WOW, this Mike Anderson must not want to be in this particular business anymore since he must love bad PR more.
What exactly could he do with the headstone once it was removed? Shave off the kids name? and resell it ?
What a friggen looser.
“What a friggen looser.”
The parent(s) sound like the real loosers.
I believe so.
Regardless, it should have been paid, and it sounds as though the gravestone folks tried to contact the boy's mother, to no avail.
The margin of profit for many businesses these days isn’t very good. One $750 loss like this could take three to seven other sales to make up. I can’t fault the firm for needing to get paid. They provide a service and need to be compensated. If they adopted your policy, nobody would be in the business of providing gravestones.
Face it, the only service they provide is to the families of dead people. Where do you draw the line in light of that? They couldn’t ever challenge non-payment if your premise was the correct one.
Most small business men are not independently wealthy, like you appear to be. Why don’t you use some of your money to set up a foundation to buy headstones for folks?
So we are to believe that you would rather beat someone out of his money than pay your bills. I think you need to move over to DU, where they don't believe in honor and paying your debts.
Yes, stone can be ground down and polished.
WOW, this Mike Anderson must not want to be in this particular business anymore since he must love bad PR more.
What exactly could he do with the headstone once it was removed? Shave off the kids name? and resell it ?
What a friggen looser.
You might want to rethink this. It is, in fact, ‘just business’.
The looser is the parent that didn’t pay for her son’s headstone, didn’t try to make some kind of arrangement to do so.
So he has to go bankrupt?
That is absurd.
I would imagine it has to be pretty bad to get to that point.
Sadly if you allow just ONE to get away with this then you will have every deadbeat beating a path to your door.
Keep in mind too, quality suffers when the business is not profitable. Does anyone really want a poorly made headstone for a loved one?
This had the proper result. The money was raised the bill was paid, the stone replaced. The end.
WHy should this business not reposess? They provided a service and weren’t paid... you expect they should just eat it?
Its a sad situation, but how hard is it to come up with $750? or at very least work out payments with the company to pay them back?
Just a few hours a week at a part time job can pay this off.
Smooth move! Okay, he will have to through a year of being called the world's meanest man, but after that all he has to do is wait until someone else with the identical name and dates happens to boot it in his jurisdiction.