Friend cancels group's luxurious vacation home booking after some don't pay their share: 'I told them that the house we had looked at was gone'

Any time responsibility and accountability is spread to thinly without the individuals themselves having the possibility of facing consequence for their actions people stop feeling the need to or trying to do the right thing as they normally would. See the bystander effect and **insert metaphor for society here**.

You see this play out in group projects and the same is true in any instance where you're trying to get to big of a group together to do something with each person being accountable and doing their part.

Attempting to organize a trip for 12 "friends" to all stay in a vacation house together is a recipe for disaster. I've tried something like this once, and will only ever try it that one time. For starters, tell me, honestly, that you can get 12 people in the same room together who all actually get along with each other… Because you'll find that these types of friend groups apply the term "friend" quite liberally. There's always drama with interwoven relationships, romantic interests, and clashing personalieites contributing significantly. There's just no way to keep that many people socially engaged without some messy histories developing.

So, you're already on the backfoot on the fact that quite a few of these people you're trying to get to stay in house together, well, hate each other. Now you're expecting all of these people to agree on something together too and pay you their fair share. 

Long story short, you're going to have a bad time, just like this friend did when they tried to organize a trip for themself and their 11 closest friends. They shared their experience with this online community wondering if they were in the wrong for booking a cheaper and smaller place when their friends refused to front up for the deposit.