Darren and the rest of the people posting on the previous forum.
This is Sam, Willies wife, i had a very interesting read through the post on the forum with regards to the wand my husband bought from Darren and i am disgusted with many of the responses. It seems most of you seem violence is the only way to sort things out.
Can i just say for the record that mu huby did not "bump" the wand off of Darren. We paid via cheque, the day after we paid a large cheque into our account for a big job my husband had done, obviously the cheque was due to clear the day before Darrens did. Now bearing in mind that Darren and Willie both agreed that the wand could ONLY be collected when the cheque had cleared aswell which everyone all round was happy with. Also, when my hubby sent the cheque he sent it with 1 of his marketing cards and business cards and letter headed paper complete with business name, address and phone numbers. If someone was going to "bump" something they wouldnt do that would they. That would be asking for trouble from the start.
A few days later my hubby phoned Darren to see if he had received the cheque as we hadnt heard anything and his response via e-mail was "yup got it, its in the bank" to which my hubby replied "thats great Daren, give me a phone when its cleared and ill come and collect" to which Darren replied "its in the bank mate, you can come through" to which me and Willie both thought it is cleared so off he went to collect the wand. It wasnt until over a week later when Darren phoned to say the cheque had bounced. Now he phoned at 8am and Willie was out workling all day so left it to me to deal with.
An email was sent to Darren explaining we noticed the cheque we paid in had also bounced, so not only were we £700 out of pocket we now had a wand we couldnt pay for, and with my husband just starting up, work was not coming in thick and fast so we asked if we could have 2 weeks to try get the money together to pay him.
Can i also state that Darren was very aggressive on the phone to my husband that night threatning him and when i took the phone to sort it out to prevent the 2 of them saying/doing this they may regret he was still aggressive with me and had a very threatning manner. We agreed to the 2 weeks and i also emailed Darren that night saying i was very taken aback with his attitude and threatning behaviour and not to contact us again if he were going to behave in that way and wait for me to contact him.
Unfortunately, within those 2 weeks we tried everything we could think of to raise the money and to live opurself as the first big job my hubby done the cheque had bounced and we were struggling as a family as well as trying to raise Darrens money. We even copnsidered selling most of his equipment, the ones that we knew would sell, adn just keep 2 of the smaller machines to keep him goin but after listing it, he immediately regretted it and so ended the listing.
My hubby used to work for fire / flood restoarion and through his dad who is also in that line of business got work as a suby up north extracting water from domestics homes and some carpet cleaning. We thought some of these jobs would be cash paid but we later found out that as he was working as a subby through a building contractor he would paid 30days after work was finished so that is not due to come in until mid Dec
Lastly, on Friday Darren phoned and emailed shouting and threatning me, even after i explined my hubby was workin away and i was in the house with the kids and being 6 months pregnant but he would not listen, i dont even think he believed me but to speak to anyone like that is a disgrace. anyway after what seemed an eterntiy he has now agreed to let us pay over 4 weeks @ £60 a week which we are greatful for but could have done without the absue and threats.
I would just like to say to you all that you are all to quick to assume the worst as a new and now struggling company starting to get off , as you all know it is hard and we are genuine ppl who have kept in contact with Darren and offered different methods to pay so next time chaps, please dont be quick to judge or agree that violence is the best way froward.
Shame on many of you