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If a customer has screwed you and you just don't know what to do, take a couple of ideas from my handbook.
1. The Wife will kill him trick- Send the male who has screwed you a dozen roses with a card attached. On the card write any female name. His wife will freak out. He may be able to talk his way out of this, so in about one month send him a second dozen from the same woman. Seal the deal by having a female call during the day and leave a message on his machine from the same woman. The divorce will cost him more than anything he screwed you out of.
2. The mailing list trick- It is easy enough to sign someone up for many mailing lists. I know of someone who was put on over 200 one time. This has a snowball affect. Soon they will be on thousands. Pick up hunting magazines, womens magazines and go to the back. There you will find countless 800 numbers. Call and ask for free samples and catalogs to be sent to this jerk. You will be amazed on how much stuff you can send for a thirty day trial period. Then of course the customer has to send back the unwanted merchandise. Don't be afraid to find stuff that says "bill me later". You will be amazed at how much fun this can be.
3. The Army recruiter trick- Sign him up for the military. Those recruiters are relentless. They just won't take no for an answer. Maybe set up a lunchen date for the jerk and the recruiter.
4. The old Columbia records and tape trick- Sign him or her up with the Columbia records and tape club about a dozen times. Make sure you sign them up for Gangster Rap or Classical music. This will drive them nuts. It should take them about 6 to 7 years to get out of those clubs.
5. and last but no least- Have an affair with their spouse. Take plenty of pictures and mail them to them!
Enjoy!!!
-------------------- Rob Larkham Rob Larkham Signs & Lettering 21 Middlefield Road Chester, MA. 01011
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And if possible...take a couple of your biggest bad ass looking friends to get your money owed to you. If the customer says they don't have the money....have your big bad friends help themselves to the paintings on the wall.....computers....whatever.... until the customer coughs up the money. And don't forget to tack on the late fees. My big bad ass friend even drove to the bank with the loser customer. Then he made him go back in to get more money for the late fees. It was fun having the tables turned and being able to watch the whole thing. Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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I think you should put your recipe on a CD for sale.
-------------------- Brian Cornwell AutoMotivation Plymouth - MA - USA
"The Customer Can Have Any Color He Wants So Long As It's Black" -- Henry Ford Posts: 120 | From: Plymouth MA - USA | Registered: Nov 2001
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Back in the early 80's I used to work 3rd shift at a convenience store and one of my sisters was dating a PK (preacher's kid). A couple days after they broke up, he came into the store with another girl hanging on his arm. He recongnized me and had few smart things to say to me about my sister (my sister had dumped him when she found out about this other girl). There were other people in the store, so I kept my cool. After closing, I pulled out a subscription form out of the various porn mags and filled them out with his name on it and used his dad's church address.
Needless to say, vengence was served quite nicely. Heh heh heh.
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You guys are evil. I thought I was relentless, but now I'm taking notes from you guys.
Twists to the woman leaving messages during the day:
either have her make some mention of a dead rabbit or failing a test. This has a better impact if she can cry while leaving the message.
Make up a clinic name when you call and tell him you have the results of his VD tests and he needs to call you ASAP. Be sure to casually mention something to the effect of "and don't have sex with anyone until we've talked (this part in almost as a whisper as you're carefully replacing the phone) and cleared this condition up."
Claim you're calling from a strip club/adult toy store/escort service and tell him his tab is $1000 over the limit and he needs to take care of this immediately. Mention that you could just put it on his charge card like you did last time, but he needs to call and let you know if that's what he wants to do.
Hey Glen, in addition to the porn magazines, you could do this with the 'alternative lifestyle' magazines too.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa
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Or you could remove all 4 tire stem valves. from his tires, put them in an envelope and mail them to him. a day later he'll have had the car towed, paid to have the tires fixed only to get his tire stem valves back the next day.
And if your feeling aggressive remove a wheel from his car and ship to him UPS COD!
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you."
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you know i thought i would add my 2cent worth (that about all advise is worth)
but we always get a 1/2 down deposit with the ballance due on recept with a signed contact, (sign craft has some good forms to start with)if the customer is not willing to lay up a deposit and give his autograf(sp) they are not serious about the sign!....had a customer try to mess with the money and so i threaten to take the sign down(still mine technically)and he coffed up the money!....Good luck!
-------------------- "We have been making house calls since 1992"
Chris Lovelady Vital Signs
NOW WITH 2 LOCATIONS! Tallahassee, Florida Thomasville, Ga.
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The problem I have is the wench that jacked be around for 150.oo bucks has an ole man that is an investigator for the State Police. She runs a security business. I can't smash the door I lettered for her because probably has it under surveillance. Guess I'll just write that off to experience. Happy holidays to everyone!
-------------------- Frisby Signs, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas Posts: 902 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Roy, how do you think the public will perceive her "security" business if she is dragged into court for being a thief?
And what are you saying? Her Joe Gestapo ol' man is involved? The local news will eat that up.
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-------------------- Brian Cornwell AutoMotivation Plymouth - MA - USA
"The Customer Can Have Any Color He Wants So Long As It's Black" -- Henry Ford Posts: 120 | From: Plymouth MA - USA | Registered: Nov 2001
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I had a real uptown friend in Jr High that stole a girlfriend from me. We were pretty good friends so I knew his dads work shop door was alway open. One night me and anougther bud rolled this ladys yard. She didnt like the kids in the area playing in her yard.She was always calling our parrents. We messed up some of her plants nothing to bad but bad enough. We then left the flashlight with the kids last name on it in the yard . He never knew what hit him. He worked all summer in her garden. Just thougt that was a funny story. Later
-------------------- Ryan Young Indocil Art & Design indocil@comporium.net 803-980-6765
I highjacked Letterville!! Winter Muster 2004 Posts: 904 | From: Rock Hill, SC | Registered: Sep 2001
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we had a local gym decide they were going to offer free memberships to local cops and firefighters after sept 11. i was already a memeber so when i approached him about signing me up free he declined w/out an explanation. found out later it was all a publicity stunt. feel free to drop planet fitness in nederland texas a line lol thought that was pretty ****ty of them
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WARNING! Try none of these methods! They should be only thought of as ones to NOT use.
1. Newspaper ad to read: "Harley and Indian parts...come early, bring cash. (add the offender's address only)"
2. Call a tow company and have the offender's car towed to a repair facility
3. Visit your local sand and gravel company and pay in cash for that load of sand to be delivered in the driveway of the offender. Tell them you are building a back porch. Ever try to move a load of sand off your driveway?
4. Call up a lumber company and order ten gallons of paint to be delivered to the offender's office with a fake purchase order number.
5. Order in some pizzas for his crew
6. Wrap a neat ten spot in a letter and send it to the local police charity. They will put his name on their solicitation lists.
7. Wrap up a nice fish and send it to him. He likes sushi, doesn't he?
8. ASPCA people are pretty easy to alert about the way he treats his pet Kimodo Dragons.
9. Place a luminario with the sack filled with doggie do-do and lighter fluid in it and a lit candle on his doorstep.
10. The water, gas and electric companies should be notified that the offender will be leaving town for an extended trip and the utilities should be cut off for a couple of months.
11. That company that moves pianos probably needs to be called about his baby grand that needs to be moved...
12. Does he have cable? How about all of the premium channels?
13. Schedule some dental work
14. Make some dinner reservations?
15. Does he have enough firewood?
16. How abount some heavy equipment for the office? Does he need a bobcat delivered?
17. He probably needs some of those railroad ties that are advertised in the local paper delivered.
18. How about his landscaping needs? Maybe he needs to have someone come out and give him a proposal?
19. How about his life insurance needs?
20. He might even need a few plumbers to stop by and clean a few drains?
Try not to coordinate all of the above items on the same day. Don't get mad, get even! Happy holidays!
-------------------- Preston McCall 10305 Eby st. Overland Park, KS 66212 text: 5056607370
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Thank you everyone for the ideas! I got screwed out of $750 (1/2 of a job I did and a whole lot of money to me). I did take a 50% deposit but being the nice guy that I am, I let the guy take it before he paid the balance. It was a 15'x30' banner for a "Summer Bash" rock concert. Well, this bonehead had his "Summer Bash" in October. It was cold and windy and nobody showed (maybe 200 people). He asked if he could pay me when the show was over so I let him take it (yes, my fault). Of course, everyone got screwed. Stage people, the concession folks, the security folks, everybody. He & his partner filed for bankruptcy a couple weeks later. And, he did it in his partners name! He now owns a whole strip mall with 4 bustling businesses making him all kinds of cash. I can't go after him 'cuz of the bankruptcy but I will definetly use ALL your ideas! Thanks again!!
-------------------- John Cordova Gitano Design Studio Albuquerque, NM Posts: 268 | From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Back in Junior High a friend of mine did lawn care and pool cleaning work around the neighborhood, and got screwed out of some dough - he waited til the offender was away on a two week vacation, and set up a garden hose to siphon his swimming pool into his basement(with the sump pump conveniently disconnected) and best of all made it look like an accident on the part of the homeowner! They had top call the fire company to pump out the basement, and then needed to replace the furnace as well.
Another occasion was a friend's sister who had been dating this loser drunk til he beat her up one night. Broke her jaw; it was nasty. My friend wanted revenge and was hot to go over and kick his ass, but I told him to let me handle it. So a week later I went out to the bar where he drank regularly and buddied up to him and bought him shots for about five hours, while getting him all wound up with "bad cop" stories. When he left to drive home, (stinking drunk and with a bad attitude about law enforcement)I dropped a dime(anonymously) to the local PD, gave his description, license number and that he was dangerously drunk, adding that he hated cops and claimed to have a weapon. The cops did the rest - they sent three cruisers after him to pull him over. He obliged by being his usual mouthy a-hole self, then (surprise surprise!)took a swing at one of the cops, so they hosed him down with pepper spray and gave him a nice Rodney King massage. Then because it was late Friday night and no court til Tuesday (it was a long holiday weekend) they sent him to the ACI (state prison) in Cranston, where I'm sure he continued to have a great time til he got in front of a judge and made bail.
And after all that, my friend's sister forgave him and took him back, thus proving that no good deed goes unpunished.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988"
Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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when i was living in maine and workin at the NAPA store, one of the guy that worked there told me about aguy that owed him money($600) and wouldnt pay it back. well the guy who owed the money bought a brand new car, my friend asked th guy for his money....but was told some story. ok...so my friend buys a couple gallons of battery acid and a spray tank, you know the ones you pump and spray. well he waited till the money ower went to bed, and he also left the new car doors open, my freind sprayed the whole interior of the car with battery acid....next morning the guy comes out to get in the car....the jar of opening the door caused all the interior to just turn to powder....
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Back in the early seventies when I was still working as a helper for the billboard industry my boss & I did these 3 or 4 10x40 billboards for a motel. Well one thing led to another & 3 weeks after a cod date the guy was still giving us the run around,..Well, the boss sends me to the hardware store for a gallon of roofing tar & to the local gas station for 3 gallons of kerosene.We go to the sign which was right there on the property of the motel early the next morning about 6 am & the boss sets up the ladder to the cat walk.He then tells me to fill the old 5 gallon roller bucket with the kerosene & roofing tar & go up on the catwalk & stir it for the next 10 minutes & be ready to give the guy wanting a free paint job an extra free sealer coat.Did ya ever try painting a gutter with roofing tar on it?The only way you can get paint to cover it is to completely remove the tar,otherwise the tar bleeds right back thru the paint. Seems the motel owner suddenly found the fumds in his safe to pay us,...go figure.
Another time one of the clients who wanted free paint work had some one I have absolutely no idea who,...throw a paper candy sack full of pink jelly methylene chloride paint remover on his signs,...made a real mess too seems the vandals were persistant & did it to both sides of the sign,...
The best collection I ever heard of was this privately owned waffle house who ran several months late on a service call bill,...he got to work one morning & someone had swapped the first two letters on his sign,.. seems he found the funds to pay his bill promptly too,...go figure
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-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Rumors are usually most effective with humans. As an example, while spoting that someone at dinner walk over and inquire in an overly loud voice, weather or not he is still a "Registered Communist?"
J.G. Kurtzman
-------------------- John Kurtzman J.G. Kurtzman Sign Shop 97 Taylor Ave. Norwalk, Ct. 06854
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