$100. But, I have a question! Alright - It was my birthday at the end of October, I got money, wanted an Xbox 360. I paid for half, and the parents the other half. Alright - Now, I owe them because they went and spent $100 more to get one with the hard drive. So my question being - Should I owe them the money, since no where was it said "We'll go get you one with the hard drive, and you can pay us back $100 later". I don't even have the money yet either.
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I owe my parents...
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Are you being provided a comfortable home with little or no responsibility? SureDo you get an allowance? Nope.Did you already consider $100 a pretty good birthday gift? Christmas actually :P. Yea.Did you want an Xbox with a hard drive? No, i didn't. i just wanted a 360.
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I wish my problems were this simple
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If you don't want to pay a bit for it, then return it. If my parents asked me to chip in I'd do it without question.Try seeing if you can do some chores around the house for a bit to pay off the debt.I also didn't notice anything about Christmas in the original post.
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My money comes from holidays (my birthday, christmas). There really are no advantages/disadvantages. The only good thing is i can play Xbox games, but I don't, so I don't really need the hard drive. And about Christmas - Since my parents chipped in, this is actually my christmas present, and not my birthday. And WTF? You can't return consoles once there opened.
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Insane,
Give this up. U have no friends here. If you picked this out, and split it with youre parents, you could have delt with that at the time.
Enjoy your toy. Remember, the p's might decide you owe rent!
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I don't agree. We have here parents with a 13 year old son. They have agreed to pay half of the cost of something as a birthday/Christmas present (it doesn't matter which). They decide unilaterally to buy a more expensive model and they expect their son (whom they pay no allowance) to pay the full difference in price - not even half the difference.
I would consider parents like that to have lost touch with reality. Even if this were an arrangement between adults, there would be no legal obligation to pay anything. The parents clearly didn't make a mistake - they realised they were paying $100 more - and they decided, without their son's permission or approval, to spend $100 of their son's money that he didn't have. It's the parents who should be paying rent, for using up the air without good cause.
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Yea, I'll repeat it here too; you can't charge rent for a 13 year old...that would fall under the whole neglect thing (pesky laws, eh?)1) The 13 year old is a child under law; meaning they're required to provide the basic needs of life (shelter, clothing, food) 2) Since he's a minor, there is no way he could be expected to pay (as that would be below the legal working age to begin with) and secondly, as a MINOR he would not legally be able to enter into ANY sort of contract (which renting is)
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I finally got through this thread. And I have to say, you owe your parents nothing on this one.I provide what is needed to my children, and it is their choice to have more. I buy clothes, I feed them, (occasionally a wish sandwich) and I provide shelter. End of story. If they want toys, fancier clothes, fancier bed clothes bla bla bla, they help out around the house. Seems fair (tough sometimes but fair).BUT, I do NOT go get them something as a gift, and have them do MORE chores because I went for the better model, or because it was out of my budget. Had they of discussed it with you before hand, I would agree that you owe them, but it isn't even what you want!I am a tough parent, but I am a fair one, and this dear, is just NOT fair. I just don't have a recommendation for you as to how to handle it. What would your parents do? Take the system away until you payed it? I mean, you could just slough it off???? IDKSorry I wasn't more help.
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Geez, finally agrees with me. I've asked them if I owe them, and they said Yes. And Swampfox (or whatever the fuck your name is), can you please clarify your post?
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Originally Posted By: InsaneClown$100. But, I have a question! Alright - It was my birthday at the end of October, I got money, wanted an Xbox 360. I paid for half, and the parents the other half. Alright - Now, I owe them because they went and spent $100 more to get one with the hard drive. If you already paid for half of the item you wanted. Your truly done. I just don't know your parents, they COULD take your Christmas money too. IDK, just doesn't seem right. You already fulfilled your obligation if you payed half for what you requested.
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Then ask your parents to take this one back and exchange it for the cheaper XBOX without the hard drive and see what they say. Tell then you didn't want the one with the hard drive and can't afford it.
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I'm not sure what the better lesson is that InsaneClown is supposed to be learning.
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I don't see how you can learn money management by budgeting for one thing and finding you were saddled with a debt for something else. If a store did that to you, you would send the item back as not what was ordered, and get your refund. I think that's what InsaneClown should do, but it's trickier because the people who are liable to pay are his parents, not the store, and it's difficult for a 13 year old to sue his parents.
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they wont just because his parents fucked up, most store policy pertaining to electronics is that if its been opened and theres nothing wrong with it they dont take it back, seeing as someone couldve opened it, taken a small part they needed, screwed it back together and just screwed them and got the part for free, even then if its been opened and its defective in some manner they will replace it with another product but thats it, only unopened electronics items warrant a full refund, its a pisser but kind of understandable with the pricks that live in this worldas to your situation InsaneClown i really wouldnt know, but i do know thats a load of horseshit, and Radeckl, i do think his parents are deserving of criticism, that was underhanded and wrong and nothing to be teaching their child, if they actually agreed upon a price that he would pay and he paid it, and they got a more expensive item and expect him to pay the difference that is just horse manure
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but I find it difficult to fault the parents for getting a more expensive model or How can it not be their fault for getting something more expensive and making him pay the difference when he didn't ask for it?
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hmm never heard of that, any time ive ever returned anything electronic it was either unopened=refund, defective=replacem