Legal question. Please Help. what rights do we have?
My husband took his motorcycle to a shop to have the rims chromed and was told it would take 3 weeks. It has now been 5 months. He calls several times a week and they say it will be ready the following week, that week comes and goes and its never ready. My husband has now missed the whole summer without riding his bike. I feel at this point they are giving him the run around. We are ready to take legal action at this point but ive never been thru something like this. Where do we even start?
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At this point, don't take this to court. Even if you paid for the job in full, it won't be worth it. Anything under $5000 is not worth going to court over.
Do not assume you will get legal fees. Most ot the time, everyone pays their own.
Your husband and all his friends need to show up at the shop on a nice Saturday afternoon with a trailer and tell them you are taking the bike back now. The idea is that the owner won't want a big scene in his shop and produce the bike.
If I had to guess, the bike has either been stolen or damaged. There is a reason you have not seen it in 5 months. That's when you will have to take legal action.
Sorry about the bad break.
Joe
I would insist to have the bike back and cancel any payments you already made. Cut your losses. If they don't give you the bike back I'd call the police and file a report. Why the hell would you wait 5 months I could see 1 but 5!! You need to learn to stand up for your self.
Just go get your bike. I wouldn't have let it stay there this long. You could have already had it done by someone else by now. Call them today, tell them you're coming by right now to get the bike and if it's not completely as it was when you dropped it off then you'll be taking legal action against them.
I'm not a lawyer. Anyway, if you received any paperwork when you left the motorcycle there, I would review that and see if there is a date promised by the shop owner to have the rims completed. I recommend going there and speaking to the shop owner. You may want to either:
1) get the bike out of there before this goes on any longer.
2) try to negotiate a lower price on the job since it has taken so long
Legally speaking, unless there is something written on a paper when you dropped the bike off, I am not sure it would be worth bringing a lawyer into this. Legal bills may be more than the price of the job.
First thing I'd do is go take the bike out of the shop it's in.I just have a bad feeling it's in pieces and they aren't all there.Some shops borrow parts thinking no one will ever know and then can't replace them so they give excuses about the bike not being ready.5 months is way to long for such a simple thing it should only take a couple days.If they wont let you have your bike file a complaint with the police department for stolen goods and take an Police officer with you to pick it up.
Contact a civil trial lawyer - listed in yellow pages - or just go pick up the bike.
I would never have waited past 1 month if they told me 3 weeks. 5 months - Something very fishy there. Do they even still have his bike?
Go get the bike and take it somewhere else. If the new place charges more than the shop you are currently using, sue them for the difference.
Instead of asking when, ask to see them, they may be on somebody elses bike by now. All chrome shops Ive used are pretty quick, 10-14 days.....
Hiring a lawyer can be expensive, but there are websites like LawGuru, FindLaw and other places where you can get free legal advice. I found this website useful - http://www.uelp.org/freelegal.html...
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