Hello everyone,
Today I filed a suit in small claims court against a local furniture store for not paying me my refund amount despite furniture was returned more than 2 months back.
I need advice on this board on whether I should wait for small claims court to provide me a justice or should I also file another lawsuit with help for lawyer.
Here is the brief Description of the issue:
1) In august 2008, I purchased furniture for my living room and bedroom from local furniture store.
2) Delivery of this furniture was NOT done until end of october 2008.
3) After numerous phone calls, store finally delivered the living room furniture and part of bedroom furniture in Nov 2008. Store agreed to deliver remaining furniture soon.
4) Remaining bedroom furniture NEVER arrived. I had to call store multiple times and everytime I was told that furniture will be delivered soon.
5) Finally in Feb 2009, after several phone calls and store visits, store manager finally agreed to process return for bedroom furniture.
6) Bedroom furniture was returned in Mid Feb 2009 and store agreed to pay the refund within 30 days
7) As of date refund is NOT done. Store manager is NOT returning the calls and last time when I visited the store, he declined to pay the money claiming that he has paid the money on my check card (which I verified with my Bank to find that NO such transaction has occurred). Store manager confidently provided me with some random authorization number for this transaction which was not recognizable by my bank OR my credit card company.
8) When asked more during my store visit, store manager declined to provide me any more info or proof of refund and instead called police to remove me from the premises.
During this visit I also found that this store is going out of business in next few days and right now trying to sell everything.
9) With all this, I finally decided to file a suite in small claims court. I hope I will get my disputed money back.
Please advice as what else I can do? Should I consider filing cheating case against this store?
Thanks,
Pridesh
Today I filed a suit in small claims court against a local furniture store for not paying me my refund amount despite furniture was returned more than 2 months back.
I need advice on this board on whether I should wait for small claims court to provide me a justice or should I also file another lawsuit with help for lawyer.
Here is the brief Description of the issue:
1) In august 2008, I purchased furniture for my living room and bedroom from local furniture store.
2) Delivery of this furniture was NOT done until end of october 2008.
3) After numerous phone calls, store finally delivered the living room furniture and part of bedroom furniture in Nov 2008. Store agreed to deliver remaining furniture soon.
4) Remaining bedroom furniture NEVER arrived. I had to call store multiple times and everytime I was told that furniture will be delivered soon.
5) Finally in Feb 2009, after several phone calls and store visits, store manager finally agreed to process return for bedroom furniture.
6) Bedroom furniture was returned in Mid Feb 2009 and store agreed to pay the refund within 30 days
7) As of date refund is NOT done. Store manager is NOT returning the calls and last time when I visited the store, he declined to pay the money claiming that he has paid the money on my check card (which I verified with my Bank to find that NO such transaction has occurred). Store manager confidently provided me with some random authorization number for this transaction which was not recognizable by my bank OR my credit card company.
8) When asked more during my store visit, store manager declined to provide me any more info or proof of refund and instead called police to remove me from the premises.
During this visit I also found that this store is going out of business in next few days and right now trying to sell everything.
9) With all this, I finally decided to file a suite in small claims court. I hope I will get my disputed money back.
Please advice as what else I can do? Should I consider filing cheating case against this store?
Thanks,
Pridesh
