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writes:Hi people. My sister found a place after my dad asking us where we can sell stuff for the summer to make extra cash to pay for school. Last week on a certain day she helped me set up and left. I was there all day from 9am to 7pm without a toilet or lunch break. When I got hone she demanded 50% of the takings. I knew she was supposed to get something but I feel 50% is a bit too much. There wasnt even time to discuss anything. I felt she was greedy and demanding. Was she right to take 50% when I did most of the work alone. Normally we are both there and divide the takings 50-50 when we both donan equal amount of work. Reply to this Question
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reader, Youcannotbeserious +, writes (30 June 2019):
 Next time reverse the situation. YOU help with the set-up, then leave her to it. Then demand 50% of the takings. Her reaction will, hopefully, settle this for you. Either she will pay up 50% and you will feel better, or she will say this is not fair as she has done all the work, then you can say "but that is what you did to me".
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reader, CindyCares  +, writes (30 June 2019):
 Is this right ? It would depend. From what explicitely agreed before yoi two started selling - , but also from the type and scope of your partnership.
IMO, being that you are family, and that generally
( generally being the key word ) you work the same, contribute the same and get the same, if *for once° your sister needed, or even just preferred, to go doing something different, I would not be such a stickler for precision and for proper accounting of every single penny.
Sure, that's what you would do in a regular commercial partnership- but then, you need to draw a formal contract, and get it notarized, registered at your local Chamber of Commerce, or whatnot, according to your local laws….
Note that I said " for once " ; it would be all another matter if your sister had displayed an unpleasent inclination to … disappear and let you hold the fort , again and again. But, since this is not the case, there's actually a very simple way to go even and make sure nobody feels taken adavantage of : YOU too, now, take a day off from the business, leaving all the work to your sister- and at the end of the day, you split 50 / 50. Now- you are even !
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reader, Honeypie  +, writes (30 June 2019):
 What did you agree on BEFORE?
That she would get half? What did you sell? HER stuff?
It's hard to say, but generally, I'd say no, she doesn't get 1/2 IF the stuff wasn't mainly hers and she didn't help out selling the stuff.
Maybe ask your Dad what he thinks is reasonable?
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