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stevegunn

Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2007, 06:55:49 am »
Yes its true that if an insurance claim is likely the customer does not want you to succeed.

A good few years ago I got called to remove radiator black leakage on the carpet and was told off by a customer........... for doing too good a job!


Get that all the time ;D

stains-away

Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2007, 10:02:31 am »
Why would the customer wait a couple of weeks before contacting her insurance company, and why contact them first before contacting you to see if the problem could be sorted if she had any intention of getting the stain removed, sounds to me like she was after a new carpet full stop.

I had one customer who wanted me to write a letter for her insurers stating that the carpet couldn't be cleaned without seeing the job, when I replied that I wouldn't do that I was asked to go and quote the job, which I did and removed one part of the stain as a test.

The customer wouldn't accept the quote (which was a minimum charge job anyway) and asked again if I would write a letter for her insurers, when I said no as the stain would come out she got quite verbal, stating that by removing part of the stain I had left a clean patch on the carpet (hardly surprising really, call a carpet cleaner and they might just clean it  ;D ), the end result was she called in someone else who wrote a report for the insurance and the carpeting throughout the bottom of the house was written off, she got a holiday on the procedes and the carpet was cleaned by someone else  when she got back, hey ho.............................


Ian Gourlay

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Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2007, 10:33:56 am »
Andy



What sort of stain

Was it ink spead allover hall and lounge?

Trodden in  as if you were treading grapes?

malcom1961

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Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2007, 01:00:26 pm »
I would smile, pay her the money back and move on. However I would equally agree with someone who shoves the survey small print in her face and says no way.

Because it's how you feel about it in the end that counts.

Also wondering if you will get entangled with insurance and last to touch it blame.

paul wright

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Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2007, 01:16:36 pm »
 they woudlnt hav a hope of getting the money back for he clean as i allways state before i even start cleaning that i cant promise to get every mark out , if hey dont agree then i walk away

stains-away

Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2007, 01:27:31 pm »
Andy



What sort of stain

Was it ink spead allover hall and lounge?

Trodden in  as if you were treading grapes?

Hi Ian, no, it was a grease job, tail lift grease on the hall and a couple of stairs, the carpet ran from the hall through the lounge and diner with woven seems hence they paid for replacement on the lot.

Ian Gourlay

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Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #26 on: October 25, 2007, 02:35:47 pm »
the one im talking about with ink i think they dropped cartridge in hall then spread it into lounge Then tried all kinds of stff on it.

I told insurance company they cost them  £130  if I tried but as there was so much i was not promising a happy customer at end.

steve horne

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Re: Advise please. Angry customer...
« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2007, 05:21:29 pm »
If i can add my 10 pence worth, only one of you should have been in charge of what is said to custy, it's not demoralising but if you take someone with you, they should either pass all comments and questions onto who quoted, or before you go out with anyone working with you, both of you have to mimic each other Re: I can't promise but we will give it 100% effort.
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