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Doozergirl

Rich4047 said:

Thanks for the advice folks. Sorted. 

I just invested in five minutes and it ends like this?! 

I was going to add something but if the contractor has returned the deposit, all good.  

He can only claim reasonable costs from the deposit.  That does not mean his profit after the job has finished - he has a duty to mitigate those losses.   He can claim reasonable costs of the work so far and genuine losses, including any restocking charges, unless you're prepared to take materials. 

There won't be much in the way of physical materials - us builders tend to get it delivered to site because it's heavy!!   He was  almost certainly bluffing.   

Rosa_Damascena

Rich4047 said:

Doozergirl said:

Rich4047 said:

Thanks for the advice folks. Sorted. 

I just invested in five minutes and it ends like this?! 

I was going to add something but if the contractor has returned the deposit, all good.  

He can only claim reasonable costs from the deposit.  That does not mean his profit after the job has finished - he has a duty to mitigate those losses.   He can claim reasonable costs of the work so far and genuine losses, including any restocking charges, unless you're prepared to take materials. 

There won't be much in the way of physical materials - us builders tend to get it delivered to site because it's heavy!!   He was  almost certainly bluffing.   

😂. No I just thought I had plenty of good advice. It’s far from done. 

   He was bluffing. You are right. He replied an hour ago, quite an angry toned one too. He says he will calculate his losses and pay me what I’m owed in 56 days ( 56 DAYS !!). He still won’t say what he actually ordered. He then ranted that nobody can tell him what his hourly rate is etc etc. 

  I have asked that he let me know these calculations as soon as he can, and if I feel he is OTT (lying and/or claiming huge hourly rates) then I will get the “letter before claim” out to him, and then the SCC would be next. 

    He mentioned SCC is a long drawn out affair but “I don’t care”, so sounds like he has been there before. Said he “don’t care about your reviews as it was all your fault” saying that me cancelling a job is the problem..... strange, I thought him keeping all my deposit, with not so much as even sending me calculations as to why he was keeping the whole lot was the issue. 

All bluster. Send out the letter of intention and you might see your money back within 30 days.

Rich4047

comeandgo said:

Your email is totally incorrect.  You have not had any legal advice, you are listening to people who do not have all the details.  You can not claim the full amount back.  Your contractor has in good faith spent hours quoting and ordering goods and then had to source work to help him out of a week with no work.  You have absolutely no guarantee if this goes to court you would win.

Actually everything I put was correct. You are spouting nonsense. I got £3500k of £4K back in the end by threatening legal action and by threat of a review on FB that let everyone know what the loser /conman did. 

Ebe_Scrooge

What a bizarre series of posts.  Why resurrect a thread that's well over a year old, and (presumably) at the same time edit all of your original posts so that anyone reading it anew hasn't got the faintest idea what you're going on about?