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Bank Charge Back and Supplier now wants broken product back that was discarded

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  • baza52
    baza52 Posts: 3,029 Forumite
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    edited 27 June 2020 at 10:23PM
    an 11-12 week old summerhouse would of been sold on straight away. Im surprised you had to pay someone to take it down and cart it away. Can we ask how much this summerhouse cost you OP?

    EDIT, i see it was £700 so agree it was just a glorified shed.

  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    Keep the thread updated with hoe you get on.
  • KatrinaWaves
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    Surely if someone has a garden big enough for a summerhouse the property is likely to have a garage/driveway/more garden? 

    I could definitely fit a summerhouse in my garden but I would also have ample space to put a disassembled one in my garage or on my driveway, or piled up in the garden under a tarp, places a child wouldn’t tend to play, and my house is hardly a country pile! 
  • I don't think it's a "summerhouse" as in a stately home summerhouse...
  • KatrinaWaves
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    I don't think it's a "summerhouse" as in a stately home summerhouse...
    All the more reason to have somewhere safe to store it then, IMO. Unless the item is taking up your whole garden and you constructed it by some miracle, there will be space. It’s almost always that someone simply does not want that junk lying around their garage or drive. 
  • How did you dispose of it? It would have only been a little time between disposal and then saying they were going to collect it, can you get the bits back?
  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    How did you dispose of it? It would have only been a little time between disposal and then saying they were going to collect it, can you get the bits back?
    They paid someone to dissemble it and dispose of it.  I suspect that person has since sold it on.  A £700 shed in kit form might fetch a couple of hundred quid from someone happy to make the adjustments needed for it to go together.
  • born_again
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    I don't think it's a "summerhouse" as in a stately home summerhouse...
    All the more reason to have somewhere safe to store it then, IMO. Unless the item is taking up your whole garden and you constructed it by some miracle, there will be space. It’s almost always that someone simply does not want that junk lying around their garage or drive. 
    How about the space it was taking up when built. It could easily have sat there, just flat pack.
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  • baza52
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    anyone like to wager that the summerhouse is still up and in the OPs garden and was never removed at all. ;) 
  • 25_Years_On
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    I don't understand why the summerhouse was erected with missing parts and the roof put on without fixings. In often windy Britain. Unsafe doesn't really cover it.
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