To invoice a repairman?

[Shazzabaz]

Hi.

My DH took our car to a local handyman/mechanic who is a friend for some work needed. Basically tyre changes, oil changes, handbrake tightening etc

He kept the car for three days, and then when we returned it he gave us an invoice of £30 to cover "costs".

What "costs"? We supplied the tyres to him!

My husband paid him, but I'm fuming. He originally said he wouldn't charge for his labour, as we have known him for so long.

I have decided I am going to send him an invoice for keeping our car longer than he said he would, to reimburse us for having to get the bus into town when we should have been able to drive.

I know this is petty, but a point needs proving. You can't keep a car longer than you promise, and then invoice for a favour!!!!

I'm wondering if it's petty to invoice for more than £30, just to make a point?

My DH says no, and this will only cause trouble, but I'm not being a doormat for his dishonest mate.

What do you all think?

Don’t forget to write your promissory note in blue ink only, and then seal it with wax to ensure its legality

Leaving aside the fact that in the entire history of things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most, I'd be most entertained if this mythical mechanic drained the mythical oil from your mythical car and then stuck a piece of paper saying "Promissory note for 4.5l of 5W/30" in the oil filler cap.

But how to buy the blue ink and wax

£30 was a bargain !!! he didn't charge for his labour which I guess could be £60 etc p.h. he asked for the costs i.e. oil

"Yes. It's a promise to pay just like government money.
No difference."

Well there is a very clear and obvious difference.

Your handyman friend can take the government promissory note to Tesco and exchange it for goods/ foods etc.

If he tries to pay with your note he won't get very far.....

That's the shops fault, not mine.
Just like them not taking Scottish money in England

A promissory note means that you are agreeing to pay him in cash or in kind at at a future date or on demand, it's an IOU.

So you still either owe him £30 or £30 worth of oil etc.

Richard Vobes is nuts. A promissory note is not the same as cash. Try taking a promissory note to the supermarket to pay for your shopping!!!! Don't believe everything on YouTube!

And you have done this at your local shop? How did that go?

I really hope 'promissory notes' becomes the new 'naice ham / Pombears / penis beaker / cancel the cheque'.

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He has over 100 000 subscribers!!!!!!

England does accept Scottish notes, it does not accept Irish notes.

😂

So a quick google informs me that promissory notes are indeed a thing, a legally enforceable contract to pay the money.

It shouldn’t be necessary in this situation though. If a friend does you a huge favour he should be able to trust you to pay the teeny amount he’s asking to cover his costs without needing legal recourse. In fact I’d think it a bit weird to be offered one as, far from making me think I was definitely getting the money, it would make me think there was a reason you expected not to be trusted to pay hence the extra work to convince me you would pay, and so I’d end up not trusting to pay. Who could be bothered taking legal action to enforce a promissory note for £30?!

Forget the promissory note, pay the man his £30, and buy him a nice present to say thank you. If he’s DH’s friend he should know what to get him. A good bottle of brandy would go down well with a lot of my friends, but it’s not everyone’s thing so you need to know what he’ll want.

I get the impression that’s what the op wants

It's still going through the courts. But I'll win.

It's not legal tender.

You can't go to Tesco with one.

Maybe he has 100 000 promises to follow...

If this isn’t a wind up OP, then I assume you’re a sovereign citizen, as they’re known in America. Your remark about “travelling” - that’s what they say instead of “driving”, so they don’t have to have a driving licence. The thing is, whilst things like promissory notes may be technically the same as monetary notes if you read the definitions, in reality you’d pretty quickly starve if you relied on them for food shopping.

Incidentally, did you give the poor handyman the oil as well, for the oil change, or were you expecting him to fund that himself?

My god !

here for the deletion message 😁

This.

I don't think I've ever been so confused by a thread before 😂

OP you are utterly unhinged. Or just winding everyone up 😂.

Although I am now wondering if Santander would take a promissory note for my mortgage payment ....

Ugh, a manufactured bid for Classics.