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House clearance turned out to be a con
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So called House Clearance turned out to be a con from they way they put themselves across
It was a bad day, being promised by this lady that the house clearance would come, we drove a long way to get to dads house early in the morning. Waiting 2 hours as well. Then leaving them loads of messages asking where they were. They offered to pay us money for the furniture and I was going to use some of it to get dad some stuff being christmas, as we are poor and I could not afford to get him anything.
I was so upset that I had to in the end leave the stuff there, the wardrobes and tables etc cause I had no choice. I was so upset.
Then I just went to the council gave back the keys and had to arrange with them to clear the house. Cause there was no one else I could turn to, being only child as well and family dont wanna know so everything was down to me.
There was no way I could move out heavy items alone so the house clearance dropped me right in it basically. As if I didnt have enough pressure to cope with. With Husband due for an operation next week as well that there was no time left to try and sell it elsewhere.
Later Husband rang the house clearance to have a go at them and they were very cagy on the phone, pretending it was not them and this lady called Mary now apparently didnt exist.
So maybe they were just con merchants then looking over peoples property pretending to be house clearance maybe, so they can return later to steal stuff once place is empty to see what good stuff they can take, who knows?
All I know is, I was really depressed and upset and it was a really low thing to do to something. I hope those people really get whats coming to them.
At least my dad is now being cared for in the care home properly even though I could not afford to get him anything in the end.
Has anyone else ever been through anything like this or similar?
Am I right in saying it looks like they are a con?
If they was not interested in the end a proper company would have been honest and said we are not interested sorry!
I am correct in my thought am I not?
It was a bad day, being promised by this lady that the house clearance would come, we drove a long way to get to dads house early in the morning. Waiting 2 hours as well. Then leaving them loads of messages asking where they were. They offered to pay us money for the furniture and I was going to use some of it to get dad some stuff being christmas, as we are poor and I could not afford to get him anything.
I was so upset that I had to in the end leave the stuff there, the wardrobes and tables etc cause I had no choice. I was so upset.
Then I just went to the council gave back the keys and had to arrange with them to clear the house. Cause there was no one else I could turn to, being only child as well and family dont wanna know so everything was down to me.
There was no way I could move out heavy items alone so the house clearance dropped me right in it basically. As if I didnt have enough pressure to cope with. With Husband due for an operation next week as well that there was no time left to try and sell it elsewhere.
Later Husband rang the house clearance to have a go at them and they were very cagy on the phone, pretending it was not them and this lady called Mary now apparently didnt exist.
So maybe they were just con merchants then looking over peoples property pretending to be house clearance maybe, so they can return later to steal stuff once place is empty to see what good stuff they can take, who knows?
All I know is, I was really depressed and upset and it was a really low thing to do to something. I hope those people really get whats coming to them.
At least my dad is now being cared for in the care home properly even though I could not afford to get him anything in the end.
Has anyone else ever been through anything like this or similar?
Am I right in saying it looks like they are a con?
If they was not interested in the end a proper company would have been honest and said we are not interested sorry!
I am correct in my thought am I not?
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Its a shame you drove that far and your dad got nothing for his belongings but you got the most important thing out the house and he would probably rather have time with his only child at christmas than a gift anyway.
They could of rang you with a reason or even an exuse to give you time to arrange someone else.
Happy New Year.
Ended up roping in a small pensioner with a small trailer and conning them to "keep going... just a bit more ... please ... keep on, nearly got the lot now ...". If they'd not been available I'd have been right up !!!!!! creek.
Are the council charging you for clearing the House?
Cause when my dad died and i had to give the keys back to the council they said they would clear anything left, they then a few months later charged me £1000.00 for clearing, i am at the moment arguing the case.
We had this when nan died, we managed to get rid of most of her stuff, But left amoungst other things, an almost brand new cooker I even left the instructions on top of it) and 3 piece suite and a wardrobe. Council cleared it, and took photos of the items they'd removed. The photos include a copy of the yellow pages we'd left on the stairs for next tenant, and the pile of empty cardboard boxes we'd left by the back door. Funny enough there wasn't one picture of the cooker wonder why??:rolleyes:
The bill came to over £1500:eek::eek: Told them to bog off as I didn't have that kind of money, they then requested it from Nans estate> told them with she died with almost nothing and the little bit she did have, had paid for her funeral. They did call me again about 6 mths later asking again. Told them same and heard nothing since.
HTH
They told me there would be no charge cause we aint got the money and dads in a care home, the house clearance let me down and never showed up.