shay_brandy
Junior Member
Missouri.
this is quite a story...but to sum it up...
my husband and i have been helping his ex pay for their son's flute for band. about 2 years ago she called and said she was having trouble paying for it, so we agreed to help her out with a few payments. 2 years later, we are still making payments. I then recieved a letter from teh state stating that they were reviewing our childsupport order. i assumed it would go up, so we called the mother and told her the news and that we would not be paying for the flute any longer. She understood, and agreed to use her next childsupport payment to pay for the flute. she said it was down to owing $108.00 so no big deal. well, now here we are. i have gotten 2 threatening calls from the music center. said they were sending me to prosecuting attorny because i was the one who stopped a check. i explained i did not purchase the flute, had never even been to the store. i was told by them it was my responsibility because my name was on the check that had been stoped. well...we have went aroudn adn aroudn with the mother who now things she can just boss us around and make us pay it. the kid has failed band for 2 years anyway. The mother told me today that she had called them to pay for it and they told her it was too late and it was already in teh courts under my name.
i am just going to paste a copy of the letter I wrote to the company explaining why they had the wrong person. I changed everyones names for confidentiality.
""To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this to try to clear up some confusion on the payment for this flute. I had in the past been helping "his mother" with these payments for "my step-son's" flute as he is my step-son and she had expressed to me she was experiencing financial difficulties at that time.
Approximately June-July 2007 my husband called "the mother" and explained to her that we could not make another payment on the flute because we had received a letter stating "my husbands" childsupport obligations were changing and thus she agreed to use her first childsupport payment from us to totally complete payment on the flute. She even expressed appreciation for our help with Zachary’s flute and that this would be the last payment on the flute anyway because it was almost paid off. That came to us as a surprise as we were completely unaware of how much was left owed on the flute or what the original price was for the instrument.
The mishap occurred when I went into my online banking and instead of clicking to pay the childsupport; I accidentally clicked on Music Center. I was not made aware of this until I received a call from "the mother" stating that she hadn’t received her childsupport payment. I then checked my online banking and realized I had made a wrong payment. My husband called our bank to stop the payment to the music center immediately which they did without a fee.
I then received a letter from your company stating that I owed the full amount of $133.00 within 7 days or I would be turned over to collection. If you were to look into your records you will see this is the very first mailing you have ever sent to my address. Enclosed is a check in the amount of $25.00 to cover the stop check fee your company has charged due to my mistake.
I do not understand how I can be prosecuted for a payment by stopping my check to your company that with which I do not even have an account.
On a personal note, this flute, if and when, paid will be the property of "the mother" who resides in Waynesville, Mo at the address you have on file for her. I have never been to your store, I have never seen the flute, and I have never signed anything that would bind me to owing your company a dime.
I hope you take a moment and realize how putting me on this account is a huge mistake.
Sincerely,""
do they honestly have a case? i mean..i know we are only talking about $108.00 but its more than that. i feel that if we give into her damands....she will never stop. the boy doesnt even want to be in band, we do not want him in band, we were never asked how we thought about him joining band. he is a football player. she will end up owning the flute for the rest of her children if she pays the remaining 108.00 (compared to the 600.00 we have paid over the years for this)....
should i be preparing to go to court over this? or are they just bluffing? thanks for any help.
this is quite a story...but to sum it up...
my husband and i have been helping his ex pay for their son's flute for band. about 2 years ago she called and said she was having trouble paying for it, so we agreed to help her out with a few payments. 2 years later, we are still making payments. I then recieved a letter from teh state stating that they were reviewing our childsupport order. i assumed it would go up, so we called the mother and told her the news and that we would not be paying for the flute any longer. She understood, and agreed to use her next childsupport payment to pay for the flute. she said it was down to owing $108.00 so no big deal. well, now here we are. i have gotten 2 threatening calls from the music center. said they were sending me to prosecuting attorny because i was the one who stopped a check. i explained i did not purchase the flute, had never even been to the store. i was told by them it was my responsibility because my name was on the check that had been stoped. well...we have went aroudn adn aroudn with the mother who now things she can just boss us around and make us pay it. the kid has failed band for 2 years anyway. The mother told me today that she had called them to pay for it and they told her it was too late and it was already in teh courts under my name.
i am just going to paste a copy of the letter I wrote to the company explaining why they had the wrong person. I changed everyones names for confidentiality.
""To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this to try to clear up some confusion on the payment for this flute. I had in the past been helping "his mother" with these payments for "my step-son's" flute as he is my step-son and she had expressed to me she was experiencing financial difficulties at that time.
Approximately June-July 2007 my husband called "the mother" and explained to her that we could not make another payment on the flute because we had received a letter stating "my husbands" childsupport obligations were changing and thus she agreed to use her first childsupport payment from us to totally complete payment on the flute. She even expressed appreciation for our help with Zachary’s flute and that this would be the last payment on the flute anyway because it was almost paid off. That came to us as a surprise as we were completely unaware of how much was left owed on the flute or what the original price was for the instrument.
The mishap occurred when I went into my online banking and instead of clicking to pay the childsupport; I accidentally clicked on Music Center. I was not made aware of this until I received a call from "the mother" stating that she hadn’t received her childsupport payment. I then checked my online banking and realized I had made a wrong payment. My husband called our bank to stop the payment to the music center immediately which they did without a fee.
I then received a letter from your company stating that I owed the full amount of $133.00 within 7 days or I would be turned over to collection. If you were to look into your records you will see this is the very first mailing you have ever sent to my address. Enclosed is a check in the amount of $25.00 to cover the stop check fee your company has charged due to my mistake.
I do not understand how I can be prosecuted for a payment by stopping my check to your company that with which I do not even have an account.
On a personal note, this flute, if and when, paid will be the property of "the mother" who resides in Waynesville, Mo at the address you have on file for her. I have never been to your store, I have never seen the flute, and I have never signed anything that would bind me to owing your company a dime.
I hope you take a moment and realize how putting me on this account is a huge mistake.
Sincerely,""
do they honestly have a case? i mean..i know we are only talking about $108.00 but its more than that. i feel that if we give into her damands....she will never stop. the boy doesnt even want to be in band, we do not want him in band, we were never asked how we thought about him joining band. he is a football player. she will end up owning the flute for the rest of her children if she pays the remaining 108.00 (compared to the 600.00 we have paid over the years for this)....
should i be preparing to go to court over this? or are they just bluffing? thanks for any help.
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