誠心請教：我能否有機會贏這官司?

事情jian介:

11月初， CT Fairfield County

I wanted to get about 80 yards fill meterial for a big hole in my yard so I called arouond. Three quotes ended up:

Quote1: $150/load delievered from Milford CT (20 miles away). One load is about 20 yards.

Quote2: Free material but no delievery. That means I have to arrange the pick-up, which is $17.95/hour if rent a pick-up truck from HomeDepot. Of course, the cost of two man labor, $50.00 /day ( Mexican)

Quote3: $250.00 for all, delievered (8 miles away)

Obviously, the 3rd one is the best choice.

I called the lady and placed the order. She told me about 6 trucks and the delivery would be starting at 8:00a.m. the next day. They showed up for the first truck at 9:30a.m. Then 4 more truck afterwards.

The problem is: I got an invoice for $2500.00, which was 10 times of the original quote. The driver told me that they sale the fill material for $35/yard. I did not want pay for this bill. they said that I made a mistake for the price and will ask their lawyer to sue me.

I am preparing for the case. The data I have on my hands:

1. The calling records from my cell phone ( to each of the above quote);
2. Hand writing notes for each of the quote I got while I was on phone with them. (It has become a habit for me to write down the information while I am on the phone just in case I miss any important info.)
3. One online pages shows the quote for the free material.
4. I told my hu*****and about the decision and these three quotes the day before the delievey.
5. They claimed $35.00/yard, the total price should not be $2500.00, should be $2800.00.


Actually, I was prepared to pay half of the price, even though I thought it was redicolous. But the lady was so rude and did not give me the chance to say so....

Any chance I will win the case ?

Any professional inputs will be highly apprecaited.

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• 回複：誠心請教：我能否有機會贏這官司? -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (759 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:38:12

• Many thanks. For the #3: -verybadexperience- ♀ (433 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:47:00

• Ask 單身老貓 -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:51:32

• Thanks.... -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:04:17

• 回複：Many thanks. For the #3: -apt- ♂ (924 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:01:36

• I understood that and am willing to pay the reasonable price ( o -verybadexperience- ♀ (185 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:20:17

• 回複：I understood that and am willing to pay the reasonable price -apt- ♂ (1155 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:31:56

• Thank you so so much.... My husband asked me to pay... -verybadexperience- ♀ (131 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:36:33

• I googled a very good website that explained the SOF -verybadexperience- ♀ (154 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:52:36

• Yes, You can win the case!!!! -hiccup- ♀ (269 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 20:35:18

• Mr. 單身老貓 , Any inputs ? Thanks! -verybadexperience- ♀ (101 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:06:11

• 回複：Mr. 單身老貓 , Any inputs ? Thanks! -單身老貓- ♂ (435 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:49:59

• My personal notes and the link for qutoe 2's free material -verybadexperience- ♀ (676 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:23:04

• 回複：My personal notes and the link for qutoe 2's free material -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (66 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:48:34

• yes I do have the invoice for Quote3 ($2500) -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:15:39

• after the devlievery was done. -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 10:35:31

• I think I am able to post the scanned image. Can it be seen ? -verybadexperience- ♀ (146 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:35:02

• cant view -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:37:00

• Try again... -verybadexperience- ♀ (153 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:46:40

• can not view. -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:09:35

• Hope it works this time -verybadexperience- ♀ (48 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:04:59

• can not view -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:09:50

• yeah! Can view it now!!! -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:11:53

• it seems $250/truck. and total 6 trucks... -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:13:25

• 你要是能搞到$250 for all的口頭交易的電話錄音就好了. -小謀- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:46:48

• 回複：誠心請教：我能否有機會贏這官司? -apt- ♂ (753 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:55:37

• Thanks for the input -verybadexperience- ♀ (739 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:13:13

• 回複：Thanks for the input -apt- ♂ (391 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:19:32

• You are absolutely right about this... I won't mention gravels . -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:33:02

• Go to the court to see if there are any similar cases against th -minisis- ♀ (95 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:14:00

• Ask two other places fax the Quote they offered to you,don't sa -minisis- ♀ (46 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:23:07

• I have got two more writing quotes ready. Thanks for the suggest -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 08:58:31

• One quote is $175/load (about18 yards), another $1100 total -verybadexperience- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 10:38:50

• 回複：誠心請教：我能否有機會贏這官司? -notseriouslady- ♂ (123 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:31:38

• 很難說。原價$250實在太低了！Usually, dirt is $10-15 per yard. -3271963- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 18:49:45

• I was a little surprised too when I heard this price. -verybadexperience- ♀ (216 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:13:08

• 如果你叫別家做也是這樣的價錢,你還會打官司嗎? -citygirl08- ♀ (435 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:35:03

• I guess you did not get chance to read the whole story -verybadexperience- ♀ (883 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 21:05:44

• 對不起,沒有看全部.隻是越看越糊塗.我覺得這是一個"誠實"的錯誤. -citygirl08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 05:01:39

• 回複：誠心請教：我能否有機會贏這官司? -leis428- ♂ (208 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 09:05:27

• Dirt- digged out from one of their construction sites, not top s -verybadexperience- ♀ (115 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 10:34:28

• 頭一個教訓是沒有書麵文件。我不太明白的是到底是哪裏出了錯？ -gqc- ♀ (900 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 06:32:19

• This is a general contractor and the driver told me that -verybadexperience- ♀ (217 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 21:05:30