Gift voucher

[NotPennysBoat]

Not the most exciting of topics but please settle an argument for me. This is between DP and I, but I won't say who's who at this point!

'A' received a £20 voucher for a recent birthday, for a shop they wouldn't normally buy from. However they could always buy 'something' from said shop but it would be probably be for the sake of spending the voucher rather than something they actually want.

'B' wants to buy a voucher for a gift for someone else. Budget is £15 and recipient would be right sort of demographic for said shop. B offers A £15 for the voucher so they get to spend the cash on whatever they want.

A thinks B is a cheeky git. B thinks they are doing A a favour. Who IBU?

B should pay £20

The rule of selling gift cards is to offer them for less than face value or what’s the point in the buyer buying them?

But B wants it more than A so they should pay full price

B is doing A a favour.

Seems reasonable to me. A gets £15 worth of stuff they actually want, and B gets a £20 voucher for £15. But whether you are A or B, you can still choose - do the deal or not, but don't whinge about it. If A turns it down, neither of you are worse off.

B isn’t being cheeky 🤔 A doesn’t have to sell the voucher.

B can go into the store and get a £15 voucher for their budget and A can buy some crap they don’t want 👍🏻

personally if I didn't want the voucher I would just give it to my DP
If you were selling it to someone else then yes would expect to pay lower than it's actually worth otherwise I'd just buy one myself

B is doing A the favour. There is no advantage to B to buy it for face value especially as more than they planned to spend.

Oh, FFS, I missed that it's your DP. Just give him the voucher and then let him pay next time you go out for dinner. Life's way too short for this kind of pettiness.

Just give it to your DP or vice versa!!!!

Partners? Fuck it. Give the voucher for 15. Meh.

Also hadn't realised it is your DP, surely these things balance out over time?

I'd just give DP the voucher.

But in this situation, B is doing A a favour. B could just go and buy the voucher for £15 and leave A with a voucher they'd buy something for the sake of it.

Just asked DH, he said he would just give me the voucher. I'd do the same. Family money and all that 😇

It's £20. I would just give dp the voucher.

But B wants it more than A so they should pay full price

B doesn't necessarily want it at all. B is offering to take it off A's hands for £15. A doesn't have to accept.

It wouldn't cross my mind to argue over a 5er.

Having said that I'd probably just give B the voucher anyway. If it was a long term partner.

It’s a good enough deal. £15 on what you really want is better than £20 on what you don’t particularly.

BUT - that would be my reasoning if I was eBaying it!

From my boyfriend? I’d expect him to just swap it with me for £20. Although I’d probably just give him the voucher.

If it was my dp, I’d just give it to them. If I were selling it on eBay for example, I’d sell it for £15.

My mum was in a similar situation. I think her friend gave her full price for the voucher.

A should accept £15. They don't want the voucher. Who on earth would not prefer £15 hard cash they can spend on anything they want as opposed to £20 worth of something they don't want?

I thought this was about young teens. It's your dp for goodness sake, just give him the voucher

Yep A should give B the voucher as A doesn't really want it and B could use it and you are partners! Failing that A would be well advised to take the £15 as it's only worth £15 to B and it will buy A £15 of things they actually want v £20 of things they don't.

We have bought book tokens from ds3 before now - he simply isn’t a reader (my biggest parenting failure) and his grandfather used to send them all book tokens. I always gave him face value - it wouldn’t be fair or right to do anything different, imo.