Tis the season to be jolly, tra la la la la, la la la la. (changed title)

aliasojo

This is a rant!!! I am angry! I will not be writing in a calm fashion!

Stop reading now if you're offended by rants!!!!!

I haven't had anything to do with him in years but I'd forgotten just how much I hated him. :mad:

He's lived alone since we split 15 years ago, and is as tight as .....whatever the tightest thing is you can think of! So years of saving his money means he's absolutely loaded (middle one saw his bank statement one day).

He will spend money if it suits him but mostly he would make an excuse not to pay for something.

Anyway, eldest asked him for an Xbox 360. Very surprisingly, he agreed and said he would give him £200 to pay for it. Middle one is driving down to spend Xmas with us so it was arranged that he was going to pick up the cash and bring it with him.

So that eldest would have his new 'toy' for Xmas day, I bought the xbox and wrapped it as if it was from his Dad and put it under the tree. The agreement was that son gave me the money back when it arrived. The box was opened and the console checked and the game that came with it was given to someone else for Xmas as son already had it and he wanted to give the duplicate to a particular person.

Middle one has just phoned to say he's not picking up cash after all but an xbox 360. I thought he'd got that wrong so I phoned ex to clarify.

Ex agreed he had stated he was sending £200 cash but he said he changed his mind and bought the xbox instead. I asked why he didn't tell son the change of plans as we had already bought the xbox for him so he could have it to open.

'Oh well', says OH.

I don't even think it's the same version so I can't even try to take it back under my receipt. I can't take back the one I bought because it's been opened and split.

I'm £200 quid down just because I tried to make sure son had his present to open on Xmas morning and his Dad changed the goalposts without telling anyone. :mad: He's completely unconcerned and accepts no responsibility for the situation at all.

OH is going to hit the roof when he finds out. We've had years of ex being an uncommunicative and undependable !!!!!! but all has been uneventful over the last few years so we were lulled into a false sense of security. OH has been working every extra shift he can get, so we have extra money for Xmas and our debt. He's going to be less than pleased to hear we're out by £200.

AND my chilli burned whilst I was on the phone! Beans on flipping toast for tea!!

Aaaarrrgghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad: < Just feel like that!

j.e.j.

aw, how annoying. Can only suggest you put one or other of the xboxes on ebay, and see what you can get for it??

savemoney

Can you take it back to the shops, some shops will take things back

go_cat

Could you get the ex to send you the recipt for his ? / he takes it back - what a nightmare

I hope regardless of this you still have a lovely christmas

Gillyx

Can only echo what others have said, Ebay or try taking it back, but you may only get store credit. I know HMV/Game won't refund without a receipt.

I know it's hard Alias, but try and not let this spoil the rest of your Christmas. Your Ex has been an inconsiderate !!!!!hole but probably hadn't imagined you'd go out and buy one and just thought nothing of it. (I think it's a man thing, my dad was going on and on about a specific type of jacket he wanted last year, I go and buy it from one shop, and he bloody buys one from a different shop and then I find out I've lost my receipt, so had to get store credit for bloody Burtons)

Callie22

Ask the ex for the receipt for his xbox - say you need it for the guarantee (which you probably will), and just in case there are any issues. Then take it back, and use the cash towards the one you bought.

aliasojo

His receipt will be no good to me, it will have been paid for by his cc. Any refund will go back on his card.

robpw2

if you cannot get a refund you could always cash it in to crawl some money back

aliasojo

robpw2 wrote: »

if you cannot get a refund you could always cash it in to crawl some money back

Not sure what you mean by 'cash it in'?

YoungBaker

HMV are pretty good at taking stuff without receipts so you could give it a go there... failing that you need to take the hit - fire it on ebay and see what you get back (you'd be surprised might even do well!) and just remember it in future.

Valli

think he's (Rob's) suggesting cash converters.

It's a !!!!!! though - did you tell your ex you were buying one?

(((hugs))) you did your best to make sure middle had something to open. Well done for that!

Did you ask your ex how much he actually PAID out - bet it was less that £200;)