Friend pulled out of show we have ticket for and wants me to find someone to buy her ticket

Well, I know what I would do, I would give you the ticket and say I hope you can find someone to go with you . However, I wouldn’t let you down like that unless it was a real emergency. Sadly not everyone thinks like that.

If that were me I would ask the person I was going with to take a friend and would certainly not ask for payment. Hopefully she has paid for the ticket herself. It’s her problem but I hope she won’t just waste the ticket, or maybe offer it to you at half price, something a friend would be able to afford.

Enjoy the show.

Unless you can find someone willing to pay her for the ticket your friend is responsible for it. Hopefully you will find another friend who will come with you

Has the friend paid for the ticket? If so, either she finds someone to take her place and presumably reimburse her, or she leaves it with you.

That is so rude. You do a lovely thing buying her a ticket and then she decides to do something else instead!!! She should give you the ticket so you can invite someone with manners.

We had this once , my dh had tickets for Le Mans , he was going with friends but he was really ill and couldn’t go . He found someone else to go and they went halves on the tickets . Could the flaky friend go halves with someone else ?

If I couldn't make the show I would willingly give my ticket away to someone.

I have a bad chest and always worry nearer christmas about going out but I say to my sister if I can’t go you’ll find someone else. But I wouldn’t expect payment for the ticket.

If no refunds I'd ask her what she wants you to do with it as you don't know anyone who could afford it.

Say you are happy to give it away.
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It's her ticket so her responsibility.

Her responsibility to sort it out herself. In these circumstances she should ideally gift you the ticket to take a friend - not a good friend to shift the burden to you.

Has she paid for it already?

I’ve twice offered a spare ticket to various people after dh has unexpectedly been away, but it’s always been a freebie.

A ‘friend’ bought 2 tickets to an event then changed her mind with only a couple of days to go. She offered them to me but I declined as it wasn’t something I was interested in. I assumed they were free. She then offered them to another friend who had recently lost her husband, who asked me to accompany her. Despite friend who bought the tickets knowing I was reluctantly going, she charged us both full price although she would have lost the money on them.
Cambsnan suggest to your flaky friend that you can sell them for a nominal amount, but expect that you will be paid in full by her.

Oh dear, has she still not sorted it out amicably with you?

It's not your responsibility to find someone else because she has changed her mind, it's up to her to give you the ticket so you can go with someone else or at least offer it at a reduced price.

She is the one is that dropped out. She is the one who finds someone to take her place and if she doesn't, she pays for the ticket. There is no alternative.

How very rude of her !
She wanted to go now she's changed her mind and you're stuck with the ticket .
Not easy but I think that I'd tell her to find a buyer for the ticket or she'll be out of pocket !
This is the kind of nonsense that I used to put up with !

your friend should find someone else to pay for her ticket- if not- she should give her ticket away to one of your friends that will go gratis.
I went to a show once as a friend let me down. it was either go alone or not at all. pleased to say i had a good night & glad i did it.

If she paid for her ticket, I would just say that I did not know anyone who was able to use it and refuse to be responsible for it.

If I had paid, then I would try to find someone who wanted the ticket, but I would not at a later date pay for tickets for the friend you were originally going with.

Tell her to sell it on twickets then . It's very easy .

I was passing the theatre showing South Pacific a few years ago and on impulse I asked if there were any tickets left for that same day matinée starting soon.
There weren't but a woman came up to me and gave me her spare ticket. Her friend had called off.
What a treat was that! They were good seats and at the end I gave her £20 or something although she had insisted it didn't matter.
Kindness of strangers!

Unless you have paid for the ticket up to them to find someone or lose their money

Who paid for friend's ticket?

If friend paid, the ticket is her problem.

Sarnia

That is so rude. You do a lovely thing buying her a ticket and then she decides to do something else instead!!! She should give you the ticket so you can invite someone with manners.

Where does it say the poster paid for the ticket Sarnia …it doesn’t
Has the friend paid for the now spare ticket or have you ? I m guessing the friend has so if she no longer wants to go ( and isn’t in hospital dying) she should incur the loss No question

This happened to me once. The friend offered to pay but I thought I could offload it on the night. Unfortunately I was not able to give back a single ticket. There was a queue for tickets but they had enough dble sets returned and had no interest in the single. I spotted a friend at the concert and she took up the spare seat for the second half as it had a better view.