Friend owes me money

lynzpower

Contractually speaking theres no way this debt could be passed to this so called freind. If that wee the case whats to say that any enemy of mine should pay my debt? Its not gonna happen

You need to write to your freind or email and say, look you are not bothered overly but your freindship is suffering. Lay it on thick, I would about shes obviously in dire straights of she cant afford to give you a pound a week, can you help her with her SOA etc Just cos shes got a conservatory certainly doesnt mean shes not short of cash, there plenty of people who get them on the never never isnt there?

GreyPilgrim

There was a quote I heard once which said "if you lend a friend £20 and never see them again, it's £20 well spent"

KatieKins

lynsayjane wrote:

why would you want to stay friends with someone who stole from you though? even if you had been friends for years, for her to treat you as such is blatently showing the quality of the friendship.

True. Nowadays I would be much tougher and not do it but at the time it was so hard when she kept saying 'look I don't have it, I'll pay you back soon etc' In the end its probably better she isn't a friend now!

lisa_75

Thanks for all the advice. I am going to phone the catalogue and see what they say.

climbgirl

AGB863 wrote:

In respect to how you are being treated, is there any outstanding balance due to the catalgue company in for the items she ordered? If so do not make any more payments and pass her details to the company concerned and ask them to chase for the remaining payments as she is refusing to make payments.

If not there is not a lot you can due about it except take her to the small claims court.

You can't do that, if the debt is in your name the company doesn't care who was meant to pay for it or who owes who money. The debt is in your name, legally it's yours I'm afraid.

climbgirl

I'd try and talk to her a bit more, it sounds like you're good friends, it'd be a shame to ruin it over money (equally a shame not to get your money back!). Perhaps visit in person if she's not answering calls. If that doesn't work I'd try and letter or email again saying that you're trying to be nice about this, you're willing to let her pay it off, for her not to be scared to talk about it.

If you get no response from that, take her to small claims court.

Verbatim

How did your call to the catalogue go Lisa? Hope they will take it over for you.

pin

While not as bad as your situation, I have had difficulties in the past over lending friends money.

See my thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=227218

msmicawber

Please chase her for the money as £150 is a lot of money to write off. She's already taken the trust out of the friendship by not paying then avoiding you, so don't feel bad about pursuing her for the money, or passing her details to the catalogue company if that's possible for you. Remember: the reason she can afford a conservatory may well be because she slides out of things.

I think it's an appalling abuse of your friendship to avoid paying and then make you feel bad about just asking for your money back.

lazy&indebt

I agree with everyone here - really lay it on thick to get your cash back and then never lend to anyone again! Unless you can afford to loose it...