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Marc Whitbread

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Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« on: February 17, 2015, 09:16:16 pm »
 Got a call from a custy today to say he was sorry to do this but he was paying my bill at the same time as his credit card and he'd paid me £2,050 if I had received it could I have it back?! funny thing is ages ago he asked for a slip to pay online he then later said he'd paid cash and more or less said I'd had the cash and in future he wanted a receipt then found his bill i'd left! good job I am honest!!  :o  anyone else ever had a wrong transfer?

LWC

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2015, 09:26:02 pm »
One of lads went collecting once and got given the "gardeners" envelope instead of ours. £30 job we got given £300! Lol, obviously took it back...but £300 for a gardener...im in the wrong job  ;D

PoleKing

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2015, 09:29:21 pm »
One of lads went collecting once and got given the "gardeners" envelope instead of ours. £30 job we got given £300! Lol, obviously took it back...but £300 for a gardener...im in the wrong job  ;D

Months work ;D
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Marc Whitbread

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2015, 09:30:51 pm »
One of lads went collecting once and got given the "gardeners" envelope instead of ours. £30 job we got given £300! Lol, obviously took it back...but £300 for a gardener...im in the wrong job  ;D

Months work ;D

I was going to say  ;D gardeners arent on huge ammounts! did she know she had given you wrong one?

chris turner

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2015, 09:47:33 pm »
I had a customer pay me £100 for gutters and windows cleaned, 2 weeks later she transferred me the same payment.
When I informed her she had paid twice she insisted that she hadn't paid already lol
I told her to check her online banking, which she then realised she had already paid but had no recollection of doing it!
She isn't old enough for dementia, only In her 40s, must be early menopause I reckons.

Tony dunmall

Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2015, 10:18:25 pm »
I have a £55 job
Paid me just short 5 k paid me instead his parents solicitor
Nice while it lasted

Stephen.C

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2015, 11:16:24 pm »
 Can anyone beat this? We did commercial for £300.00 and got paid £30,000 they were on the phone as quick as a flash.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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LWC

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2015, 11:47:11 pm »
Should of put it in a high interest account quickly ha

CleanClear

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2015, 12:00:09 am »
I got paid £240 instead of £24. She told me to keep it and just let it chop away every month. Never again, i'd withdraw the whole lot and insist they take it back. My insurance on my van was due when i got paid it so it came in handy, but i felt like i was cleaning for nothing for ages afterwards. £12 job.
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rosskesava

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2015, 12:46:11 am »
I did a builders clean on a very large house for a managing agents a good few years ago who paid me £325 instead of £75 by bacs. When a few days later I realised I phoned up and spoke to a very disinterested receptionist who told me that I was the lucky one and to keep it which made no sense. She simply didn't want to know.

Being not sure what to do I phoned up again a week or so later and the phone line was no longer in use. Then I sent two letters, the first one by ordinary post and the second by recorded delivery. The recorded delivery one was undelivered.

On the next rainy day a few weeks after, and a few months after being over paid, I drove to their office about 30 odd miles away to read a notice on the front door something about anyone having a claim against the company to put it in writing to an address given who were the appointed receivers or something like that.

I never heard any more about it.

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Walter Mitty

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2015, 06:04:25 am »
I was once sent a cheque that was meant for the plumber - plus my own cheque in the same envelope.  I had no phone number for her and wasn't due within a few miles of her house for a while so I just posted it back with a covering note.

Frankybadboy

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2015, 07:25:09 am »
Can anyone beat this? We did commercial for £300.00 and got paid £30,000 they were on the phone as quick as a flash.
have you give it back yet ;D

deeege

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2015, 08:05:02 am »
In a previous business we were not invoiced for a £38,000.00 purchase for 3 years! We obviously kept the money aside and paid when they realised. At about 5% interest this earned a good few quid.

A friend of mine recently got a cheque from his mortgage company for the value of his house, over £160,000.00.  :o The idiot gave it straight back.

"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

Susan Dean (1stclean)

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2015, 08:27:28 am »
buy law I have heard that you don't have to give it back which is discusting

Amazin

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2015, 09:18:08 am »
I did a builders clean on a very large house for a managing agents a good few years ago who paid me £325 instead of £75 by bacs. When a few days later I realised I phoned up and spoke to a very disinterested receptionist who told me that I was the lucky one and to keep it which made no sense. She simply didn't want to know.

Being not sure what to do I phoned up again a week or so later and the phone line was no longer in use. Then I sent two letters, the first one by ordinary post and the second by recorded delivery. The recorded delivery one was undelivered.

On the next rainy day a few weeks after, and a few months after being over paid, I drove to their office about 30 odd miles away to read a notice on the front door something about anyone having a claim against the company to put it in writing to an address given who were the appointed receivers or something like that.

I never heard any more about it.



respect

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buy law I have heard that you don't have to give it back which is discusting

thats ridiculous

pdale

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2015, 02:03:46 pm »
I worry I'm going to do this every time i transfer money to my ex wife
Where am I knocking today?

pdale

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2015, 02:07:28 pm »
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buy law I have heard that you don't have to give it back which is discusting

Yes you do. There's been a number of cases of people going on a spending spree, such as in the link below, it's classed as 'dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595560/Make-hay-sun-shines-Family-defend-woman-went-spree-council-accidentally-gave-52-000.html
Where am I knocking today?

deeege

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2015, 03:27:58 pm »
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buy law I have heard that you don't have to give it back which is discusting

Yes you do. There's been a number of cases of people going on a spending spree, such as in the link below, it's classed as 'dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595560/Make-hay-sun-shines-Family-defend-woman-went-spree-council-accidentally-gave-52-000.html

That's correct (haven't read the garbage link 😃)

I beleive you are well within your rights to bank it though, as long as you return it when asked to do so.
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

supernova77

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2015, 05:15:43 pm »
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Got a call from a custy today to say he was sorry to do this but he was paying my bill at the same time as his credit card and he'd paid me £2,050 if I had received it could I have it back?! funny thing is ages ago he asked for a slip to pay online he then later said he'd paid cash and more or less said I'd had the cash and in future he wanted a receipt then found his bill i'd left! good job I am honest!!  Shocked  anyone else ever had a wrong transfer?

Drinks are on you next time at The Waterwitch then mate  ;)

Maybe he's fiddling his turnover for a mortgage or something?   When you pay it back he can show an additional £2025 as turnover?

Andy

slap bash

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Re: Customer paid me £2050 instead of £25!
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2015, 06:08:57 pm »
I had a clean some time back for an American moving back to USA and my bill was 28 quid she paid me 280 quid. Only seeing the mistake after I did the banking I tried to return the excess and she had already left so a good score for me.