Rip Ferrari interiors
I'm not sure about Ferrari interiors. However, I know people through work who restore and maintain running examples of old vehicles. They have the view that everything rubber turn to oil and rubber to oil.
Customers PC marked their carpet who's liable?
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I'm not sure about Ferrari interiors. However, I know people through work who restore and maintain running examples of old vehicles. They have the view that everything rubber turn to oil and rubber to oil.
Laughable. Bringing criminal law into this? The OP hasn't been reckless, how would he know the feet where dirty in the way they were? The customer is the only negligent one for leaving it in such a state, and then asking the OP to move it. By trying to get the OP to replace the carpet, it's a scam.
Yes the customer could bring a small claims against the OP, but anyone could, for pretty much anything, doesn't mean they have a case. If you go through life thinking of the possibility of going to small claims court you would never leave the house again.
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But if it went to small claims court, how could it ever be reasonably proven either way?
OP should probably just offer to pay for a carpet clean and be done with it.
The customer likely won't get anywhere in court in trying to get the whole carpet replaced
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even if the OP replaces the carpet or has it cleaned they still wont be happy.
ignore them and move on.
Probably the wrong thing to do buy I refunded the pc and sent him £50 on top.. I also realised I spend too much time helping people for no or little financial reward so I'll be telling various people I don't work any more and be more selective of people I'll help (this is a hobby not my main job) . I'll also move to a strict if I'm not there to fix it I'm not touching it (literally not touching it) policy..
One incident in 100s (if not 1000s) of jobs over nearly 2 decades but also made me realise I wasted so much time just helping people for littlr or no money (this one job was probably no profit for 2 visits / 2 hours of my time just because I felt sorry for him as he is disabled / poor)
So you did the work for free, and paid him a goodwill payment of £50?
Tell him to ******* do one.
In any case - in the absolute insanely unlikely event that he takes you to the small claims court, there's just no way he's getting anything.
Gave him a used 24" screen and pc probably cost me £200 but old ish stock I wanted to get shot of.. And took his old pc / screen / printer to the dump for him!
Honestly, tell him to do one - if he makes the frankly insane move of starting legal action on you, over a damn carpet stain, make sure you keep a record of all the free stuff you did for him.
I wouldn't worry about it.
If he'd done that to me, I'd frankly be in two minds about asking for all the free stuff back!
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Just why?? Someone tries to shaft you and you just bend over and help them. Hopefully it’s a cheap lesson learned.
I always think just because someone is disabled / poor / old or whatever it does not automatically make them a nice person who I should feel sorry for. IMO you went above and beyond what you needed to do. I would have just cut contact and ignored them. Even now there is nothing stopping them leaving a bad review. I've found people like this are never happy and whatever you do will never be good enough and will still complain.
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are you available to come and work on my pc next weekend ?
I have a slightly painful ankle.
I'll be needing an RTX4090 and fitting for free please.
(I'll settle for a 4080, but you'll have to provide a new case as well)
and if you could knock one of the plant pots in my drive over when you arrive so I can make a claim with you afterwards that would be most helpful.
I have a slightly painful ankle.
I'll be needing an RTX4090 and fitting for free please.
(I'll settle for a 4080, but you'll have to provide a new case as well)
and if you could knock one of the plant pots in my drive over when you arrive so I can make a claim with you afterwards that would be most helpful.
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Just thinking, I could actually do with a new bedroom carpet 
Well, apparently it's easy to do. You just put some oily substance under your own property, then tell someone else to move your own property, once it's created a stain, you take them to court and get a new house. Also make sure you phone the police, because it's crime, apparently, and this individual should be sentenced to death by putting him on a spike at the mouth of the Thames, to warn off evil spirits.Just thinking, I could actually do with a new bedroom carpet
Criminal damage?!? Step away from the keyboard and stop posting nonsense.
Surely claiming he was reckless is a little rough?
OP, I think I might send him a carefully worded email or a letter covering points such as -
- Your understanding of their frustration over what has happened
- You were trying to help, as you have for free, many times before
- They gave no warning that this could happen
- There was no sensible expectation that this could happen
- Because of this, you feel their request is not a fair one
- It's a shame they are taking this angle as you will no longer feel comfortable helping others in a similar situation