Can a mover company charge me for their time and gas if they weren't able to complete

[Just Blue]

We don't know if it was a half hour drive to the address or a half hour back to the shop. It doesn't matter. ayase contracted for a pick up and delivery service and the moving company neither picked up nor delivered. Nor did the moving company call ayase except to cancel the job. That SAME phone call could have resulted in the terms of the contract being satisfied.

As to your hypothetical: I don't see the similarity.

Seriously, justalayman, you can throw out some more hypotheticals if you want to, but I am still not going to waiver in my belief that the moving company has no valid claim to gas costs and time spent trying to find a location, when a call to the pick up location or ayase could have easily saved both gas and time and allowed for the terms of the agreement to be met. IF they had made the pick up and delivery after calling for the correct address, THEN they could be entitled to the extra expenses.

I think Blue is nicely showing she does, indeed, have common sense. The mover showed none.

Thank You Quincy!!

JAL. I always have the most respect for your posts tho I do not agree with you on this thread.

BTW: It is really hard to type one handed with the "Wrong" hand!!

 

[justalayman]

Hey, somebody has to play the devil's advocate around here and if anybody has ever read my profile,
You should see I volunteered many years ago. Beyond that, given the courts as they are, I would not be surprised to see the company win a suit.

So. Would the company win? Maybe, maybe not.
Do they have a reasonable basis for a claim? Maybe, maybe not.
I think they could mount a reasonable claim. I can also imagine defenses to much if not all
Claims made, if not in whole, at least partial which could allow
For a reduced award.

 

[Just Blue]

Hey, somebody has to play the devil's advocate around here and if anybody has ever read my profile,
You should see I volunteered many years ago. Beyond that, given the courts as they are, I would not be surprised to see the company win a suit.

So. Would the company win? Maybe, maybe not.
Do they have a reasonable basis for a claim? Maybe, maybe not.
I think they could mount a reasonable claim. I can also imagine defenses to much if not all
Claims made, if not in whole, at least partial which could allow
For a reduced award.

You did a most wonderful DA job!!

 

[quincy]

Hey, somebody has to play the devil's advocate around here and if anybody has ever read my profile,
You should see I volunteered many years ago. Beyond that, given the courts as they are, I would not be surprised to see the company win a suit.

So. Would the company win? Maybe, maybe not.
Do they have a reasonable basis for a claim? Maybe, maybe not.
I think they could mount a reasonable claim. I can also imagine defenses to much if not all
Claims made, if not in whole, at least partial which could allow
For a reduced award.

Thank you for playing the devil's advocate, justalayman.

It is important to look at an issue from both sides (the right side, which is mine, and the wrong side, which is yours ).

 

[justalayman]

I prefer to think of it as the right side and the left side. While the right is always right, it doesn't mean it is right but just the same, the left can be right as well as being left.

 

[Just Blue]

I prefer to think of it as the right side and the left side. While the right is always right, it doesn't mean it is right but just the same, the left can be right as well as being left.

Way to get your confusion on!!