Just pony up $50, itās only $8 and change each between 6 people
A deal is a deal, $350 it is, no matter how the deal came about.
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For the sake of privacy all names have become A/ B/ C
Poll ends at 11pm today.
For those that think tl:dr here are cliff notes
Friend A gave friend B a discount on an item solely as a favor to friend B. Friend A communicated the basis for the discount to friend B, or it was strongly implied. Friend B passed on the discount by splitting the cost with multiple undisclosed parties that A did not know and he knew or should have known that Friend A might not have given the discount had he known of Friend Bās plans. Should B pay the price without discount or should A just leave it as is.
Now the Long Version (numbers are made up. Donāt get caught up in it, I just put a number I thought people wouldnāt get swayed by. I thought wrong
So I have a friend A who recently bought a wine cabinet for his house. He paid $400 total to bring it into his house. He gets it into his house and realizes that the cabinet just doesnāt fit right anywhere in his house as itās monstrous. So he thinks of posting it back on craigslist for the $400.
He tells me heās going to sell it off via text message. Iām with friend B who said that heāll take it. Friend B contacts Friend A and tells him that Friend B and C are buying the cabinet as a house warming gift. So Friend A offers it to them for $350 since weāre all drinking buddies. Friend A hangs out with B quite often. In fact, weāre all going to **Aā**s house this week as heās going to open wine and cook for us.
Friend C immediately emails 4 other people (that A doesnāt know at all) and says āi have found a cabinet for the house warming gift, do you guys want to all split it, as the previous cabinet we were looking at fell through.ā Friend A doesnāt know any of these people and thought he was just selling it to his two friends and feels a bit dicked over by it. If it he knew it was people he didnāt know buying the majority of it, he would have tried to recapture his cost. I find out and tell Friend B to just pony up the $50 between the 6 people to cover friend Aās cost. Friend B refuses saying that a deal was made for $350.
What say you guys? Should they pony up the extra $50 to cover the cost between the 6 people? Or a deal is a deal?
Ps. This isnāt a friendship deal breaker. Just a disagreement of principal and Iām curious what ppl think. The poll will decide what happens.
Damn, weāre talking about $50 among friends A-Z. Actually a little confused with all the letters being used but in the end, itās $50 on either side. We open wine that costs way more than that for each other all the time. Tell them to stop being so myopic.
Should be worth $50 to A to not to have to hassle and find another seller. B to G shouldnāt be haggling over $8 each. Either way it shouldnāt be a big deal to any of them.
Making up numbers. Just ignore money cost. . Also no one is angry at anyone. Just a discussion and disagreement. A and B just had a big discussion about treating people how you want to be treated and this came up and thought it was applicable.
Having just recently tried selling some items on Craigslist, the $50 is well worth avoiding the hassle of having to deal with unknown potential buyers. We wasted more time dealing with such flaky people than the items were worth. We ended up donating the items and will take the tax deduction instead. I will never try to sell on Craigslist again.
Am I missing something? A paid $400 for a wine cabinet he doesnāt want and now heās recouping nearly all of his money with little effort? Is there any reason to think he could even get all his money back even if he listed it on craigslist?
B didnāt lie to A. A should suck it up and be glad heās getting the $350.
Who is the house warming gift actually for, non-friend D?
I really donāt see why it makes any difference to A whether it is B/C or B/C plus 4.
A needs pop a cork and chill
A should be happy with $350.
Sell it for what youāre happy to sell it for, and does it matter who buys it or not? shouldnāt.
if he wasnāt happy with 350, he shouldnāt have offered it to B
if he was happy with 3500, then great, heās happyā¦ why let who ends up buying it change that?
Regardless of price, I think B probably still did A a favor. A may or may not have recovered the price B paid.
Instead of a wine cabinet Charlie, you should have been even more vague and described it as āBlack Acre.ā The whole fact pattern sounds like a law school test question.
I think A is being unreasonable. Having said that, if I were B, I would just get everybody to pony up in order to keep the peace. $50? Either way, itās not worth getting panties in a wad overā¦
I feel like I put too many facts in this story. Should have limited it to
Friend a gave friend b a discount on something. Friend b actually bought it got others. A didnāt know.
All the other facts of Craigslist and what not just muddle it.
Dealing with this purely in the abstract, Friend B is probably in the wrong if the following is true:
Friend A gave friend B a discount solely as a favor to friend B. Friend A communicated the basis for the discount to friend B, or it was strongly implied. Friend B substantially diluted the discount by splitting the cost with multiple undisclosed parties, and he knew or should have known that Friend A might not have given the discount had he known of Friend Bās plans.