"Nate" wrote
Should be:
You _sound_ really immature by using every excuse you can.
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19 years ago
PLEASE HELP Contractor NOW wants money!!! (little long)
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19 years ago
1) Yes, I have had his trailer for a long time.
2)Yes, for a long time.
3) Yes for a long time, and he couldn't use it.4) No words were spoken over duration or monetary.
5) Your point being........??????????P.S. one neighbor had cancer, next cardic, 3rd has deformed arm.. and the 4th who could help me ,worked weekdays and could only help weekends... which were raining cats/dogs.(now, he's trying to get daughter into college)
P.S.S. If I had KNOWN of the charges, I would've hired help for about HALF of what I am trying to be charged NOW!
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19 years ago
you can do this... you can do that...
..and what do you do when it's pouring rain outside and you have to cut the grass? Be a man? yeahrightsure
Don't gimme that macho BS!
Maybe within YOUR business you can afford on spending OTHER peoples hard-earned dollars, and I bet if you were to be a man (ie literate) and read the full posts AND IT BEING YOUR COMPANY, or YOUR hard earned dollar, maybe you'd think twice before posting some ignorant message such as " I am mighty and I can-do-it-all"
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19 years ago
we al do it form time to yime! LOL
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19 years ago
Can't thank you enough Xeroid!
Your advice was right on the money (so to speak)... If within court, your judgement would be true and shooting straight!
It's true. I never stated how long I'd need the trailer... and, it's true, the company never stated how long I could use it... No monetary terms where spoken before-hand, so.......
Full price of the shed(s) being moved is expected, and full price of the PROFIT of the trailer is negotiated.
Good job X
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19 years ago
There is no contract here. Contracts, written or oral, must contain certain elements such as a consideration, a definite time period, mutual agreement on the terms, competent parties, etc., most of which are missing here. Both of the parties were negligent in reaching an understanding. Seems it's time for them to agree that there was no mutual understanding and work out a reasonable settlement.
SJF
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19 years ago
We don't know whether there was a contract. We have only heard one side of the story.
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19 years ago
True. This contractor and I need to come to an agreement... but in all honesty, I'm a little spooked to start signing papers now, this late in the game.
It IS HIS trailer and my sheds have not been relocated. I really don't want to get 'snotty' with him because he still has to move my sheds after the the yard is levelled. Most all of my sheds continents are within his trailer... he could 'jerk' this trailer out from under me at any minute.
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19 years ago
Believe me, there has not, nor has there ever been ANY type of contract, written, verbal, or implied. ..I wouldn't be going through this string of replies if it were not so.
I'm an old country boy... we didn't sign-on-the-line; shake on it; talk about it; spit on it; or nothing!
His business is close to my home. He knows, as well as I, how the weather has been. (24+ inches rain this summer).
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19 years ago
If the price is fair pay him , but let him know you didnt have to as no price was discussed. Fair is fair. If it is excessive that is different, better friends than enemies.
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I am an ASE certified Master Automotive Technician (toot-toot) (really, I am)
(Hypothetical situation follows) You bring your car to me on Friday and tell me about a fluid leak. I do the diagnostics for free... and tell you about the coolant leak. "I'm sorry, but its your water-pump" "How much is THAT gonna cost me"?, you ask About $200, parts and labor...
You drop-off your car on Monday morning and the job is completed before lunch-time. NO repair orders have been signed.
Meantime, your 2.3 kids get sick, wife has been sprayed by a skunk, 3 hurricanes have struck... whatever
YOU call back a month from Friday and say, "It's going to be the following week before I can pick up my car..." ...but,I can't help you, because the manager is on vacation, HE makes all of the decisions. He will be back TWO weeks from now.
Monday, two weeks later, there's a message on your voice-mail... "HEY! This is Mr. soNso... your bill is getting excessive... there's a $50 per hour storage fee to keep holding your car here. What do you want us to do?
What WOULD you do?
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19 years ago
Well spoken! Better friends than enemy
I think I'm gonna offer him HALF (50/50) and see what happens
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I'd find out what the going rate was for vehicle storage and pay the shop that. I can't expect the shop to store my car for free. BUT your scenario above does not match your own, the extra 2 weeks from the manager is not in your situation. I would owe for the month at the normal rate, hardly $50/hour for storage.
- Robert
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19 years ago
Pay him. He provided a service, you used it. You owe him. It's got nothing to do with the weather.
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19 years ago
True, he has nothing to do with the weather.
I'd glady pay him if words were spoken, but they weren't.
As I stated earlier, If I had know BEFORE-hand of the cost, I could have easily hired a landscaper to move/level the dirt.
THAT would have been 200-300 dollars, NOW I'm looking at a 500-600 dollar bill!
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19 years ago
"DaddyMonkey" wrote
Yawn.....More excuses....Typical of a deadbeat
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19 years ago
You really don't get it...you expect someone you had one commercial contact with 15 years previously to provide you with something for nothing.
You say you went to him for help...what kind of help did you ask for? Did you ask him what he would charge for the help? If not, why in the world did you expect freebie help?
The man is in business. Businesses charge. The fact that "no words were spoken" is your fault, not his. Quit whining and pay up. _______________
And naturally you called the trailer guy, told him that your project was taking longer than you anticipated and asked him if that caused him a problem. Naaa, you didn't do that, you'd rather wait until your tractor owning neighbor has time to move/level it for free. ______________________
And the longer you screw around the higher it will be.
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"DaddyMonkey" wrote
Very poor analogy... You seem to forget there has been a 5 months lapse in time period.
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"DaddyMonkey" wrote
What does you neighbors have to do with your responsibilities? That's my point! Are you helpless unless someone helps you? Moving dirt is not rocket science, even though you may think it is.
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No. I'm not putting the blame on someone else.
No. moving dirt is not rocket science
Again I state my case, If HE had just told me BEFORE-hand of the charge being implied, I could have had this dirt moved by a landscaper for 200-300 bucks... now the bill is 550 plus.