Friend wants to deduct the price hepaid for ticket from the cost it took to collect it

[MaryTeresa1]

Bought a ticket for a festival for £130. At the last minute my friend wasn't able to go and I didn't feel like it.

We changed our minds last minute so while we could have got £80 at least for the ticket we accepted £50 from my best friends cousin and her friend who wanted to go. This was a bit of a rip off price really but it was better than nothing.

I was away so left my ticket in my safety box on my wall (locked box with a code password).

Instead of just sending me the money and then collecting the tickets my friends cousins sent him the money to send to me. She went to pick up the ticket bu got stuck in traffic so called my cousin to say could he pick the tickets up. He did and the journey costs around £10.

Now it took him three months to send me the £50 as he was applying to buy a house and wanted 'as much money in his account as possible' .

When he did send he money he sent £40 saying it cost him £10
To deliver the tickets to his cousin.

I am livid. It's only £10 but how rude. I feel it's his cousins responsibility to pick the tickets up and reimburse him for any travel cost. £50 is a rip off as it is but £40 is just taking advantage. He currently has £3000 in the bank and has an income with his partner of £60,000. I am a single mum on benefits who had to do a payment plan just to afford the ticket!

AIBU to think he should give me the £50
For the ticket?

He has been a really good friend to me and overall he skit a jerk but can be a bit spoilt and is really stingy with money.

Yanbu. This would be a deal breaker in a friendship for me actually. Make sure you get your money back before you cut him off.

Nothing you can do now.
But next time.... tell him to fuck off

He's a twat.
Tell him you want £50 he's taking the piss.

Can you contact his cousin? She might not be aware. Of course she is responsible for getting the tickets, and if getting them costs money then that's her responsibility.

The cousin isn't aware.

I think she just presumed he would be willing to accept the pick 70 up charge. He should have charged her if he wasn't happy to pay the fuel cost.

I reckon he might have got £55 for the ticket.

We've been good friends for years but I disappointed with him for this.

Tell the cousin. Him picking up the tickets is not your problem, the one who asked him to pick it up should pay. It's really unfair of him to send you that much.

I think she just presumed

Never presume...

They will take advantage always....

I would say -

Well I was actually thinking it should really be £60 now, what with 3 months interest. I tell you what, lets not fall out over it, meet in the middle and call it £50

Why the hell did you had to wait 3months for your money because he wanted his bank account to look healthy?

You bought a ticket you couldn't afford and then didn't use it because you "didn't feel like it". Then when someone took it off your hands, you made no effort to get it to them.

If you'd posted it to the person who bought it off you, you'd have saved £10 minus the cost of a stamp.

Yeah, they're a penny pinching dick, but I don't think you should be getting outraged about this.

he should pass on the whole amount. Can you contact the cousin and tell her he withheld 10 pounds of the payment?

I would also contact him to say I expect the full 50 pounds. If he wants payment for his time, then that's between him and the cousin.

If you're really done with him, invoice him for the 10 pounds and also interest on the 50 pounds for the time it sat in his bank account!!

I would consider him an ex-friend and tell him so.

YANBU. He is a chancer and if anyone is really counting here, the recipient of the ticket owes him the money, not you.

He is tight and awful.

Tell him it's £50!!

Contact the cousin, tell them what happened. Odds on they paid more. Either way, you want your £10.

Your friend is a tight arse but I would let it go, can you really be bothered kicking up a massive fuss over a tenner?

Tight tight tight. I can't stand that sort of thing. He can't be too hard up if he was willing to spend £130 on the ticket in the first place!

The buyer is responsible for paying you. Deal with your customer. Amazing that you let it slide for three months though.

I'd assume the £10 was gone, but would find a way of accidentally making the cousin aware of the situation so she has the chance to make it right (if she's inclined to be decent).

The 'friend ' however would be an ex friend. There's nothing more ugly than meanness in someone who has money. To deny you payment because he's applying for a mortgage then deducting £10 for the favour he did his cousin is unpleasant.

Maybe being a young man it just hasn't dawned on him what £10 represents, and that to buy it in the first place it cost x and that being a sing,e mum, you had to pay for it via a payment plan. Young men, well older Ines come to that, just don't think like us. I very much doubt my son would, but if I knew he'd done something like this, I'd exp,win to him exactly what it represents to you and what it represents to his cousin. To you, it's cou,d pay for a days food, the cousin a couple of pints down the pub. I'd approach him and just be honest.

£10 for petrol? How far did he drive?