Completed last week - vendor has taken integrated washing machine - advice please

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JQ. wrote: »

But they're not writing off £500, they are writing off the cost of a secondhand integrated washing machine, which are £50 on Ebay.

Yeah, but the postage is £450 and the postman will never speak to you again.

angrypirate

JQ. wrote: »

But they're not writing off £500, they are writing off the cost of a secondhand integrated washing machine, which are £50 on Ebay.

Im with Baz on this one. Its an integrated appliance. It should have been included with the house regardless of being on F&F list. You wouldnt expect a vendor to pull out an integrated cooker? Freestanding cooker would depend on FnF list. As it was the vendor even included it on the FnF list. Go for the full £500 baz and good luck to you

alwaystryyourbest

The washing machine wasn't broken,he's trying it on,take him to small claims,and make him pay you back.
They shouldn't, get away with it...good luck.

jimbog

JQ. wrote: »

This is presumably all over something worth around £100, how much have you just paid for the house? How much is your time worth to trying recover it?

Personally, I'd forget about it and enjoy your new house.

If I paid a grocery bill and found when I got home that I had been overcharged by £100 I would go and get it sorted and not just forget about it

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If you go the Small Claims Court route you need to get a price for a replacement, preferably an identical one. You can include the cost of having it installed too. Might as well have it professionally installed.

Halle71

I'd be annoyed as well - both the cash (who can afford £500 when they've just moved into a new house?) and the principle.
I've got a similar dilemma - we completed a couple of weeks ago and it turns out that the burglar alarm that was included on the F&F list isn't theirs at all but on contract with AT&T. They have even left some of the equipment as, apparently, the weather was too bad when they came to remove it. This is the same vendor who left a smelly old bed in the house because it and to be broken up to take downstairs, and a pallet of bricks in the garden that he tried to move through OUR house after completion while the house was being decorated.
Nothing was a massive deal but annoying things that had to be taken care of when we were on a tight schedule getting it ready for tenants.