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Help Please! Wedding dress cancellation - can they keep my wedding shoes??

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  • arcon5
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    If they haven't returned the shoes then send a letter before action. They don't have any grounds to keep them or offset them against other losses (unless otherwsie stated which I doubt).

    Then do as flyboy states, make them prove their losses and do all the chasing. It may well be the dress has been made and 50% is actually a true reflection of their losses though.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    arcon5 wrote: »
    If they haven't returned the shoes then send a letter before action. They don't have any grounds to keep them or offset them against other losses (unless otherwsie stated which I doubt).

    Then do as flyboy states, make them prove their losses and do all the chasing. It may well be the dress has been made and 50% is actually a true reflection of their losses though.

    It is unlikely that their costs are as much as fifty per cent of the value; if they are, they need to review their cost/profit margins evaluations.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • arcon5
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    It is unlikely that their costs are as much as fifty per cent of the value; if they are, they need to review their cost/profit margins evaluations.

    What margins are on wedding dress'? + administrative costs
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    arcon5 wrote: »
    What margins are on wedding dress'? + administrative costs

    I have no idea, but I would have thought about sixty per cent at least. Nonetheless, wouldn't the OP be entitled half the dress? ;)
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  • wealdroam
    wealdroam Posts: 19,180 Forumite
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    It is unlikely that their costs are as much as fifty per cent of the value...
    But it is possible that the dress is complete already (we don't know when the wedding was to be).
    So 50% could be less than their costs, couldn't it?
  • arcon5
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    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    I have no idea, but I would have thought about sixty per cent at least. Nonetheless, wouldn't the OP be entitled half the dress? ;)

    Ye thats what I was thinking. But there would have been a reasonable amount of labour involved in getting measurements ect, although not sure how exactly these would be "provable losses" tbh".

    op could certainly ask for half the dress in return -- but which half though :D
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    arcon5 wrote: »
    Ye thats what I was thinking. But there would have been a reasonable amount of labour involved in getting measurements ect, although not sure how exactly these would be "provable losses" tbh".

    op could certainly ask for half the dress in return -- but which half though :D

    That might very well depend on why the dress was cancelled. :D
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  • Valli
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    arcon5 wrote: »

    (MODs: we need a :confused: smilie)


    We HAD a confused smiley - this one.shrug.gif They removed it from the smily list as they said (they being the admin as we have no 'mods') some posters were using it to mock others. Get it here

    *waits to be PPRd*
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  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Valli wrote: »
    We HAD a confused smiley - this one.shrug.gif They removed it from the smily list as they said (they being the admin as we have no 'mods') some posters were using it to mock others. Get it here

    *waits to be PPRd*

    We have a confused smilie :huh:.

    It is written : huh:
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Valli
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    I liked the shruggy one cos that's what I do ;)
    Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY
    "I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
    :heart:Janice 1964-2016:heart:

    Thank you Honey Bear
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