"Buy" probably wasn't the exact expectation. The exact expectation was that free lunch would be provided by some means. Free lunch was provided. The person who was owed received compensation. A bet is about compensation that the winner receives. Not the means by which the loser provides compensation.

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Posted by CE Tiger

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Posted on 10/13/15 at 1:14 pm to Peazey

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The exact expectation was that free lunch would be provided by some means

we get free lunch all the time, by this reasoning he could have grabbed a box lunch from a meeting handed it to me and called it his debt

we've bet a bunch and the satisfaction of the bet is when he signs the credit card receipt shelling out money for the lunch not the shitty quesadilla i got with a chunk of plastic in it

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Posted by htownjeep

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Posted on 10/13/15 at 1:15 pm to Peazey

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"Buy" probably wasn't the exact expectation. The exact expectation was that free lunch would be provided by some means. Free lunch was provided. The person who was owed received compensation. A bet is about compensation that the winner receives. Not the means by which the loser provides compensation.

Exactly.

What if this was a money bet? And Person B happens to be a good friend of mine and he doesn't have the cash to pay the bet. I give him the money and he pays Person A. Does Person A still need to be paid simply because Person B didn't have any hardship out of the deal?

No, Person A would go about his merry way. The same thing should be the result of this lunch bet.

Had there been something wrong with the restaurant/food to the point of no lunch was eaten, then you'd have a point. But he got his lunch.

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