[Tim82]

 Whats the most you have lost due to customers not paying, moving away etc? I am currently trying to get £80 off a woman who is avoiding me. Thats my record at the moment (I hopefully wont be silly enough to let it get that much in future)  It really stings!

[simon knight]

£20

Like the mug I am I accepted a cheque which bounced. Bank didn't tell me until 10 days after I'd paid it in by which time the custy had buggered off back to Holland.

Oh well :

[Paul Coleman]

Whats the most you have lost due to customers not paying, moving away etc? I am currently trying to get £80 off a woman who is avoiding me. Thats my record at the moment (I hopefully wont be silly enough to let it get that much in future)  It really stings!

£70.  It was for one clean.
However, a couple of years later, I was delighted to hear that he had been taken for 6 million.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bad person.

[Tim82]

isnt it true the richest people are the most tight

[www.mrgutters.co.uk]

£630 3 months cleaning at a block of flats the management company cant pay me as there is no money in the fund so we have stopped all work on this site.

as she told me" we will pay you when we pay you" thats the best she can do.

as the flats have been in the red on the maintanance fund for 1 year

that sucks big time


shawn

[simon knight]

I now have a rule: Up to £10 the custy can "pay me next time"...but if they don't there's NO 3rd clean until they anti-up.

This way worst case scenario I lose £20...which I can live with.

[birdymiller]

isnt it true the richest people are the most tight

No

It is in my book

[mark311069]

isnt it true the richest people are the most tight

YES

[spark1]

isnt it true the richest people are the most tight

 
No its the middle classes who think there rich,and think they own bigger houses than window cleaners.

[jon adams]

everybodys view is different

                                             Jon

[geefree]

isnt it true the richest people are the most tight

No

yes def.

[ronnie paton]

£830

[simon knight]

My mum's what I'd call middle class and as tight as a gnats arse. She'll happily walk half a mile in the pouring rain to save 4p on a tin of baked beans...haggles whenever she gets the chance...in her house lights are off in every room except the one she is in...when I visit it's bloody freezing in the house because she refuses to put on the heating until it's around minus 2 degrees C. And then only to bring the temperature up to +4 degrees :..and then it's off again!

Trust me she's not poor...just really careful with her money.

Thank God she is!....this is my inheritance we're talking about

She used to have a window cleaner until muggins here took it up...bi-monthly I do them...paid?..yeah right!

Yep the middle class are easily the worst imo.

[Chris Galloway]

My mum's what I'd call middle class and as tight as a gnats arse. She'll happily walk half a mile in the pouring rain to save 4p on a tin of baked beans...haggles whenever she gets the chance...in her house lights are off in every room except the one she is in...when I visit it's bloody freezing in the house because she refuses to put on the heating until it's around minus 2 degrees C. And then only to bring the temperature up to +4 degrees :..and then it's off again!

Trust me she's not poor...just really careful with her money.

Thank God she is!....this is my inheritance we're talking about

She used to have a window cleaner until muggins here took it up...bi-monthly I do them...paid?..yeah right!

Yep the middle class are easily the worst imo.

Just think, that money shes not paying you is earning interest in the bank for you at a later date

[simon knight]

My mum's what I'd call middle class and as tight as a gnats arse. She'll happily walk half a mile in the pouring rain to save 4p on a tin of baked beans...haggles whenever she gets the chance...in her house lights are off in every room except the one she is in...when I visit it's bloody freezing in the house because she refuses to put on the heating until it's around minus 2 degrees C. And then only to bring the temperature up to +4 degrees :..and then it's off again!

Trust me she's not poor...just really careful with her money.

Thank God she is!....this is my inheritance we're talking about

She used to have a window cleaner until muggins here took it up...bi-monthly I do them...paid?..yeah right!

Yep the middle class are easily the worst imo.

Just think, that money shes not paying you is earning interest in the bank for you at a later date

Didn't think of that

[gerard mcmanus]

probably only about a tenner, I really dont give people an inch when it comes to this, you end up losing to much money.

gerard 

[Dean Taberner]

£6712 for cleaning boots and abbey nationals that i never got paid for

Totally conned by  woman who subbed off maclellan,
paid fine to start with but then just stopped!

[Tim82]

Wow that last ones a stonker  ...thanks for the supplies

[simon knight]

£6712 for cleaning boots and abbey nationals that i never got paid for

Totally conned by  woman who subbed off maclellan,
paid fine to start with but then just stopped!

Dear God why did you let it get to that level?

[Tim82]

 Update:  Finally got paid from her after over a year of knocking when I was cleaning next door! She paid me £40 (half of it) and said she had complained and cancelled (which she hadn't) after the first clean. And just didn't bother cancelling "again" and let me keep coming a few more cleans! All the while with a smug look on her face. She even had the nerve to say she preferred her previous window cleaner because he was "nicer"! (I'm a very polite person). Anyway, just shows persistence pays off sometimes!