诚心请教:我能否有机会赢这官司?

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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回复:诚心请教:我能否有机会赢这官司? -jin_yin_hua- 给 jin_yin_hua 发送悄悄话 (759 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:38:12

Many thanks. For the #3: -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (433 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:47:00

Ask 單身老貓 -jin_yin_hua- 给 jin_yin_hua 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 10:51:32

Thanks.... -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:04:17

回复:Many thanks. For the #3: -apt- 给 apt 发送悄悄话 (924 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:01:36

I understood that and am willing to pay the reasonable price ( o -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (185 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:20:17

回复:I understood that and am willing to pay the reasonable price -apt- 给 apt 发送悄悄话 (1155 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:31:56

Thank you so so much.... My husband asked me to pay... -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (131 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:36:33

I googled a very good website that explained the SOF -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (154 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:52:36

Yes, You can win the case!!!! -hiccup- 给 hiccup 发送悄悄话 (269 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 20:35:18

Mr. 單身老貓 , Any inputs ? Thanks! -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (101 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:06:11

回复:Mr. 單身老貓 , Any inputs ? Thanks! -單身老貓- 给 單身老貓 发送悄悄话 單身老貓 的博客首页 (435 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:49:59

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

回复:My personal notes and the link for qutoe 2's free material -jin_yin_hua- 给 jin_yin_hua 发送悄悄话 (66 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:48:34

yes I do have the invoice for Quote3 ($2500) -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:15:39

after the devlievery was done. -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 10:35:31

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

cant view -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:37:00

Try again... -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (153 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:46:40

can not view. -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:09:35

Hope it works this time -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (48 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:04:59

can not view -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:09:50

yeah! Can view it now!!! -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:11:53

it seems $250/truck. and total 6 trucks... -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:13:25

你要是能搞到$250 for all的口头交易的电话录音就好了. -小谋- 给 小谋 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 11:46:48

回复:诚心请教:我能否有机会赢这官司? -apt- 给 apt 发送悄悄话 (753 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 12:55:37

Thanks for the input -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (739 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:13:13

回复:Thanks for the input -apt- 给 apt 发送悄悄话 (391 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:19:32

You are absolutely right about this... I won't mention gravels . -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 13:33:02

Go to the court to see if there are any similar cases against th -minisis- 给 minisis 发送悄悄话 minisis 的博客首页 (95 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:14:00

Ask two other places fax the Quote they offered to you,don't sa -minisis- 给 minisis 发送悄悄话 minisis 的博客首页 (46 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:23:07

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

One quote is $175/load (about18 yards), another $1100 total -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 10:38:50

回复:诚心请教:我能否有机会赢这官司? -notseriouslady- 给 notseriouslady 发送悄悄话 (123 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 14:31:38

很难说。原价$250实在太低了!Usually, dirt is $10-15 per yard. -3271963- 给 3271963 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 18:49:45

I was a little surprised too when I heard this price. -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (216 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:13:08

如果你叫别家做也是这样的价钱,你还会打官司吗? -citygirl08- 给 citygirl08 发送悄悄话 citygirl08 的博客首页 (435 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 20:35:03

I guess you did not get chance to read the whole story -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (883 bytes) () 11/13/2008 postreply 21:05:44

对不起,没有看全部.只是越看越糊涂.我觉得这是一个"诚实"的错误. -citygirl08- 给 citygirl08 发送悄悄话 citygirl08 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 05:01:39

回复:诚心请教:我能否有机会赢这官司? -leis428- 给 leis428 发送悄悄话 (208 bytes) () 11/14/2008 postreply 09:05:27

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

头一个教训是没有书面文件。我不太明白的是到底是哪里出了错? -gqc- 给 gqc 发送悄悄话 (900 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 06:32:19

This is a general contractor and the driver told me that -verybadexperience- 给 verybadexperience 发送悄悄话 (217 bytes) () 11/15/2008 postreply 21:05:30

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