[TechAssist] Re: bad checks??
- From: "Jeff Farnsworth" <jlfonz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:04:28 -0500
I had to physically throw out a couple of guys like this over the years.
Guess my buisness was going to good att he time to care. In fact buisness
was so good that it helped me have 3 heart attacks and 2 sets of 5 bypasses.
The last lady problem (which was so aggravating that it helped me right into
my last set of bypasses and the end of my buisness for health reasons) Was
bitching because she wanted a free estimate. I had given free estimates for
years but had finally gotten smart and charged for them. She said that I
advertised free estimates in the yellow pages. I said yes we used to--in
LAST YEARS yellow pages. (estimate fee signs posted everywhere in the shop)
AND that we NEVER advertised or have NEVER given free estimates on audio
equipment. She said she could do somethingg about this. 4 days later---a
letter from the BBB. This lady had gone straight back to work at the county
courthouse and wrote a letter on taxpayer time and faxed it from taxpayers
equipment. Called BBB--they agreed the lady was a bitch (literally) and I
forwarded a copy of the complaint and a brief letter asking her boss if this
was the way my tax dollars should be spent.
PS Up to that point I had recieved a BBB complaint for approx for every 2000
repairs. Not bad---huh
TV Doctor
Avalon, Wi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: bad checks??
> Yep, it just ain't worth it sometimes, and you have to let it go.
> That was very difficult for me to do for the first few years I was in
> business, but the mental relief when you decide to release it is well
worth
> it. Luckily there aren't many who will try to screw you.
>
> Once, when I was just a pup, and I was working for someone else, I went on
a
> delivery and on the way back we stopped by a house where they complained
> about a snowy picture. There was no one home but all we had to do was look
> up at the antenna to see why, didn't even get out of the truck. Later I
was
> in the shop when I heard the owner give a guy a new antenna for free
because
> he was griping. I asked him about it after the guy left and found out he
was
> the guy whose house we stopped at and saw the antenna with the elements
> broken off, laying on the roof and ground, and hanging down. He claimed we
> broke his antenna. I could never understand why the owner just gave him a
> new one to take home, until I had been in business for quite a few years
> myself, then it all began to make sense. It ain't worth fighting over.
>
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul" <dntwntv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:30 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: bad checks??
>
>
> > Hi Larry
> > From the replies so far, it seems we have all been taken at one
time
> or another. If your in business, of just about any kind, for any length of
> time, you have to deal with people who take advantage of you if they can.
> As you can see there is no" one way" to deal with your situation. I have
> usually written it off the few I have had in 25 years, as a bad debt.
Reason
> being that most of the other effective alternatives,are more costly in the
> long run. If you have the time and the inclination, and you use a work
> invoice that has a repairman's lien clause in it, and if you have a law
> enforcement agency that is willing to help,you can can take possession of
> the equipment till the bill is satisfied. However this may not prove to be
> profitable in the long run either. One other thing if you don't get a
> diagnostic fee up front, you might want to start. At least you have some
> thing for your effort.
> > Paul
> >
> > larry <schntv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > i had an experience i didnt know how to solve.
> > i repaired a tv, customer picked up and paid 75 with check.
> > 10 days later i get a letter from my bank saying they withdrew
> > the 75 from my account because the check was stop payment.
> > i called the customer and would always be told the man wasnt home,
> > finally i did talk to him a week later.
> > he said he stooped payment because he didnt think it was good
> > enough picture.
> > i said why didnt you call me , or bring it back , so i could
> > make it right.
> > at least let me have my parts back.
> > he said no.
> > and that i should take him to court for the 75 if i like. and
> > hung up.
> > i contacted my attorney, who said forget it , you been screwed.
> > the set probably works fine and he knows you cant afford to
> > sue him.
> > and since then i found that he could have also stooped payment
> > on a credit card if he had used one.
> > are there any answers to this type of problem???
> > Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Schneider TV & Electronic Inc.
> > 5415 N. Wooster ave.
> > Dover, Ohio 44622 www.geocities.com/schntv2000/
> > 330-343-0768 FCC. first class & Extra class K8WLY
> >
> >
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