To be fuming at this cheeky fucker?!

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So I let an acquaintance borrow one of the slings from my embarrassingly large collection a while ago. Made it clear that I’d be wanting it back.
Fast forward a few months and I’m expecting another baby, so will be needing it. It one of the few on the market with a lower weight limit for tiny babies (suitable from 5lbs) and I make small babies, which is why it’s this specific sling I’ll be wanting for my new baby.
Asked the other day about getting it back, and she said “oh it’s I’ve packed it away somewhere but will look.”
Mentioned it to another friend who also knows her and said she’s pretty sure that it was being advertised on a Facebook selling site a while back
AIBU to call her out on it, and expect either my sling back or the money to replace it?!
Who does that? Borrows something from a friend and then flogs it on the sly?!!

Yeah it needs to be the cost of a new one. Send a link for a new one to her dh, send a screenshot of her selling post to her...

So justice of a kind has been done OP, her poor DH must be squirming. It was the pinnacle of CheekyFuckery.

R.e. Placemarking I'm with Scafell, it's easier and quicker that's all I'm thinking about when I do it. Not sure how it's attention seeking.

Glad that you're getting the money back op.

I had a small baby (5.9) and I used a fabric wrap around sling, can't remember the name, but it was basically a long piece of jersey type material that you wrapped round you and the baby was tucked inside with their feet tucked up to start with. When they were bigger, their feet hung down more. I'm sure it didn't cost as much as £60, but this was a few years ago now and maybe you already have one of this type in your sling collection.

She is indeed a CF. I hope you get the full £60.

Is it a Wilkinet sling?

I would send a screenshot of the sling and the cost to buy new so they know how much they need to send.

Wrybread it's an NCT close caboo

Hopefully you get paid

Send link to sling & write in message total it will cost (include delivery). Do not accept any less. And still message her to say you're disappointed, it's still extra work for you unless she buys it & delivers it back to you.

Good luck

Some people are just unbelievable! Looking forward to hearing her response, OP!

I'd love to know her logic behind this. You made it clear it was a loan, so she decided to sell it anyway. Then she/her DH is having to pay you back so you can buy a new one so in the end, she's lost out Did she honestly think she'd never get found out?!

Her husband is probably nervous about this getting out at his workplace if he doesn't just sort it.

He must be really pissed off with his wife for selling something that's not hers for £10 which he's now having to fork out £60 for.

But the fact that he's done it so willingly makes me think he's resigned to being married to someone who's both not very bright and a bit of a knob.

It’s a coincidence though isn’t it?

That you asked for it back just as she decided to sell it -
Literally same day?

After she must have had it for several months?

Who gives a fuck whether people placemark with a comment or bookmark?! hmm

The difference is that, if you bookmark/click on 'watch this thread', it enables you to manage your own MN use for yourself without forcing everybody else to get involved. You might think it's only one post, but if everybody did it, threads would get very boring and nobody would trawl through all of the self-indulgent posts to read the occasional relevant posts about the topic in question.

Therefore, if lots of people dilute an otherwise very interesting CF/parking/selfish DH/DC issue/toxic MIL/etc. thread by hijacking and effectively turning it into a deeply dull 'who likes to placemark?' thread, it will cease to be an interesting thread as people will soon get bored of it and stop posting altogether.

It's a bit like being at the theatre and needing to make an important urgent phone call, but instead of discreetly going out to the lobby to do it, whipping out your phone, putting it on loudspeaker and conversing at the top of your voice for 5 minutes in the middle of the dress circle.

Or at the very least, it's like those people on FB selling pages who, instead of messaging 'Hi X, is this still available please? I'd be very interested' just instantly slap a big 'MINE!' underneath the offer post.

It’s a coincidence though isn’t it?

That you asked for it back just as she decided to sell it -
Literally same day?

After she must have had it for several months?

I might have misunderstood, but I read it that, when the OP mentioned to a friend that she'd asked for it back and the colleague hadn't been forthcoming, that prompted the friend to recall having already seen it up for sale on the colleague's FB page. i.e. the colleague might have kept it for 6 extra months after she needed it for her baby, wrongly figuring that the OP would have forgotten about it by then; but then, 2 months after that, the OP, who clearly HADN'T forgotten, asked for it back.

Sorry, partial bold-fail there.

£50 received and a massive apology from her DH. He seems pretty embarrassed by it all - not that it’s him who should be apologising!
She’s clearly mortified that she’s been caught out as we’ve not heard a peep from her.
Done and dusted now, I’ll be cutting her off and buying myself a spanking new sling!

WeBuilt - I used to use the 'watch' function a lot until i realised the Watch page sorts threads by date you've 'watched' instead of latest update. If a thread I was watching last month gets updated, I'll never know it, because it's hidden on page 2 behind a load of new threads I'm watching.

In contrast, 'I'm on' gets sorted by most recent updates, so I don't miss anything.

...or maybe my settings are just weird?

I can’t believe she hasn’t said anything, a ‘sorry’ would be a good start!

So pleased for your outcome op, so many people just let it slide.

While I'm glad her DH has sorted it I'm shocked she hasn't even messaged you, the cheeky cow. You'd think she'd have said 'OP I'm bloody mortified i just realised I've sold the sling, so sorry. DH is sending you the money for a new one' even if it was stretching the truth!

I'd have to send her a message about it, no way could I just let that sort of shit lie. A 'thanks for getting DH to sort it, what a shame you couldn't have just been honest with me when I asked you' message.

She is breathtakingly rude!

Glad her dh is a decent sort having paid up. If you think this will be your last baby sell all your bits on, don't lend anymore.

Very glad to read that you've been paid, even if he's split the difference between what you paid in the sale, and what it actually costs.

But at least it's not just £10, so good job.

I bet she is totally mortified and was wondering if you were going to take it further, and that's why she's handed it over to he DH. At least, as has been said, he's a decent sort.

Maybe her DH is expecting her to give you the missing £10 in cash from her sale?

We need updates if she ever gets in touch after this!!!!