Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The Lawn Mower is Coming Home From the Shop. . .

But no it's not fixed. I am so frustrated. We gave him the mower and $1,000.00. He wanted to keep the mower and take another $3000.00 to sell us a new one. I don't think he ever wanted to fix it to begin with. He kept trying to talk us into just buying one of his. We didn't want one of his, we wanted ours.

Now the repairman is saying that it can't be fixed that we need to spend $2000.00 for a new gear box because it's so old that they don't sell parts for the old one any more. We have a friend, who has a friend that does tool and die work. For $400.00 he can make the knew part. Hmmmmmmm . . . $2000.00 or $400, I wonder which one we will pick?

When my husband told him that we wanted the mower back and weren't interested in a new one the repairman talked like we wouldn't see much of our money back. DH thought that he was going to try to charge him for new part that we had taken care of. As it turned out we ended up getting half of our money back. He did do some work and I don't mind paying him for that. The truth is that I'm just happy to be getting any of it back. I didn't honestly think we would.

1 comment:

Denise said...

Bless your heart,what a mess.