goosegrease
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas
Hello. I see there is another thread on this topic, however my circumstances are a little different.
I just received an invoice from a consultation back in March of this year.
I found their website and it said call for your free consultation. So I did and the receptionist or legal assistant set up a free phone consultation. I am out of state so I did this over the phone. Yesterday, I get an email as well as an invoice in the mail saying I owe $316.00. I'm thought, what??? That was suppose to be an initial free consultation. I emailed back saying I was told it was a free consultation with Mr. ______. Then he responded back,
"We normally provide an initial consultation of up to one hour at no charge. In your case, we provided 1.5 hours at no charge. We, therefore, found the invoice to be reasonable in light of the services provided, and respectfully request payment."
So, I looked at the invoice and apparantly they are charging me for the person who I talked with initially who was taking down all the information.
Do I have to pay this?
I never signed a contract with him. I had another legal issue come up which I am trying to handle until I hand it over to another attorney. (a truck I bought on ebay has over $100k more miles on it then it said it did). I was still considering using this attorney for my other problem, (renters who ran out on a contract oweing us thousands in back pay and forward pay).
I will not use this guy if this is how he treats people. Never was I told I would owe them money for taking down information to set up a free consultation. At no time did anyone tell me it's only for an hour and a half that's free, after that it's not. I guess I'm getting charged for the pre consultation?
Hello. I see there is another thread on this topic, however my circumstances are a little different.
I just received an invoice from a consultation back in March of this year.
I found their website and it said call for your free consultation. So I did and the receptionist or legal assistant set up a free phone consultation. I am out of state so I did this over the phone. Yesterday, I get an email as well as an invoice in the mail saying I owe $316.00. I'm thought, what??? That was suppose to be an initial free consultation. I emailed back saying I was told it was a free consultation with Mr. ______. Then he responded back,
"We normally provide an initial consultation of up to one hour at no charge. In your case, we provided 1.5 hours at no charge. We, therefore, found the invoice to be reasonable in light of the services provided, and respectfully request payment."
So, I looked at the invoice and apparantly they are charging me for the person who I talked with initially who was taking down all the information.
Do I have to pay this?
I never signed a contract with him. I had another legal issue come up which I am trying to handle until I hand it over to another attorney. (a truck I bought on ebay has over $100k more miles on it then it said it did). I was still considering using this attorney for my other problem, (renters who ran out on a contract oweing us thousands in back pay and forward pay).
I will not use this guy if this is how he treats people. Never was I told I would owe them money for taking down information to set up a free consultation. At no time did anyone tell me it's only for an hour and a half that's free, after that it's not. I guess I'm getting charged for the pre consultation?