HELP!! Major Issues with Wedding Suits

Chimpofdoom

Totally confused after reading all of that...

10 folk
85 per suit
buy 2 get 1 free or should it be rent 2 get 1 free?

10x85 = £850
3 suits should be free so £85-(85x3=255)=£595

So I'm totally confused about the £1800, and the £2000 mentioned earlier.

As for a deposit/insurance.. £200 seems excessive.. I've hired a full kilt package (to buy the full highland outfit costs about £1000) and the insurance was around £30.

Are you sure they are not billing you for buying the suits rather than renting them??

aheaton46

Chimpofdoom wrote: »

Totally confused after reading all of that...

Have you actually read it all?

aheaton46 wrote: »

Suit hire, £85 per suit, buy 2 get 1 free. 10 suits. Added some extra bits and pieces, total cost £850.

Shop now want £200 deposit per suit, and have asked for £1800. OP isn't sure why the shop have calculated that wrong.

(Incidentally, only two suits will be free as they aren't hiring in multiples of 3. Paid for 8, so 2 free).

halibut2209

aheaton46 wrote: »

(Incidentally, only two suits will be free as they aren't hiring in multiples of 3. Paid for 8, so 2 free).

That doesn't make sense either. You want 10 suits, you pay for 6, get 3 free, and then pay for another

So it should be paid for 7, so 3 free

paddyrg

Who cares about the number of suits and the deposit requested? It's unimportant.

The £850 is the cost of the hire. The £1800 is a deposit against damage/non-return (not against non-payment). This is absolutely normal, and they asked for the deposit before collection, not several months ago, that's pretty decent of them.

Assuming your people are not going to get lairy and spewy and wreck the suits, try asking family to lend you the deposits money? You'll get it back the week after the wedding, after all :-)

hcb42

halibut2209 wrote: »

Upon arrival I was asked to supply a deposit in case of damage. Made perfect sense to me.

Blimey, where've you been staying? I've never heard of that and I work in hotel management;)

(lost the place on the suits story, but a preauth on a credit card which will be charged if there is damage seems reasonable to me!!)

halibut2209

It was the Hilton in Manchester. We paid cash for the room and didn't have a credit card, so they required £100 cash deposit. Presumably against the mini-bar I'd have thought

EDIT: Not sure why I put "in case of damage" in the first post, so I apologise. They didn't actually say what it was for.

Chimpofdoom

hcb42 wrote: »

Blimey, where've you been staying? I've never heard of that and I work in hotel management;)

(lost the place on the suits story, but a preauth on a credit card which will be charged if there is damage seems reasonable to me!!)

Pretty normal practise in hotels I've stayed in over the past few years!

Oakley Court in Windsor being one (although they ask for £200)