Dr. Bombay
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My friends and I are having a situation for which the resolution cannot be agreed upon. Let me present it to you guys since you are not part of the situation. Please tell me your feelings on this.
Our group of friends decided back in about November that we wanted to do a group trip somewhere real cool. We threw out a couple of ideas and decided we wanted to go in May but that we would wait until January to actually get things rolling. None of us are well off financially so we decided we could cut out some fun stuff and save our money. In January we decided to go to Hawaii and got a real great deal for a three bedroom 2 1/2 bath condo on the beach, two rental cars and airfare for $890.00 per person. Before we had only been finding airfare for like $700.00 per person so this was really good. There are six of us going.
A $100.00 deposit was made on one of the friends' credit card with the others promising to pay and then the rest is due March 29.
A couple weeks ago one of the friends' truck broke down and required repair which totalled about 1/2 the trip. This friend told us that he would no longer be able to go because of the money situation. This really sucks but none of us are in the position to foot the bill. But because this friend is cancelling the price for the rest of us is going up by $60.00 per person. Also this friend is one of two people going that is age 25 or older so they wouldn't have to pay extra to drive the cars. The travel agent said an underage driver would be $20.00 more per day, or if we dropped one car but upgraded the other it would be make the price per person $45.00 more.
We think he should have to pay the difference that is being charged to us. When we made these plans back in January everyone committed to going. I realize he is having trouble but we don't think we should have to pay because he is not going. At first he thought he shouldn't have to pay anything simply because he is losing his $100.00 deposit but agreed to pay 1/2 of what we are going to pay. I agree with this as well as one of the others but the others do not.
What would you guys say in this situation? Are we wrong for thinking that he should have to compensate us?
Our group of friends decided back in about November that we wanted to do a group trip somewhere real cool. We threw out a couple of ideas and decided we wanted to go in May but that we would wait until January to actually get things rolling. None of us are well off financially so we decided we could cut out some fun stuff and save our money. In January we decided to go to Hawaii and got a real great deal for a three bedroom 2 1/2 bath condo on the beach, two rental cars and airfare for $890.00 per person. Before we had only been finding airfare for like $700.00 per person so this was really good. There are six of us going.
A $100.00 deposit was made on one of the friends' credit card with the others promising to pay and then the rest is due March 29.
A couple weeks ago one of the friends' truck broke down and required repair which totalled about 1/2 the trip. This friend told us that he would no longer be able to go because of the money situation. This really sucks but none of us are in the position to foot the bill. But because this friend is cancelling the price for the rest of us is going up by $60.00 per person. Also this friend is one of two people going that is age 25 or older so they wouldn't have to pay extra to drive the cars. The travel agent said an underage driver would be $20.00 more per day, or if we dropped one car but upgraded the other it would be make the price per person $45.00 more.
We think he should have to pay the difference that is being charged to us. When we made these plans back in January everyone committed to going. I realize he is having trouble but we don't think we should have to pay because he is not going. At first he thought he shouldn't have to pay anything simply because he is losing his $100.00 deposit but agreed to pay 1/2 of what we are going to pay. I agree with this as well as one of the others but the others do not.
What would you guys say in this situation? Are we wrong for thinking that he should have to compensate us?