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A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:17 am
by baldeagle
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A customer wasn't happy with the work, so he decided to hold the repairman at gunpoint until the work was completed to his satisfaction.
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Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:31 pm
by Oldgringo
Hmmm? It's usually the customer who gets held up?
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:12 pm
by WildBill
Oldgringo wrote:Hmmm? It's usually the customer who gets held up?
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How true.
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:19 am
by knotquiteawake
Don't they call it Highway "robbery" when you are getting overcharged by a shady contractor? Sounds like he was preventing a robbery...
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Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:04 am
by RPBrown
Hey, watch it guys. Be nice to those of us that are in the business. We are not all crooks.
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:53 am
by Medic218
I'm just glad it didn't happen somewhere in our great state
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:51 pm
by Majek
That's why WE are supposed to make first contact with police. His kid tried to pawn that off on the poor repairman. Sad deal.
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:56 pm
by WildBill
RPBrown wrote:Hey, watch it guys. Be nice to those of us that are in the business. We are not all crooks.
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I have been satisfied with my A/C repairman.
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:20 am
by Vecco
Gives a new meaning to the saying " The Customer is Always right"
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:09 pm
by chamuiel
No matter how shoddy the work was, it sounds like the wrong thing to do to me. That is what the courts are for. A number of years ago I paid 1200 dollars out of my pocket for car repairs. I picked the car up and I could tell right away that something was wrong. I took the car back to the Garage and they tore into the motor again. Later they showed me a gasket that the Garage owner said was put in the motor and was a wrong gasket for that car. I picked the gasket up and kept it. The next day I picked the car up again, and as I was driving home, The motor fell apart again. I called the garage and the owner said he was not repairing it again unless I wanted to spend more money. I sued the Garage in small claims court for the original repair cost, my court expenses, and the additional repair costs to get the car back running. It came out close to the $5,000 max of the small claims court at that time. I showed the Judge the "wrong" gasket and the write up on the second repairs where it showed the Garage had replaced the gasket the second time. I won. Pulling a gun on someone for shoddy repairs is a no-no.
Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:47 pm
by sjfcontrol
chamuiel wrote:No matter how shoddy the work was, it sounds like the wrong thing to do to me. That is what the courts are for. A number of years ago I paid 1200 dollars out of my pocket for car repairs. I picked the car up and I could tell right away that something was wrong. I took the car back to the Garage and they tore into the motor again. Later they showed me a gasket that the Garage owner said was put in the motor and was a wrong gasket for that car. I picked the gasket up and kept it. The next day I picked the car up again, and as I was driving home, The motor fell apart again. I called the garage and the owner said he was not repairing it again unless I wanted to spend more money. I sued the Garage in small claims court for the original repair cost, my court expenses, and the additional repair costs to get the car back running. It came out close to the $5,000 max of the small claims court at that time. I showed the Judge the "wrong" gasket and the write up on the second repairs where it showed the Garage had replaced the gasket the second time. I won. Pulling a gun on someone for shoddy repairs is a no-no.
Ranks right up there with shooting over stolen parking places, and bad wait-service...
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Re: A/C Repairman held at gunpoint
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:08 pm
by barstoolguru
some people just have to have that a/c