[bad trippy]

Have any of you ever lifted a item "to the value of", from a customer who simply refuses to pay you, or keeps fobing you off. Items could be really nice garden pots, hanging baskets, garden bench etc etc??

[LWC]

Nope

[mci services]

No

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

nah r u tempted 2  

[darren clarke]

no,  just put expaning foam in exhaust

[Tom White]

Nope.

But I have planned revenge attacks; handfuls of carpet tacks strewn around their drive and stuff; but never done it.

Now I try to cut out the 'resentment and revenge' part and go straight for the accepting the loss part; but to be honest it's very rare this happens, and I think the biggest job I've been 'knocked' for is £60 (two £30 cleans), which is nothing in the big scheme of things.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

id b livid couldnt see me letting 60 quid lie

[Tom White]

id b livid couldnt see me letting 60 quid lie

Well, I could get angry, but it wouldn't help; the people who owed me moved (the house was rented).

[bad trippy]

when i was trad yrs ago in the 80s, i once returned all the dirt on the windows of a custy who would not pay up. I dipped me mop in his garden soil, then went over every window  

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

yeah nice 

[Tom White]

when i was trad yrs ago in the 80s, i once returned all the dirt on the windows of a custy who would not pay up. I dipped me mop in his garden soil, then went over every window  

Did you 'return the dirt' to the upstairs windows?

[ClearviewServices]

Nope just move on...

[bad trippy]

every single window Tosh, well i was in my very early twenties then, so i was a bit naughty minded lol

[Ryan @ Transparent, Carlisle]

would it really be worth the "bad press" if anything was to come of it?

[Richard Neal]

i threatened court action for £185 worth of window cleaning for a letting agent, but he said "how can you prove you cleaned them" so i let it drop, still want to chin him though!!

[Johnny B]

The best 'revenge' for me is just to walk away. By not paying me, they have effectively stolen from me, so I don't intend to stoop to their low level by stealing from them. Instead, I will derive some small satisfaction by imagining the ex-customers seeing me cleaning their neighbours' windows at some time in the future through their ever-minging windows, when they can contemplate the error of their non-paying ways.  

John

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

probably wuda chined him m8 

[dai]

I had one that said he wasn't going to pay because I had done them when he was out, and therefore had no proof that they had been done.
I told him I would come back later and talk to his girlfriend who had asked me to do them.
When I returned there was no answer, but I had come prepared and inserted a sliver of bamboo cane deep into the yale lock.
I did have some satisfaction when I next passed the house and noted a piece of cardboard covering a hole where a door pane had been.

[bobby p]

I had one that said he wasn't going to pay because I had done them when he was out, and therefore had no proof that they had been done.
I told him I would come back later and talk to his girlfriend who had asked me to do them.
When I returned there was no answer, but I had come prepared and inserted a sliver of bamboo cane deep into the yale lock.
I did have some satisfaction when I next passed the house and noted a piece of cardboard covering a hole where a door pane had been.

  i love that !   must write down on a bit of paper to remember buy Bamboo to keep near at hand

[G Griffin]

when i was trad yrs ago in the 80s, i once returned all the dirt on the windows of a custy who would not pay up. I dipped me mop in his garden soil, then went over every window  

I did that and they paid up. They said they would, seeing as they were happier with that and not my first clean  .