Curious about opinions re: large cash drop while afk

[bulbousaur]

This past weekend my group worked its way to crypt camp in Seb. The Heiro wasn't up so we sat in his room and half the group went afk (we didn't know when he would spawn). He spawned a minute or so later and of course dropped the cloak.

We rolled and one player won the roll. A few minutes later another who was afk came back and asked if he should be able to roll seeing as he was afk when the mob spawned.

The general consensus was that he should - we didn't know the Heiro would spawn so quickly, and it's not like he'd been afk 20 minutes.

Well, he rolled and beat the previous winner's roll by 1.

The previous winner handed it over, but wasn't happy. Later he asked that the sale price of the cloak be split between himself and the last winner, although the second winner said that he would actually wear the robe.

I'm curious as to what the general community thinks about this situation?