How awful! Since you have a contract I'd be tempted to take her to small claims court. If you get a judgement you may be able to take it to a collection agency. If its a pretty good chunk of money (which it sounds like it probably is) you might just hire an attorney to send her a threatening letter. Maybe that would be enough to grease the lady's wheels. I sympathize. There are some really difficult people out there. Luckily this kind of thing doesn't happen very often. Best wishes! Let us know what happens. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:17 PM, <pianositter at aol.com> wrote: > I'm having my first experience in non-payment in my twenty-something years > at this! I have a contract the customer signed which specified a 50% > deposit, 50% on completion. I put on new hammers, and asked the customer to > show me a few notes that she liked the sound of, so I would understand her > concept and could make all the notes sound that way. It was a normal, > average, good Steinway sound (w/ the Abel natural felt hammers). She wrote > me a check the first time I finished the job, and I left. She called an > hour or so later to say it was just too loud, it wasn't what she wanted, and > I must come back RIGHT NOW and make it softer. So I did, but it was getting > late and I told her I could make i softer but it wouldn't be even until I > returned the following week. She said to go ahead and do that. I did. > THen she called a day or two later to say she'd stopped payment on the check > and I must come the next day, Saturday (instead of in 4 days time, which was > the appointment) to "fix it". Nobody had ever stopped payment on a check to > me before, and I was not happy. But I went the next day, and worked all day > on her piano. She said it was what she wanted, that she would try it a few > days and "if there was nothing wrong" she would mail me a check. Another > week goes by, no check. Now she says ......yadda yadda yadda. > > What have other done in this situation? Looks like I got a real wacky one > here. Do I have to just sue her in Small Claims Court? > Please advise. What happens if they award you the money in Small Claims? > How do you then collect it? > Thanks, > Linda Scott > > > ------------------------------ > E-file your IRS taxes *FREE* with TaxACT & have your refund in as few as 8 > days.<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221430863x1201433849/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.taxact.com%2F08tax.asp%3Fsc%3D084102950002%26p%3D82> > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090403/067ccf96/attachment.html>
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