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**Frazzled**

http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-user-sells-daughter-one-direction-tickets-2013-9

Go Mom!

Mom Sells Daughter's 'One Direction' Tickets On eBay In The Nastiest Way Possible
Aaron Taube Sep. 20, 2013, 11:17 AM 98,348 69
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After her daughter lied to her about hanging out at an older boy's house, the eBay user "tsfe" decided to teach her a lesson by auctioning off the One Direction concert tickets she had previously purchased as a birthday gift.

The blistering, shaming message tsfe wrote in the listing was discovered by the Reddit user canusich, and it's sure to make your inner teenager want to disappear on the spot.

Here it is:

"THIS AUCTION IS FOR ALL 4 ONE DIRECTION TICKETS IN SYDNEY OCTOBER 25th. You can thank my daughters self righteous and lippy attitude for their sale. See sweety? And you thought I was bluffing. I hope the scowl on your b----- little friends faces when you tell them that your dad and i revoked the gift we were giving you all reminds you that your PARENTS are the ones that deserve love and respect more than anyone. And your silly little pack mentality of taking your parents for fools is one sadly mistaken. Anyhow. Your loss someone else's gain who deserves them! THE TICKETS ARE SEATED IN ROW O section 57. REMEMBER AUCTION IS FOR ALL 4 TICKETS and will be sent registered post.

...OH YOUR FRIENDS THOUGHT THAT A FEW PRANKS CALLS WOULD PUT ME OFF SELLING THE GIFT WE BOUGHT FOR THEM for YOUR BIRTHDAY because YOU all LIED to us about sleep overs so you could hang like little trollops at an older guys HOUSE????? Pffft!! I find it HIGHLY amusing that you girls think you invented this stuff. Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived .....And why a lot of your friends DONT have an address to send that Fathers day card to!!! I'm not your friend. I'm your MOTHER. And I am here to give you the boundaries that YOU NEED to become a functional responsible adult. You may hate me now..... But I don't care. Its my job to raise a responsible adult..not nuture bad habits in my teen age child."

Yikes. The current bid is at $395. Let's just hope some of the proceeds can be used to pay for all of the therapy everyone involved is going to need.

We reached out to the seller, but have yet to hear back.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-user-sells-daughter-one-direction-tickets-2013-9#ixzz2fpe738fU

**Ahtman**

Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived

I lol'd.

**curran12**

I like the sale of the tickets, not so much the public airing of what really should be a private matter.

Punish your kids, great, make a spectacle of it, not so great.

**hotsauceman1**

This is what the girl gets for liking one direction

**Ahtman**

curran12 wrote:
I like the sale of the tickets, not so much the public airing of what really should be a private matter.

You're no fun. Half the fun of being a parent is embarrassing your kids.

This is what the girl gets for liking one direction

Sounds about right.

**kronk**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
This is what the girl gets for liking one direction

I dropped my accordion and a drum down the stairs and wrote a One Direction song...

**DemetriDominov**

It'd be halarious if the guy in question bought the tickets and took the girl anyway...

**Frazzled**

Ahtman wrote:
curran12 wrote:
I like the sale of the tickets, not so much the public airing of what really should be a private matter.

You're no fun. Half the fun of being a parent is embarrassing your kids.

There's more truth to that then you realize.

This is what the girl gets for liking one direction

Sounds about right.

Also a correct statement.

To the point, it sounds like the kid was tryign to be petty and bratty and the mom went off. I would have just sold them, with maybe a nice notation of "Daughter punished for lying. Her loss is your gain!"

**Grey Templar**

Indeed. Just make a nice little blurb on the auction that its your child's punishment.

**Noir**

This mom need everyone to send her flowers for being a real parent. I see far to few of them now days.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Heh I don't mind the public airing. It's HIGHLY entertaining. Over all, well deserved punishment for a little "trollop". Good on ya mom! Now then attach a scarlet letter to her and throw her in the public stocks for a good pelting of rotten veg.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

This is the pendulum swinging the other direction from that party thread.

**Dreadclaw69**

Hehehe

Well done that woman

**Squigsquasher**

On the one hand, that is awesome. I mean, come on, One Direction?

On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

**Frazzled**

Squigsquasher wrote:
On the one hand, that is awesome. I mean, come on, One Direction?

On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

Just like a Brit...
Longhorn (UT Texas) and Aggie (Texas A&M) get into a dispute at a bar.
Longhorn says "lets step outside" The Aggie, being an Aggie, instantly agrees.
When they step outside the Longhorn pulls a knife.
Aggie: "Never bring a knife to a gun fight."

**Ahtman**

Squigsquasher wrote:
On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

That would seem to be part of the attitude problem that lost the tickets in the first place. Attempted murder also seems a bit extreme for having to face punishment for doing something you knew was wrong in the first place.

**Frazzled**

Ahtman wrote:
Squigsquasher wrote:
On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

That would seem to be part of the attitude problem that lost the tickets in the first place. Attempted murder also seems a bit extreme for having to face punishment for doing something you knew was wrong in the first place.

Depends on the concert obviously. Sigs may have been tryign to do the parents a favor. I'd want to stab myself with a steak knife before seeing these guys.

**Alfndrate**

Frazzled wrote:
Ahtman wrote:
Squigsquasher wrote:
On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

That would seem to be part of the attitude problem that lost the tickets in the first place. Attempted murder also seems a bit extreme for having to face punishment for doing something you knew was wrong in the first place.

Depends on the concert obviously. Sigs may have been tryign to do the parents a favor. I'd want to stab myself with a steak knife before seeing these guys.

At least stab myself in the ears so I don't have to hear them... Possibly the eyes so I don't have to see them, and honestly who wouldn't want to be able to wear their sunglasses at night?

**hotsauceman1**

I wonder how much she paid for the tickets?
IT must have been alot for what im assuming is maybe 3-4 girls?
tickets for a small concert over hear must are 100$. one direction must be 150-200.
If so her brat is a little witch.

**Desubot**

Man that's funny.

Its not as cool but i saw a Craigslist ad for a free Xbox360 by a parent punishing his son.

Was to late to snatch that

**Grey Templar**

Craig's list needs a special section for this stuff.

**-Shrike-**

kronk wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
This is what the girl gets for liking one direction

I dropped my accordion and a drum down the stairs and wrote a One Direction song...

Well, you wrote the backing track at least. Get some squeaky male teenagers, get them to prance around a bit, and people [read:young girls] will love them! When you're (somehow) that popular, your target audience doesn't care what you sound like...

**PrehistoricUFO**

She included the humorous story to stir up attention and bids, guys. You're all acting like it was pointless airing of dirty laundry when there was very obviously a purpose to it. /facepalm

**Squigsquasher**

Frazzled wrote:
Ahtman wrote:
Squigsquasher wrote:
On the other hand, if I had been in that girl's shoes I would have stabbed both of my parents with a steak knife.

That would seem to be part of the attitude problem that lost the tickets in the first place. Attempted murder also seems a bit extreme for having to face punishment for doing something you knew was wrong in the first place.

Depends on the concert obviously. Sigs may have been tryign to do the parents a favor. I'd want to stab myself with a steak knife before seeing these guys.

Oh don't get me wrong, if my parents rescued me from going to a One Direction concert I would be singing my praises to them.

However, I hate the idea of parents having supreme authority and receiving unquestioning respect from their children. Maybe it's my extreme megalomania and slight psychosis (and being autistic, suffering from oppositional defiance disorder, and just being a bit of a prick), maybe it's the fact that my father is an arsewad who I would happily disembowel and as such I am immediately distrustful of authority figures... I dunno. I am a very hateful person a lot of the time, and my experience with adults has been...mixed, to put it mildly.

Just like a Brit...
Longhorn (UT Texas) and Aggie (Texas A&M) get into a dispute at a bar.
Longhorn says "lets step outside" The Aggie, being an Aggie, instantly agrees.
When they step outside the Longhorn pulls a knife.
Aggie: "Never bring a knife to a gun fight."

Ah yes, but Frazzled, my dear friend, a knife is so, so much more enjoyable than a gun. Guns are for pansies who are afraid of getting blood on their shirt.

And if this Longhorn had an ounce of sense he just would have cut the Aggie's throat before the fight stepped outside.

...Sorry. I'm getting carried away.

**Talizvar**

The mother sounded overly umm... "haughty", a little too much for smug (a weird sense of glee in there too... disturbing).

The trick is to say "because you did X and X, reward/nice thing will not be given because we do not reward bad behavior".

Then if you must explain on the site:

Daughter had lied to parents and is acting "entitled" so tickets are on sale.
Parents are looking to recover the expense of the inappropriate gift.

Extra requirement:
Please sent email of how incredible the experience was so we may forward to our daughter.

**azazel the cat**

"revoked the gift we were giving you all reminds you that your PARENTS are the ones that deserve love and respect more than anyone"

This is where the seller's logic breaks down.

"Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived"

And this is where the hypocrisy appears.

While I find it amusing, I hope the seller has saved a lot of money for round-the-clock care when she's older, because the smugness in this stunt basically ensures that her children will not be taking good care of her when she's elderly.

**Talizvar**

The one-upmanship of messing with each other alone will be exciting enough.

It is all about making sure the kid knows "you chose X and the rule was Y result, you chose this outcome, consequence."

Acting like the dictator/god handing down the law as you see fit gets them to think: "The rules change, not based on what I do, so I can pretty much do whatever.".

A slippery slope I really never want to go down...

**Fafnir**

azazel the cat wrote:
"revoked the gift we were giving you all reminds you that your PARENTS are the ones that deserve love and respect more than anyone"

This is where the seller's logic breaks down.

"Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived"

And this is where the hypocrisy appears.

While I find it amusing, I hope the seller has saved a lot of money for round-the-clock care when she's older, because the smugness in this stunt basically ensures that her children will not be taking good care of her when she's elderly.

Yep, it feels like this was done more for catharsis for the parents, rather than to actually punish the child and teach her a lesson.

Parents need to understand that the internet and social media is a two-way street. Back in their youth, were they to be punished for something similarly, they'd lose their concert tickets, maybe lose a few privileges, and that would be the end of it. No reasonable parent would be flaunting their child's dirty laundry like that it 1979, and nothing's suddenly changed to make it appropriate now.

Children are bound to screw up, get into trouble, and make mistakes. Their brains are pretty much hard-wired for that. Your responsibility is to help them through that period, even if you have to be stern about it. But maliciousness has no place in good parenting.

**Grundz**

Fafnir wrote:
No reasonable parent would be flaunting their child's dirty laundry like that it 1979,

I beg to differ

**Frazzled**

"And if this Longhorn had an ounce of sense he just would have cut the Aggie's throat before the fight stepped outside.

...Sorry. I'm getting carried away. "

Thats what my mom would say. I like you. Thats executive thinking right there.

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azazel the cat wrote:
"revoked the gift we were giving you all reminds you that your PARENTS are the ones that deserve love and respect more than anyone"

This is where the seller's logic breaks down.

"Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived"

And this is where the hypocrisy appears.

While I find it amusing, I hope the seller has saved a lot of money for round-the-clock care when she's older, because the smugness in this stunt basically ensures that her children will not be taking good care of her when she's elderly.

Like you kids can take care of us HAHAHAHAH. Thats why we take all your money on the front end!