[hoarrimilsora]

I was a nice guy and let my friend get a line on my Sprint account agreeing that he pays his part. Well, it started out great the first 6 months always on time with his bill and things of that nature. Well, just recently he has not paid his bill.... it's 2 weeks late and I talked to him yesterday and told him it needs to be paid in full asap. HE tried to only pay a partial payment and I told him it's 2 weeks late and I have already got a text message about the bill and there is no way partial payments are acceptable. So he's says "thats cool , I will take care of it today". Well, it's 8:05am and I just got not one, but TWO phone calls from Sprint about my bill being past due. So I checked the balance and sure as hell it hasn't been paid yet.

I learned my lesson today. Don't help friends.
Now, I have to come up with $229 that I don't have to pay his part of the bill on top of an additional $200 to cancel it.
This all comes during a time that's I am already stressed (midterms).
[cursing]

[brurdefdoro]

Kick his ass. That's all I'm gonna say.

[Qesomud]

Kick his ass. That's all I'm gonna say.

looooool says the guy that gets pushed around left & right,..
If i recall correctly, you didn´t stand up to your neighbor who always knocks for you being to loud or whatever, nor the chick that keeps turning you light off.

[thumbdown]

[fapourfasiark]

the chinese say: "talk money hurt relations"
it is very much true...

[brurdefdoro]

looooool says the guy that gets pushed around left & right,..
If i recall correctly, you didn´t stand up to your neighbor who always knocks for you being to loud or whatever, nor the chick that keeps turning you light off.

[thumbdown]

I didn't say anywhere that I would do the same.

[Qesomud]

I didn't say anywhere that I would do the same.

Hmm my comment was actually meant to be funny

sry

[brurdefdoro]

the chinese say: "talk money hurt relations"
it is very much true...

Yeah that's very true.

As soon as money is involved, everything else is put behind it no matter what the history.

[Thifiadardivy]

No offense, but you've learned your lesson. I would have been suspicious in the first place why he couldn't get his own Sprint account and line. Why does he need you to help him? So I don't think it's completely 100% his fault. You are partially to blame.

[Vipvlad]

Take him to small claims court if he doesn't give you the money

[Chooriwrocaxz]

I learned my lesson today. Don't help friends.

Sure you can help friends there's nothing wrong in that just always follow the maxim, "Never lend money to friends" which is essentially what you did. This kind of thing always turns nasty, I was once super broke and had to sell just about anything I owned, I had a friend who said he could sell my motherboard and processor for £60 to his friend and he'd mail me the money (as it was the end of the summer term) Anyway he pretty drank the money he was as broke as me. The thing was he kept telling me he had sent the money, it must of gotten lost, he'd send it again. I think we went through this lie three times but you know he was a friend and I was a pretty chilled guy so I just ran with it until I realized I wasn't getting the money unless I stood up and demanded it so I called him again, did what I had to do, got real stern with him and he admitted to lying and sent me the £60 in money orders. That was the beginning of a downward spiral and I lost a friend who would never connect with me on the same level after all that. Actually it's part of a longer story the guy was a bit of a **** after that also and pissed me off one to many times.

[Chooriwrocaxz]

Take him to small claims court if he doesn't give you the money

Drag him onto Judge Judy!

[rXpX]

Now, I have to come up with $229 that I don't have to pay his part of the bill on top of an additional $200 to cancel it.
This all comes during a time that's I am already stressed (midterms).
[cursing]

What on earth mobile plan do you have that costs $229 for one person??!?

*edit* or was that $29 for his bill and $200 to cancel combinging to $229?

[Mister.levitra]

Your going to have to jump all over his butt. He may or may not pay, but do it anyways. Money and friends really isn't a good idea, ever.

Two of my good friends were friends and they went their own way over $150. It is stupid, but that is what money does to people.

When you learn you learn. Always good to learn from your mistakes though, it doesn't hurt to and it isn't a bad thing. It sure does suck, but it is what it is.



If things get to worst, just take something of his. Take his x360 or something until you get your money back. If he doesn't pay, then just sell it. That is what I would do.
Don't worry if that might be "wrong", he owes you $400+ didn't pay on time, and that was wrong. Though he sure as hell can pay you in in luxuries.


Its like a credit card. If you can't pay, they will come and take your things.

[AffipgyncDync]

What on earth mobile plan do you have that costs $229 for one person??!?

*edit* or was that $29 for his bill and $200 to cancel combinging to $229?

if its 2 weeks late...there could be late fees involved

[Nashhlkq]

I'm in the same boat as you. Loaned a friend of mine at work $700 because he needed it for a friend of his. I told him straight up, the loan was between you and me, I dont care if you are then loaning it to your friend. Anyhow its been a couple of months, and no payments yet. I dont really need the money right now, but it would be nice to have to put a nice audio system in my car. Lesson learned. I will never ever loan money to a friend unless its a life or death situation.

[hoarrimilsora]

Well the reason it's so high is because he went way over his minutes and got charged for it. His plan is 59.99 a month if that gives you any idea how much he went over.

Good news is today he sent me a text saying he just paid the bill and he did. I talked to him afterwards and told him, this is the last time that I will let him have that much slack, next time... it's gunna be put into standby until i can come up with the $200 to cancel the phone.

[brurdefdoro]

I just remembered something similar.

Friend's car got broken into and he needed money to repair the window so he took £70 from my other friend.

He called me up and told me what happened. Came round and my mum offered £70 to him to get his window repaired.

Neither can my mum or I remember whether my friend took the money from which my mum offered.

But he ended up asking me to pay for it on my card, and he gave me £60 back and it cost me £75 on my card.

Needless to say I don't speak to him anymore.


I would only borrow money to people if they're family or I know I would get it in return one way or another. I have a really close friend who I would borrow money to as I truely trust him to pay me back.

[Bwvapays]

That sucks man. I've had my brother's friend say he would sell the subwoofers and amp for 300 bucks. You all know the story, never got the money. I wanted to injure him for the longest time but Bronx tale summed it up well "You just paid the guy [insert money amount] to disappear out of your life".

I would love to resort to violence but I'm not willing to get charged or go to jail for 300 bucks. I believe he'll get his sooner or later.

The only thing I could suggest is making people sign a contracts from now on.

[Obebtetibre]

I use the theory that you should never lend money you can't afford to lose.
Back on subject, a DECENT friend makes damned sure they repay a loan - even if it is at some additional personal inconvenience - I know I did when I was a student and later when unemployed.
However, as has been pointed out, sometimes it's worth a bit of a financial loss to get a dropkick out of your life - found that out as well.