# Following the financial crisis, is there anyone you feel deserved punishment who didn't receive it?

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**Created:** [January 17, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-the-financial-crisis-is-there-anyone-you-feel-deserved-punishment-who-didnt-receive-it/679074 "2014-01-17T16:56:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-the-financial-crisis-is-there-anyone-you-feel-deserved-punishment-who-didnt-receive-it/679074/41 "2014-02-03T20:15:43Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> When I bought my house, the appraiser asked what price had we agreed upon. The seller and I answered, in stereo, “no, we’ve set an approximate price but won’t call it firm until you give us an appraisal, we want to have a price that doesn’t rob either one of us”. He laughed and said “oh my, it’s such a rare pleasure to work for honest people!” Since we were, indeed, honest and had done our homework\*, the price we’d pre-agreed turned out to be smack in the middle of the range he gave us, hooray.

It seems to me that an appraiser interested in honesty wouldn’t even _ask_ what price you’d agreed on.

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