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Delaying the Start of Deferred Payment Plan
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Posted by dan_dhrt (dan@dailyhomerenotips.com) on Fri, Feb 29, 08 at 22:40
| Last fall we purchased an exterior door from one of those big box stores with a 12 months no payments / no interest.
The door was late and was not installed until 5 months later (actually, the new door is now in but the installation is not complete!).
We pressed and were able to get the 12 month no interest / no payments delayed so the start date was on the date the door was installed. We never knew such a thing was possible.
Does anyone else have any such eperiences?
Dan |
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RE: Delaying the Start of Deferred Payment Plan
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| Congratulations, Dan! You don't ask - you don't get. If you ask, and they refuse, you've lost nothing in the process. Maybe win, maybe not ... but nil prospect of loss. Such a prospective scenario looks like a, "Go!" to me! ole joyful |
RE: Delaying the Start of Deferred Payment Plan
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| Hey old joyful, Here's the kicker. When the big box store associate filled out the form in front of us it looked like a ratty old piece of paper. To me, it was in such bad shape that I thought it was a form from the 1980's that they dug up. I was wrong. She told me the reason why it was so ratty looking was that it was a copy of a copy of a copy of a.......of the original form. Apparently, this big box store does this ALL THE TIME. They do it so gosh darn often that they ran out of the form and had been making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a........of the last original form they had. Who would have thunk it! Dan |
RE: Delaying the Start of Deferred Payment Plan
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| About 20 years ago -- I did a 3 monthes SAC with a big box electronic store for a new gas stove. I knew the gals at the finance company (the company I worked for, did business with them) and when I hadn't heard anything I asked about it. Turns out they had never received paperwork from the Big Box. I went to the Big Box and told them -- they said come back tomorrow. I went back tomorrow and was told I had to talk to the mgr who was not there. I went a third time -- mgr knew nothing about it, nor did he try to figure anything out. In the end -- I paid nothing for the stove. It was a nice $800 stove -- wish I would have bought the $1500 Jenn-Air! Cathy |
RE: Delaying the Start of Deferred Payment Plan
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| Greetings Clink, I hope that, in lieu, you made a generous contribution to a charity (or two). Which would have produced a side effect called a tax deduction ... ... which the purchase of a stove wouldn't have. Which would have meant that you could have contributed upwards of $1,000.00 in order to have produced eventually the same out-of-pocket expense. ole joyful |
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