Upset with the neighbour down the road

[Ema]

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hehehe,

but I will good and just not give her any more eggs instead lol

 

[PineappleMama]

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Sounds perfect. If she shows up/emails expecting eggs you can tell her "Sorry but your $1/dozen for the last eight dozen eggs does not cover the feed my girls need. I've found a customer happy to pay the $2.50/dozen I need to support them."

Absolutely factual, but not mean, makes it clear that you had no choice but to react to her choice (to con you) in order to feed yourself and yours. Should have thought of that before she scammed people. Seriously you order up $6.25 worth of eggs KNOWING you only have $3 in change on hand, AND knowing you already owe. That's just plain tacky, her mama should have taught her better than that.

 

[NellaBean]

Quite honestly, I would just tell her you are all sold out. Tell her that a few times and she will either pay up her old bill, or disappear into the bad customer abyss and stop asking. If she did stop asking without paying up, I would probably send her an email or leave her a note. Just something "friendly" saying, hey just wanted to know if you were able to pay the remainder of your egg balance? Please let me know asap!

I would still stop selling her eggs though, unless she pays up her balance and then comes to pick them up, money in hand.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The hay with that! Tell her: 'First you give me the money, and then I give you the eggs'

I have a sign on my chicken coop, that says, 'First you give me three dollars and then I give you a dozen eggs'.

If she wants to buy eggs, she needs to pay you what she owes you, and then pay for the new eggs, and then she can have the eggs.

I gave a few customers one free dozen eggs. I say, 'the first dozen is free, then they are three dollars per dozen'.

I am going to suggest that your neighbor doesn't have this little concept firmly in mind about how you buy things. With that in mind, I think you are better off keeping your communication with her, very, very, very simple.

Does she also go to MacDonald's, and say, 'I will pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today'. Does she go to Walmart and say, 'Oh, a Silver Surfer video! Twenty dollars. Ms. Clerk, I will pay for this tomorrow'.

Probably not. That is because they will call the police and have her arrested if she tries to leave without paying. The reason she does it to you is, you don't call the police when she doesn't pay for something.

Now.

I want you to think about all the starving children in Sri Lanka, Indoensia, China, Korea, and all the South American countries. Oh and Russia. And I want you to think, how angry they all would be if they knew that you were giving free eggs to this lady who already has plenty to eat, for nothing. Can you just imagine how upset they would be? Do you know how much one of those kids would like to have just ONE egg? What would they say? Of course! They would say, 'Don't give those eggs to that woman! Send them to us!'

Alright then.

Here's how it works with money and eggs.

First they give you the money.

Then you give them the eggs.

Say it with me now: "They give me the money, and I give them the eggs".

Keep saying that to yourself, over and over, 'First they give me the money, then I give them the eggs'.

This is wrong:

'First I give them the eggs, and then they give me the money'.

The way it goes is:

'First they give me the money, then I give them the eggs'.

Money first, THEN eggs.

I will be back and 4:00 PM, and before you get your snack, you have to take a quizz. The question on the quiz is:

"Which comes first, the money or the eggs?"

I'm giving you the question ahead of time, so you can review.

Say it as you're driving in your car, or playing your guitar, or rinsing out your...har.

If that ever starts to get more complicated than that, IMMEDIATELY, say to yourself, 'They don't give me the money, I don't give them the eggs'. Then go back to the simpler version:

'First they give me the money, and then I give them the eggs'.

 

[Ema]

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I will answer that...the money comes first. but I will pass on the guitar playing cause I am absolutely horrible at it...

I sent her an email today with an invoice, frankly I doubt she will answer it. but I plan on telling both girls in my area who sell eggs all about her, we talk all the time, so I do not plan on allowing her to move on to them and take advantage of them too or at least try. but I highly doubt she will go to them cause the eggs are more money.

thanks for the giggle :-D

 

[Ema]

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Sounds perfect. If she shows up/emails expecting eggs you can tell her "Sorry but your $1/dozen for the last eight dozen eggs does not cover the feed my girls need. I've found a customer happy to pay the $2.50/dozen I need to support them."

Absolutely factual, but not mean, makes it clear that you had no choice but to react to her choice (to con you) in order to feed yourself and yours. Should have thought of that before she scammed people. Seriously you order up $6.25 worth of eggs KNOWING you only have $3 in change on hand, AND knowing you already owe. That's just plain tacky, her mama should have taught her better than that.



my thoughts exactly!!!

I pretty much said this to my dh when I saw the three dollars she left for the eggs. we will see what she does with that email I sent her. but both dh and I don't think she will answer it nor will she pay up either.

Live and learn....I won't stop being nice to people because of a few bad seeds/experiences, but it does seem like the last year in general being nice to people has not been all its supposed to be. It looks like people are just becoming more rude and inconsiderate as time goes by. Funny enough I am seeing a pattern from previous posts of me rambling about this friend or that person, they are all city folks from down south....

who recently moved here in the last 2-4 years. Some people just have no common sense!! well Off to work I go. thanks everyone, and catch you all later :-D

Ema

 

[welsummerchicks]

That post was a slight rewording of a lecture I got from a trainer when I was young, about not giving free riding lessons.

 

[DesertChickens]

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Sounds perfect. If she shows up/emails expecting eggs you can tell her "Sorry but your $1/dozen for the last eight dozen eggs does not cover the feed my girls need. I've found a customer happy to pay the $2.50/dozen I need to support them."

Absolutely factual, but not mean, makes it clear that you had no choice but to react to her choice (to con you) in order to feed yourself and yours. Should have thought of that before she scammed people. Seriously you order up $6.25 worth of eggs KNOWING you only have $3 in change on hand, AND knowing you already owe. That's just plain tacky, her mama should have taught her better than that.

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Well said.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ema? Any news? Update?

 

[Ema]

Sorry I was at work pretty much all week, until tonight when I landed back in the hospital. I swear the doctors are playing a guessing game with me. I now have Differential vertigo??!!!! Off for another week from work. the dizzy spells are scary though...

anyhow she hasn't bothered to email me back at all. nor has she asked me for eggs yet, which I doubt she will ask again. I have since gained 2 more customers, one the other day and one this past sunday. the one this sunday refuses to pay anything less than 4.00 per dozen and even gave me an extra dollar for delivering the eggs to her as she cannot drive. As previously mentioned I only charge 2.50/dozen. I am happy that some customers do realize that fresh eggs are of wayyy better quality and worth their money