Ticket etiquette??

In that situatuon, I think the norm would be to either offer both tickets for sale or "invite" someone to join you without mentioning money, although everyone I know would offer to pay, if it's something they want to do.

If you want someone who's not especially interested to join you as a favour, you need to give them the ticket.

Your friend's comment could just mean " you must be joking, I can't stand that band" because it's an odd thing to say. I'd expect people not interested just not to comment.

Although honestly, having had a big change of corcusrsnces that mean I often have the choice of either going alone or not going at all, I'll say learning to enjoy going alone is absolutely completely liberating.

How do you know they didn't want to go? They might not even have heard about it.

Ok then 👍

What a strange response to a genuine question but ok

I would've just said 'anybody fancy coming to see X with me as DH can't make it?'

Don't see the point in trying to make money back from friends, you'd rather their company for the evening than the £50 I imagine.

The money is spent whether your husband goes or not. You don't want to go alone so I'd offer it to a friend for free.

I have come to realise, mostly from seeing Facebook marketplace, that people place so much value on things that are next to worthless.

I would have offered the ticket for free, it's paid for either way and would have liked someone to go with. You have basically said you want someone to go so you don't lose money.

I would have declined too. It like the time a friend of mine offered to sell me something she knew I could make use of and she no longer could (it was for use with another item) and she said £45 or it's going in the bin. I let her bin it.

Sorry OP that’s stingy AF

The money for the ticket has been and gone! I would have invited a friend for free.

I think the correct etiquette is that you shouldn’t ask for any money, as you want someone to keep you company so they’re doing you a favour, and the friend who goes with you should insist on paying if it’s something they genuinely want to do. But if they really aren’t that bothered and you’ve pestered them into it because you don’t want to go alone, you should pay.

I think you need to decide whether:
a) you want to get your money back for the ticket
b) you don’t want to go alone and want a friend to go with you

If a) then a £10 discount is reasonable - but not so much if b. Your friend was rude though!

It depends how you asked/how desperate people were likely to want to be to go. I'd have offered it free to friends if I wanted company or sold it if I just wanted the cash.

You're definitely tight!

I'd have offered it free and let friend buy aa drink or something.

I’ve spent lots of time over the past year looking for people to come to events with me instead of my husband who has a chronic condition. I would never dream of asking them to pay as I assume if they particularly wanted to go they would have bought a ticket already. But in all cases they have offered to pay or bought all the drinks, paid for parking etc

But you're not losing money as you've already spent the money?

I'd honestly be happy for the company and would not expect any payment.

I’d have offered it for free. It’s like you’re asking people to pay for the inconvenience of your husband being ill. It’s not their responsibility to make sure you don’t lose money. £10 off is tight. Just give it away and no doubt the other person will buy a couple of rounds of drinks to say thanks.

I don’t particularly worry about Covid but I don’t particularly want to catch it either. I wouldn’t want to spend the evening sitting next to you if your spouse was freshly diagnosed.

In my social circle people tend to offer the tickets for free when situations like this arise - and then people often offer to pay anyway. You might have better luck offering a pair of tickets if it’s something appealing to people at short notice.

"Would that really be something most people would consider? It certainly wouldn’t even cross my mind"

Ooh, you're so cool 😎

I think it’s an odd offer. Come to an event you had no intention of buying a ticket to, at short notice because I don’t want to go alone. Oh and it will cost you £50.

This!

We had tickets as a big group last year to see something and two people had Covid on the night. The tickets would just have been wasted, but we found two friends who came instead-wouldn’t have dreamed of charging them, it was good that we found people who were free at the last minute who fancied it.

I don't want to go on my own, but I also don't want to lose money.

You haven’t lost money-that money has been spent already.

So, what are you doing…are you going alone then? What a fun night that will be.

Would that really be something most people would consider? It certainly wouldn’t even cross my mind

As a PP has said, if you put the pair up, you could ask for a good chunk of the price, but just one is a bit different. It's a lot of money for someone doing you a favour, ie filling in and keeping you company at short notice.

Plus they're quite obviously a second choice: you didn't ask them along in the first place.

You haven’t done anything wrong though I’d have probably offered it at 50% of face value as a start but ended up giving it for free but your friend is rude and immature to laugh at you.

If you're happy to go alone can’t you try a resale site?

I think we need to know the event to judge properly

Yes you should give it away (unless you are in particularly dire financial circumstances immediately evident to all). I cannot stand people who ask friends for money in this way it's so rude. If you are desperate for money for it sell it quitely don't ask friends/collegues/acquantances for money so crass.

Was your friend objecting to spending an evening with someone whose spouse has covid? A sort of “pay £50 and I’ll probably throw in covid for free” kind of offer?

The fact that your friend reacted the way she did makes me wonder if you have form for this kind of thing?

Maybe it’s a running joke in the friendship group.

i have a friend who I absolutely know would do this - we would all laugh and roll our eyes at the message. £10 discount - how generous😂

It’s really not about the price. You can’t return the ticket. The money is lost anyways. You don’t want to go alone.

invite someone. Be nice. The money is gone anyways.

saying you can do me a favour and cover the cost of this ticket I’ll lose for a while £10 off is tight as heck.