Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: terrymaloy on January 20, 2011, 01:14:26 pm
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Just cleaned some carpets in a real dodgy area in an empty upstairs flat.
Had to pick the key up from downstairs flat...2 brothers sitting there, pair of slobs, smoking and drinking beer at 9am...(they own the flat upstairs).
Anyway, I cleans the carpets...now that will be £60 please.
He then hands me some paper with a lad's name and address on / phone number and says you need to get the money of him...he's the one that made it a mess !
Told them..sorry thats not quite the way it works ! I clean carpet for you the customer and YOU pay me cash !
So I gets this bull s**t story, we have no money and this guy will pay ?
I've just getting thro to the lad after several attempts and he could'nt hang up the phone quick enough when I introduced myself >:(
How do you think I should play this one because at the moment I feel like going round and shoving their beer down their throats and believe me I will !!!
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That happened to me once
Was given dodgy cheque
My saving grace was absents lad mother sent me a good cheque
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I was had like this for £130 last year, some bunny boiler gave me a piece of paper with an email address and a phone number on it. The cheeky tart rang 3 days later and demanded I get myself back there as I'd missed some urine stain or something... ??? She threatened "If you don't get round here now, you won't be getting paid"
I can't repeat what I said to her on here, suffice to say I never went back and never got paid. I wasn't prepared to let £130 stress me out too much and put it down to bad experience.
By all means try your best to get your money, but don't let it take over too much mate!
But, I will say this, revenge is best served cold. And I'm a very, very patient man ;)
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If they had done it too me they would find all manner of things turning up on their doorstep !!
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Call back tell them you forgot something, when you go back in take a bucket of really dirty smelly water from your tank a few if you can get them in -
tell them pay up or they can have the dirt back ;D
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Terry
Your contract is with the person who you arranged it with in the eyes of the law. Tell them you will pursue at the county court.
Whenever it's even slightly dodgy I mention it's cash on completion and measure their response before considering starting.
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You might have to put it down as a loss mate.Or maybe sorting it out yourself.
Had a cheque bounced years ago and makes you very alert now spec with e o t,s..
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Hi Guys
I too went through this once, cheque from departed tennant bounced, landlord unofficially gave me his new address but said he owed loads.
I went round there but no answer and in the end just gave up and put it down to experience.
The alternative was to beat the living ....... out of him but decided it was not worth it.
Cheers
Doug
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What about small claims court. you have done your bit and you know who asked you to do it.
just get the forms and follow it through.
Revenge will be sweet in time when they think its blown over.
Craig :)
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Just write it off, next time you end up dealing with these scum bags give them a wide berth.
Mark
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Its cost £30 to file a small claim, with little hope of getting it back, I would just let it go, I would be more tempted to put the contents of the waste tank back through the letter box. It is their property after all.
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Golden rule, make it a habit, when someone books a job ask;
'and how do you wish to pay'
Simple line which takes all the ambiguity out of any situation, in this instance they would have informed you it was someone else and this would I am sure flagged up with you that there may be a problem and you would asked for payment up front.
I think you know its unlikely that you will see any payment and by sounds of them a seven day notice will be water of a ducks back.
Try a few door knocks when passing you might get lucky but I wouldn't bet on it.
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I feel like going round and shoving their beer down their throats and believe me I will !!!
do this, if you know you will win a violent encounter then go round and threaten to kick thier teeth in. Ok its not the legal way to do it but its the only way you will see any money.
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Fill a squeezy bottle full of brake fluid and squirt it all over his car at 3am. Job done, and you will feel sooooo much better for it.
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Fill a squeezy bottle full of brake fluid and squirt it all over his car at 3am. Job done, and you will feel sooooo much better for it.
this would be illegal ;) so is my suggestion but at least mine is morally right ;D
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try to stay within the law
or get a hitman
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I'm getting loads of EOT at the moment I'm sick of them, "it's not right dirty" seems to be the opening phrase or "i'm looking for the cheapest" that's the problem with the internet sometimes.
Shaun
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Matthew
Doubt they would have a car, they sound like 2 drunken layabouts. perhaps they are thinking of paying you when they get their giros lol
No its not funny. dont know how I would react in this situation all i know is i would be seething
Paul
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It`s not just the cheapskates either,I did a job beginning of last week,way out of my catchment area,100 mile round trip,just for a lounge,did the job,oh it`s our daughter who is paying you,has she not said ?
Er no,bearing in mind their house was like buck palace,never seen so many antiques,they were obviously very loaded,i am now having to chase the daughter for the money !!
Oh i have passed the invoice over too my husband,he will be paying you,that was last Friday,still waiting >:(
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i had one mad lady knock me for £80 a few years back .. turned up to clean this house and went in the front door to be met with somthing out of life of grime..... was fumming so went and got pile broom and swept up ... then got the ninja as far as the front door , went in and presprayed everything in sight lol ... the carpet , ive seen better in the tip but after the clean was gleaming like brand new as they do ...
then the payment part ..... gave the invoice , then she went looking for the chq book in all the piles of s..t around - says ill sign it and you fill in the rest ... nothing strange yet :-\ till she passes me a PAYING in book ,, says sorry love thats a paying in book , so off she go's to find the chq book -- comes back , found it love , hands me it --- sorry love thats also a paying book >:( now getting angry so says look here's the invoice , its got 14 days , and just to help here's a S.A E to send it back -- left then looking forward to getting money in post
14 days now gone, still no payment >:( >:( >:( so on the phone and asks if she sent payment -- she chirps up sorry mate not paying as i had my friends round after and they all said the carpet was worse than before you cleaned it ........................... :o well after picking myself up of the floor in shock , we then went on to see who can say the best swearing words ... she won lol
so never got the money >:(
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What you need to do is go looking for a mound of dog crap, scoop it up in a bag and in the hours of darkness, go to their car and smear it under their car door handles and around the front door handle of their house.
I did this to an old neighbour of mine who let his dog crap anywhere without picking it up. I watched him try to get into his car the following morning for work and his reaction was well worth it. Most satisfying!
;D ;D ;D
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Creosote the origanal and still the best prespray for non payers ;D
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I'm with mike on this, as the Irish say speak softly and carry a big stick
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I had a letting company give me the run around, they kept saying cheque in the post, I went in to the office and the manager would not see me so I said that I was returning the next day at 1pm and I wanted the cheque, the next day I had worked myself up so much that when I went in and got the "he's not in" I took my jumper off and started unbuttoning my shirt and said I was going to rip the f'lippin door off to his office if I didn't get my money, he came out and signed the cheque infront of me.
Shaun
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Shaun thats what can happen and if you let it get to you and get ourselves worked up.
Had it myself a good few years ago..
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Stick a drawing pin in the dog muck on the car door handle.
When it pricks their finger they'll put it straight in their gob.
Going nearly 3 years now and only person who hasn't paid
me is my mates son. Don't like telling him even though he gave
his son the money.
John
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Talking to a carpet fitter about this , he had one who owed him ,went round squirted water out of a squeezy bottle all over her kitchen tops etc then got is ligher out - What you doing? asked the customer, Ive just put lighter fluid over your kitchen and unless you pay me right now I'm going to light it !
They paid .
Mike
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Sorry, guys, all these revenge & threat tactics may make you feel better in the short term, but the older I get, the more I see my Mum was right when I was a kid.
"If you do it back, you'll make yourself as bad as them - two wrongs don't make a right."
Sounds goody-goody, but I get more satisfaction just knowing I did right, and that if other people want to be rip-off merchants, that's their problem. My good reputation, and self-satisfaction, is worth more than the £100 or whatever. The best revenge is to live a good life. :)
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If you let it brew it will bug you for months or even years, face it now and do something about it.
On Christmas eve, me and the wife went to a large farm that supply pubs and restaurants with top quality meats and poultry. We went to pick up our Christmas turkey and a load of other meats and pork pies (they sell to public).
The tarmac lane going down to the farm is only very narrow and just enough width for one car. Along the half mile lane is various passing lay-by’s to pull in to let people through, or vice versa.
After we picked up our stuff, we drove off heading back down the lane (which was frozen and slippy). A car was approaching us from the opposite direction.
There were no passing places near where our car was to pull in, but I noticed he was approaching one to his right. Sure enough the ignorant c*** decided that he was not going to pull in, but continue towards us.
I could see he had no intention to pull over, so stupidly, god knows why, I gave in and pulled over on to the grass verge at the side of the lane to let this arse hole pass.
He drove passed and glared at us, no thank you wave, nothing. And I was left with hardly no traction in the snow covered verge. My car is a BMW and useless in snow (rear wheel drive).
This incident is so petty and I know it is, but yet it has played on my mind ever since that day. At the time my mood stooped soon after. I kept on reflecting throughout the day at this stupid incident and what I should have done at the time. I wish I would have stood my ground and made him pull over onto the grass, or got out and gave him what he was asking for.
My wife kept asking me what I was thinking about, and was amazed that I was still brewing on it 6hrs later.
Matt
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I had a letting company give me the run around, they kept saying cheque in the post, I went in to the office and the manager would not see me so I said that I was returning the next day at 1pm and I wanted the cheque, the next day I had worked myself up so much that when I went in and got the "he's not in" I took my jumper off and started unbuttoning my shirt and said I was going to rip the f'lippin door off to his office if I didn't get my money, he came out and signed the cheque infront of me.
Shaun
That's a good tip Shaun. Start taking your kit off and scare their customers away. Nice one. ;)