Monies to tight to mention!!

[icanshootwell]

Mrs doing the vat today, rings me up to say, a customer, that just happens to be a family member has paid an invoice and it,s £20 short. A mistake i said, no she said, the tight bast~urds have knocked off the transport cost of £20.
This was not a big job 49 bales and i had to travel 4 miles for the pleasure, hence the £20 transport charge. and i had to wait 6 weeks to be paid to rub salt in. They can f off next year. Does anybody else charge for road work?

 

[snipe]

Yes, or work it into the price of the job.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Yes ,I do ,,my vehicle does not run on fresh air and my time costs

 

[boumaticboy]

Don’t get cross get even. Next time don’t charge transport just add it into the job and add on the twenty from this year too

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Did you deliver them with a Fendt and the family member assumed it made diesel on the way there and back?

 

[steveR]

Mrs doing the vat today, rings me up to say, a customer, that just happens to be a family member has paid an invoice and it,s £20 short. A mistake i said, no she said, the tight bast~urds have knocked off the transport cost of £20.
This was not a big job 49 bales and i had to travel 4 miles for the pleasure, hence the £20 transport charge. and i had to wait 6 weeks to be paid to rub salt in. They can f off next year. Does anybody else charge for road work?

Cannot deliver for nowt... Sounds like more of the attittude that you will do the job for nothing, as it's "Mates rates, Family and neighbours pricing"!

Not on to arbitrarily knock off anything from the Invoice, IMO.

 

[steveR]

Don’t get cross get even. Next time don’t charge transport just add it into the job and add on the twenty from this year too

Yep, quote a price, and that is what they will owe when the job is done.

If they whinge... The OP knows the answer already!!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Was he told before hand . The price should be that quoted

 

[icanshootwell]

Did you deliver them with a Fendt and the family member assumed it made diesel on the way there and back?

The best of it, they never give you any notice, ring up the same day they want you to come over. I did this job in the late evening, so went out of my way to accommodate.

 

[Pan mixer]

I always quote a delivered price - with hay it is for 1 squeezer full, dropped outside their stable - not stacked, stacked is extra.

 

[icanshootwell]

Was he told before hand . The price should be that quoted

Hardly ever quote anybody, my customers know i don,t take the pee, all done on trust.

 

[Wellytrack]

I don’t charge travel to baling jobs. In fact I left a job (with customers permission as he was bunged with bales anyway) and travelled 1.5 miles to a customer, made 51 bales, and returned to the work within 70 minutes from leaving.

Result two happy customers.

It was a Sunday too and rain was due that evening.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Hardly ever quote anybody, my customers know i don,t take the pee, all done on trust.

Not trying to tell you what to do but in my experience if i dont make the full price clear before i deliver i am storing up trouble for myself and it will come back to bite me . Hasle i can do without

 

[glasshouse]

Travelling should be charged for only 49 bales

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Travelling should be charged for only 49 bales

As he said what size bales. I put 44 on an artic. Have you ever had a straw merchant charge extra for transport if he is supplying straw . It may be small bales .if so sorry if i missed it

 

[Wellytrack]

Travelling should be charged for only 49 bales

Why?

 

[spin cycle]

bales + family member = lucky to get paid at all

 

[Smith31]

Never do business with friends or family

 

[glasshouse]

As he said what size bales. I put 44 on an artic. Have you ever had a straw merchant charge extra for transport if he is supplying straw . It may be small bales .if so sorry if i missed it

The guy was xharging travel time, not haulage

 

[glasshouse]

Why?

Because you are spending longer on the road than in the field