I'd eat the $500 and call it a night.afterall it was "your" night.

 

well then, i guess ur solution is invite ur friends, profile each one on their spending habits. and only invite the ones that are more favorable to paying you afterwards? keep in mind, during the process a percentage of your so called friends will short u. and any new person u meet must pass the profiling phase? sounds very grown up and sophisticated.

ur strategy is flawed and u are paying the price.

u cant just invite a bunch of people, tell them a open tab is running, let them drink 200 dollars worth of booze, and then hit them with the bill. not very classy.

if ur gonna throw a party, expect to pay for the majority of it.

 

I'd eat the Keeley girl in your avatar and call it a night.

 

You invited everyone and you told them to put everything on one tab...

 

you made the same mistake again.

 

When it came time to pay the tab and there wasn't even close to enough money, I personally would've called everyone's attention to it. It's not about begging people to pay their fair share - it's about people being respectful enough of me to pay up. Maybe you don't know some of the people as well as you thought you did? I can't imagine any of my real friends pulling something like that.

For the most part, whenever I go out with friends (for a special occasion or otherwise), we very rarely run a group tab. Buying rounds can also work out unevenly, but it's less of a shock come the end of the evening.

 

Also, the guys tend to pay more than girls so I let my guy friends know how much it came out and let the girls pay about half of what we pay

It usually works out for us

 

really no choice but to eat the $500

 

wouldnt quite say it was the same mistake, being a poor college kid is different from being cheap.

 

these are people we KNOW, not just strangers. I made it clear that I was paying for the limo, and told everyone they needed to bring extra cash to the club because my connection there can hook it up better on one tab. Not sure, why that wouldnt be classy...I paid for the limo and arranged everything. All they were responsible for was a reasonable portion of what they drank at the club. Read the thread more thoroughly before making stupid and obvious comments. Yes, I expected to pay more because I was the host, but I didn't expect this kind of treatment from "friends".