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What if your limo doesn't show up for your wedding
wmccall:
A friend of a friend drives in a limo company. Their driver gets there an hour early and has a cup of coffee in a nearby restaurant, or reads the paper in a nearby parking lot. They have 5 limos, and its rare they are all out at the same time. If a driver has a problem he calls for the back up. No!, Don't back up!
tmknies1:
Congratulations on your wedding Jason. I wish you and your wife a long, happy marriage.
I would press for all your money back. If they balk, take them to small claims court and add damages to the amount for lost time at reception, etc. I am sure they will settle quickly.
Good luck.
drewstar:
Congrats Viper!
On my wedding the limo never showed the next morning to take me and may wife to the airport. :P
The limo company owes you all the money (including the deposit back). I would contact them with a polite note, but one that is firm, and clearly illustrates your disapointment. I would ask for the $25 back, and give them oppurtunity to give it to you without causing a problem, and perhaps allowing them to maybe if they felt you might use them again, give you a discount next time you use them. Give them the oppurutnity to do the right thing. (My experience has been, most limo companies don't care, even ones that I have used dozens of times). eh.
Going after them for anything more than that (wedding receptiion time, and aggrevation) seems like it would be a long shot (or at least what I have learned from watching judge judy).
I'm sorry to hear about the problem, but I hope everything else went well. :D
wmccall:
Yes, congrats on the wedding. Getting married was one of the smartest things I've ever done. (Yea, its a short list) At least now in Ohio you don't have to take a blood test to get a license to get married. My arm is just healing up from the old country Doc stabbing me with the needle to get blood.
Viper_Dude:
Thank you for all the responses. The concensus seems to be to get my money back and just walk away. However, after my chat with the owner of the limo company yesterday I would be more than happy to take him to small claims court just to inconvenience him. Here's what happened:
I called Eric, the owner of Savannah Nites. He said he's on vacation until next Wednesday, and I will just have to wait, but he will give me the $250.00 back. When I asked if he was going to give me any compensation, he told me, "I wouldn't count on it." Also, now he's trying to say the limo did show up, fifteen minutes late, and we were already gone. I know for a fact we didn't even pull out of the parking lot until 7:05! He was supposed to be there at 6:00. I do have the original contract, and it says 6:30, but I called and changed that with him over a month before the wedding (unfortunately I didn't get the changed time in writing).
And now it gets even better. He says the driver of the limo actually was late because he had to stay at the accident scene (now it's an accident, not just traffic as the driver originally said) as a witness because it was a fatality involving a motorcycle. I felt so bad at that point, but still the driver should of called me. I got off the phone with him, and started to realize the motorcycle accident sounded a little fishy (call it intuition).
I called the State Highway Patrol, and they said no fatality accidents occurred on I-275 on that date (driver claimed he was stuck in traffic on I-275). There were three fatality accidents, but they were in northern Ohio, none involving motorcycles. She even called Hamilton county police to confirm there were no local accidents involving motorcycles on that date... and there weren't! Not only is this sorry so-and-so lying to me about his arrival time, he's trying to manipulate my compassion as a civilized human being to get me to drop the subject.
So now not only did this piece of work break our contract, he's now told me a bald face lie to cover his rear end. And I checked the Better Business Bureau to file a complaint, and it turns out he already has 5 other complaints in only 3 years of owning this business!
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