This holiday situation

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I'm posting this on behalf of a family member as she wanted opinions on this situation. Two friends book a holiday (for the sake of this thread i will call them jane and Lisa) they agree that they will pay off £250 a month so that the holiday is paid off in time. Lisa keeps up with the payments but jane doesnt. lisa starts to worry and speaks to jane about it jane says she will pay it after christmas, which turns into after easter and basically keeps making excuses. Anyway 2 days before the holiday is due to be paid off Jane says she needs and extension and asks Lisa to call the holiday company (which she does and they agree to a 2 week extension.) Jane insists she wll be able to pay it off in the 2 weeks. During the 2 weeks Jane says she cant get the money and says she will get a pay day loan. She doesnt get one in the end and asks Lisa if she will loan her the money. lisa doesnt as she cant afford it, shee then asks Lisa if she has anyone who can take the place. With it being such short notice Lisa struggles to find someone but eventually does 48 hours before the deadline. Lisa tells the other friend she can have the holiday and pay off the reminder and just pay for a name change. Lisa tells Jane and Jane says she wants the other friend to pay her the money back which she had paid towards the holiday. Lisa tells Jane she has 3 options, which are she either comes on the holiday herself and finds a way to pay the remaining money, pays back the money Lisa will lose from the cancellation fees or accepts she will lose the money she had paid so far. Jane says she wants the money back in installments but the other friend has already said she wont be able to pay anymore than the out standing balance. so jane asks for it back in instalments. But the other friend is unwilling and is only able to accept the holiday at the out standing amount. Jane then says just do what you want and hasnt spoken to Lisa since. What are your opinions and who is wrong in this situation?

purplecorkheart Dont be silly. When told to pay up, Jane said do whatever you want. So Lisa did.

The alternative would have been small claims court to recover Lisa’s lost money due to Janes lies. Jane is lucky Lisa found someone to take over her debt.

Jane fucked up. She nearly ruinef the holiday for lisa too.

She loses everything.

The replacement gets a cheaper holiday but at short notice and not of her choosing.

Lisa should never make arrangements with Jane again.

Jane needs to fuck right off

She had countless opportunities to pay up. If you’re going through such financial difficulties, why are you commiting to going on holiday? What exactly did she think was going to happen to the remaining balance?

On the off chance that Jane takes Lisa to court over this, i very much doubt she would be successful considering the circumstances. Lisa has been very patient, and would have suffered a loss herself thanks to Jane

Jane is a fucking dick and I hate people like this. Fuck her.

Both Jane and the friend who has accepted Jane’s place are being ridiculous. The holiday must be paid for in full by the person who is going on the holiday. Either the third person pays Jane back or Jane pays the third person back. It’s a no brainer. Both are being really unfair to put Lisa is this position.

the holiday must be paid for in full by the person who is going on the holiday.
Why? Jane would have lost the whole lot anyway and so would Lisa. Lisa is not wrong. It would be morally nice if friend C offered a token payment to Jane as well as the money they've paid for the holiday.

Similar to this happened when I was younger. My best friend and I had booked a holiday (paid in full) she then got a boyfriend who conveniently booked and paid for a holiday for the two of them the same week (he didn't want her to go away without him, that relationship didn't last thankfully). I didn't want to go alone and if I'd cancelled would've lost all of my money. She offered to pay for me, (buy me out so I could go elsewhere with other friends) or said if I could find someone else to go at short notice she would cover the name change as it was her who had screwed the plans. Another friend was more than happy to go and insisted on paying the name change fees (about £75) as they were getting an otherwise free holiday. Jane is being unreasonable and should be grateful someone else is willing to pick up her outstanding bill for a fundal commitment she hasn't bothered to keep. What she's already paid is lost, of no one takes her place she's not going to get that money back either!

Jane is an arse and has quite rightly lost her £800 deposit. Tell Lisa she has done nothing wrong as it is entirely the fault of jane.

obviously Jane is been unreasonable...

However a holiday costing over 2 grand with someone so useless with money was a big gamble.

Friendship is now done regardless.