Sometimes the only way to get someone a gift you know they’ll really be excited about is by going in on it with friends since when you pool your money, you can afford a more expensive gift.

Today’s story is about a group of friends who decided to pitch in for an expensive birthday present, but some of them backed out after the girl in-charge made the purchase!

Check out what she did after they refused to pitch in.

AITA for not including my friends that didn’t pitch in for a bday gift?

I swiped my credit card on a $700 birthday gift and asked 5 friends to each pitch in $100 and I’ll cover the rest.

I gave them 30 days (due 2 weeks before the bday) to get the money together, they all agreed.

We agreed on pitching in BEFORE I bought it.

Not everyone paid…

2 told me they couldn’t pay me on time but would pay me before the bday.

I told them if you don’t I’ll have to cover the difference and say you it was from me and the other friends.

Come the day of the Birthday; both didn’t pay.

I said out of good faith can you at least give me a portion; they both said they couldn’t.

She didn’t want to pay extra!

This meant I am covering $400 of the $700 of the gift.

I wrote on the gift package From Me, Friend 1, Friend 2, Friend 3.

They other 2 were upset because I didn’t put their name but they said they would’ve paid me back after the birthday.

She thinks they could’ve easily paid.

I told them that’s BS because you were blowing off money on dumb stuff (alcohol, pokemon cards, grass, etc) all month when you could’ve paid me back.

AITA here?

YIKES! That’s a lot of drama!

But she did the right thing by not including the friends who hadn’t pitched in!

Let’s find out if folks on Reddit agree.

That’s right! This user agrees that the friends needed to pitch in if they wanted to be included.

This user suggests getting funds collected before making a purchase!

This user thinks not giving credits to the friends was a smart move.

This user thinks a gift that expensive is INSANE!

This user wants to know the answer to a bigger question here.

Expensive or not, if everyone agreed to pitch in, then they should have just pitched in!

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