A family heirloom NID

[Reggie B]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

I would think a builder and developer would not have a problem with such a bill. When can you sell it?

Trust me, builders and contractors are like everyone else, some are good and some are worthless. I can say that because I have been selling product to that industry group for 32 years.

[B. Dudley]

The bill came in at like $1200 more than he expected and I had originally quoted. But my original quote was based on half of the work that ended up being done. Through the process a lot of stuff came up that needed to be done, which resulted in a full metal restoration being done too. I keep him up to speed on all of that, but we never really assigned a dollar figured to the extra work. But he wanted it done “right” and told me “do it as if it was your own gun”. Then he balks at the bill for that. He has either just gave me grief about the bill and told me how much horrible I am for what I am charging him. Or he gives me lines like he will get me paid “next week”. He has been stringing me along since June on it.

In over 12 years I have never dealt with this before. And I have not dealt with having to keep someones gun over an unpaid bill. Believe me, I dont want to keep the gun. I want him to get his gun back and to have him happy with the work. But I am not having that happen at my loss.

However, something tells me that this would be happening regardless of the overage on the bill or not.

[Phil Yearout]

Sadly, even if you do resolve it he’s never going to be happy; it’s a lose/lose situation, but I do hope you get paid and he gets his gun back.

Seems there’s a certain type of person who complains after the fact thinking if they complain enough they’ll get a price reduction.

[Steve Hodges]

I was told a long time ago by a contractor who was doing work on our house that the cost is not in the materials, it is in the labor. I would image that the labor was intense for a project such as this and the expertise to turn out that kind of work is not cheap. You get what pay for.

[chris dawe]

Story's like this ,are far too common in this business it's the same up here ...I'm to the point of,if I don't get a good feeling from a potential client I don't continue ...it takes so long to do the work,and people can be incredibly ignorant as to what goes into this kind of project ,haveing your potential paychecks months after you start is very worrisome as well.

[Woodcock survey]

In my lanscape business i would get an upfront payment to cover my materials cost and any sub contractors payments. When the client balked at that i was pretty sure they were not intending to pay me. The sure fire indicator was ''money is no object'' that was 100% a stiff.