Smith-02

oh, yeah. sold a transmission to him a good chunk of time ago, around the end of oct/early nov, he called me up them middle of dec to update me on it, and we got to talking and he said he was looking for someone to do some work, and at the time i was fresh out of a full time job so i said yeah, and i started the beginning of jan, i think the 3rd or the 4th or somethin.





yeah, his shop is unlisted and i can't find records of his company, or his name on any company listings
his phone # is no longer active, does this ---- still work?

Jorsher

Should if they haven't updated the information, or at least give you his old information.

HomeMadeTurboz

Best bet now, is to roll with a baseball bat, and keep an eye out for him.

TorganFM

Yeah, you got fucked, but there's still hope. I would contact the clients where you did the work, then go from there. Eventually you will find your guy or if no one wants to talk someone you can steal ---- from.

crx2211

Happened to me before too. I was a young buck and this dude hired me and my buddy to cut down some trees and turn them into firewood. He said $100/cord. He didn't realize how fast we worked, so within a week he owed us $2400. We said he didn't have to pay all at once, just give us a few bucks so we could eat and buy beer. ****** didn't even give us a cent. So we went to go get our wood to sell ourselves, and he'd already picked ALL of it up.

Well a few days later we got some intel that he was at the casino spending the money from our hard work. We found his brand new Dodge Ram TD sitting out front, so we added ~2lbs of rock salt to his gas tank, drained all fluid reservoirs that we could access, and hacked his brake lines up. He came out and it was dark and didn't even notice his truck was owned haha. He fired it up and seriously looked like an atom bomb had just gone off. So we didn't get our money, but we decided it was only a week of work and that revenge>the few bucks we may have wrenched from his jew hands. In the words of the great NGA Two-Pack himself, "revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin -----."

BigD

What's his name and numbers? Also if all else fails and you find his shop arson can be your friend.

Tom-Guy

Empty his shop.

He fucked you out of your livlihood, ---- him out of his.

MikeJ-2009

I've had a couple painting customers try to play houdini when it's time to pay. Most of the houses were also having some type of other work being done as well. Electrical, plumbing, etc.. The one thing that always works is telling them they can pay now, or I can call the city and they'll come down here and rip your ---- out. This only works when they didn't have the appropriate permits/inspections, but it always works.

The one sub contract job I did was a big apartment complex who hired company A, who sold the job to company B, and then it came to me. When ---- got funny I told company B he could pay me, or I could call company A and the complex and let them know what was going on. It also helped that they had craigslist people working on the job uninsured as well. They thought I was bluffing, so I called the apartment complex (work was still happening), and the next day company A and B were offering to pay me.

You've got to find the customers, and tell them about any under the table, uninsured people, permits, anything, and tell them your situation and that if it doesn't get taken care of, we're going to have to get inspectors and lawyers involved. Figure out your angle.

One of the houses the guy got funny on, the trailer trash carpenter was told by me that he should stop his work because I was going to get the city involved because of the lack of permits. Turns out, the carpenter really needed the job to go smoothly, and payed me the $800 right there and said he'd take care of it.

stenseltizm

my brother had the opposite happen to him. REALLY needed a hardwood floor installed in his entire 2nd floor by a certain date, so he paid a contractor 1/2 the money up front (I guess it seemed normal based on other quotes he recieved) and bought all the products himself/ripped out the old flooring. He never heard of the guy again, the number he used to call got the guys mom or something. Probably would have been HMT worthy but I was too busy working 70+ hours at work, then busting *** installing his floor before deadline.

45psi

---- load of pain killers, body armor, and an automatic gun. thats all youll ever need.