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I've got a couple families that I can't use sales socials on when they visit my sim's business.  I've got a ticket machine, and they are considering paying to enter, but whenever my sim tries to do any of the sales socials, it sets it up (turning my sim and the visiting sim to look at each other) but then it just drops out of queue, without playing any animations or affecting the buy bar.

I always play with testing cheats turned on, and there are no errors generated when this happens.

This never happens when a townie is considering going in; just the playable sims.  When it happens, it happens consistently for all family members.  However, these sims do sometimes purchase a ticket -- I just can't influence them when they are deciding.  It's gotten irritating enough that I'm going to put back in JM's "No Playable Shoppers" hack, but I did like having the playable sims come by once in a while...

If you use the 'no playable shoppers' hack, also get his money order, and use that to control playables coming to the lot.

Yep.  Thanks for the suggestion; I had forgotten about that fine tuning being available. 

I did confirm the problem I had seemed to have something to do with the family funds of the affected families.  When I played the affected family and increased their fundage, I then was able to complete the sales socials on the original lots.  The amounts the affected families had were low, but not so low that they couldn't pay to get on the lot.  And like I said these family members would sometimes (often even, if the price was reasonable enough) choose to pay on their own, without the sales socials. 

sounds like you found the problem OK.  When I was missing sales and management socials, it was a universal problem and the cause was an old version of a hack from MTS2  (moveinall)