A moral question.

[Sion_Barzahd]

If you don't tell him that it works, and finds out, he could get pissy about it.
Best bet is to tell him it still works, then you keeping it is 50/50 and you get some pretty big karma points.

 

[AwesomeHat]

Well, now there's 20 posts, I apologise for misleading you all. I posted this exact message on four forums; one a gadget forum, one being the Escapist, one being a warez forum, and the other being a forum owned by a friend of mine that contains "random crap.". It's also on *chan. No guesses what happened there.

Anyway - to my point, I wanted to check the internet. Come to think of it, I'd probably have done better to choose a more realistic story and a few more places ;]

Strangely though, 3/4 forums and *chan have both told me to kill him now. So.. you all have morals but you're psychotic. Anyone recommend a better thing for next time? This was maybe a bit too clear cut as the friend was said to have finance problems.

 

[flare09]

If they're a good friend I'd give it back. Or maybe someone you want to become better friends with. But if it's someone you really don't care about just sell it or keep it.

 

[DalekJaas]

I'd lean towards option no. 2, but ask if he wants it back out of courtesy; seeing as you 'fixed it'.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

Morals are a personal code. If you need someone else to tell you, then you're doing it wrong.

Ya, honesty will be the Best here, Especially since you said he may see this thread

 

[Lucifus]

Tell him it works, even if he lets you have it dont sell it as your earning money at his loss.

 

[hypothetical fact]

Keep it, he gave it to you and if he wants it back call him a renegeer.

 

[BobTheCool]

For some reason this strikes me as only several steps removed from

"so there's this guy I want to murder...what should I do?"

Asking the internet for advice is rarely a good idea.

normally i would agree with you. however, this site seems to have decent people for the most part, as evidenced by the majority of posts on this very thread.
anyway, i would tell him its fine, and let him decide what to do.

 

[Fruhstuck]

Today, I was given a pretty expensive gadget by a friend. Am not gonna say what it is due to the slight possibility he'll see this post, but it's a type of phone costing around £200 new.

Now, ordinarily I wouldn't accept it, he isn't very well off at all, but he said it was broken and it'd just been sitting on his desk for some time, he gave it to me for free.

Anyway - I got home and it works fine. Fine; perfectly even. The screen and casing are scratched to ass-hell, but for pure functionality it's great, compared to my piece of crap brick phone.

Now, do I:

- Give it him back, tell him it works, let him get the money for it.
- Keep it, lie and tell him I fixed the electronics inside or something.
- Sell it, use the money to buy myself a decent new phone that's less mauled up.

Somewhat of a dilemma. I'm leaning heavily towards the second option.

Say to him that when you got it home it worked fine, does he want it back or is it cool if you keep it?