hanging my head in shame

worried_jim

A friend has a flat she rents out with an expensive kitchen and top of the range cooker, which has stopped working. Rather than get an engineer direct from the manufactures, which would be expensive, she thought about a local skilled tradesman, which she found through http://www.checkatrade.com/ .
Lovely guy turns up at the rental- no call out charge, and quotes her £120 for a fix, cant buy the part on its own have to buy the kit etc. So she says she will think about it.
She smells a rat so call the manufacture directly who send around there own engineer, he fixes it and it’s a completely different component and does it cheaper. He’s amazed about the parts in kits as you can buy any component on its own.
Meanwhile this other repairman has started calling and leaving messages that he’s no bought the parts (wrong ones) cant take them back etc and she owes him £120. He’s calling her all day every day and the messages have started to get threatening now. She never speaks to him, he just leaves messages on her mobile.
I only found out last night when I called her for a chat, whilst we were talking about it her mobile starts ringing and she diverts it to answer phone. In the next two minutes this happens nine times, then he leaves a message. She plays it down the phone so we hear to together.
“(her name), you fuxking cxnt, you’ve ruined my Christmas, so I’m going to ruin yours, I know where you live, consider yourself fuxked”
I immediately race around there- shes 22 weeks pregnant and her husband is stuck in snow and wont be coming home. She shows 2.5 pages of A4 paper filled with this stuff and has now called the police.

How awful- she is so distressed, this guy has even threatened her tenants.

pupsicola

Its a big step forward that you are on here telling us all about your problems. It is you facing up to where you are at and asking for help.
Although it may be easier to ignore it all and throw letters in the bin, in reality that is just making the situation worse and interest fees will be raking up your debt.

Find out exactly how much in debt you are and then speak to citizens advice bureaus. They will have met alot of people in a similar situation to yoruself and may be able to help you find solutions.

I wish you lots of luck

pupsicola

worried_jim wrote: »

A friend has a flat she rents out with an expensive kitchen and top of the range cooker, which has stopped working. Rather than get an engineer direct from the manufactures, which would be expensive, she thought about a local skilled tradesman, which she found through http://www.checkatrade.com/ .
Lovely guy turns up at the rental- no call out charge, and quotes her £120 for a fix, cant buy the part on its own have to buy the kit etc. So she says she will think about it.
She smells a rat so call the manufacture directly who send around there own engineer, he fixes it and it’s a completely different component and does it cheaper. He’s amazed about the parts in kits as you can buy any component on its own.
Meanwhile this other repairman has started calling and leaving messages that he’s no bought the parts (wrong ones) cant take them back etc and she owes him £120. He’s calling her all day every day and the messages have started to get threatening now. She never speaks to him, he just leaves messages on her mobile.
I only found out last night when I called her for a chat, whilst we were talking about it her mobile starts ringing and she diverts it to answer phone. In the next two minutes this happens nine times, then he leaves a message. She plays it down the phone so we hear to together.
“(her name), you fuxking cxnt, you’ve ruined my Christmas, so I’m going to ruin yours, I know where you live, consider yourself fuxked”
I immediately race around there- shes 22 weeks pregnant and her husband is stuck in snow and wont be coming home. She shows 2.5 pages of A4 paper filled with this stuff and has now called the police.

How awful- she is so distressed, this guy has even threatened her tenants.

She needs to contact the police. She has all the prrof she needs that he is threatening her. She never asked him to buy those parts so owes him nothing. But from what you say he is a nut job and needs dealing with.

CRANKY40

I'm ok thanks Jim. I hope your friend is too. That potential oven breaking man sounds scary. Presumably, even if he'd bought the parts, £120 was the price quoted to fit it too, so if you knock off the labour charge which he didn't actually do, the price of the parts wouldn't be £120 anyway. Oh blimey, the world is so full of nutters.

worried_jim

worried_jim wrote: »

A friend has a flat she rents out with an expensive kitchen and top of the range cooker, which has stopped working. Rather than get an engineer direct from the manufactures, which would be expensive, she thought about a local skilled tradesman, which she found through http://www.checkatrade.com/ .
Lovely guy turns up at the rental- no call out charge, and quotes her £120 for a fix, cant buy the part on its own have to buy the kit etc. So she says she will think about it.
She smells a rat so call the manufacture directly who send around there own engineer, he fixes it and it’s a completely different component and does it cheaper. He’s amazed about the parts in kits as you can buy any component on its own.
Meanwhile this other repairman has started calling and leaving messages that he’s no bought the parts (wrong ones) cant take them back etc and she owes him £120. He’s calling her all day every day and the messages have started to get threatening now. She never speaks to him, he just leaves messages on her mobile.
I only found out last night when I called her for a chat, whilst we were talking about it her mobile starts ringing and she diverts it to answer phone. In the next two minutes this happens nine times, then he leaves a message. She plays it down the phone so we hear to together.
“(her name), you fuxking cxnt, you’ve ruined my Christmas, so I’m going to ruin yours, I know where you live, consider yourself fuxked”
I immediately race around there- shes 22 weeks pregnant and her husband is stuck in snow and wont be coming home. She shows 2.5 pages of A4 paper filled with this stuff and has now called the police.

How awful- she is so distressed, this guy has even threatened her tenants.

She's off round to the police now with all the evidence. Even had a call from victim support today, they asked if there is anything that they could do and she replied "yeah, send the police round"- I am glad that she hasn't lost her sense of humour ! Only had 2 phone calls from him today and no messages. She is going to send the evidence to checkatrade as well so he can be removed from the web site.

worried_jim

Young Paddy bought a donkey from a farmer for £100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.

The next day he drove up and said, 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey's died.'

Paddy replied, 'Well then just give me my money back.' The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I've already spent it.'
Paddy said, 'OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.' The farmer asked, 'What are you going to do with him?'
Paddy said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.' The farmer said, 'You can't raffle a dead donkey!'
Paddy said, 'Sure I can. Watch me.. I just won't tell anybody he's dead.'

A month later, the farmer met up with Paddy and asked, 'What happened with that dead donkey?'
Paddy said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece and made a profit of £898'
The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?' Paddy said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two pounds back.'

Paddy now works for the Royal Bank of Scotland

worried_jim

I thought I would help Santa out with some gift ideas-

DeeDeeinDooDoo

Oh my gosh!! I have tears in my eyes and have had such a laugh catching up here Jim. Will be showing OH and son those photos!! Thank you for cheering me up.

We've had a bit of carp happen to us and have unexpectedly lost thousands of pounds of income from now till New Year. Will be working like slaves for first two weeks to limit the damage BUT you know what, it is only money!! We are going to have a nice, quiet, simple Christmas and ENJOY it. A nice bottle of port sounds like a great idea!

A very Happy Christmas to you Jim and all who follow your thread:beer:.

Shoe_Gal

Happy Christmas Jim :santa2:

Jo4

Jim, I really do hope you have a wonderful Christmas & thanks for all the jokes!