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I need to give away some money

WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,943 ✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
I recently got new neighbors, who have moved into the city from a very large house in the country on a golf course.

They are very nice people, but they are a little more extravagant than my wife and I. They own a successful business, and you can tell they are financially secure from this business they own.

My wife was talking to the new neighbor wife, to make a long story short, the new neighbors gave us a very nice, and I am quite certain, valuable dining room table. I didn't think this was actually going to happen when they talked about it, but I came home today, and I'm looking at this giant, table in my dining room that wasn't there before.

They said now that they are moving into the city they have no need or space for the table, and if we take them out to dinner somewhere that would be fine as payment for this table.

I would be much more comfortable writing them a check of some sort for this table, but I have no idea where to begin to find out what the value of a giant formal dining room table might be.

Any suggestions on what is appropriate would be appreciated.

To be clear, they did not ask for any money, but I feel morally obligated to give them some for the table. I don't want to tell them to take the table back, as I wasn't involved at all in this table deal.
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Tell them "Thanks!"

    Then pay it forward.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    and if we take them out to dinner somewhere that would be fine as payment for this table.


    Uh, a little clue that I spotted. It might just work! Don
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pay it forward, Dave. (damn, matty beat me to it!)

    I have been on both the giving and receiving end of these deals.

    Take them to dinner at a nice place if that is what they want. Small price to pay to make both of you happy.
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  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    Take them out for a fine dinner and then enjoy your new dinning room set. Fine furniture costs a ton of cash and if it really a high qualtiy set you won't want to write the check unless it was four figures. My wife happens to insit on nothing but Henredon furniture (made in North Carolina) and our dinning table with eight chairs (six side chairs) cost about $7K and that was quite a few years ago. I could have gotten along with a few TV trays and folding chairs but things don't work that way around here [V]. Spending a few hundred taking them out for fine dinning will mean more than handing them a check for the same amount...Which may just equal the cost of one of the chairs.
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If that is all they are asking for,......deliver at a very nice place.

    If you don't feel comfortable with that, then I would say you need to post pics, and the manufacturer, if you want a valuation guess.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • Ox190Ox190 Member Posts: 2,782 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take them to Lonesome Dove in Fort Worth or The Riata.
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo


    Tell them "Thanks!"

    Then pay it forward.Yep, honor their wishes for a nice dinner and be a good neighbor!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • kyplumberkyplumber Member Posts: 11,111
    edited November -1
    make some white beans and rice with fried chunks of spam in it, and serve it on your new table :)

    Or just do what I do, serve some broiled possum, it's whats for dinner.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    They dont want your money.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. how long is it? L___xW___"Hx____"
    2. how many leaves does it have?
    3. what kind of wood?
    4. who made it?
    5. how old is it?
    6. how many legs in each end? 4 or 3?
    7. how many chairs?


    some tables can go for 20,000.00 plus. you might be better off doing dinner with them.

    ours will sit 20 with room for one more leaf.

    and as it was said, they dont want your money, they want your friendship. dine with them! always go a notch up!
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • watrulookinatwatrulookinat Member Posts: 4,693
    edited November -1
    Sounds like they are SWINGERS! Watch out for the signs. Signs like giving you a table and then wanting you to re-pay them by taken them out to dinner. Boy, I wonder who the main course will be?
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    help us. pick one close to yours....
    http://www.greatwindsorchairs.com/tables2.htm

    http://www.broyhillfurniture.com/furniture/Dining_Room/Broyhill_Dining_Room/
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • bigcitybillbigcitybill Member Posts: 4,915 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    They dont want your money.


    I gotta agree. It's a gift.
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  • PlotzkyPlotzky Member Posts: 281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:They dont want your money

    Yup...
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