Company Reneges When Job's Done, Gets Just Deserts

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mattstaff
Dec 3, 2020 6:00 PM EST

One does not simply renege once the job is done, without dire consequences. This company certainly learned their lesson the hard way. The pure satisfaction of taking this revenge had to have been absolutely worth it. For some more juicy pro revenge content, check out this electric organ revenge that was literal years in the making. Beautiful work, really. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/1968Bladerunner • 3d 1 2 e 3 3 3 1 Renege once the job's done? Prepare for your just desserts... A few years after I started my business I was asked to clean-up & optimise a number of PC's in multiple locations, as well as set up some forms & templates, for a new client who owned a local restaurant. The work, all labour apart from a little travel, was performed over the space of a month due to scheduling conflicts & school holidays but, on completing the last of it,
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    Text - I waited for payment; never heard anything, sent reminder emails, called & left messages; but no response. Eventually a couple of busy months had passed and I met the client by chance in the local supermarket. On asking why he'd not paid or been in touch, he said that all the PC's were as bad as they had been before l'd started, and that he HAD tried to contact me with no success. As my landline & mobile phone had caller display as well as answering services, & there had been no emails, I
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    Text - So I contacted a local debt collector, gave him the details, printouts of my call logs & post-invoicing emails, & he took them to the restaurateur. On his return his words were "He's not disputing the invoice, he's saying that the work wasn't done right - so it's his word against yours." I queried if it was worth taking the guy to small claims, to which the debt collector said "Even if you could prove he confirmed he was satisfied with the work, they might insist you get his computers bac
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    Text - At this point it was late November so, creating two throwaway email accounts in female names, I got in touch with the restaurant to book a large party for Valentines night the following February. I put it down as "...my husband's surprise 40th birthday party", confirmed that "...my husband's sister" (and cc'd her in the message with the other throwaway) couldn't make the journey north, but would happily pay the £10/head deposit as her share towards the night. Of course, as time went on th
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    Text - To keep him on-side, I asked for a proposed menu in advance so that I could send it to all the attendees for pre-ordering. Naturally they were delighted that they'd know this as it makes their life much easier. Consequently the numbers for all 3 courses were emailed in - with a few 'fussy eater' variables thrown in for good measure. Needless to say by the beginning of February he was getting quite antsy about there being no sign of the deposit, but I reassured him that the sisters cheque
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    Text - A week before d-day and he'd obviously had enough. He emailed in a spat saying they'd turned away numerous enquiries, had no deposit, and could no longer hold back on taking other bookings. This time I didn't bother replying... my part was done. My wife (at the time) & I were booked in at another restaurant close by for our own Valentines meal, after which we took a walk past the restaurateur's business premises to see just two cars in their parking lot, one of which was his! I'm not sure
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