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Money Moral Dilemma: Who should pay for my non-refundable concert tickets?
Former_MSE_Nick
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This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks...
I bought a concert tickets for myself and a friend as a surprise birthday gift. Before booking I asked her to keep a specific date free for us, which she said she would. However she's just told me she has to go to a wedding then. The £100-a-pop tickets are non-refundable, and though I might be able to find someone to take her place the fact is I don't particularly like the band - I was going with her because it's her favourite and she's never been to a concert before. Should she pay for one or both of the tickets?
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I bought a concert tickets for myself and a friend as a surprise birthday gift. Before booking I asked her to keep a specific date free for us, which she said she would. However she's just told me she has to go to a wedding then. The £100-a-pop tickets are non-refundable, and though I might be able to find someone to take her place the fact is I don't particularly like the band - I was going with her because it's her favourite and she's never been to a concert before. Should she pay for one or both of the tickets?
This Money Moral Dilemma has come from the forum but has been edited and shortened so as to not identify the original poster.
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No, she shouldn't have to pay. But you should still give her one of the tickets.0
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No, its usually quite easy to sell the tickets on locally after advertising them on a website for the same price you paid. Weddings take priority as a commitment.
You don't have to watch a band you don't like and won't lose a penny.0 -
I would be horrified if I was asked to pay £200 for concert tickets given to me as a gift that I couldn't go to anyway! I do understand your frustration that she didn't keep the date free but still. I agree sell them onDF as at 30/12/16
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billbennett wrote: »No, she shouldn't have to pay. But you should still give her one of the tickets.
Why she can't go because she has a wedding to attend.
Sell both tickets on, if it was a surprise birthday gift she is not aware that tickets have been purchased. You just asked if she was available on a certain date, which she was at that time.Why pay full price when you may get it YS
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I don't know why this poster wants advice again - this 'problem' has already been posted about & she was told, time & time again to sell them.
However, she seemed more concerned with holding a grudge and ruining the friendship.
As per 2 weeks ago, sell them & she doesn't owe you any money.0 -
Oh come on MSE.
Stop recycling real threads0 -
Here's the original 8 page thread from about two weeks ago on this very board:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5311774
What's the point of rehashing the whole thing but with even less info to go on to provide help?0 -
Person_one wrote: »Here's the original 8 page thread from about two weeks ago on this very board:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5311774
What's the point of rehashing the whole thing but with even less info to go on to provide help?
What's the point of these posts in the first place???0 -
I refer the Honorable Member to the answer I gave some moments ago... well in the previous thread...
It's bad enough when an OP doesn't like the answers to their thread, and post again a few days later... seems MSE approves that so much, they'll repost for them!
Anyway, ...I'd take a different approach. You were going to take her, as a present. You didn't much like the band, so had effectively bought them just for her. Same as buying her some gloves, a bottle of perfume, whatever. She was to benefit.
So, give her the tickets. Let her sell them, if she chooses, and let her do what she chooses with the money. She may choose to give you some, or all. She may keep it. She may even end up going there with you.
It doesn't sound like you were that insistent on keeping that date clear, making plain that it HAD to be that date, and was a big expenditure. So, she didn't exactly choose the date of her friend's wedding either. She'd still have the embarrassing choice of upsetting you, or her friend.
She's poor. She's also your friend. She's offered a fix (finding someone to go with you, buy their ticket).
So, I'd give her both tickets anyway. If the gloves you'd bought her didn't fit, or she reacted to the perfume, you wouldn't expect to sell them to recoup your "loss". It was a present
Well, if MSE is going to rehash threads, I'm going to recycle my trashy answers!:rotfl:0 -
Deja vu :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Never again will the wolf get so close to my door :eek:0
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