Gig Tickets Bought For A Friend.

Michelle323

HI All,

This is the first time I have posted so I hope its in the right place.

I am after a bit of advice and would really appreciate any help.

In March I bought a friend 2 Tickets to a music festival, although she didnt ask me to buy the tickets she has said previously she really wanted to go and couldnt get any the day they went on sale. I bought 2 tickets for her as i thought she was a friend and i didnt want to see her disappointed. The following day i told her i had bought them and she said she would buy them off me. The festival is this weekend and she has now decided she cant go and is refusing to pay me back for the tickets. I am currently trying to sell the tickets but am not having much luck. I have had dealings with her mum over the tickets, the girl is 21 by the way, and her mum has agreed to pay for the tickets all along or pay for the difference if i sold them at a reduced cost. I have emails and texts from both these people asking how much they owe, stating they will give me the money etc etc but they are both now ignoring me. Do I have a legal leg to stand on as they have agreed to pay at some point? Does this constitute a verbal contract? If so, what should I do next.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated, or alternatively if you want to buy the tickets that would help too lol :rotfl:!!!

Michelle

chesky369

In the end, you could indeed take your friend to the small claims court but when you got there, it would be a fine point as to whether or not you had a contract, as you bought the tickets BEFORE asking your friend if she definitely wanted to go - and you bought two!! Were you hoping to go with her? I know she agreed to buy them from you but that was after the fact. Not sure of the answer but, unless it's hundreds of pounds, draw a line and learn from experience.

Malky

Sorry but this is only going to end up in tears.
First off, your friend didn't ask you to buy tickets. You did that off your own back.
Secondly, your friend offered to buy them but has changed her mind. Disappointing yes but no big deal in the large scheme of things.
Thirdly, how would you be able to prove in court (if it was ever going to get that far) that the tickets were bought for your friend when she didn't ask you to buy them?
It also sounds like you couldn't really afford them in the first place hence asking your friend for the money although you seem to have left it a little late?

masterlumps

i wouldnt of thought going down the legal rote with a 'friend' would really be a good idea, it will only end in tears, most probab;y yours. you have to ask yourself do you want to remain friends with this person first off, she must of been a good freind for you to buy tickets off your own back for her so is it worth losing a freindship over?
i dont think she has any obligation to buy the tickets at all, but why on earth did you wait until the week of the festival to sell her them when you have had them since march? too late now i know but had you of sold them back then it would of been her problem not yours

somethingcorporate

The assumption that a judge would take is that without documentary evidence to the contrary that this was a social arrangement and not a contractual one.

Hence you will get nowhere with it.

Sorry!