To think she should pay?

[notatallslimshady]

Namechanged as don't want to be outed.

DD17 was desparate to see a well known act - one word, starts with E, please don't mention it as she is bound to check Mumsnet to see if I have posted about it, in West London tonight.

Her dad bought her a ticket for £80 for her birthday. Her best mate bought the tickets for DD, BF, and another girl to go and XH paid BF the £80.

When the tickets arrived, there were 6 instead of 3, so the BF sold three of them.

DD goes to London today to go to the gig, has talked about little else for months. Turns out, the Act was also on last night. BF has sold DDs ticket which was for tonight and left the three girls with the tickets for last night which are now obviously useless. BF and the other girl have coughed up £100 each to a tout for tickets for tonight. DD doesn't have £100 so they have let her travel the 2.5 hours home alone.

I am beyond livid on DD behalf. I have spoken to her and she doesn't think BF will be reimbursing her/XH for the £80 he has paid for the ticket BF then sold ( and kept the money for)

I do realise she made a mistake but AIBU in expecting her to pay the money back as it was her mistake and DD/XH shouldn't be out of pocket?

Thanks Vipers.

EF should cough up.

(Incidentally, I saw him a few years ago - headlining a festival, I'd gone for the supports - & he was CRAP.)

Your poor DD.

Of course her friend should pay, and be read the riot act.

Good thought. Signyourname.

I do think that the whole thing is a bit fishy. Given that she is the crappy kind of friend who would dump her friend in London like that I would put it past her to come up with some scheme.
The only other explanation I can think of for the extra tickets is that she had two windows open when buying them, one for each night. She has put details on both windows and they both go through before she realises.

If your dd's friend made a mistake then she should be the one who is out off pocket. Teenagers often seem to have a skewed view on fairness though. If your daughter can't get the money off her friend then you could perhaps speak to the parents and make it clear that you paid her daughter for a ticket but she did not receive the ticket.

None of this makes sense.

Surely her mum would go nuts that she agreed to cover three tickets and the dd ordered 6?

How do you order for two different dates? Surely online you just press the + or - to increase/decrease the number in the box til it says what you want? You wouldn't click against two different things.

Surely those who bought the tickets would have requested a certain day and checked because otherwise they would turn up at wrong time or their mate wouldn't be going with them etc.

Morning All

I don't have much more to report back except that apparently DD has known for weeks about the six tickets, apparently her mum did go mad about the unexpected charges to her credit card. Also EF thought they were ALL for the Saturday night, so the people who she sold the spare 3 tickets to will have been able to see the gig on the "correct" night.

I also agree that EF should have stumped up. However, DD is now saying that when realisation dawned about the cock up, EF called her mum, who was desperately trying to persuade DD to go to the gig and said she would pay for DDs tout ticket. DD turned this down as she said she was embarrassed and didn't think EF or her family should have to pay as "it was just an honest mistake." I don't know how the girls paid for their tickets. If there was a cash machine nearby they would have just taken it out - they all work.

I think this goes back to what whatever said about teens having a skewed idea of fairness. I also asked her why she didn't accept the mothers offer ad stump up the "extra" £20 herself and she said that with hindsight that would have been fair but she didn't think of it at the time, EF was crying etc etc.

I am also taking on board what attheend said about not getting too involved. At the moment I think DD is more angry with me than with Evil Best Friend because she sees me as interfering and hardfaced and she may have a point.

Thanks to everyone for contributing, I have read all your posts and taken it all on board.

Teens eh - constant drama!!

I don't understand how you can book tickets for two separate night without selecting the option to do so!!

DD takes the festival ticket that EF has already paid for and sells it to recoup the money. Keep dad out of it.

That's a shit solution. Two wrongs don't make a right!

They sound a horrible lot. Your DD didn't get a ticket because of their mistake and greed. So they should reimburse her the money. They sold your DD's ticket. Not sure if I believe the tale they got three extra tickets 'by mistake'. Did they pay for these extra ones. If not report them to the concert organisers.

A question for whois, if recouping the £80 by simply selling the festival ticket isn't the answer because two wrongs don't make a right then what is the answer? Best friend just walks away with the £80 from exh?

It sounds as if the EF's mother would have paid for the mistake but your DD has unfortunately turned down the offer. Teenagers have strange ideas sometimes...

At the age of 17 (assuming EF is the same age as DD), had something similar happened to me, I'd have made sure my friends went to the show and I'd have come home as it was my mistake. I imagine that the majority of my friends would have done the same.

EF really doesn't sound like a nice piece of work. Didn't they see DD into a cab? They just left her? Hardly loyal friends. Ever since I started going out as a teenager (and I'm now an old married mum of two) my own parents' golden rule was that everyone stayed together, you came home together etc - no one got left behind. I'd almost be more annoyed about that than the ticket deception (and it sounds like EF was deceptive to me).

And whilst it may not be a parent's place to get involved at this age, if someone had missed out on something like this because of my error, my parents would have paid the £80 and I'd have had to pay them back. Because that's the right thing to do.

Sounds as if EF's mum may have a conscience at least . Hopefully they will reimburse the £80. Did ex pay the mum or the ef direct ?

What's the act? I can't figure it out

Wait, I have now

The EF/BF made an honest mistake.Hert mother tried to make up for her daughters cluelessness by offering to buy your DD a ticket.
Draw a line under it and move on