[Sunshine Cleaning]

Cleaning an inside I broke an expensive Hare!

Don't know how much it will cost, but i'm glad i'm insured!!

[S_RICHARDSON]

Toot Toot! 

How did you manage that? 

How Expensive was it?

Shaun R. 

[supernova77]

Poor thing - It looks really startled!

 

Andy

[S_RICHARDSON]

Poor thing - It looks really startled!

 

Andy

Shaun R.

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

hare today........gone tomorrow

[Roy Harding]

It was only 18 months old any way, a ear and a half.


Roy

[brett walker]

I thought it was just ear say

some customers will move all ornaments out of the windows but its annoying when they dont

Brett

[KarlJones]

I bet that was a bit of a hare raising moment when you saw it falling.

[rugby]

did you hop it

[Paul Coleman]

Cleaning an inside I broke an expensive Hare!

Don't know how much it will cost, but i'm glad i'm insured!!

My record was £200 for a broken patio table.  Anyone beat my £200?

[Paul Coleman]

This hare is £275.

Ouch.  Is it worth claiming on your insurance?  Many have highish excesses and you can end up paying higher premiums in subsequent years which can make it cheaper to cough up yourself.
If you do cough up yourself, get a receipt from the customer and offset it against tax.  You can do thisd with any insurance excess you have to pay as well.  At least you can save about a third of the cost of any outlay by offsetting it (22% tax + 11% (I think) N.I.) - more if you are a higher rate taxpayer.

[crystal.clear]

a man who used to work for me dropped is ladder in high winds and smashed straight through a car window screen. cost over a £500

[pylofm]

I broke an outside light today.. ...turned out to be 18.95 euro's  , so I told her that her clean would not be charged 40 euro....seems fair as I do not wish to loose customers.

[shammy davis jnr]

use imacc and the whole thing will just dissapear 

[JM123]

broke a pathetic looking eagle ornament once by closing a bathroom window with the pole and the ornament was on the window sill behind it.  I reckon it was worth about £3.95 but she produced a receipt for it for £450 - I reckon she showed me a receipt for a sofa or something cuz this thing was awfully cheap looking.  Still had to pay it though, my insurance excess is £500.

[KarlJones]

The cheapest way I can see out of this is to buy a new one, and sell the old one as repaired on Ebay.

You can expain on Ebay what happened, show pics of it broke and glued back on and show a link to the actual prices for brand new.
I am sure someone out there would buy it, especially if the repair looks good.

[JM123]

 the old bat wanted to hang on to it as well, I couldn't be bothered time wasting so I let her have it.

[Paul Coleman]

the old bat wanted to hang on to it as well, I couldn't be bothered time wasting so I let her have it.

Now that seems a bit off.  If you replace it, the old one belongs to you surely?
Mind you, when I broke the patio table I couldn't be bothered to "claim" the old one.  However, that was an item that was harder to transport.

[KarlJones]

What would you have done if this had happened to you in the first week or so,  I wonder if that is another reason so many new commers give up?

[JM123]

yeah but this 'eagle' was so ugly I didn't want it anyway.

BTW it was smashed into bits.

Oh yeah, for a newbie it would put em off for life.