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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If you had an alternative buyer, that would be a different situation. You don’t. The options are give it to a stranger or give it to one of your best friends. Seems like a really obvious answer to me.[/b]

As for your friend, maybe her spending habits have gotten her in trouble and she needs to cut back. I’d accept what she told you about her financial status.

Good luck with the move![/quote]

I think this is beside the point though. Friend B was wanting the treadmill for free since the beginning, even when Friend A had the potential to sell it. That, to me, is the part that would annoy me. Especially since Friend B has so much more money than Friend A. If nothing else, and I were Friend B, I would have paid for the treadmill because I could afford it and my friend could use the money. I'm in a similar situation to Friend B (literally just paid for the second of two ponies yesterday...) and I do things for my friends all the time to the extent I can. This would have been a no brainer for me. So I think Friend B is a jerk. [/quote]

Agree with you, PP. I think some here are focusing on the treadmill's value etc. when that's not the point. Others are making out that the two of them did things together "every day" and therefore were close so OP should gladly give friend the treadmill. Instead, I wonder if they were not actually close, but were friends of proximity -- both are expats and sometimes that creates "friendships" which are more along lines of "We hang out together as we're both in the same boat here among another culture/country." I see two people who have gotten along OK hanging out, but have a large divide in lifestyles and values. And this treadmill thing brought that divide to the surface rather suddenly and clearly. OP should move, be glad the treadmill at least is getting used, and chalk this all up to experience. And definitely don't let the friend wheedle herself into visiting OP at the new place, as OP indicated early on! [/quote]

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