To be slightly cheesed off re. friend booking holiday?

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Long story short:

Persons X and Y agree to go on holiday. They find a deal they like, at a price they agree to per person. Person X offers to book it, and person Y pays them back their half.

A few months later it turns out person X had 15% discount code on the total booking. Fair enough, the price person Y paid them
was the going (and pre-agreed) rate for the holiday... but AIBU in thinking that was some grade-A CF-ery by X basically claiming ~£150 cash back from Y?

Your friend is seriously weird, who wouldn't be delighted to pass on a saving to a friend? I'd be chuffed for both of us to get a discount!

How does your friend think this will now pan out? Does she think you will be impressed at her cunning or something? Because I'd be pissed off about it. She's pocketed some of your money!

Was the discount a voucher she was given as a gift or accumulated points or anything like that? Still strange x

That is just not what a true friend does. Full stop.

That's a really shit thing to do, I'd be so angry.

If the holiday company had a 50% off sale and the holiday was reduced from £1000 to £500, then would she make you pay £500 and she'd get a freebie holiday? Because a voucher code is no different to that. You charge the other person 50% of the purchase price, not 50% of the pre-discount price.

So they had you over for 15%?

That is a really shitty way to treat a friend.

It depends how she got the discount I think. If it was she’s spent a thousand pounds in the past to accumulate the discount through collecting air miles for example.
However, even then it should still really just be 15% cheaper and she saves anyway and you get to save too,
I would definitely ask for the money back of your share of the discount or ask her are you missing something?

Only exception might be if she got discount vouchers as a perk of work or something.

That's fine if, for example, she was given a £100 gift voucher for the travel company. So that's her money and she's entitled to use all of it to pay towards her share of the holiday if she wants.

But with a 15% off voucher, then she's not losing out by sharing it (unlike with a gift voucher). She's still getting 15% off her holiday. By splitting it the way she has she's given herself a 30% discount (which is something she's not entitled to). She's essentially stolen that money from her friend.

who wouldn't be delighted to pass on a saving to a friend? I'd be chuffed for both of us to get a discount!

Exactly!

I love finding/using discount codes for anything and everything, and if I can share them with someone else that's even better.

When a friend and I recently booked a joint holiday, I was thrilled to be able to say we could get X and Y discounts. Once they'd been applied, we then split the balance 50/50. It wouldn't have occurred to me to try and cheat my friend out of the money.

OP, in your shoes I wouldn't want to go on holiday with someone who was so keen to dupe me out of anything. At the very least I'd be wondering what other areas they were being untrustworthy in.

I’m glad it’s a unanimous YANBU!

That’s so harsh. The equivalent (lower value) example is someone having a pizza express voucher and only using it on their meal and not bringing a friend’s meal down too. For a holiday the sums are obviously far greater and it is hugely harsh to not split it.