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When you try to support a small business and it hurts you in the end.... [Thread]
Last month I decide I want to install a floating shelf in my room. I recall in a @RushCam video that Active Home Centre has nice tings. I decide to head down.
Reach down, find a lovely Walnut Floating shelf. Nice color and most importantly nice price. I just assumed that at AHC, it would have been more expensive. As I& #39;m about to checkout, I say lemme call my "carpenter friend." 
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My reasoning.. . "I& #39;ll prefer to give my friend the business than a large corporation." I get his price, which was 20% more than AHC but no problem. Imma support him. I leave the shelf and head to his shop.
At the shop, I describe everything I want, new price which is now 35% more than AHC but no worries. He says, leave a deposit and you can collect end of day. It& #39;s around 10:30am. Of course I don& #39;t have much cash on me..
I got sidetracked on road, so I eventually reach back around 1:30pm he says "check him tomorrow". As I was late was cash, I say no problem. Tomorrow it is.
Tomorrow comes.. I try call him to check in, can& #39;t get him. I try a few times no answer. I say lemme try the day after. (1 day after agreed date)
I call him on WED (1 day after agreed date), he starts to say him start but need more time to wrap up etc. I give him a few days which turns to a week.
The following week (7 days after agreed date) it changes to "I& #39;mma drop it off by your office."
The following week (7 days after agreed date) it changes to "I& #39;mma drop it off by your office."
Then over the next TWO weeks, it& #39;s a mixture of
1.) Call and can& #39;t get him
2.) "Yea man, Imma deal with it and bring it by you at 4pm today"
1.) Call and can& #39;t get him
2.) "Yea man, Imma deal with it and bring it by you at 4pm today"
So Monday gone (which must be 1 month after agreed date). I just go by him. I& #39;m expecting to see the thing finished and maybe he just had issues delivering.
Nope not yet done, "and there& #39;s another piece plus it needs to be sanded down."
Nope not yet done, "and there& #39;s another piece plus it needs to be sanded down."
He says "someone dropping off a sanding machine today and blam you dat!". I ask "What time can I collect".
"4pm"
Of course, when I go at 4pm, he ain& #39;t there.
"4pm"
Of course, when I go at 4pm, he ain& #39;t there.
The next day I can& #39;t get him....
The day after I call him "Imma finish it then get it sanded and drop it off etc"...of course nothing is dropped off.
Well today, I just had enough. Went back to him in HOPES to just collect but of course (1 month plus after the agreed date) it& #39;s the same story. "Need this and need that"
I just say...
"I just want my refund, I don& #39;t want no story" I was told I would get same day/next day and it& #39;s now over a month. "No more story, just refund"
"I just want my refund, I don& #39;t want no story" I was told I would get same day/next day and it& #39;s now over a month. "No more story, just refund"
Then I head back to Active Home Center and get it, in one go.... Over a month later...
What& #39;s the moral of the story?
What& #39;s the moral of the story?
