Am I being a CF or seizing and opportunity?

[WeakAsIAm]

Myself and a group of friends have tickets for a show next week; we've each paid for our own tickets.

These friends though I love them dearly can be at times a little flaky. I get life happens and things need to be changed/dropped at times.

1 friend has already dropped out next week; has other more interesting plans, a second friend has now started the usual run up to 'I'm so sorry blah blah blah' the final friend is not likely to attend just the 2 of us, so I expect her excuses soon.

So here's my CF I still want to see the show, don't want to go alone so can ask my family to go. But I can't afford to buy the tickets off my friends.

They could give/sell their ticket to whoever they please, but would I be a CF to ask they give them to me?

If they give/sell their tickets I'm not likely to go with people I don't know. So I would miss out and lose my money.

[Disfordarkchocolate]

Cheeky I think. Just ask what they plan to do with their tickets and see what each of them say.

[lilyboleyn]

CF

[antisupermum]

CF; they aren't your tickets and you have no right to them. You could always go alone if you really wanted to see the show, or ask each of your family members to pay for their own tickets.

[FlossieTeacakesFurCoat18]

Can't your family pay for the tickets they'd be using?

[amusedbush]

Massively CF.

[Pilot12]

Ask them if they would be willing to sell their tickets to your family, I’m sure they wouldn’t turn down a chance to get their money back.

[burnoutbabe]

Well I think it's a bit cheeky for everyone to drop out and leave you to go alone with a loaf of people you don't know. That wasn't the basis you bought the tickets on.
You could suggest that your friend would go to keep you company if your friends can't sell the ticket on. Ie you are not offering to buy it but saying there is an option so the ticket is not wasted.

[TeeBee]

I hate bloody flakiness! I'd just wait until they drop out and then say 'bloody hell, I was really looking forward to going and now you've all dropped out, I'll be sitting there like a lemon in my own'. See if any of them offer you their ticket to give to someone else. CF to ask though.

[Daffodil2018]

Yeah, CF to ask. Wait for them to offer.

[LoyaltyBonus]

Personally, if I'd left a friend in the lurch like that, I'd just be glad to have my conscience eased by giving the tickets to someone who could go with them instead. Unfortunately habitually flaky people are unlikely to see it like that.

How likely is it that they're be able to sell at short notice? Could you offer half?

[TheNestedIf]

Do you have a different group or selection of friends who might want to buy them?

[GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]

Ask your family to pay for their tickets?

Bit cheeky I think.

[WeakAsIAm]

Thanks, mixed bag of responses

The family I'm thinking of are DH and DS's so I'd have to pay for them all really and I just can't afford it

I'll hang fire then and wait to be offered if (probably will) left to go in my own

[WeakAsIAm]

Unfortunately half term around here next week so my other friend options have already got plans

[sheshootssheimplores]

Just ask them. I doubt they’ll be able to sell them at the same price they bought them so they might be happy to sell them to you for half price or something.