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.

I'd be wary of sending her any money to such a grabbing CF. How can you be sure she won't just keep the money and the gift or return the gift and keep all the monies?
She's not trustworthy.

What’s the gift?

I can’t believe Anne would think this was acceptable - she knew everyone said no to £140 pp so why would she think it she got it free everyone else would all of a sudden be happy to pay £140 !!!

Just call her out on it!

She is being ridiculous! Transfer £112 and definitely not anymore

Anne is very obviously BU.

I'd throw the 'The emoji was a mistake, that's not what I meant/I didn't read the messages properly' thing at her and put the ball in her court. I'd message on the group chat something along the lines of 'Oh dear, as Anne has said she's misunderstood what was agreed before she bought the [thing]. Since the rest of us all said we would only afford the luxury version if it was £12 more (not £40 more) we obviously need to either send this one back and buy the cheaper version or agree that Anne will chip in for the luxury one as well. Clearly this is getting a bit complicated so just to clarify, Anne- if we stick with the one you've bought we'll each pay you £112, if we send that back we'll each pay £100 towards the cheaper one. Anne- what do you want us to do?

Op do not send her any money say you have changed your mind. £140. Is more then you wanted to spend and you will buy a gift yourself. I hope every one else does this and cheeky fucking Anne learns a lesson not to play games

Anne is definitely a CF!

Tell her that that wasn't what was agreed. Ask her to return the item for a full refund and then get your other friend who has the same voucher to purchase the item and all contribute £112 as agreed. If the voucher has expired purchase the less luxury version and all put in £100 each instead.

"I didn't read the text properly" accompanied by a tinkly laugh is not a defence to honouring the agreement that was made in writing.

Cf totally

@TulaOfDarkWater So what are you going to do?

Just beyond cheeky

• not honouring

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!!

No doubt that's why she was so keen to push the idea, but she didn't come clean so now it's on her

As everyone's said just send the £112 and she'll have to sort it out, if necessary by returning the dearer item and re-ordering the first option

You have yourself there, a gold-plated cheeky fucker! Send £112 with a note 'as previously agreed'

So. What are you going to do OP?

I think this is literally the cheekiest CF I’ve ever read on here! I actually can’t believe it! Please update what happens OP 😂

This.

The other friend with the voucher needs to email it to Anne so she has lost nothing then you all send £112 as agreed.

Sorry YABU because you could have just replied instantly and said we agreed £112 each and screenshot the message and you'll send her that as agreed. Everyone else would do the same and if she complains and feels hard done by, that's her problem

Instead you post on here

Daily Mail article incoming

Transfer the £112.

What are the others saying?

Or send her the voucher as her payment 😂

So has the group chat just gone weirdly silent?

Wow, that is something else!

YABU for asking the question. Anne is clearly a twat.

All send her the 112. She either has to fall out with you, or tell your friend, and either way shes going to look like an arse.

She's an interesting woman for sure!

Anybody else fascinated to know what this item is?!