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To be annoyed by invoice

58 replies

wondabar · 11/09/2022 20:34

Old lady in our village offered gardening services on a local site at £20 an hour. She is not a professional gardener but loves gardening and we were happy to use her services to help us make our garden pretty, planting plants and flowers according to soil etc. she came to meet us initially to talk about what we wanted, then came to measure for half an hour or so. She came back with a list of potential plants/ flowers after the summer which was a print out which she took to a number of other houses who are using her (just names of plants etc).
We received an invoice from her today for 10 hours work. AIBU thinking that this is taking the piss? We only bet her for the initial 'seeing if we wanted to take on her services' meeting, one other meeting and she did a tiny bit of measuring and web research. I now don't think I want to use her as she has charged us for hours that she did not mention she was going to work. I just feel that if we use her, she is going to spring all sorts of charges on us without preparing us.

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wondabar · 12/09/2022 22:31

Thank you for all your wonderful
Comments. You all pretty much confirmed that I was not being unreasonable. She was not happy when I paid her for three hours and said that we would no longer be using her. Being in a small village I will no doubt see her but am happy to not be going forward with her. Phewww !

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wondabar · 12/09/2022 22:32

And yes, she had invoiced for work that she believed that she had done Angry

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MessyBunPersonified · 12/09/2022 22:37

I sort of admire her brass neck tbh 🤣

Well done op, you did the right thing.

cstaff · 13/09/2022 01:39

Well she has rightly screwed herself over as she certainly won't be getting any work from you or any recommendations passed on to any neighbours etc. Silly woman and going on what you said she did well to get 3 hours payment from you.

milkyaqua · 13/09/2022 01:49

Paying her for three hours was more than generous of you, but probably worth it to put a close to the matter. What an odd woman.

Boxowine · 13/09/2022 03:29

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milkyaqua · 13/09/2022 03:35

Boxowine · 13/09/2022 03:29

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I have seen you doing this on several threads. Do you not know how to bookmark? There is a bookmark option at the bottom of each post on every thread.

EndTheMonacyNow · 13/09/2022 10:34

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