When the customer does not pay

[Mountain man]

It works for you so more power to your elbow.

[mickdundee]

A bit different but I remeber local news had a builder removing a porch from someone's house as the materials were still his. On top of that it was a council house and a spokesman from them said the tenant was responsible as part of the tenancy agreement to ensure the property was returned to its original state. So they'd still end up paying and not having a porch

[Arborist]

I remember that and the only reason he was able to pull it down was that he had permission of the home owner which was the council. If it had been a private house he wouldn't have been able to do what he did!

[mickdundee]

I didn't remeber that getting said. It was a few year ago now

[Ian Flatters]

iPhone put it on the wrong thread.

[biggarlogs]

Only ever once not got paid by customer .....had to do an extra tree for free ...felled it straight across his drive at 7 am!!!! Still didn't get paid but satisfaction was immense.cost him a fortune to get someone else to clear it up.not the recommended route I know but ....don't mess with me

[Guest the cleaner]

My husband had a customer that hadn't paid him for a job he had done and 3 months down the line I was on the phone to him very polite and nice reminding him of payment and how much gave him details said he would oay that day but nothing so I ave him another 48hrs and rang him again and told him to expect paperwork in the post as will be taking him to the small claims court payment was made within minutes into bank account

[felixthelogchopper]

I have only got close to taking one company to court for non-payment( a car hire company who have a high profile and a green logo ). They folded when I stood in their very busy office in front of their customers and very loudly asked for the details of their head office so I could commence proceedings against them. I received a cheque the next day.

[C.J]

A local businessman was several months behind , paying for his garden to be landscaped.

 

The landscaper happened to be removing a conifer hedge in his neighbours garden.

 

After the businessman came home , the chipper was started up blowing chip all over the newly laid lawn.

 

The businessman handed over a cheque and said " you will tidy up the mess " - " will I F..." was the reply.

[Mountain man]

Thing is with these companies like the one Felix is on about, is that they have entire departments whose job is to pay as late as possible, they have computer programmes devoted to accounts in versus accounts out, charge them all double then a bit more to cover the delay. They eat naive little companies like us for breakfast and don't give a monkey's.

It's nothing personal.