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.

LOL. That did occur to me. She actually made a profit.

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Anne is a canny cow!

The pile on?!

You're the one losing your shit because I changed my name out of humour.

Stay away from the classic threads, that would he overwhelming for you.

Anne thumbs up likes this

I'm out for lunch at the weekend, I've got a 241 voucher.... Totally doing this 😂

In reality, the 241 means we both pay half. Not that I get a freebie.

Hopefully Anne paid originally and you can all just pay her £112.

I’m here with the popcorn for @AnneDeluxe ’s comments. Thanks for entertaining me tonight :) a voucher of thanks is in the post.

@AnneDeluxe classic mm venom

I'm going to ignore you now. Feel free to continue to comment if you ahve anything to add to the OP's thread.

I need to know what the outcome of this is 🤣

I'll send you a thank you card, dear.

That will be 2 pound for the stamp and 29p for the portion of ink in my pen.

You'll never guess what they did, dear.

They only told me they expect me to pay the 112 pound as agreed! I was shocked and disappointed.

We could not return the gift so I have smashed it up and am currently dividing it in to 5 perfectly equal parts. I of course get 2 parts because it was my voucher. Shirley's getting nothing.

Anne is an opportunist biatch pulling a fast one!

She's probably used a loyalty card as well or something that she can get points on...

Transfer £112

My birthday day is every day, dear. I have had a birth and therefore it is my birth day every day, so I expect presents.

I do like some naked wine. I usually take a bottle of wine to my friends' houses, drink all their wine and then take my bottle back home.

Excellent idea.

Thanks.

Blimey, £700 on a gift though (before discounts).

Um, I'm not sure you really get MN

Almost unbelievable isnt it?

I’d transfer the £112 then screenshot the relevant message where the £112 was agreed in the group chat and say “I’ve transferred £112 to you as agreed before you bought the item” and leave it at that. Unbelievably cheeky of her!

It's not their fault, dear.

Hoblein has his Hans full as the resident fun police.

@TulaOfDarkWater , where have you gone dear?

Don't make me send another thumbs up.

You seem to have hijacked the thread, AnneDelux
Don't bloody milk it.

Quite right I have. Justice for Annes.