Italian guy: This ATM just ate my card, buy my BTC at 20% markup.
You: Which one? Let us go there so I can stick my card in it too... Whoops!
It was more like.
Me: I thought you were buying bitcoins, not buying euros. I only have 300 on me. Let me get 400 euros from this ATM we're standing at.
ATM eats my card.
Italian guy: Yep, same thing happened to me.
So Italian guy just watched you stick your card into an ATM which ate his? The very reason he needed to sell you BTC at a 20% markup in the first place?
Didn't say "hey, maybe you should try a different ATM, this one just ate my card," just chuckled under his breath, you say?
So you couldn't get any cash?
Did the two of you go looking for another gentlemen, to sell him your bitcoin at a totally reasonable 20% markup, both of you needing cash?