Pay for parts up front?
I lost an awning this summer in a bad storm. My insurance is paying for it less my deductible. The repair shop wants me to pay for the awning up front before they'll order it. Is this a common practic...
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avan wrote:
Go to another shop. Why should you be a general creditor of that business if they go out of business before completion? What are your options once your $ is out the door and they don't complete the work on a timely basis or a professional manner. When you pay in advance, are they providing you with a performance bond from a reputable ins. company? Sounds to me like a grossly underfunded business - a red flag you should run, not walk, from. JMO.
This is a STRANGE position to take.
Have you ever bought something online with a credit/debit card? If so, you've given money to an online banking system you've never met (nor will you) for a product you don't even know to actually exist, with the expectation that the proper signals will be received/transmitted by a third-party server located somewhere in the world to a company that perhaps doesn't even have a store-front...all in the hopes that the product you wanted might somehow arrive in the condition you're hoping for.
Put it that way, what's wrong with someone asking to be paid up front for their services...especially when you can see them, touch them, talk to them...
