I took a friend fishing and he broke a pole. Before we left to go fishing I told him that each of my rods are about $40 and that I don't like having to buy a new one unless I break it. He said he knew what he was doing and was insulted that I was telling him "how to fish". Well, we go out and I look over after a couple of spots and see an eye barely hanging on and bent. Now I notice this because I know the condition of ALL of my equipment (NEW or well taken care of) and wouldn't of even been using that rod in it's condition to begin with. If it ws like that before I would have fixed it. So anyway I notice it and he begins to get hot that he didn't do it and this and that and says he noticed it early and knew he would be blamed for it. Well anyway he says he will pay for it after I wasn't really saying that much other than that I knew I didn't do it. But he was still mad and left the $40 on a table at my house. Now, my delima is this...Do I replace it with the same rod or a better one with me chipping in a few bucks...No really, I know the guy and he is CHEAP and I think if he really hadn't of done it he wouldn't have left the money. But my main question is this...Do any of yall expect to have broken equipment replaced by the breakee? Now if it were a 10 dollar Walmart rod then no big deal. But at 40 bucks a pop replacement of busted rods can get expensive real quick.