Don’t worry, that stupid decision will be his responsibility to pay for when his dad dies, and there’s nothing he can do about that.
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 months ago
Ask your Dad about that timeshare he got suckered in in the 80’s, for a comeback.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can you refuse their estate? If I had a terminal disease, I might buy a timeshare and leave it to someone I don’t like.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Either you take it and pay and sell or keep, or the estate pays off the creditor and then you can sell it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
At least it exists.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The two aren’t even remotely comparable. A timeshare may not be as valuable as you thought it was, but it exists and you can use it. An NFT is basically an entry in a star registry, but the people think (or at least thought) they actually own the stars.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
On the other hand, with an NFT you’ve just thrown your money down the toilet, while timeshares will keep charging you fees and are incredibly difficult to get out of (and the services that supposedly help people get out of them are often scams too).
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
True, but while you’re still paying those timeshare fees, you still have access to the place.
The real difference is that a time share is never thought of as an investment where you buy low and sell high. It’s thought of as getting a good deal on something you plan to use. For it to be similar to an NFT it would have to be something like a dude in Nebraska buys a time share in Australia and then tries to make money from Australians or something. AFAIK almost everybody who buys time shares does it because they plan to use the place as a vacation property and actually do use it that way, at least for a while.
baines@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
timeshares had knockon costs that kept on giving in some cases years
for those NFTs were better
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
NFTs were bought with crypto, which had various hidden costs, scams and thefts, so it’s basically the same.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well said.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But you sure don’t own it.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
None of these dipshits own their stupid useless pixel art either. They fell for a scam that doesn’t even have anything of potential use, unlike a timeshare, which you could actually potentially use. Not the burn op thought it was.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly at least NFTs don’t have recurrent maintenance costs that literally make their value go negative.