Lending money to friends but didn't get repaid

China
October 20, 2009 11:53pm CST
Hi my friends, have you ever got experience like this, you lent some money to your friends, but he or she forgot about this whole thing after many days and you feel shy or embarrassed to ask for it?
6 responses
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
Yes, and since I already knew his attitude towards lending money, I never ever lend him another one. We are still friends, the only thing is that he cannot lend any money from me anymore. And what about the money he lend? there are lots of other ways I knew he can repay me. Its part of accepting who your friends are despite their attitudes. Its part of the game called "life".
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
yeah, sometimes, you cannot change people for who they are.
• China
21 Oct 09
Amazingly to find that you can still keep friendship with your friends even if you never ever lend him any money, maybe you're right, it's part of accepting who your fiends are. Thank you for your opinion, Fulltank.
@joysebiz (21)
21 Oct 09
an officemate of mine who happens to be my friend too, borrowed money from me, she said she's going to use it to pay for their electric bill and promise to pay me when she receives her next salary. When she received her salary, she did not bother to pay me and I was so shy to remind her about it. She did not pay me the money she borrowed from me and now it has been months since she resigned from our work. and i never heard from her again. i guess she was never really a friend to me in the first place.
• China
21 Oct 09
Hi joysebiz, I find a lot of people have the same problem as me, we're too shy to ask for our money and maybe the so called friends just take advantage of our weakness, this is not a good character and something should be done to change ourselves, not be so shy or ashamed as to dare not ask money that belong to us
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
Well, it happened to me before and I have learned my lesson. Now, I don't want to lend money to people even if they say that they will pay me later. Someone told me that if I want to lose a friend, I will lend him money so that he will hide from me. It is not embarrassing to ask for the repayment if they promised to pay. It is easy to borrow, but difficult to pay it. Therefore, it would be very ideal not to borrow money if we can.
• China
21 Oct 09
Yeah Blessing2u, thank you for sharing me your experience, may be I'm a little shy and always find it a little bit embarrassing to ask my money back and like you've said, I've made up my mind that I never lent money to others but when it really comes to me, I find it hard to reject, being afraid that I may lose this friend
@spamind (70)
• China
21 Oct 09
I've met the case and asked my friend directly to pay meals for me and remind he or she that they need not to return my money back.Usually it works. They will soon give my money back.
• China
21 Oct 09
Wow, this idea sounds good, maybe next time I can try this way. To be honestly, I hate to lend money to my friends, because most of them may fail to repay me as they've assured before, I don't know whether it is because their bad memories or intentionly
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
yes, i have experienced that with one office mate. it must be two years ago that she hurriedly borrowed P100.00 from me. she said that she does not have money to pay for her fare for an official work. she said she will repay me as soon as she gets her allowance from the office. she promised to do that within the week. i had it written down in my desk calendar and i cannot forget that. she did not pay me back and i am shy to remind her about it or ask from her the repayment. that was two years ago. she might have forgotten that she borrowed money from me ... but i don't want to remind her now.
• China
21 Oct 09
It's such a pity that we have the same bad experience, I think I need to be stronger towards my those people who fail to keep their promise, hope you can be stronger too. People who fail to make up their promise to you are not eligible to be your friends because I think friends are those who can help you and make you happy, not those guys causing trouble to you
@Gongfuboy (130)
• China
21 Oct 09
Yes, and I suffered the same fate with you. One of my friends have borrowed a small sum of money from me for about three months, he still doesn't show the disposition of returning back, and I'm ashamed to ask him to return money, because we have been friend for several years. So I have to turn down the level of our friendship and won't lend money to him again. However, it's a difficult task to refuse friends' requirments of borrowing money.
• China
21 Oct 09
recently several friends borrowed from me a large sum of money, they promised they would pay me immediately they got their salary, instead they spent their salary on shopping and entertaining and never thought about the debt they owed me, it makes me very angry and I decided to ask for my repayment directly, they are not eligible friends so how should i be so shy or ashamed?