A good friend of mine just broke up with his girlfriend. A few months back, she insisted on buying him a new smartphone for his birthday that cost almost £600. Now they've broken up, she's demanding he give her the money for it. He offered to give her the phone, but she says she wants cash. He says he's struggling to save up the money but is going to pay it back as he feels it's the right thing to do, but I think she's being unreasonable. Who's right?
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should my friend pay his ex back for the phone she got him as a gift?

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The value of the phone would have depreciated all those months ago, so if she does not want the phone back that's it then.
A gift is a gift.
......... Of course she found out he actually has been cheating on her the whole time then you could actually see her reasoning being far more valid and why she feels hard done by
Turns the tables somewhat from her being "an unreasonable cow" to him being somewhat..... (Edit - the comment I quoted here has now been removed)
But we could all write our own narrative with little info
But if he did pay her the money back, perhaps she could also pay him back for all the things he's bought for HER over the years too!!
Birthday gift.
Her choice of gift and not anything clearly predicated on a continued relationship (cf some sort of joint pass/membership for something)
Where would this stop?
If she's saying "I'm in financial difficulties" and he chooses to help her (perhaps recognising that he has benefitted from her imprudence) because he's more comfortably off that's a totally different matter. (And he's not 'comfortable off' is he if he doesn't have that amount in savings?)
He gives her the phone back, she can sell it on.
It was a gift, and it was half a year ago. He certainly shouldn't pay her anything.
Take the phone back, do whatever you want with it we're done.
Don't want the phone, bye then!
That's the fairest thing to do (actually he was being very nice to offer to return the gift)