Chairs given away have caused damage, who should pay?

[FirstNameSurname]

Last year I was given a dining table and due to lockdown I brought the cheapest chairs online to make the table usable. I used them all year for homeschooling, meals etc they have been well used. Metal legs are a bit rocky etc so I went shopping now we can and brought replacements.
Chatting to a friend I mentioned mutual friend was helping me take a load to the skip. Friend asked what I was taking and I said the chairs. Friend asked for the chairs. I explained they were a bit grubby and rocky and were the ones I got last year cheap online so didn't think they were worth the trip to hers for her to then need to skip them soon. She said she still wanted them, so I dropped them off to her about 3 weeks ago.

This morning she messages me to say the chairs have cut circles in the lino. I apologised and said that I was sorry I should have just skipped them when I planned to. She has come back saying I should have known and shes not happy. I called her and explained that on my tiled floor it wasn't something I noticed. Shes replied it was the tiles that have caused the plastic ends to push into the leg exposing the metal leg and caused the problem. Just as I said my goodbyes she said "well you'll need to replace the lino before I move out else you'll need to give me the money I loose on my deposit" and hung up. I've text to say she asked for the chairs knowing they were in a poor condition so I can't give her anything to replace the lino. Shes now blocked me.

So who should pay?

Wow! Well at least you now have one less "friend", who is absolutely mad as a box of frogs.

She is a complete CF. It's fab she blocked you. Forget about her and move on.

She's being ridiculous. If she unblocks you, just block her back. You don't need a CF 'friend' like that.

She hasn't got a leg to stand on now.. The cheek of her !

What everyone else said + if she had actually cleaned her free chairs, she should have noticed the worn parts and paid pennies for replacement covers.

By her logic if someone broke in and hit her over the head with one of those chairs, you should go to jail for providing the weapon 😂

Shoe stores don't pay for repairs to floors ruined by stiletto heels do they.

Bloody hell how do some people get through the day. A friend once gave a bike away for free on facebook making it very clear it was rideable but hadn't been serviced. The person came back 4 months later sayng they'd spent £50 doing the bike up but it still wasn't up to standard and they wanted her to refund them. CFers.

She needs to pay. Not your problem.

Your friend pays

Cheeky cow! You told her they were no good yet she insisted!!

Lino is notorious for being easily damaged, but it's cheap, that's why landlords use it, it can be replaced really cheaply between tenants. My landlord wouldn't charge me for Lino damage because they would have replaced it anyway.

She's being a CF and you've done nothing wrong. If her LL is that much of a tyrant she should definitely have checked. You said the chairs were wobbly, metal chairs, seems fairly obvious to assume that the end have come of some of the legs tbh.

Sounds like you're better off out of it.

I can’t believe you even needed to come on here to ask. Your friend is being absolutely ridiculous.

She pays. If you want stuff effectively out of a skip, you check it first. She is being extremely cheeky.

She's ridiculous.
She asked for your chairs and you told her they were grotty
This is on her.

You owe her nothing.

Tell her you'll give her a full refund on the chairs.

They are her chairs not yours.
Her choice to stop them going in a skip- her problem! CF!!

Not your problem, she could have bought cushioned feet to mitigate it.

@DustyMaiden

Tell her you will give her a full refund.

I like this one!

Actually OP, even if you had sold her the chairs she still wouldn’t have had any redress because caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) applies. Even I you hadn’t warned her that the chairs were a bit knackered, she would have had no redress. But you know that already, right?

Years ago I was the lodger of a woman who tried to charge me £90 (in 1993) to re-cover some awful old patterned velour tasselled armchair that her granny had given her. Reason: the back of the chair had rested against a radiator and had a couple of barely-distinguishable grooves on it, in the patterned velour, and either I or somebody I knew must be responsible for the outrageous damage that nobody would ever see. No chance! Your friend sounds like the same type: trying to squeeze money out of friends and acquaintances by guilting them.

@romdowa

Surely in the last year she must have noticed the exposed metal and the marks to the lino? It hardly takes a genius to figure out what will happen. I'd tell her to jog on anyway

She’s only had them three weeks. FFS, it’s in the OP!

She is rude. She wants your free chairs delivered and now she wants you to buy her a new floor. Away on with her.

Not you. So unreasonable - tell her to get legal advice (an pay herself!).

Clearly it’s not your fault and you shouldn’t pay.

But as you say she doesn’t have much money, I’d put her completely irrational behaviour down to being completely desperate financially. Not a good enough reason but it explains it. If money wasn’t an issue, she’d never have mentioned it.

Crazy, no of course not. Don't give her anymore time if day

Biggest cf of all
Time . She ain’t no friend of yours .

Not you for sure.