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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I ask the guest to replace my broken furniture?
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Former_MSE_Nick
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This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks...
I recently hosted a small gathering, and one of the guests brought a friend along that I'd not met before. He ended up breaking a unit that's not intended for sitting on, by, well, sitting on it. It's now unfixable - should I ask him to pay to replace it?
I recently hosted a small gathering, and one of the guests brought a friend along that I'd not met before. He ended up breaking a unit that's not intended for sitting on, by, well, sitting on it. It's now unfixable - should I ask him to pay to replace it?
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Hi Nic,
I would certainly broach the subject with your friend, see if they are aware of what happened. What's the worst that could happen? At the end of the day you are not a friend of your friends. If it was me that had broke your unit I would have come over and said to you I will get it repaired or replaced.
There is no reason you should have to pay for damages someone else has caused!
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Personally I couldn't, unless the damage was actually malicious rather than careless, e.g. if someone had been very drunk and vandalised my house. It seems to me that if someone is a guest in your house (albeit an uninvited friend-of-a-friend) you just have to grin and bear it.
Anyone know the poem "Sir Smasham Uppe"?!
http://monologues.co.uk/Childrens_Favourites/Smasham_Uppe.htm
ETA: I wouldn't be likely to invite the original guest back though!Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone —
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.Adam Lindsay Gordon0 -
I just have to ask, is he a lamp? Thats where the lamp sits
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I would write it off unless an expensive piece of furniture, the only time I charged a guest for damage was a woman who thought it was funny that her delightful offspring had pushed in my speaker cones.0
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Certainly not. Your house, your responsibility.Never again will the wolf get so close to my door :eek:0
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It would depend how expensive the unit was, but probably not. If someone had maliciously damaged something (or allowed their child to) I would certainly bill them, but not for an accident.sealed pot challenge 9 #0040
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If it wasn't valuable, who cares? If it was valuable, surely it would be covered by insurance?0
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You could try, but this stranger is going to laugh and not pay
Learn the lesson, do not invite strangers into your homeWith love, POSR
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No, it's unfortunate ... but that's what insurance is for.
It would, however, be nice if they offered to make reparations.GC - March 2024 -0 -
This is exactly the reason that you pay for home contents insurance (and so that you aren't faced with such awful made up moral dilemmas).
If I was your friend and you asked me to pay I would suspect that you were trying to profit from a mishap."When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0
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