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.

Glad Anne sending back for a refund. What a selfish idiot. Can you order the £500 version and use 20% off voucher that your other friend has?

You’re lovely friends, you really are. Anne is stupid as well as unbelievably manipulative. She’s really no loss. You’re also all brilliant for this:

The other member of the group then sent Anne her discount code for 20% off so she would be whole & we all thumbs upped that message (petty I know but we couldn’t resist)

Obviously when it comes to Anne’s birthday you must all send her the most generous discount codes you can find.

“What do you mean we’re tight for not spending money on you Anne? That code is potentially worth hundreds”

Question is, if the other friend had pulled this stunt and billed you all for £140, would Anne have happily paid it?

Question is, if the other friend had pulled this stunt and billed you all for £140, would Anne have happily paid it?

There's nothing a CF hates more than encountering another CF trying it on them. I remember reading on here some time ago about two quite new acquaintances who went out for a meal together, neither of them aware that the other was also a CF. What a joy to find they'd both deliberately 'forgotten' their wallets (as always) and ended up in serious trouble with the restaurant, rather than scooping the regular freebie that they'd been banking on

I think that you should have all got hold of a 20% off voucher and then sent them to CF as your share of the payment!

No, don't say this, it implies if you weren't on a tight budget you would pay. Just send the £112.

500 quid for a coffee machine??

You're all mental

Anne is a cheeky tw*t! Just all transfer the agreed amount. She can whistle for the rest.

Nothing to add to the discussion but I love your username, OP! One of my absolute favourite cartoons ever. No one else ever remembers it 😀

That is a brilliant outcome. Anne has been very silly here.

So because random old you couldn’t afford / justify it, the OP and her friends shouldn’t spend the money their friend who’s going through significant healthcare treatment?

That’s logical.

Put on the group chat something along the lines of
Option A: pay Anne £112 as was originally agreed.
Option B: Anne return item, other friend can use voucher and share the discount.
Option C: Anne return item and buy from site A.
With B&C, Anne will be forced to return the gift to pay her contribution. She's a CF

Wow....my jaw dropped reading this. QUEEN cf.

Oh, that is glorious

I'm lost for words with the update. Cheeky cow

You’re obviously not a coffee drinker.

I spent some inheritance on my machine. It is incredible. A lifelong investment. I use it so much.

And it’s something that their unwell friend will love. So I don’t think they’re mental at all. I think it’s wonderful.

So Anne pays nothing because you're all paying for Anne. Anne realises it's not her birthday and there can't not contribute? Because that's how she's behaving.
Why would anyone care she had a voucher unless it saved them money?
What's really bugging me is Anne took advantage to use her voucher to turn it from 20% off to 100% off. Not how vouchers work, Anne!

It sounds like an urban myth, though.

The skeptics me wonders - if only the two CFs were present at the dinner (which clearly they were, if no other mug was around to pick up the bill), which one of them then came onto MN to share the story of their very own CFness…..? 🤔

*skeptical

@StansRealityStruggle I remember Dark Water! I watched it as a child in eastern europe. Captain Planet too ☺️ Also enjoyed Ninja Turtles and Heidi 😃

How disgusting! Please, please transfer £112 even if it's the end of your friendship. People like her must not get away with such behaviour.

Agree, if you all do that what's she going to do? Fall out with you all? Anne is a CFer!

I'm glad you stood your ground. Anne is a CF of the highest order, and I agree that the friendship cannot continue after this.

Wow Anne, way to make the country hate you....