To be a bit upset at having to pay for all of it?

[SleepyDopeyGrumpy]

Background story is a friends son was at my house playing on the console with my 2 ds when it was knocked over by my youngest and the friends son's game inside was damaged with laser burn.

Now it was a complete accident and could have been any of them that it had happened to but my ds2 owned up and was really very sad and crying about it, i told him not to worry it was an accident but the boy started saying "you have to buy me a new one now mummy will say so".

I told the boys mum when she picked him up and she went on about how this was a brand new game costing £45 and that i will have to replace it.
I am in no position to have even £5 spare atm so will take time to get together that kind of money. My boys only have the one game that they play on the console whereas this other boy has many and is very spoiled.

I guess im just a little annoyed that she is going to leave it all up to me for something that was a complete accident and if it was the other way around i would have just said never mind we will see what we can do when its been out a while.

She didn't spend £45 at Asda for a game. None of them are that much money.

Exactly, Tee.

Did she get it fixed, Sleepy? Bet you London to a brick she comes back and tells you they couldn't fix it.

Grow a spine, offer a used one, if she balks tell her to go boil her head.

If my DD takes stuff to other peoples houses then I warn her that she runs a risk of it being lost or damaged.

I wouldn't dream of expecting or asking another parent to pay for one of DD's games if it was damaged at their house, though as I am a soft touch if it happened at my house I'd probably offer to pay. Though I'd be a bit suprised if someone took me up on my offer.

I'd ask her for the faulty game and see if I can get it fixed myself, don't take her word for it.

I wouldn't expect anyone - a child (or their parent) to pay for something damaged by accident. If my child damaged something accidentally I would be willing to replace it but would expect the parents to decline - unless they were skint themselves in which case I would prob try to insist on replacing whatever it was. You take the chance of accidental breakages when you have kids round imo.
OP I definitely would not buy a new game. After all the game that was damaged was used so replacing like with like would mean replacing it with a pre-owned game.

I know of someone who took a damaged game back to the shop who then replaced it. Think the shop could send it back to the manufacturers as a damaged item. Apparently shop said they wouldn't lose out so were happy to do it (was damaged by a SN child, so maybe they had more sympathy than usual).
Something else that could be worth a try.

And all those people who have been going on about insurance, there would be an excess of at least £50 anyway.

exactly what howdoyoueatyours said.

am at how many posters think that the OP should pay up! I wouldn't dream of asking for you to pay, even if I was skinto!

OP Are you sure she was being serious and not just trying to make the kids understand the value of the 'toy' that had been broken?

I wouldn't expect to be asked to pay, but I would offer.

It's how I was brought up.

Hey, just spoke again to my OH (GAME manager) who reckons he repairs at least one game a day which has laser burn.

Always work after repair.

Costs £2.99.

xxxx