Lost my mixer, had to take them to Small Claims Court
- Approximate cost of services:
- $150.00
- Company Response
The customer is absolutely right in that we did give him back the wrong mixer. The mixer he got was in the original state that we received it (mixer was made up of a variety of other mixer parts, it was mislabeled which the customer assumes that we mislabeled it to appear more powerful than it actually was and the mixer was missing the attachment hub which was why it was in for repairs. We accidentally gave the customer a mixer that had not been repaired yet.
In our attempt to rectify this error we offered the customer what we thought was a fair compensation. We offered him the difference of what we quoted him for the repair of his broken mixer (which he agreed on) and the cost of purchasing a new mixer. He was not satisfied with that as he wanted us to pay for a brand new mixer and was not going to settle for anything less. He was not willing to compromise in any way and said he would take us to court if we did not buy him a new mixer. He was totally unreasonable. The court awarded the customer the same compensation we offered him before he went to court. It did not take us 3 months to pay him back. The whole process of trying to work out a reasonable solution, the customer realizing that we were not going to be bullied into meeting his demands and then him going to court and then receiving payment took about 3 months.