Should she replace it? Part 2

[Langarg]

Starting the new thread ahead of hopefully having an update soon!

Time to take it to small claims on principle I would say. Let’s face it, you’re not going to get it back off this freeloading cheeky bitch so maybe if she knows you’re serious about it she might take more notice.

Agreed. She can borrow money from her husband and sister and whoever else.

Send her a link to the website and say you want it replacing within 48 hrs as youve got an event coming up. Put the pressure on. Shes done fuck all about it the past few weeks

So she's cheeky af and also a compulsive liar!
Seriously, the second that airwrap is in your hands and you've checked that it's new and in full working order, cut her out of your life for good. (Also demand the receipt with the airwrap)

I'm only surmising, but what if the money her sister contributed to the wedding was not a gift, but a loan?

What if 'friend' told her she could have the Air Wrap as payment for some/all of the money that she stumped up - and then just hoped she could get away with a few lies and blustering sob story to avoid having to give it back to OP?

I can't believe the speed of the posts are coming in, we're all so invested in the @Langarg getting her Airwrap!

I'll give you a tenner for it. As it happens, I promised a friend that I'd get her one. Presume the box still looks reasonably new, doesn't it........

Well, I definitely lost - I was wrong on both counts.

I know, right? But is this thread really true? Maybe OP works in the Dyson Airwrap PR Department. I don't use hair dryers but now even I want one!! Gripping stuff.

Wow! I've been following this thread with interest! Please, OP, make sure she gives you the money. You would have no way of knowing if any replacement she were to buy you would be from a reputable retailer, and not a dangerous counterfeit. She had no right to lend out your property to someone else, if that's even what happened. Who bloody knows now! As others have said, it's kind of irrelevant. You just need your money for your replacement and then cut her loose as a 'friend'. And she should be giving you the money now not tomorrow. She's stringing this out for so long already.

Whenever there is an elaborate story there is usually lies. For fuck sake.

She could still be lying but what an absolute bitch to actually go along with a fake story like that. That's just awful.

Get her to replace it and cut this woman out of your life for good. How can you ever trust her to tell you the truth again?!?!

If she HAD JUST TOLD THE TRUTH there may have been more understanding or you may have given her more time.

She replaces it now. No other option.

I would cut ties OP. I've known liars like this and I promise you they will do this sory of shit again and again and again.

she said that she couldn’t afford to replace or give me the money for it. She then sent me a link to a post on Facebook marketplace of someone selling an older model for £150 and said that if I buy that she can pay me back in 3 monthly instalments.

Out of everything, OP, and there's a lot.

The above is the one bit I wouldn't be able to get over if it were my friendship.

She was prepared to see you either out of pocket or with a second hand cast off, and only cared about the impact it had on her.

She's shown you who she is, I'd be leaving her in the dust once you have it back tbh.

A selfish, selfish woman.

I bet if you asked to see the 'broken' Airwrap and/or its box, the camera on her phone would be broken. If you asked to speak to the sister, she'll have just been rushed into hospital. If you wanted to go round to collect the moment, she'd have a family emergency to deal with.

Lies lies lies, the whole lot of it. I'd be starting the claim right now.

Indeed. Her new DH would be well advised to make a couple of copies of their wedding video and keep them in a safe somewhere.

A compulsive liar like that could later come out and deny point-blank that she ever made any of the vows to him that she did!

This women is a grifter, she wont pay up & the OP has no way of making her.

Tell her if the cash is not in your account tonight in full, you and your DH will be round to visit her DH tomorrow to discuss how this will be resolved. And then follow though.

So while she was telling YOU that you'd taken the shine off her wedding, trying to guilt you in to dropping the matter, she knew that it wasn't in the hotel at all. What a conniving monster. Remind her of how she tried to turn it on you.

@Langarg even if what she’s now said IS the truth (which I think is such bullshit) then this friendship should definitely be over because she’s got such little respect for you that she lied and delayed in the first place. Whatever happened, she’s a total loser. I’d take her to court on principle and get rid of her out of your life after.

Talk about throwing her sister under the bus!! I think it’s total bullshit and she’s trying to save her reputation amongst mutual friends. Whether it’s true or not, she has majorly fucked up. You don’t lend out £500 items that don’t belong to you in the first place. I don’t think you’ll ever know the truth for certain , and at this point maybe it doesn’t even matter.

friendship over. Ex friend needs to produce a brand new airwrap ASAP

Preferably on her lovely cream fabric sofa

Blimey, the amount of time she’s been finding people to blame (hotel workers, sister, probably the dog next) she could have got a part time job to pay for the bleedin’ thing!

No way!!!!

Well, whether that's the truth or not (and she has already lied so who knows), it doesn't really make a difference. She owes you a new one. I'm glad she's agreed.

Have you checked Facebook for it ? There’s about 10 blue boxes air wraps for sale in the UK and one that was bought 1 year ago and has a warranty that expires in December. Not saying any of these people have stolen, but they may be unwittingly selling it on her behalf ?

It’s more than a lie to two, it’s a complete con job. I mean at this point you almost have enough material for your own Netflix documentary. She even had you sitting on the edge of you seat and checking the weather, to see if she’d be going to the hotel.

I’m wondering if drugs are involved, it feels like that sort of behaviour.

What a load of bs! Maybe her sister did take it home , or maybe not, whatever the truth, that is not relevant to you. You loaned it to her in good faith and it was her responsibility to return asap. Be wary of accepting less than £500, the offers may run out before you can order one.

He needs to stand up for himself more considering she blamed it on him the first time.