I hired removalists when I moved out of my old unit and these guys made 3 big holes on the walls. The apartment manager hired a handyman to fix it and he took $180 out of my rental bond. He gave me an invoice for that so I faxed it through to the removalists company.
The owner of the removalist company promised me to transfer the money to my bank account on the next day. However he has kept breaking his promises. It’s been a week waiting for the money to be transfered.
Because I don’t trust him anymore I called him today to transfer the money by tomorrow. But he said he would do it on Monday. I was god damn annoyed so I raised my voice saying transfer it by tomorrow. Then he started losing his temper, swore at me and said if he was younger he would kill me. I found no reason to talk with him any longer so I told him I would take this into the court and hung up.
What actions can I take in this case? I am really angry in that he swore at me and threatened me.
Put everything into writing, forget the telephone, send him a final "Letter of Demand" stating politely that you wish to rocover these costs from him blah blah blah…..
Make it all really polite and as formal/legal sounding as you can, then at the end ask for settlement within 14 days or you will commence legal action.
You’ll need to have copies of the invoives etc, everything you can
In Oz, you then take it to small claims court (you don’t need a lawyer), hopefully the Magistrate will award in your favour, it might cost $20 (I think)
Your nearest office of Fair Trading (in NSW) could help you with all this better than me.
You could also report his threat againt your life to the police.
If he contacts you again by telephone tell him to put anything he wants to say in writing and send it to you, as legal action is pending, don’t have a conversation with him AT ALL.
If he threatens you again hang up straight away and immediately contact the 1) the police to report the threat and 2) telstra and report an incident of telephone harrassment, as this can be used later, and phone records can be requested as evidence.
Just keep cool and be polite and confident in your writing and he’ll probly pay up quicker than you think, he is just trying you out, people like that HATE to go to court.
You could also consider writing letters to your local media, newspapers etc to trash his business if he doesn’t come across.
HTH
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hi there
2009 Sep 18 1take them 2 court
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joanna
2009 Sep 18 2take him to court, you’ll get your money back and make sure you mention that you were threatened my him.
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ColP
2009 Sep 18 3Put everything into writing, forget the telephone, send him a final "Letter of Demand" stating politely that you wish to rocover these costs from him blah blah blah…..
Make it all really polite and as formal/legal sounding as you can, then at the end ask for settlement within 14 days or you will commence legal action.
You’ll need to have copies of the invoives etc, everything you can
In Oz, you then take it to small claims court (you don’t need a lawyer), hopefully the Magistrate will award in your favour, it might cost $20 (I think)
Your nearest office of Fair Trading (in NSW) could help you with all this better than me.
You could also report his threat againt your life to the police.
If he contacts you again by telephone tell him to put anything he wants to say in writing and send it to you, as legal action is pending, don’t have a conversation with him AT ALL.
If he threatens you again hang up straight away and immediately contact the 1) the police to report the threat and 2) telstra and report an incident of telephone harrassment, as this can be used later, and phone records can be requested as evidence.
Just keep cool and be polite and confident in your writing and he’ll probly pay up quicker than you think, he is just trying you out, people like that HATE to go to court.
You could also consider writing letters to your local media, newspapers etc to trash his business if he doesn’t come across.
HTH
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