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.

Kind of sad that somewhere there's a woman whos lost some great friends today.this will soon impact her hard.

Make sure you screenshot the chat because I have a feeling Anne will delete her messages from it and tell the birthday girl how awful you all are

Make sure you screenshot the chat because I have a feeling Anne will delete her messages from it and tell the birthday girl how awful you all are

i agree with the CF of the year award, I honestly can’t believe the nerve of Anne.

Loved your response of the discount code and thumbs up!

Honestly, this would be the end of my friendship with Anne. It's not cheeky, it's dishonest and underhand. There's no way I'd want someone like her as a friend.

Is Anne Rebekah Vardy?

So sad that Anne has exchanged a group of friends for the sake of £112. I hope she thinks it’s worth it.

The rest of you sound lovely and you’ve responded with grace both here, and to Anne.

It’s not easy when you’re hit sideways by such determined selfishness.

I’m an idiot, I still don’t understand this either, how can the 20% discount be just for part of the price? Isn’t it 20% off the whole price? Maybe I’m too autistic to understand this 😫

Just send £112 as agreed . Your friend is a massive CF

But how can she only use the voucher for part of the payment? That doesn’t make sense... I’m struggling to understand

Did you figure this out? Cause I’m curious and also can’t understand how that works, discount but only on part of the price 🤔

Anne’s got her maths wrong in the first place 😂

The voucher is 20% off the whole price, which is the equivalent of £140.

Everyone else pays £140 and with the voucher, it covers the entire cost.

However, if Anne had done what she said she was going to, she AND everyone else would have paid £112.

What a chancer. Pay £112 and advise the group to do the same.

That's the point - she has chosen to view the 20% discount as her 1/5 of the cost, instead of taking 20% off for all 5

@Sexnotgender @44PumpLane Ah thank you so much, I felt like I was back in school doing maths and panicking about not understanding 😫

That makes sense, of course. Except it just didn’t make sense to me how someone can be so absurd as Anne, so I thought I must be misunderstanding 😂

20% off = a 5th off. Anne has decided this 5th is her share. So the 560 remaining is to be divided between the other 4 people (£140pp).

She has not used the voucher on part of the payment or anything like that, she's just bought the item discounted at £560 and said that's for the rest of them to cover.

@Soubriquet @roofio Thank you, Anne’s maths is ridiculous and absurd, not mine 😃

Nope, you're not being an idiot. She was being a total chancer and claimed that the discount was her portion. So let's say the total price was £100. Without a discount, that would be £20 each.

20% discount makes the total £80 so any sensible person would agree that each person now owes £16. However, she claimed that because she used the discount code, that £20 reduction was her contribution and that everyone else should still pay £20 each. She was effectively charging the group £20 for using her discount code.

I’m an idiot, I still don’t understand this either, how can the 20% discount be just for part of the price? Isn’t it 20% off the whole price?

No, you're not an idiot - you're just too honest!!

Split between five of them, they would each pay 20% of whatever the whole price was, but it happened that the discount was for 20%. Therefore, Anne was expecting them to still be basing it on the original price and the other four paying 20% of that (so each paying 25% of the reduced price), with her 20% being supposedly covered by the generic, ubiquitous discount code that she wanted to use.

She wanted to treat it like it was an actual standalone voucher that, say, somebody had paid £140 to give her as a present; rather than the generic discount code available to anybody spending the requisite amount with them.

The 20% was never payable in any way by any of the friends - it was a promotional 'loss' borne by the retailer, which any normal decent friend would have applied as a joint freebie for them all to take advantage of, before splitting the remaining 80% five ways - meaning that they would all effectively pay 16% of the original price and each benefit from their share of the discount - 4% each.

@evtheria That’s beyond cheeky, it’s outright unhinged, to use a beloved word I learned on here 😂

My brain was having a hard time accepting that someone can be so brazenly corrupt... it’s as if people are learning from our Beloved Eternal Leaders, the worst role models for ethics ☹️

@OchonAgusOchonOh @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

😂 Is Anne a politician by any chance? Who else is so blatantly and shamelessly corrupt 🤔

Well at least you have one less birthday gift to factor in going forward!

@OchonAgusOchonOh @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Aw thank you so much for saying I’m not an idiot, I’m glad there’s still hope for me yet ☺️

I bet Anne is Cherie Blair.

I still remember reading a news article from when the Blairs were in Downing Street and they were visiting Australia. She went in a shop and the owner suggested that she and the children might like to choose an item each as a gift from him (whether this was his own idea or possibly 'suggested' by one of 'her people', who knows?).

Whereas most people in her position would politely decline at first and then, if 'pushed', might take a very cheap token item, she cleared out most of his shop and her assistant had to call for somebody to bring a van. Some people are just completely without shame.