Advice Needed: Parents being abused and charged for leaving behind furniture in a move.

Jumblebumble

dazron said:

Thanks. Good Advice.
This is what my dad replied:
"Thank you for forwarding this to us I am amazed the buyers have the temerity to ask for reimbursement of skip costs especially considering the furniture and useful equipment we left in the house and garage totally free of charge as to the agreement we came to as to what we would leave behind.

We did indeed leave some bin bags of rubbish which we fully intended to take to the tip but after the way my wife was sworn and shouted at and told you shouldn’t be here get out when she was hoovering and tidying up as a gesture of  “Goodwill “ we decided to do just that and not return. 

The rubbish we left could have been thrown in the back of a car and taken to the tip it certainly did not justify the use of a skip. 

Given that this is a request to pay as gesture of “goodwill” as you can imagine given our given our treatment by the buyer and his family there is no “goodwill “ on our part. 

We would request that you pass this message on and ask that they cease to communicate with us or yourselves 
Many thanks Paul"

I thought he did well for an old fella  

Perhaps your Dad could be really helpful and send them the address of the local tip.

DiamondLil

dazron said:

I thought he did well for an old fella  

Ahem !  At 78, not everyone is useless and/or incapable. 

pramsay13

I hope he didn't complicate things by putting in writing that he did indeed leave furniture and equipment in the house as well as admitting to leaving bags of rubbish. 
Sometimes it's best just to ignore completely.

AdrianC

dazron said:

"Thank you for forwarding this to us I am amazed the buyers have the temerity to ask for reimbursement of skip costs especially considering the furniture and useful equipment we left in the house and garage totally free of charge as to the agreement we came to as to what we would leave behind.

So, umm, this "furniture and useful equipment" was in addition to the stuff that he was contractually obliged to leave...?

We did indeed leave some bin bags of rubbish which we fully intended to take to the tip but after the way my wife was sworn and shouted at and told you shouldn’t be here get out when she was hoovering and tidying up as a gesture of  “Goodwill “ we decided to do just that and not return. 

The buyers were right, though. The vendors should not have still been there.

Yes, they could have expressed it better, but the time for clearing and cleaning had passed.