Money Moral Dilemma: Should I share the vouchers from my complaint win?

John_Gray

After today's news I think you have far more to worry about than where £100 should go!

jgriggle

I suppose it depends on the circumstances of the break up. If you had no children together, no shared assets and it's going to be a completely clean break - especially if it was the ex who instigated the break up - then keep the voucher. If it's a bit more complex than that and your ex is going to remain part of your life then it may be better for your sanity to split the voucher.

brewerdave

I'd put the £200 towards a flight to an island as far away as possible from Trump or Farage's influence....and pray:eek::eek:

Blabla

Keep it. I spent nine months haggling for flight delay compensation ,got £800 for two friends and received a grudging 'thank you' from the wife and the promise of a take away meal from the husband which took 6 months to materialise. As you may have guessed I am not in 'ethical' mode at the moment! Keep it and enjoy what you have earned.

Augustus_the_Strong

If you're not on good terms, keep it and let him sue you for that as well as a share in anything else joint.

MickBee

I'd suggest offering to share it.
Using the same assumptions as keithyno.1, I come to the opposite conclusion.
If ".. most partnership/marital breakups involve amounts (and, in most cases, disputes over) thousands and hundreds of thousands of pounds .." and " .. £100 each is just not worth losing any sleep over" then offering to share might change the ex's view from "And another thing, (s)he even cheated me out of a refund" to "Mind you, (s)he did play fair even after we split up."

crmism

Your ex-partner doesn't deserve any of the vouchers, even if the claim was made on your joint behalves. You did the donkey work, and could rightfully argue that half the value equates to your costs of pressing the claim.

Besides that, having split up, you now need to look after number one.:)

Malthusian

Apart from the fact that there is no reason and no obligation for the OP to share it, how would you share it anyway? It's a voucher. To jointly benefit they'd presumably have to go off on holiday together, which sounds rather unlikely. The OP could ask the airline to send voucher codes for two separate £100 vouchers but that's more trouble than it's worth.

In fact, everyone is answering the wrong question. The question is why the OP should accept a £200 voucher in the first place. Offering someone a couple of hundred quid off the next time they use a godawful service that you have no intention of using again is taking the P. It's like saying "I'm sorry I kicked you in the nads, so next time we meet I'll just punch you in the arm."

Since they have admitted fault, reject the offer and ask for cash.

krissyporter

I did the same thing - did all the work/research/complaining over about 3 years for flight delay. Finally this year got around £560 and the solicitor happened to email both of us that day ( even though it had only been me in contact up until then).

She replied to the solicitor saying she wanted her half and that was it - I had no choice to even be the nicer man and offer it to her.

No thanks for it all either!

BlaEm

Reminds me of a time back in my teens when my boyfriend dumped me just before my birthday, when we'd already booked a week away for it.

It was meant to be non-refundable, but the company we'd booked with took pity on me when I called and gave me 50% back. Needless to say I considered it to be full reimbursement of the half I'd paid