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anybody ever put an insurance claim in for a customer eg damaged ceiling or water damage and promised the work and then hear no more i put a claim in for a chap up the road to me for a damaged ceiling and put enough on the estimate to cover to do an extra ceiling for him and to cover his excess the insurance give him the go ahead to start the work so the chap assumed the cheque was going to me so we arranged a date to start but 2 days later his wife phoned with excuses that they wanted to leave it for a while and they could live with the ceiling more or less saying they dont want it done as it was i found out the cheque was sent to him so i have been phoning and txting him but wont reply to me as i told his wife they should pay me for the letterhead and my time i told her they should pay me £40 for what i have done for them which i think is not excessive is that fraud what they have done and is there anything i can do about it thanks
 
Had that happen to me before, don't think its fraud as they have had the cheque made out to them. Never understand why insurances companies make it out to the customer.
 
If they make it out to the tradesmen the tradesmen could do a runner with it... then the customer has no money or repair least this way they get something :D

Its annoying but you have only lost the time you took to look from what I gather...
 
They just want you for a quote...then thry tail the cheque and either dont do it or get a fifty a day cash man in to do it...tell them its forty quid for the quote and if you get the job it shall be refunded;).
time wasters!
 
To be fair if they made the cheque to me i might do the same...but i believe in a bit of fairness so would have given you the £40 quid atleast as i got the inflated quote thanks to you.
 
Speaking of bad customers... I went to price a job to reharl a house today, women opens the door without even a hello and just said "oh you look alot younger than I imagined are you even experienced enough to do this job". Experienced enough to add an extra couple of hundred onto a job to put up with rude customers :D
 
PlasterCraftDundee said:
Speaking of bad customers... I went to price a job to reharl a house today, women opens the door without even a hello and just said "oh you look alot younger than I imagined are you even experienced enough to do this job". Experienced enough to add an extra couple of hundred onto a job to put up with rude customers :D
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She wants pumped ...:sisi:
 
when insurance companys give the go ahead to carry out the work they should ask for invoice when work is completed and then send the cheque to the builder not the customer a similar thing happened years ago when doing doing grantwork for the council they would send the cheque when work was completed to the customer many builders were caught by that method it was crazy
 
ruddez said:
when insurance companys give the go ahead to carry out the work they should ask for invoice when work is completed and then send the cheque to the builder not the customer a similar thing happened years ago when doing doing grantwork for the council they would send the cheque when work was completed to the customer many builders were caught by that method it was crazy
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A few years ago i had a dss tenant and the council did the same, sent them the rent assist and then they stopped paying, when i wanted them out the council told them to go to ground and make me evict them through the courts as its keeps them off the council housing list for 6 months
 
the system is all completely wrong surely if you make claim for ins and dont carry out the work after being paid out isnt that fraud
 
Fatarm said:
They just want you for a quote...then thry tail the cheque and either dont do it or get a fifty a day cash man in to do it...tell them its forty quid for the quote and if you get the job it shall be refunded;).
time wasters!
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Is forty quid the same as warty quid?
 
ruddez said:
the system is all completely wrong surely if you make claim for ins and dont carry out the work after being paid out isnt that fraud
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Maybe in future when quoting say you need the insurance comany name and claim number/reference as part of the quote and then shop them to the insuranace company....i imagine it is fraud if they got caught.
 
I've had this 3 times over the last couple of months but been paid up no problem. Each time i thought the money would come straight to me after the customer gave the insurance the nod that they were happy. Every time the money went to the customer and then they have to send it on.
 
Happened to me a few times , last time I told the customer it would cost €80 plus vat for the quote payable in advance , this would be deducted from the price if we did the job , guess what happened
 
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