Bad customers/clients who wont pay...

[Geordie Spark]

Did that some time back to someone... with one of the long-nozzle pro foam guns, and shoved a bit of 10mm microbore in for good measure.
It would start and idle lovely.... but try and drive it.... heehee!

Simon.

I thought it was only me who did that trick.

Just shows that great minds thing alike !!!

 

[Smugley]

It should be possible for tradesmen to supply lack of payment information to the credit reference agencies. Then, for every job you could make a credit check on the client as part of the contract, hopefully this would be mininal cost. Any future tradesman could check the credit record of every client and be told if they were a debt risk, or in fact if they'd ever cheated another tradesman.

 

[brspark]

Had a look into this and legally you cannot publish their names and if you do they can take you to court. What a load of rubbish , talk about protect the wrong doers. They don't need real grounds, so just make sure you get everything in writing and signed then small claims court.

Unbelievable system in this country

 

[JamesBrownLive]

Had a look into this and legally you cannot publish their names and if you do they can take you to court. What a load of rubbish , talk about protect the wrong doers. They don't need real grounds, so just make sure you get everything in writing and signed then small claims court.

Unbelievable system in this country

The problem is, is that there is always two sides to every story.

Whilst there are no doubt plenty of dodgy customers out there, there is also no shortage of dodgy tradesmen.
Would you like you name and credit record sullied just on the say so of some *insert tradesperson of choice*
The system would need checks and balances, and is almost certainly un-workable. It would just descend into 'he said, she said' 'the work was not up to standard' etc, etc.

As I said previously, even with the small claims court, you can win and still lose.

What would be useful, would be a cheap service where tradespeople can pay to see how credit worthy a potential customer is.
In fact I'm really surprised that this is not yet available.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Go into the house and remove your materials, at the end of the day its your property which someone has effectivley stolen, failing that call their bluff and tell them the heavys will be around

As i have stated earlier in this thread....such actions would leave the homeowner/person ordering the work without the basic neccessities of life and as such your actions could backfire on you...........

 

[derek preece]

There is some stuff on business link, I haven't had a chance to look through it properly but it might contain some useful info. Reducing the risk of late or non-payment | Business Link

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Thank you Mr. Preece.:smile5:

 

[rmaynard]

this site looks like it may help

Rate My Customers, Finally, a way to report your bad customers and let other businesses know about your experience with a customer. Rate Your Customers

Rob

 

[La Poste]

There are things like feedback on Ebay, the buyer and the seller get feedback so why not a system like that?

Here's a story that is kind of linked to this one:

Judgment day looms for 'Solicitors from Hell' website.

High Court hearing for man behind site that claims to name and shame shoddy legal practitioners.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...for-solicitors-from-hell-website-2352736.html


The Law firms really don't like it at all.

 

[JamesBrownLive]

There are things like feedback on Ebay, the buyer and the seller get feedback so why not a system like that?

Here's a story that is kind of linked to this one:



Judgment day looms for 'Solicitors from Hell' website - Home News, UK - The Independent


The Law firms really don't like it at all.

Solicitors and Lawyers are self regulated :jester:

Q: Why don't Sharks bite Solicitors?
A: Professional Courtesy