ex-boyfriend demanding holiday money back

fluffnutter

real1314 wrote: »

Surely the fair method is for him to pay his half of the £200 extra (he pays her £100) paid, then he should get half of the refund (she pays him£66.50).
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yep, this works too and is probably 'fairer' than my suggestion. It depends on what was agreed in terms of paying for the date change. TBH, you could keep digging for ever in terms of what's fair or not. Perhaps their relationship was never particularly equal in terms of financial contribution because the sister earns much more than her ex, therefore when they decided to go away it was always on the understanding that she'd put more in. Who knows?

ska_lover

I would tell him to bring it on, and give him the address of the local police station. The grasping little nit wit

Dunroamin

Which of them wanted the dates to be changed and was, therefore, responsible for the extra £200 charges?

kelpie35

ska_lover wrote: »

I would tell him to bring it on, and give him the address of the local police station. The grasping little nit wit

How can you say that when no one knows why they split in the first place. :eek:

ValHaller

Most seem to have some take on giving him back some money.

But the little plonker is threatening to take it to the police? If she pays him nothing, she has still paid £33.50 more than he has. And £33.50 is what she should ask him for.

meritaten

I am just trying to see this as a small claims court would - which ex-boyfriend would be entitled to go through. he paid her £300 she then had to rearrange the dates (I am assuming the boyf agreed to this) they split up - ex boyf is £300 out of pocket for a holiday he didnt get. I see his point of view. The fact the girlfriend then cancelled and accepted a ridiculously small amount of refund is nothing to do with him! it has nothing to do with who split with who or whether you automatically take the girls side - he gave her money for a holiday which he didnt get. She owes him money and she should pay him back! and if it was the other way round - most of you would have been baying for his blood - never mind his money!

Cherry_Bomb

meritaten wrote: »

I am just trying to see this as a small claims court would - which ex-boyfriend would be entitled to go through. he paid her £300 she then had to rearrange the dates (I am assuming the boyf agreed to this)

But thenhe didn't pay her his half of the £200 charge so she could counter with that.

yvonne13_2

OP I take it your sister cancelled the holiday because she was the lead....Why didn't she try and sell the tickets first before cancelling?
A simple name change and selling the holiday on wouldn't have seen you sister out of pocket.

ValHaller

meritaten wrote: »

I am just trying to see this as a small claims court would - which ex-boyfriend would be entitled to go through. he paid her £300 she then had to rearrange the dates (I am assuming the boyf agreed to this) they split up - ex boyf is £300 out of pocket for a holiday he didnt get. I see his point of view. The fact the girlfriend then cancelled and accepted a ridiculously small amount of refund is nothing to do with him! it has nothing to do with who split with who or whether you automatically take the girls side - he gave her money for a holiday which he didnt get. She owes him money and she should pay him back! and if it was the other way round - most of you would have been baying for his blood - never mind his money!

Post 5. Neither of them actually wanted to take the booking.

If OP's sister had wanted to take it, she would have to pay back the £300. If the BF had wanted it, he would have had to pay £500. Properly argued before a court and the point made that the BF had been given the option to take over the booking, I think OP's sister would win a counterclaim for £33.50 against BF.

But he is such a plonker that he is threatening the police. He does not have it about him to take this to a court.

SandC

Was the split a mutual agreement or did one finish with the other? My take is that if she finished things when he didn't want to then she should give him some money back. If he finished with her then he should go whistle for the money.

I had paid for a break for an ex and me and he ditched me shortly before, I couldn't get rid of the hol and he didn't want it. There was no way I could get the money out of him so I ended up out of pocket and just had to chalk it down to experience.

It's happened again since then, paid deposits on a hol and boyf has let me down (twice!).

If I was ever to arrange a hol with a fella again I wouldn't book anything until I had his half of what is owed.