Beware of dirty customer tactics
Posted: March 10th, 2006, 12:39 pm
About once a year I find a customer who tries to pull a fast one and make off with a free repair. Here is the latest tactic for your protection.
We got a call to do a chip and that he wanted to put it through safeco. Everything went by the book with a satisfied customer and two hours later he calls back and said he wants to void the claim. I said sure we will void it out if he is not happy with the job. 30 minutes later we show up to retrieve the reciept. After some discussion and voiding out the invoice on the customers copy as well as ours, we figured out he was going to use the reciept to submit for reimbursement directly to the agent after stiffing us for payment.
We got a call to do a chip and that he wanted to put it through safeco. Everything went by the book with a satisfied customer and two hours later he calls back and said he wants to void the claim. I said sure we will void it out if he is not happy with the job. 30 minutes later we show up to retrieve the reciept. After some discussion and voiding out the invoice on the customers copy as well as ours, we figured out he was going to use the reciept to submit for reimbursement directly to the agent after stiffing us for payment.