invoicing

[bill]

i cut thro a phone wire and have to pay the bill. the customer says bt wont invoice a third party and i want to put it thro my books as a business expense. whats the solution?

[Tree cutter Stu]

well i broke one before i took it off the bill i think it was around 150 what a con hey

[Buzz]

The client pays and you pay thm back i'm afraid. Or they post you the invoice from BT and you pay direct.

[Rich Rule]

Can you not say the tree had started to grow around the wired, and the only way was to cut it... or is this too late to explain to bt?

[Anna]

Surely that wouldn't work anyway as they would just say you should have notified them first?

[Mr Ed]

If you break a phone cable accidently, you should not have to pay for its reconnection. I never have anyway. Just call out the engineer and tell him it was an accident.

[Tree cutter Stu]

just pay the money and be more carefull in future

[Rich Rule]

  Anna said:

Surely that wouldn't work anyway as they would just say you should have notified them first?

 

Well I have heard that it has worked for others... never tried it my self. but as you say you may have had to notify them first.

How else would you remove a bt wire that has started to be absorbed by the tree? We took down a v. large Lombardi a while back with three lines running through it. notified BT to take down the wires... they sent out engineers who arrived late and then still didn't take the lines down. Needless to say one of the lines went during the lowering of limbs. I seem to recall the engineer coming out and mentioning that they would put it down as the wire grown into the tree scenario... could be wrong though.

[Anna]

I think there would be no other way than to break wire but i think they would expect you to let them know first so they could fix it straight after.

[Steve Bullman]

nonsense....BT will bill you direct, and i know that for a fact because i took one down just the other day.