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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Washing machine gate!

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Ihatehashtags · 21/05/2019 06:29

Okay so I don’t think I am being unreasonable but here goes.

I’m a student and a girl on my course is a single parent with limited finance. Her washing machine broke down and she was talking about having to apply for a student loan but wasn’t sure she could get one.

I said to her she was welcome to have our old washing machine which works perfectly as we just bought a front loader (quite generous I thought) . She said that would be great.

No thank you, I appreciate it or anything but whatever.

Fast forward 1 week, she brings up the washing machine and says ( her exact words) “okay so i was thinking I’ll just need you to pick up my old one, dump it somewhere, then pick up the new one and help me get it into my house”

I was honestly stunned! She lives 30 minutes from me, we have no trailer and have already given her a $1500 washing machine for free and she assumes I’m going to sort it all out for her!!

I then told her we didn’t have a trailer and then the CF asked me if any of my friends did! I was by then really pissed off and told her she’d need to sort that herself if she wanted the machine.

I felt furious! AIBU?? Surely I’m not.

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Gwenhwyfar · 21/05/2019 07:24

To be fair, how do you expect someone on a low income to transport the washing machine on her own?
When you buy one from a shop it's delivered isn't it? I would also have no clue how to transport and plumb in a washing machine.

nc100 · 21/05/2019 07:29

I don't know, seems relevant to you as you've mentioned it a few times.

But I'm just shocked that anyone would pay that much for a second hand washing machine. Especially as they only seem to have around 5 years life in them.

In the UK a second hand washing machine would be cheap as chips

Namechangeforthiscancershit · 21/05/2019 07:43

In the UK this would probably be worth a bit less than hiring a trailer. Amazing that the machine is worth $1,000 second hand!

stucknoue · 21/05/2019 08:00

Sorry but what washing machine costs $2000 (or $1000 for that matter!) you can buy brand new delivered for £160 and for an extra £20 they take the old one away! Are you in the outback or something? She sounds ungrateful I would just say pick it up by x date or you are selling it

SaskiaRembrandt · 21/05/2019 08:07

People questioning the price - you are aware that it is Australian dollars? The exchange rate fluctuates, but off the top of my head $1500 aus is £700-800. So it's not a cheap machine but certainly not ridiculously overpriced.

OP, YANBU. She needs to hire a van to move it and contact someone (local council?) to come and take the old one away, or store that somewhere until she can move it herself.

nc100 · 21/05/2019 08:11

I'm aware of the exchange rate. And 800 quid is ridiculously overpriced for a second hand washing machine. According to both me and gumtree.au.

But no, I wouldn't be delivering it to her. Just tell her X date or you're selling it

SaskiaRembrandt · 21/05/2019 08:13

Where did the OP say that was the secondhand price? She says it's a $1500 machine.

gamerchick · 21/05/2019 08:29

There's something about washing machines that brings out the CF in people

Tell her the machines there when she's sorted out someone to pick it up.

Treaclesweet · 21/05/2019 08:30

Why would it cost that much money? What else does it do? I got a second hand machine for £50, delivered and plumbed in for me.

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Ihatehashtags · 21/05/2019 08:34

Omg everyone I’m giving it to her for free!!! Please read the thread!!! I don’t care about the price but what I was saying is that if you are being given an expensive item free of charge, it’s not unreasonable to say thank you and to make arrangements to pick it up!! That is al!

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Skittlesandbeer · 21/05/2019 08:42

Prices of 2nd machines aside (and yes, that seems a little on the high side. 2nd hand Aussie market isn’t that pricey, even for known brands),
this is CFery to me. And I’m not going to shout PPs down for suggesting it’s a millennial thing too.

No way do you ask someone who has already offered so much out of kindness to double-down their offer and sort the whole thing as though they are their Mum, their Dad and Uncle Barry with the van all wrapped up. Sheeesh!

By 29 you should have your shit sorted out far more, or at least acknowledge that you need OTT help and ask for advice rather than a door-to-door service. Somewhere along the line that girl’s parents have a bit to answer for.

ScotsinOz · 21/05/2019 08:44

Your friend can call a scrap man who will collect it for free. She will have to find someone with a trailer and towbar or pay someone to collect it from you.

As for plumbing it - it’s as simple as screwing the hoses to the laundry taps and putting the hose into little hole on the side of the laundry sink - not exactly hard!

Personally, I wouldn’t take a free second hand machine - it’s likely to have problems from about 5 years onwards and cost more to fix than replace, so she would be better getting a new one on an interest free deal (Good Guys, Harvey’s, JB’s) and paying it off monthly if she cannot afford the money up front. If she takes your machine and it starts to cost her money to repair, you will never hear the end of it.

Aprillygirl · 21/05/2019 08:48

I'm more concerned about where she expected you to just 'dump' her old machine! Apart from that I agree she sounds rude and entitled OP. It's one thing to ask nicely for help but to demand it is a different matter entirely. YANBU.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/05/2019 09:10

OP - YANBU

The machine is in good working order and it will cost her the price of a Man with a Van.

If she was buying a new one - even a cheap one - it would be more than that.

You've offered it - it isn't your responsibility to transport it or plumb it in. If she wants that done "free", she will have to buy a new one where it is included in the price.

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