Cheeky Fucker - Group Gift

[TulaOfDarkWater]

Friendship group of six. One member has a birthday coming up & the other five people decided to get together & buy her a big ticket item.

Site A sells the item for £500 so £100 per person, everyone agreed & was happy with this.

Site B has a deluxe version for £700 so £140 per person, everyone agreed this was out of budget & unanimously decided to go with the £500 option from site A.

Just before the item could be purchased, a member of the group, let’s call her Anne, said she had a 20% off voucher for site B which was due to expire soon & it would be silly to waste it so how about we use it to buy the deluxe version & pay a little extra as birthday girl has had a shitty time of it lately etc.

In the group chat, we discussed:

£700 - 20% = £560

£560 / 5 = £112 per person

Anne thumbs up emoji liked this message!

Everyone agreed they could stretch to the £12 extra & it was decided that we would buy the deluxe item from Site B. The ONLY reason we agreed to this was due to the discount voucher, everyone was happy to purchase from site A otherwise.

Anne purchased the item using the voucher & sent everyone her bank details asking for £140. When this was queried, Anne said the 20% voucher represented her 1/5 contribution & so everyone else owes £140.

1. Anne knows the reason the £700 option was vetoed in the first place was because everyone - including Anne - agreed £140 was out of budget

1. At no time did Anne say the 20% voucher was her contribution & the rest of us had to pay full price. Another member of the group had the exact same voucher & we could have used hers if we had known

1. There are text messages where the group discussed the maths & agreed to £12 extra each & Anne did not dispute this & in fact thumbs up emoji’d it. Her excuse for this is she didn’t read the messages properly, the thumbs up was a mistake / she didn’t do it deliberately / know it was there & she is bad at maths anyway so tuned out!

So am I being unreasonable to think Anne is a cheeky fucker & deliberately mislead us? If we had stuck to the original plan then Anne would have had to pay £100 but this way she pays nothing & the rest of us an extra £40!!

Just to be clear, this voucher was one of those promotional email ones that are sent to those on the company’s mailing list, it wasn’t a voucher that had any monetary value or was a gift to her which would be different & like I said, another member had the exact same voucher which she was happy for us to use instead if we had known this is what Anne was doing.

What a horrible and mean thing to do to her friends !

She either sends it back and you all buy the £500 version or you simply send her £112

There is no way in hell I'd be sending her any more than £112, I would literally text "as agreed I've transferred you £112", her lack of reading comprehension does not constitute an obligation for you.

Cheeky cow.

Yes a total cf. I'd do as others have said and just send £112 and not discuss it with her further. Would be wary of that friendship from now on.

Obviously she’s a CF!

Either you all pay equally or she returns the gift and you rebuy the standard version (or the deluxe version with the other person’s voucher).

YANBU. That’s terrible behaviour.

Transfer her the £112 and if she queries it tell her to bugger off.

How is Anne not paying anything though? If she has just used the 20% for her bit, she must still be paying 112 for the 700 gift?

112 and kick Anne out of the what's app and real life friend group

She either sends it back and you all buy the £500 version or you simply send her £112

This.

You’re crazy if you do anything else.

What have the rest of the group said?

I don't understand why people jeopardise friendships for this kind of shit. Just be transparent, Anne

Sounds like she's done it as money may be tight.
She should have been up front with you all.
Send £112

Ask in the group chat if she’s joking .. this is probably the most cf story I’ve seen recently!

obviously, if she’s not joking tell her to return it and re-buy using the other persons voucher. She can contribute 140 to that gift if she likes 😂

Who are the 2% on here who have voted you are unreasonable?!

Anne-is that you???

Anne is a World Class CF!!!

Agree that you need to speak to the rest of the group and if nobody has paid yet then tell her to get a refund. If not, I wouldn't be sending her a single penny over the £112.

What the fuck why should she get out of contributing financially to the gift at all if your expense. Tell her to get fucked, I absolutely would NOT be putting up with this. I'd say "Na Anne, you don't get to get out of contributing due to a free money off voucher which we are all now 40 pounds out of pocket for. Are you having an actual laugh? Either contribute fairly and don't try making a fincial gain off the back of your friends or send it back and we will purchase option A."

True, but please someone explain how she can only have got the 20% off her portion?

When she’s put through one transaction for one item how does that even work?

OMG! Absolutely just send the £112 and make sure the others know you've done it. This is so awful that I actually think I would be reconsidering the entire relationship. I would not be able to see this person the same way again.

Anne is a CF of the highest order. I would be raging!!

P.S. is it a coffee machine?

Anne can fuck off, scamming cow.

Transfer £112.

She didn’t get 20% off her portion. She got 20% off the whole thing.

£700/5 is £140 - she’s taking the £140 discount as her paying her share.

So cheeky as fuck Anne pays £0 and everyone else pays £140.

Lynnthesearesexnotgenderpeople

How is Anne not paying anything though? If she has just used the 20% for her bit, she must still be paying 112 for the 700 gift?

£700 divided by 5 = £140 each

20% of £700 is £140

She feels that the application of the 20% voucher is her £140 contribution.

Obviously everyone who is not a CF feels that the discount was due to be spread across the group making the total price £560 across the 5 contributors, ie £112 each

Wow, incredibly CF, as it was a discount voucher, so your friend isn’t contributing anything then? The only reason she was able to use the voucher was because it was offset against the rest of the cost.
I would message back in the group and say that the calculation is clear from the texts and that everyone has agreed to and additional £12 which was written in black and white. So, it’s either a case of £112 per person, which was fair, otherwise the voucher user isn’t paying for the gift at all, or that she returns it, as other posters have suggested. How rude!

Agree

When frugality crosses into assholery. I have a friend who is like this and I absolutely refuse to do anything with them that involves money. One time said friend went out to dinner, ate a very expensive meal complete with 2 alcoholic beverages, and then informed everyone that they didn't have the money to pay for the food even though her husband makes more money than everyone in the group. We all refused and she had to call her husband and have him transfer money. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I wouldn't budge if I were you. I would either tell her to return the gift and exclude her from the future gift or just everyone send the 112.

This and everyone do this

Anne is a CF!!