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Paul Simon-Faulty basement

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  • smiles345
    smiles345 Posts: 15 Forumite
    no, i have an office.
  • halibut2209
    halibut2209 Posts: 4,250 Forumite
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    smiles345 wrote: »
    I'm a software professional i get £200/day plus additional cost making phone calls etc..

    What does your partner earn?
    One important thing to remember is that when you get to the end of this sentence, you'll realise it's just my sig.
  • hollydays
    hollydays Posts: 19,812 Forumite
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    That's a bit intrusive..
  • mije1983
    mije1983 Posts: 3,665 Forumite
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    halibut2209 wrote: »
    What does your partner earn?


    Also any other relevant family members. I'm guessing there is more than smiles and their partner as they mentioned at the start:
    smiles345 wrote: »
    as a family we are devastated with this

    hollydays wrote: »
    That's a bit intrusive..

    I think the point halibut is trying to make is that if their partner earned £50 a day for example, you could argue why did they not take the day off work.
  • smiles345
    smiles345 Posts: 15 Forumite
    any valuable suggetions please?
  • frugal_mike
    frugal_mike Posts: 1,687 Forumite
    smiles345 wrote: »
    any valuable suggetions please?

    The two suggestions above are valuable as you need to mitigate your losses. If you took the day off work when your partner could have done that instead, and you earn significantly more than your partner, then you haven't mitigated your losses.
  • halibut2209
    halibut2209 Posts: 4,250 Forumite
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    That is perfectly valuable. As has been said, you have to mitigate your losses. If there is someone in the house who earns less, then they should/could be the one to take a delivery.

    If you go in all guns blazing with ridiculous demands, then they will just turn around and say "no" leaving you with all the effort of going to court. And even then the court would at best only give actual losses which you must prove.
    One important thing to remember is that when you get to the end of this sentence, you'll realise it's just my sig.
  • smiles345
    smiles345 Posts: 15 Forumite
    well, the first delivery was faulty and i had to make sure that i will check the goods properly and its not safe for my wife to check as the two strangers delivering the goods and also we got tiny baby at home, its not practical for her to do that.
  • smiles345
    smiles345 Posts: 15 Forumite
    the second time the goods they delivered was faulty too. now i have to be there for the third time too. my wife also does night duty being a nurse. and sleeps during the day too
  • halibut2209
    halibut2209 Posts: 4,250 Forumite
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    First of all, congrats on your tiny baby.

    But this is an advice forum based on consumer "rights", not "wants" and the people who help here will tell you what you need to know, not what you want to hear.

    If you have a tiny baby at home, does that mean your wife is at home all the time? On maternity leave? If that's true then you would have no claim for loss of earnings at all as there would be someone available to take deliveries. In law, you cannot say "I didn't want her to take the delivery".

    EDIT: Ok, so she does work. But as you say she's at home during delivery times. So the above still stands
    One important thing to remember is that when you get to the end of this sentence, you'll realise it's just my sig.
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