[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Shaun

I like your style.

Roger

[garyj]

Tell her you will do it for free then do not turn up.

Then phone her and say FIFTEEN ALL 

[clinton]

I would call it a day now with her.

Dont care if she is in a tennis comp or not no one should be messed around like that and am sure she would have had someone to let you in if she really wanted you mate...

[Gerry Styles]

I would tell her to shove it

[elite mike]

Tell her you will do it for free then do not turn up.

Then phone her and say FIFTEEN ALL 

thats a classic, brilliant

[Mike Osbourne]

Here's a conversation I had with someone after letting me down once.

me: OK, I understand, these things happen and I'm sure you understand that even though I can come back another day I've essentially lost that £130 because it's too short notice to book someone else in for Tuesday, yeah?

custy: sorry blah blah blah:

me: So if we commit to Thurday at 9.00am that's cast in stone is it?

custy: Oh yes, definitely.

me: Ok That's fine, now are you sure, because I will need a £50 deposit as it's  policy in these circumstance, but that's not a problem is it because you will be there, won't you.


So either they backpeddle and stop wasting your time or they pay up. Therefore whatever happens you are suddenly in a winning position.

I get deposits now  from anybody who seems flaky anyway and never had a problem.

I'm currently working on the 'I won't be there today but I will drop a cheque in the post' Do you say I ain't coming or do the job and hope?





 

[Jim_77]

I don't have a problem walking away with no cheque, I don't really work for too many customers who I'd be worried about getting paid by.  I think that comes from where I've set myself in the market, i.e. spending a little longer and working for higher prices, rather than the high volume approach.

I think we all forget that the domestic market isn't really a problem when it comes to getting paid, it's commercial customers who seem to lose their cheque book when it's time to cough up.

I've got a county court claim pending at the moment, the company have until, well, tomorrow to pay me.. no cheque arrived in the post this morning.  I just can't fathom the mentality, this company is going to have a CCJ against it by Tuesday morning, I'm not pi$$ing around any more asking for the money.

Who would run a business like that??!

[Mike Osbourne]

Just got a cheque today from North Somerset Council, just checked, the job was done in May and it was, can you get down here tomorrow morning when they called. :

[gwrightson]

job done today

paid up, with sincere aploigies   .

She did afterall seem a real genuine case of circumstances going wrong, even in the bathroom their was still plumbing going on, any way saga over

not quite as annoyed now

Geoff

[derek west]

did she win?