MoneySavingExpert community quandary: Do i take the cash?

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This weeks MSE community member with a quandary is Spinkz

Yesterday my neighbour asked me to pick him up some stuff from the shops. Bread, milk, rolo's and a scratchcard. When i got in my car, i was looking at the scratchcard and got a feeling it was lucky! I scratched it off and won 40 quid :eek: i went back into the shop, cashed it in and bought another card to give to my neighbour and used the rest of the won money to treat me family to a Nando's.

I saw my neighbour this morning and he told me that the scratchcard i bought him won 12 quid and he wants to give me a fiver out of goodwill for getting him a winner! Do i...

Take the money and treat myself to a couple of pepperami's and a twin pack of jaffa cakes?

Politely decline and not let on that the original scratchcard i bought for him won more?

Confess that the original scratchcard won more and pay him the money he should've won?

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System

MrsDrink wrote: »

You should have done a poll.

B.

Am I going to hell?

I so wish i did now

mellymoo74

Shhhhh spinkz say nothing. Thank him but say you couldn't. Possibly

mellymoo74

Ooh and use your winnings to buy the pony and a cravat needed for Henley

heuchera

Spinkz wrote: »

Politely decline and not let on that the original scratchcard i bought for him won more?

This one gets my vote



It's a bit more interesting than the shrunken lambswool jumper scenario, too

yvonne13_2

Spinkz wrote: »

This weeks MSE community member with a quandary is Spinkz

Politely decline and not let on that the original scratchcard i bought for him won more?

Confess that the original scratchcard won more and pay him the money he should've won?

I think you shouldv'e done ^

zagfles

Obvious.

What would you have done if the first scratchcard had lost?

a) Given it to him saying "I checked it for you and it lost"?

b) Gone in and bought him another and given it to him unscratched?

If a) then you should give him all the money you won or you'll go to hell.

If b) then the first scratchcard is yours and you should accept his gift.

gettingtheresometime

Or c buy him a beer for giving you the idea of buying a scratch card and winning £40 ......not telling him that could have been £39 better off

*Robin*

Tell him you got yourself a scratchcard at the same time, they're both winners so rush back to the shop together and buy some more!

..Then head down to your local with the proceeds / whatever cash you've got left. :beer:

Robisere

I am perhaps out of touch and old-fashioned, but I would not have peeled off the first scratchcard. I would have taken it back to the neighbour with the rest of the shopping, that is for me the honourable thing. But that's me, out of step with the 21st Century, as usual. I was brought up to believe that taking what is not mine, is stealing.

System

I think i'd have just given him the original scratchcard. I;ve bought my bf scratchcards, and he;s won a few times and i admit i have thought "damn i wish i'd kept that one ) but likewise he's bought me ones before that have won so it sort of evens out I once bought three, had one for myself, one for the bf and one for his mum, and they ALL won (in total about £50!) but i didn;t feel bad for letting them have them