My company reserves sections of Jacobs Field for indians games each year. The tickets are half of what they normally cost. So SO and I asked a few friends if they wanted to go. I get the tickets through my work and they take the money out of my paycheck. The money, 300.00 came out of my check 2 weeks ago. I called two of the couples today to let them know that I needed to collect the money this week.
WELL you guessed it... They backed out.. Both with VERY lame excuses... I even spoke with them earlier this week and reminded them.. they both said "Oh ok... no problem!!"
SO now I am stuck with 200.00 worth of tickets to get rid of and given their recent record, I bet there will be no takers!

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GO TONY!!!!!!!!!!! # 20!!!

I think you ought to tell them "I'm sorry you can't go, but you asked for the tickets and you need to pay for them. What you do with the tickets is up to you."

I know, it probably won't work but if they really do stiff you, I'd be ditching them!

That stinks....I agree with truble, tell them they wanted them, they pay for them.

Dh went thru the very same thing just a couple of weeks ago. He and 3 friends were planning on going to Kentucky for the NRA convention, and especially to the banquet. Dh paid for all the tickets on our credit card (to get the points) and then planned on collecting the $$$ from the 3 other guys. One guy paid immediately (I knew he would) but the other two backed out about a week before they were leaving. He was PO'd big time. They had this planned since January! But it all worked out, they took the extra tickets to the convention where dh got his money back, thankfully. Otherwise dh was going to make the other guys pay.

Hope things work out for you!

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Friends are like butt cheeks.
Crap might separate them,
But they always come back together.

I agree with truble also.

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GO #24 JEFF GORDON

*sigh*
I learned long ago never loan money to friends or family unless you are prepared to never see that money again.

Unfortunately, this is one of those hard life lessons that we all must learn by getting burned at least once by someone we thought we could trust.

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Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"

Boy did we learn the same lesson as well. (Hence my user name)

We invested $160,000 with our 'neighbor and so called friend'. We still haven't been paid back and we are now alleging that it was all a scam. I feel sorry for this guys friends that haven't taken the time to research their 'friend'. We found out that he used to even go by different names. That's why the people I was talking to didn't know who I was talking about. They knew him by a different nickname.

We should know soon whether or not we are going to file our civil suit. Then at least everything will be public knowledge.

A lesson well learned. I'm sorry for your loss, maybe you can sell them to someone else.

I learned, too, to treat my friends' transactions just I do my eBay transactions. Pay up first. I no longer stick my neck out for anyone unless I know I won't get stuck.

I had something like this flip on me. My dh's friend gets movie tickets thru his work for $5/each and he offered to get me some. It was Xmas time, so I thought they'd make great stocking stuffers. I gave him $100 to buy them for me and you guessed it, it's now May and I've never seen them.... or the $100. I trust people less and less everyday.... and I never trusted much to begin with anyway.

I would ask them nicely for money, give them their tickets and wish them well on selling them as already posted. If they don't pay up, it really tells you what kind of people they are and you really don't want to be friends with people like that. Good luck

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I fourth this!

You don't have anything to feel ashamed or bad about asking for the money. I could never imagine expecting my friends to just eat the cost of tickets for an event I agreed to go to. For the sake of argument, let's say the excuses are real. Even so, the responsible, stand-up thing to do is to pay for the tickets anyway. I might even go so far as to say, "I can't go, do you think you can sell them? If you think you can't, let me know, I'll pay for them and try to sell them myself." There's always a chance the person that bought the tickets knows of someone else that would like to go instead. But I wouldn't leave someone just hanging with the cost like that.

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If I was stuck with the tickets, I'd probably call and ask "are you sure you can't go? I still have your tickets and don't want to be out all this money." Maybe you could try posting the tickets at work?

Those people need to pay for the tickets, especially when you called to confirm and they said no problem. What do they expect you to do with the tickets? You need to ask for the money directly. A person's word means nothing these days.

ITA what everyone said, your 'friends' need to pay for the tickets. Call them back or have your SO call them if it's his friends, and just tell them sorry they can't go, but they confirmed, you paid, and now your company won't allow you to return them so you need the $200 you already paid and you will give them the tickets to resell.