breach of contract

[vacation_rentals_suck]

Guest: Dave, I saw a home advertised for a certain price two weeks ago and I wanted to book it now but I noticed the rate has gone up

Me: yes ma'am

Guest: ok well I dont feel I should have to pay the higher rate

Me: thats what the rate is

Guest: you cant honor the previous rate?

Me: no ma'am

Guest: thats not fair

Me: I am very sorry. Rates are subject to change.

Guest: I did not agree to that

Me: again, I'm very sorry

Guest: that's breach of contract

Me: no ma'am, you didnt have a contract

Guest: well...but.....it was on your website

Me: and rates are subject to change

Guest: well I dont like that, Dave

Me: I'm sorry

Guest: Oh just forget it...I am calling my lawyer because this just isnt right. I have been coming there for 20 years and you pull this. This is just (she huffs and puffs and then hangs up)

[EvilEmpryss]

Hey! The Lawyer card! Yippee! (And I need to add the "That's Not Fair Card" to my collection)

You know what's not fair? Having to listen to lazy whiners whinge on about how it's not fair that the world doesn't wait for them to move their EW asses to acquire something they supposedly value.

[Crossbow]

Fair? Fair??? Do you see cotton candy or a pony ride anywhere around here???


I'd love to hear what the lawyer told them. Some polite variant of "You're an idiot and wasting your time and mine. There's no contract, so you can't sue. Now, pay me my $500 for having to listen to your pathetic whining."

[Betweenshades]

Silly you- thinking there needs to be a contract for it to be breached. Silly, silly boy...

[Marmalady]

If she' really has been 'coming there for 20 years' then she ought to know by now that (all together now) Rates are subject to change.

[MoonCat]

She...doesn't think she should pay the new price. Because she just doesn't want to.

Holy sh*t - she takes the prize for entitlement complex. I should try that. Hey, supermarket, I don't wanna pay $6.99 a pound for that, gimme it for the price you charged 5 years ago!

Nope. Don't think it's gonna work.

[Sonoma]

So, she's complaining that you breached a contract that didn't even exist?

Brain go splodey...

[EvilEmpryss]

Brain go splodey...

This. This is exactly what happened when I read it.

[PepperElf]

sometimes i'd love to hear the phone conversation they have with the lawyer
assuming they weren't bluffing.

i can picture either a the sc shouting "what do you mean they can do that!!???!!!???"
or a lawyer - after a facepalm at hearing the complaint - talking as if to a child, "Yes, Ms. SC... they really can change rates... " etc...

[EvilEmpryss]

We need to go out and recruit some lawyers to join the site so we can find out first hand what these people are like.

[shankyknitter]

Already tried. I have a couple pet lawyers (not kidding, I hit them with sticks on the weekend, and camp with them) and I asked if they'd be willing to join this site to vent some steam about their day. Sadly I got told because of some silly thing like 'client confidentiality' they can't. *grump*

[EvilEmpryss]

Bah! "Client confidentiality"! You know they talk about it between themselves. There's ways around that kind of thing. Hit them harder. They're just being lazy... and not very civicly minded.

*pout*

[Soulstealer]

We need to go out and recruit some lawyers to join the site so we can find out first hand what these people are like.

Give me a few years. I'm only a law student currently.

[EvilEmpryss]

Oooo! We're growing our own lawyers! Yippee!

[Mikkel]

Sadly I got told because of some silly thing like 'client confidentiality' they can't. *grump*

I'm sure Panacea has to think of confidentiality too. On an anonymous board they should be able to change the stories so much that no one can identify the client.
You just need a bigger stick .