'I want $1,600, cash': Husband demands BIL provide 3 y/o expired wedding gift or $1,600 in cash, BIL refuses, family fallout ensues

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    Font - Posted by u/gammawalt 8 hours ago 2 AITA for NOT know wedding gifts apparently have expiration dates now.
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    Font - So a few years back my wife and got merried. Her brother who works for a Major US Airline gifted us 2 round trip tickets to anywhere in the 48 USA states so no Alaska no Hawaii. There was never anything said about how long we had to use them and infact it clearly said in the card whenever you both want all he needed was 1 month notice.
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    Font - Since that time he has been promoted many times is The Air Lines Union representative and one of the long people employed at this airport for this company. We just recently asked if we could sub 2 round trips that was the gift for 1 round trip for a friend of ours who was looking to move back here. 6 months b4 we needed the tickets.
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    Font - He now tells us not only can he NOT give us Our wedding present but can NOT get any ticket. This of course is after his trips to California And Florida.
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    Font - So I said that cool. Cash app me $1600.00 the price of 2 round trip to Vegas where wifey and I would have gone. And then never talk to Us again. He then bashed me and his sister my wife to the rest of the family and now I am the as hole for expecting he actually give my wife and I our gift.
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    Font - dibblechibbs 9 hr. ago YTA. Two years? It's common sense he wouldn't honor things for that long. Then you told your wife's brother to never talk to you again over a wedding gift? 12.6k Reply Share Acceptable_Peanut557 · 7 hr. ago Not "two years, "a few years"...even worse! 3.3k Reply Share
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    Font - Willing-Helicopter26 · 9 hr. ago So years ago he offered you 2 tickets which you never used. Now you want to have him py for someone else's plane tickets and he tells you he can't do that, so you demand $1600 and no further contact of your wife's brother? You're entitled, not that bright if you think this was a good idea, and YTA. 5.6k Reply Share
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    Font - JupiterSWarrior. 8 hr. ago YTA You're not entitled to a gift. And besides, times change. Your brother in law's airline may have a policy to not allow free flights for employees (though that's a bit of a stretch, it is possible). 2.3k Reply Share
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    Font - AssiduousLayabout . 8 hr. ago YTA. You chose not to use the gift in a timely manner. You were further a bit of a jerk by asking him to fly your friend instead - your BIL was trying to give you and your wife a vacation, not make it easier for someone he didn't know to move. You were also ridiculously out of line asking for $1600 for something that was way below that in value. Reply Share 1.9k
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    Font - 8512764EA 7 hr. ago The whole "we wanna exchange it to regift it to someone else" why he's the a h. He then put icing on the cake by demanding $1600. OP YTA 609 Reply Share
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    Font - Inconceivable44. 8 hr. ago YTA and where in the US could you possibly live that you need $1600 for 2 tickets to Vegas? I googled east coast to LV, and same day tickets are only $130. 977 Reply Share
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    Font - __dixon__. 8 hr. ago YTA Hahahaahah what even is this Reply Share 875 Agree_2_Disagree303 - 5 hr. ago Right? I'd be so embarrassed to be married to a man this entitled. 239 Reply Share
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    Font - RealTalkFastWalk. 6 hr. ago So as a wedding gift my BIL gave me and my wife a really nice offer to use his employee benefit that would get us two free flights sometime. We didn't take him up on his offer for years and years. Now, we decided we would regift his offer to a friend.
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    Font - He unfortunately no longer has the ability to get tickets anymore as his job changed. I flew off the handle, demanded an exorbitant amount in cash, and threatened to never speak to him again. Hahahahahaha YTA 829 Reply Share
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    Font - embopbopbopdoowop 7 hr. ago You: • waited 'a few years' • asked him to fund the trip of someone he doesn't know • demanded cash and no further contact when he said he couldn't do it
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    Font - • threw in an extra little dig about the fact he's dared to travel himself in the meantime. YTA. If that had been a gift card for travel, it would have had an expiration date. 421 Reply Share
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    Font - Ok-Opinion- 8 hr. ago YTA demanding your brother in law send you $1600 and then "never talk to us again" was way out of line. Domestic flights to Vegas don't even cost that much. He doesn't owe you a huge cash gift just because he's successful and offered you free tickets at one point long ago. Sounds like he was planning on gifting you free tickets from work but he doesn't currently have any or they're only for family so your friends not eligible. 396 Reply Share
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    Font - mountaincharley . 8 hr. ago YTA. you're allowed to be disappointed, but pitching a petulant fit and making monetary compensation demands and simultaneously telling your BIL to never speak to you again over it is serious AH behavior. sometimes sh 't happens, and it's better to simply accept it with some grace and move on. 87 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SageTwinklefoot. 8 hr. ago You weren't gifted a physical item, you were basically gifted a promise. You had to know that "whenever" didn't mean you could wait years and then change the terms of the promise. YTA 59 Reply Share

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