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Original poster

To think she shouldn't overcharge me?!

64 replies

Supermagicsmile · 09/09/2017 21:36

My friend purchased an item with her membership card for me (with a discount). It should have cost £30 but with her discount only cost her £20.
She is insisting I pay her £30 as I'm a non member and not entitled to the discount Hmm
She offered to buy it for me as she had a discount in the first place!!

AIBU to not pay £30? She's currently not speaking to me as I said I felt I should only have to pay £20.

AIBU?! Confused

OP posts:
19lottie82 · 09/09/2017 21:37

Wow what a dick. So basically she wants to profit from you?

I'd give her the extra £10 in pennies then never speak to her again.

silkybear · 09/09/2017 21:37

So she wants you to give her a tenner for no reason?

KityGlitr · 09/09/2017 21:38

She's being dodgy. You owe her what it cost and nothing more. And she's not speaking to you like a child in the playground. Ditch this 'friend' asap.

SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 09/09/2017 21:39

Haha, wow.. Tell her to fuck off

LynetteScavo · 09/09/2017 21:41

My friends boyfriend told me he had a discount card, and could get me some boots I'd said I'd liked...them told me I'd have to give him shop price....no thanks, I can just go and get them from the shop Confused. My friend had no issue with this, but did dump him anyway.

YANBU

StarfishSeahorse · 09/09/2017 21:42

Erm is she hard of thinking? If you're not entitled to the discount why has she agreed to use her discount for you? The extra tenner belongs to the company not your friend! She's trying to make money off you and she's not your friend or she's just seriously fucking moronically stupid.

SteampunkPrincess · 09/09/2017 21:42

tell her to return it and you'll buy it yourself

Pixey53 · 09/09/2017 21:42

No you are not being unreasonable. If she offered then you should only pay £20. Yes she was doing you a favour by buying it. But if you were going to buy it at normal price and she offered then it's her being unreasonable

Original poster
Supermagicsmile · 09/09/2017 21:50

If I knew she was going to do this I would have bought it myself as I currently don't have the item.

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SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 09/09/2017 21:52

Return then, and drop her in it for trying to profit from her membership.

SheRaaarghPrincessOfPower · 09/09/2017 21:52

Oh that's shite.. Have you given her any money?

Nocabbageinmyeye · 09/09/2017 21:55

Just say nothing and buy the item yourself, she's being a tight bitch, whatever you do not give her the extra for it, let her go to the bother of returning it, some people are unbelievableShock

InvisibleKittenAttack · 09/09/2017 21:57

So you don't have the item, she does, and she paid £20 but wants £30 from you ?

Go buy it yourself for £30. tell her you no longer want it. She can go through the faff of returning.

RainbowPastel · 09/09/2017 21:58

Did she go specially to get them? Maybe she is expecting petrol money.

DorisDangleberry · 09/09/2017 22:01

Friend? She just sounds like a cunt.

As others have said, buy the item yourself and then tell her to fuck off.

yorkshireyummymummy · 09/09/2017 22:02

I think this is awful. She's trying to make money out of your friendship. It's like somebody buying something for somebody in the sale and then asking for the full price ticket money! I would buy whatever it is and tell her to get lost. She isn't a friend to you. The only reason I could see a semi legitimate reason for doing this is if she was absolutely skint and desperate for the money. But even then it's a very low trick.

yorkshireyummymummy · 09/09/2017 22:03

I was trying to say what Doris said. But I waffled and she hit the nail on the head. Bravo Doris!

BewareOfDragons · 09/09/2017 22:04

Wow. Some friend.

LilQueenie · 09/09/2017 22:04

go to the shop sign up to the membership, get the item and discount then tell her it sounded such a good deal.

gillybombilly · 09/09/2017 22:05

No true friend would do that.

DorisDangleberry · 09/09/2017 22:06

yorkshireyummymummy I've probably had more wine than you, though! But still by what I said!

DorisDangleberry · 09/09/2017 22:07

Stand even!

simpaticasimpatica · 09/09/2017 22:07

No just no

MadMags · 09/09/2017 22:07

Have you already given her money??

arethereanyleftatall · 09/09/2017 22:07

In the interest of trying to see it from friends POV...
Did she pay a lot of money to be a member?
There's not many people who would ask for more than £20 in this situation, but I guess she could argue that £25 is 'fair'. She makes a fiver, you save one. Win, win?

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