

Oh dear...Maybe tell her that you are not responsible for the magic in the wand? Something along those lines? I'm left scratching my head here, I've never encountered something like this before. I hope you work something out.

[Mermaid Kelda]

What a strange situation :\
If you say in your policy that they can return it if unsatisfied, then by all means let her do so if she's willing to pay the postage. Don't do your head in trying to figure out what she's on about.

I don't think you need to say they're fake. Perhaps you could say something more indirect, like "using wands requires a great amount of imagination and we cannot guarantee everyone will have enough of it to be successful spell-casters"

[PearlieMae]

do not get sucked into her idiotic drama! Tell her she does not have a right to have a refund. It's her own fault her magic doesn't work. Don't explain magic to her. After that don't respond to her at all.

[Merman Chatfish]

The girl I really like and I have been under the impression that she liked me back when we talked over the summer. She had asked if I was serious about liking her and wanting to visit her and about working together the next summer. I told her I was. She had never had a guy interested in her before. I asked her if she felt the same way and she said she did. We just had a problem with ages and age difference. I found out thru her aunt today that I surprised (made sound to be like scared) her saying I was interested in her. So I asked her today and she said she was surprised and didn't know how to respond.

At this point I'm not sure what to write anymore. She means so much to me and I thought it was more mutual.

[PhaylennMurúch]

In my line of work you always have to put the disclaimer "for entertainment purposes only. Psychic readings and medium sessions are not a replacement for medical/legal/psychiatric advice"

you might want to put a 'for entertainment purposes only. Seller is not responsible for any magic that may or may not be channeled through wands'

[SeaGlass Siren]

I like Phaylenn's disclaimer better actually.

[Adalira]

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[Mermaid Momo]

The girl I really like and I have been under the impression that she liked me back when we talked over the summer. She had asked if I was serious about liking her and wanting to visit her and about working together the next summer. I told her I was. She had never had a guy interested in her before. I asked her if she felt the same way and she said she did. We just had a problem with ages and age difference. I found out thru her aunt today that I surprised (made sound to be like scared) her saying I was interested in her. So I asked her today and she said she was surprised and didn't know how to respond.

At this point I'm not sure what to write anymore. She means so much to me and I thought it was more mutual.

If I remember correctly, said girl is 16 and you're I think 25 right? You need to stay away from her. You're going to end up on the sex offender list if you get involved with her. Even talking to her online in a certain way can get you arrested. Leave it alone.

[Adalira]

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[Mermaid Momo]

Are you serious? Are laws that strict in America?
When my dad was 26 he was in a band playing in disco's and he saw a girl in the audience and bought her a drink.
That girl was my mom and she was 16 at the time.
They have been together ever since.

Yes. You aren't legally an adult until you're 18. (however, and 18 year old who is an adult can legally date a 16 year old since it's legal if it's only 2 years or something like that.) I like the laws because generally in my experience (and not saying you're like this at all Flyer) but older men like to try and take advantage of young girls and boys who don't know any better and are easily manipulated and abused. And not to mention how guys literally wait like hawks for girls to turn legal because they seems to have this thing about young girls.

I saw a nice quote about something like this going around tumblr (sadly I can't remember who said it) but it goes something like this :
"It's not the girl's job to tell you no, as an adult, it is your job to tell the girl no."
If I find the actual quote I'll update this lol

[Mermaid Lunette]

If I remember correctly, said girl is 16 and you're I think 25 right? You need to stay away from her. You're going to end up on the sex offender list if you get involved with her. Even talking to her online in a certain way can get you arrested. Leave it alone.

I agree, just stay away. It is illegal and won't be legal for a couple of years, besides, she is obviously confused about the situation so she is probably not actually mature enough to pursue a relationship even if it was legal.

[Mermaid Momo]

I agree, just stay away. It is illegal and won't be legal for a couple of years, besides, she is obviously confused about the situation so she is probably not actually mature enough to pursue a relationship even if it was legal.

Exactly. Trust me, my sister did the whole dating older men when she was 14 up until now (she's 20 now) and she wasn't mature AT ALL.(still isn't actually) but she was so convinced these men were what true love was, she let them convince her to do all sorts of things. (drugs, un-safe sex, she even sold sex act for money for him, weed and other drugs, stealing, etc.) she wasn't mature to be with someone his age, he walked all over her and she wasn't able to tell what was right and what wasn't because she was so blinded by this "love". When my parents found out about it (when she was 15) she ran away and didn't come back for a week. Now she still dates older men, but know what else she's doing? She's sitting at home knocked up by some guy that wants nothing to do with her, with a felony and under house arrest because she let some guy convince her to do some wrong stuff. Let her be. Let her mature some.

[Starfrit]

If I remember correctly, said girl is 16 and you're I think 25 right? You need to stay away from her. You're going to end up on the sex offender list if you get involved with her. Even talking to her online in a certain way can get you arrested. Leave it alone.

This, absolutely. Flyer, you've got to leave this one alone because it's going to lead to nothing but trouble.

This is reminding me of what happened when I was 16-- I met a guy who was... I think around the 25-27 range? Dude was super into me, I was young and insecure and had never had a guy interested in me before so I made a lot of reeeeaaaaaaallly bad decisions, because I was young and didn't know any better. Dude was planning to hop on a plane from America to Canada to come visit me. Parents found out and got the police involved.

Granted, in that case it turned out the guy was actually a sexual predator with a habit of trying to solicit minors for sex online, but still-- even if you're not planning on anything sexual, any sort of relationship AT ALL with this girl is gonna get you into serious legal shit no matter what your intentions are. You're in reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaally skeevy territory, man.

[Yulia]

In Europe we have different laws in different countries for when it's considered legal to have sex, so it's not connected to when your considered an adult (which I believe is also at 18 in every country here)

[Starfrit]

Yeah, here in Canada the age of sexual consent is 16, but that depends on the age of the other party-- So, for example, if Flyer and this girl-interest of his lived in Canada and decided to pursue a relationship, he could get in legal trouble for exploitation of a minor or statutory rape. I'm not 100% up to date on America's laws on these sorts of things, but I think things like Age of Consent and Romeo + Juliet laws vary from state to state, which could make things trickier.