Should she replace it? Part 3

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I can’t believe we have a part 3 🤣 this has provided some lighthearted entertainment at a time where I’m feeling really let down by someone I considered a good friend. So thank you! I have posted an update on thread 2, will post it here also.

I have sent the following text message ‘Having reflected on what you have said, how the airwrap was lost/broken or otherwise is irrelevant. I considered asking you for pictures of the broken airwrap or asking to speak to your sister to ask her what happened but it will get us nowhere. All that matters is I am down a Dyson airwrap and I want a new replacement. You’ll need to either transfer me the £399 tonight to pay for this or purchase it yourself from boots and send me the email receipt this evening. You can then sort out with your sister whether she is going to contribute to the cost of it. We can then put this behind us’

I have no interest in maintaining the friendship after this for obvious reasons. I am worried that she’s seen the thread (how can she not have 🤣) and knows this fine well so will have no intention of replacing it sadly.

I don’t think I’ll ever get the truth (was there even a wedding at this rate?! 🤣) all that matters to me now is getting a replacement airwrap!!!!

From the original post:

Welcome to MN 😀

Longtime lurker and angelic Katy have given you very good advice on how to pursue a legal claim. I would check all their posts and follow their advice.

Can you filter to just OP posts on the app?

Just seen this message on another thread where someone is owed £400, suggesting taking them to small claims court:

Letter before action then small claims court.

Here's a template and how to do it all:
www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/letter/letter-before-small-claims-court-claim-aSFAC8Q6Jqan

Fuck her. What a bitch."

Act now- Tell her Boots deal gone, now it’s full price.

only making it worse for herself !

Wine spill story is lame.

Am assuming that even if the airwrap doesn’t function, she’d be able to return all the attachments?

@hoxtonbabe I'm on here from the US. Please explain tea leaf reference to me! It seems like something I need to know!

Tea leaf is Cockney Rhyming Slang for thief.

😂😂😂😂😂

Currys have one in the sale for £399

@Anythingyousay Yes. You see that little funnel picture top right? Click on that.

This is ludicrous

If i broke somebody's air wrap, id buy a new one immediately: confess as to what happened

A friendship is surely worth £500?

Ooh thanks for the tip, I'll try that

Could someone please put up a link to Part 2 as I can’t find it and don’t want to miss any of it!! Thanks

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5241986-should-she-replace-it-part-2?page=40&reply=141028164

If you were my friend I would replace them in a heartbeat......if I was in a bit of bother with money I would offer you a fair bit each month or buy one on a pay in 3........bad friend😔

The small claims info I’ve seen refers to companies - getting your money back due to bad service or a faulty product etc. Is there specific advice for OP regarding her own scenario - a friend keeping an expensive item and wilfully not returning it?

a charger, they probably assume costs only a few pounds and isn't worth chasing up. I know original chargers are very expensive, but replacements are pretty cheap. it's probably not worth their trouble to log which room every single forgotten charger was in

I'm with you. if it's previously been a good friendship, I'd maybe let it continue but with boundaries. you are not paying for her. you are not lending her anything. and she must know she's on thin ice.

I have a friend who really struggles with money and we help her whenever we can (sometimes can, sometimes can't) and we "lend" her money. she always says she'll pay us back, and we tell her, worry about your official debts before us. if you can ever afford to pay us back, we'll accept it, but right now, you need to pay your rent, electricity and have food. those are more important than paying us back money we know you probably can't pay back.

under these circumstances I'd completely understand cutting contact. if you DO want to continue, there need to be hard and fast boundaries. no, I'm not paying for that. no, I won't lend you anything, in case I don't get it back.
if it's a real friendship, she'll understand the new boundaries. if she doesn't, she was always using you

"friend" has recruited some minions, no doubt

It’s not just for companies. Anyone can put a claim for money in - against a company or a person.

I hope your friend is reading this because she’s a lying, pathetic piece of shit! What an absolute bitch! I’m angry for you. I can’t believe someone could be so low when you’ve acted in kindness by lending her your £500 airwrap for her wedding. Pathetic excuse of a human being. Unless her husband is like her, I doubt they’ll be married for long. I hear divorce bells.

New addition to my bingo card. The "friend" will acknowledge she read the thread and try to explain that she honestly was planning on returning it/replacing it, but now when she sees how you took it online, you don't deserve any hairdryer, because reading it took a shine of her wedding, or some bollocks along the same lines.

nope. if they can't afford to put it right straight away, they say what ACTUALLY happened, and give a time scale and a plan for when they can repay OP to replace it.

it's a lot of money. decent friends will understand if you can't just rummage in your bra and find the change.
but if she'd right away said. I let my sister use it, which was stupid of me, and she broke it, but we can pay you x amount each over the next few months for a replacement, then we'll do that.

OR she could have asked around her family to lend her £50 here, £50 there, and buy it, then pay THEM back.

Also important to note that the majority of posters, if not all, are with the OP on this matter, except of course the very few fake accounts that have recently popped up which have clearly been created by her manipulative ‘friend’ who has obviously been shamelessly reading this thread on MN.
Here’s a message for sticky fingers: You’re an absolutely pathetic, manipulative liar and a thief. Have some shame. Give her back her airwrap or pay her the £500.
OP you should really call the police as she’s stolen a £500 item from you which is of significant value. Enough with the niceties.