[mitch2810]

Gordon, when you say he shafted me before, he actually did pay after 3 months and a letter from the courts. When he asked me to do the work this time I insisted on payment on completion, which is what I got, albeit in the form of a rubber cheque. On reflection I should have asked for cash up front, but how many times have you done that? One thing`s for certain and that is there will not be a third time!
Your advice is really good but sometimes we have to move the goalposts and we lose sight of the risks involved. This, unfortunately is when we get bitten.
You ask would this have made a difference to me in this situation and the answer is yes, because if I had read a post on here descibing how this guy does business then I wouldn`t have gone near him.
Phil

[murky]

I did a job 2 years ago for letting agency, they said go direct to custy. Big job £350 inc vat. Massive house a barn conversion EOT clean plus carpets.

Well he wouldnt pay, 'just got back from holiday, cheque in post, Oh havent we paid you etc etc'. He stopped answering my calls i suppose when he saw my number come up.

When I was bigger I used to use a firm from Liverpool called Thomas Higgins & Co. They are specialist debt collector Solicitors. If someone bounced a cheque on me £30 or whatever just filled in form on fax  and sent it. Guaranteed within 1 week payment.

Rang them up, go online they gave me a ref no, filled in form on line, customers name, address, post code (very important), amount owed for services rendered etc etc, no complaints about the work.

They send a LBA (letter before action).

Cheque came through last week direct from the custy with complete funds. Oh and a compliment slip.

They do it all on computer, no deduction for costs. I assume they make their money when it goes to court and you have to make a decission is it worth it pursuing it.

They have never let me down yet. Cant recommend them enough.

Thomas Higgins & Co, Liverpool.

Good luck.

Murky

[GWCS]

I did a job 2 years ago for letting agency, they said go direct to custy. Big job £350 inc vat. Massive house a barn conversion EOT clean plus carpets.

Well he wouldnt pay, 'just got back from holiday, cheque in post, Oh havent we paid you etc etc'. He stopped answering my calls i suppose when he saw my number come up.

When I was bigger I used to use a firm from Liverpool called Thomas Higgins & Co. They are specialist debt collector Solicitors. If someone bounced a cheque on me £30 or whatever just filled in form on fax  and sent it. Guaranteed within 1 week payment.

Rang them up, go online they gave me a ref no, filled in form on line, customers name, address, post code (very important), amount owed for services rendered etc etc, no complaints about the work.

They send a LBA (letter before action).

Cheque came through last week direct from the custy with complete funds. Oh and a compliment slip.

They do it all on computer, no deduction for costs. I assume they make their money when it goes to court and you have to make a decission is it worth it pursuing it.

They have never let me down yet. Cant recommend them enough.

Thomas Higgins & Co, Liverpool.

Good luck.

Murky

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[murky]

Pleasure.

Let us know how you get on, person who handled mine for me is Tracey McIver, just looking through the file they send you a paper copy of the proceeding and they want copies of the bounced cheques front and back, date presented etc etc.

Mine went back to Nov 2007 and was for £364.25.

They send a very official looking letter saying you are due in Court on a specific date. It would certainly scare me if I got 1.

Oh and its Thomas Higgins Partnership, Wallasey.

Murky

[clinton]

Going to keep this an we never know when it will be needed