To hand our soft play entry code to a couple with kids as we left?

[WanderingTrolley1]

DP wasn't impressed.

Should I not have given it to them?

Yabu it is theft.

HOw can you not see this as theft??

I would say YABU, whilst it is a nice thing to do it's not really fair to the business. I also think it is a separate argument from examples like parking tickets. I'm sure most people who have said YANBU would be pretty annoyed if they went to their local soft play and found the price had increased by a couple of pound and this kind of thing was cited as a reason for the increase.

It was a nice thing to do, thank god I have never encountered such miseries are as on this thread. People always do things like this for me and if I see the opportunity in return.

its the same s giving a parking ticket over when you leave...

which is a nice thing to do

Yanbu that's a nice gesture. What so you all think about people handing their no longer needed but in date travel card to so done on leaving tge station for home, is that theft? Same thing really, I used to do this and other people have handed me their in date travel card in the past.

Yes there are a load of miseries on here really are. I am sure that this does not happen often.

It might sound a silly thing to get worked up about but when you run one of these kind if businesses, especially after the summer and a mild autumn, every entry fee counts. YABVU.

I do this all the time whether it's with time to go on something that I'm not using or with vouchers (car parking, family bus tickets, free coffee and cake vouchers, money off vouchers etc).
I once had two spare five pound off a £40 spend vouchers for Aldi. I passed them to the next customers behind me. The customer across from us asked the checkout operator to call the manager to make sure I was "allowed" to do this. When she was assured it was ok and that no one was ripping anyone off she muttered about no one ever giving her any vouchers! she was jealous and because she wasn't on the receiving end of a voucher tried to spoil it for everyone else. :o

I see it as theft too. You are depriving the buisness of income. i wouldn't do it and I wouldn't use the code of someone had given it to me.

Businesses calculate whether they can afford to do this based on average behaviour - not everyone taking the full maximum.

So most people will use 2-3 bus rides, or stay for 2 hours in the soft play.

This is one of the cases where it feels like you are doing a nice thing but if everyone did it the whole system would collapse.

I would do it. I have given many car park tickets away

Wot misery jobsworths there are on this thread.

Congratulations on contributing to the moral decay of society.

People will lose jobs.

Soft plays will close down.

Parents will just bring their unsupervised cretins into coffee shops to zone out and play on their cell phones.

The entire economic collapse of the UK will be entirely your fault.

How do you sleep at night?

I remember someone allowed my patents one ticket(re enter) for me. Id be looking through the bars watching and hoping but parents couldnt afford it so i was told to enjoy watching other children which is what i was. I was given this ticket. The surprise and delight and not knowing what to go on first.... Thank you to that lady in the 1980s you made my week. Yanbu. Its been paid for, you not going to use it pay it forward...

It's a bit like handing over your parking ticket if there's still time left on it when you leave. I always do this when I leave a car park, lots of other people do it too. It's a kind thoughtful thing to do. Sod the bigger picture, I like being kind on an individual level

YANBU

I'd have done it. I have also:

Passed on my free tickets to the Country Living Fair to another couple who were arriving as we were leaving - the tickets weren't taken off us, scanned or clipped, we were simply waved through.

Handed my Super Fast Pass for Disney to another family as we were leaving and there were still several hours before it closed.

Taken a random child through on my free ticket to London attraction that allowed two adults and three children, so the parents didn't have to pay £20 for the child.

YABU. Put yourself in the shoes of the owner of the soft play. It's not as if it's going to be a high-profit business, more something that ordinary people, like you, do to get by. It's basically nicking.

Well, it's just like parking tickets - i.e. non-transferrable. And if you get caught using someone else's ticket in our local council car parks you may find yourself with a parking fine (the traffic wardens check registrations).

So, while it sounds like it was notionally a whole day pass, in reality they know that most people will leave after a couple of hours. Their business model will be calculated on the basis that everybody who comes to play pays an entry fee.

So you're stealing from a company.

I would have handed it over as well.

Perhaps the business should have foreseen this. The soft play around here they stamp the child hand.

So, those who disagree with this, if someone offered it to you would you say no thanks it's stealing?

To go into our local sift play you have to register and are issued with a card. As you go in you pay and they swipe your card, as you leave tgey swipe it again so this can't happen.

It was at a local swimming centre, they can cope with it. They make a lot of money out of memberships ect...

Can't understand the pearl clutching