Woman Threatens to Sell Friend’s Concert Ticket After She Keeps Dodging Payment

A 19-year-old Ariana Grande fan found herself facing a difficult decision after paying upfront for concert tickets on behalf of three friends – only to be left waiting weeks for one of them to pay her back. 

With no clear payment plan and a growing sense of frustration, she began to consider selling the ticket to someone else, even if it meant straining a close friendship.

According to her Reddit post, the user purchased four tickets to an Ariana Grande concert in California, each priced at $103. 

The plan was to attend the show with three friends, but one of them – referred to as “Friend 3” (F3) – immediately began hesitating. 

“Friend 3 was iffy about paying me back because her initial budget was $80–90,” the user explains.

Despite having agreed on the plan since the presale announcement, F3 asked for more time, saying she didn’t have the full amount. 

“F3 asked if she could pause paying me back because she didn’t have $105 to give me,” the post read. 

Meanwhile, the original poster noted that F3 had spent over $1,000 in July and regularly spent $20 on lunch. “I don’t understand why she wasn’t prepared to pay,” the user questions.

In an attempt to compromise, the user suggested a payment plan: $20 a month over five months. However, nothing came through. 

“I bugged her about paying me multiple times, and she said she’d pay me when she got home,” the user recalls. “I never got $20.”

While still waiting for payment, the user mentioned the situation to a friend living in Colorado, whom she referred to as “CO,” who hadn’t been able to get tickets. CO offered to buy the unpaid ticket for $200; however, the poster told her she wouldn’t need to spend more than what they initially paid.

“I told CO I’d likely sell the ticket if F3 was unable to pay or provide me an explicit payment plan,” she admits.

After texting F3 to explain her discomfort about being owed money with no clear plan, things escalated. 

F3 took it personally and interpreted the message as the user choosing CO over her. The two went back and forth for hours. 

“She said she could pay me $50 now and $50 next month because she doesn’t want to see herself spend $100 in one sitting,” the user writes. “I asked her where the $50 is coming from since earlier she told me she didn’t even have that money, and she ignored that.”

The user continued to ask for a consistent plan, but F3’s responses kept changing. Eventually, the user decided she was more comfortable accepting CO’s upfront offer. 

“I ended up telling her that because she couldn’t give me a definitive answer, I felt more comfortable taking CO’s upfront payment,” the user shares.

F3 called the decision “unfair,” claiming she had only been given one day to pay – despite the original agreement being made nearly three weeks earlier.

“Her thing about not paying me the whole amount I paid for tickets is that she doesn’t want to see $100 come out of her bank account when I spent $400+ on tickets?? I’m a student, unemployed, and partially paying my own tuition,” the user notes.

To make matters more complicated, F3 didn’t even care much for the artist or her newest album. “F3 is going because of FOMO,” the user writes. “She doesn’t like Ari or her new album.”

Although the user believed F3 would eventually pay her back, she suspected the payment would be slow and inconsistent. “I spoke to Friend 2 about this and she agrees, but I just still felt bad and didn’t want to lose a friendship over this.”

The situation left her unsure of what to do next – torn between protecting her boundaries and preserving a friendship that now felt strained by money.

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Commenters rallied behind the Reddit user, reassuring her that she isn’t in the wrong. 

“You’ve been more than generous with timing and payment,” one person wrote. “My policy with friends is if I’m responsible to buy tickets for stuff, once I pay for them and they’re ready to be divvied up, you must have payment ready. If you do not and we did not make previous arrangements, that’s MY money and thus MY ticket because you can’t afford it.” 

Another questioned F3’s motives from the start, writing: “If her original budget was $80-90 then she should at least be able to cover that amount straight away, no? And pay you the rest ASAP.”