Real life MMD: Should I pay for a broken teapot?

purple.sarah

If you knocked the teapot off the shelf at the shop you should expect to pay, if you knocked the teapot off the shelf at your friend's house you should expect to pay. Why should it be any different because you dropped it in between the two?

bogwart

I'm afraid you don't have a leg to stand on. Whatever the reasons why you bought it, you dropped it and the loss is yours. An expensive lesson, but I don't see how you can expect your friend to pay for something you have broken.

philostat

There are restorers who will, for far less than £95, make an excellent job of putting the teapot back together again & without anybody but an expert being able to detect the repair. If your friend was buying the teapot just for his own satisfaction & not for resale, this should satisfy him & for which, given your circumstances, he should be happy to cough up the £95.

maryb

I would pay if I had asked a friend to do me a favour who couldn't afford it. I just couldn't bear to think how sick with worry about the money they must be feeling. Then I would be very cross with myself for asking the clumsy idiot in the first place:rotfl:

tootsie84

If you were a good friend, your friend wouldn't know that you had broken the teapot as you would have bought another one and they would have been none the wiser. Money doesn't come into it.

happyinflorida

I'm amazed at the answers here - all saying you broke it, you should pay. This student - who would not have bought a £95 teapot as they couldn't afford it, only bought it for this so called friend as a favour. If it was broken due to an accident that could have been prevented, ie buyer of teapot was stupid, the friend should pay half, if it was a pure accident - then the "friend" who's in a well paid job can damn well pay for it as they say they're a friend.

I'd seriously reconsider if this person really is a friend as I can honestly say that whilst you're a hard up student if this is how this person is treating you, they are most definately not a friend in my opinion and I wouldn't want to be friends with someone as rotten as they are.

florere

You were doing him a favour and you had an accident, if he had not asked you to buy it for him (why) this problem would not exist, half and half.

Dan_Thunder

Sorry but I'm of the view that you broke it so you should pay for it.

It doesn't matter how the teapot was broken, the fact is it got broken because of something the OP did or didn't do.

If the OP had bought the teapot taken it to his friends house and placed on the kitchen side and then, whilst his friend went upstairs to get the money, the OP somehow managed to accidentally knock it off the side and smash it then those responsibility would it be? Should the friend then give the person the money or even half of it just because they're clumsy?

As a former student myself I know how tight money can be but let's be honest, your friend asked you to buy the teapot in what I assume was the good faith that you wouldn't break it before it got into their hands!

moneynovice_2

Sorry I don't get it.....if you are the student but your friend is a high earning individual why did the friend ask you to buy the teapot in the first place? and why did you agree...? Never the less you did and you dropped it and the £95 teapot is now smashed....I say offer to pay, if your friend accepts your offer to pay for it then he is not a friend! Consider it an expensive lesson on friendship! I guess you can see it as an expensive farewell present....or the equivalent to all the birthday/christmas presents you won't be buying him in the future.

aaronb74

I agree with the 'you broke it you pay for it' responses. Even when I was a student, I would never have dreamt of asking a friend to pay me £95 for something I broke, regardless of whether it was as a favour.

If the roles were reversed and your friend dropped your £95 teapot/other object, would you insist he take the loss for it because he has more money and you're a poor student, or would you accept the £95 loss? I know it's tough being a student, I've been there, but you can't expect people to pay for things unnecessarily because you're poorer than them.