Money Moral Dilemma: Should I pay the window cleaner?

jonnysolar

Mouseboy007 wrote: »

Do the following:

1) Get pen and paper
2) Write down the webpage address for this forum link.
3) When he turns up again, hand the peice of paper to him and close the door.

:rotfl:

P.S. You could add the number of your local police station as step 4, just to drive home the point.

P.P.S. Step 5, keep an eye out for his van. When you see him park up, before he gets the opportunity to jump out the car, run down with a wet sponge and wipe his windscreen and put your hand out charging £5

Lmao - most original and funny answer of the day - maybe prop the laptop or computer in the window with this 'dilemma' showing in quite a transparent way lol (as long as you are in, and can see it's only he who is eyeing up the computer anyway :rotfl:)

kryssykk

You absolutely should NOT pay. I have in the past had the oposite problem. My window cleaner tried to claim he had done the job that week. Little did he know that I was ill in bed and knew for a fact that he hadn't. Not to be out argued I invited him into my sitting room, showed him the window and asked him if that looked like a window that had been cleaned two days before in a rain free week and if so was he proud of his workmanship. Needless to say I cancelled his services and didn't pay up. Stick to your guns. No-one pays for something they didn't order.

redglass_2

Of course you shouldn't pay, but just in case he's honestly confused, put a post-it note in each window with the house number on it and stating you don't want the windows cleaned, EVER, and certainly won't pay. That's giving him a fair chance and if he ignores the notes I wouldn't even waste a stamp on him.

People do mix up addresses. I worked for years in an office at 80a, constantly receiving mail for the totally different concern at 80b. Either the postman couldn't grasp the difference (even when we rang up to complain) or he didn't give a ****

Shellbun

I wouldn't! next time he turned up I'd just politely point out which windows were mine and ask him to please stop cleaning them!

summernights_2

If it was a one off and a genuine mistake I'd say pay him. But if he keeps on doing it he's obviously just trying his luck and expecting you to pay. If you don't want your windows cleaned, you haven't asked the window cleaner to do it then definitely don't pay him.

sewob

Obviously you don't pay. You have already told him you don't want your windows cleaned, therefore it is his problem if he keeps making the same mistake.
If the window cleaner gets annoyed the next time he comes (lets face it you know its going to happen), tell him if he doesnt stop you will have him done for tresspassing. Hopefully that will get him to stop.

LimeLight

My window cleaner stopped doing mine because he'd seen me a few times on a different estate that he thought i'd moved there!

King_Drax_I

This isn't even a dilemma. You are not under contract so you don't need to pay him.

Furthermore, if he's that much of a shark, he's probably on the dole as well, and doing the cleaning on the side.

Report him to the benefits fraud people for good measure - do it anyway, without warning him, it'll give him a nasty shock and who knows they may well strike gold with him. Sounds as if they will, anyway! :j:D

Lex555

NEVER EVER EVER pay windows cleaners who clean windows without permission! Especially if you've already told them before. If everyone stood up to these criminals, they wouldn't be able to carry on like they do. This is no dilemma whatsover and a pet hate of mine! They are an absolute menace and scurge on society. Possibly the most outrageous profession that there is. And that is no understatement. It is a carefully considered opinion.

I mean think about how ludicrous and crazy the so called window cleaning industry is for a second. They provide a so called service WITHOUT PERMISSION, don't even knock to say they're there (often violating peoples privacy in the process), and on top of commiting those crimes, then expect to be PAID!

It is absolutely unbelievable how people just accept this and no one has clamped down on them. If people went round spying in someone naked in their own house that they'd never met or spoken to, then went to a shop and bought them something they didn't want, brought it round to their house and expected them to pay and got annoyed and made threats if they didn't, there would be absolute uproar. But somehow people think this is acceptable when it comes to window cleaners. Society needs it's head examining.

Best advice is, keep a note inside your windows saying something like "no windows cleaners without prior permission" or "window cleaners must knock 1st for permission. If no answer, do not clean windows or you will not be paid" (or words to that effect). It's outrageous you should have to just because of a small group of cowboys, but the best option until the authorities get their act together and sort them out.

jerez

I was interested in this thread as I have a similar (but not exactly the same) problem. I live in a tenement flat with a common stair. Someone is cleaning the stair and putting a wee note through the door asking for payment. Someone in the stair may have asked these people to do the cleaning but I have never been contacted by anyone. The stair gets cleaned. It's my stair. I don't do it. (can't be bothered) Should I pay?