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Lakesrider · 07-04-2011, 11:56 AM

I'll say it again. Going on this scenario....no authorization....No work.
The only favor that got done....according to this scenario....was to the Marina. If it had been me I would have asked for an itemized bill, paid the bill, with no intent to really pay..so that I could get my kidnapped boat back, and notified my CC company. (Maybe my lawyer the AG and BBB.) Luckily he did not pay with cash.
There are no such things as favors. Everything should be strictly business at a Marina. Most are no better than an auto dealership. They think they have you by the gonads and they do. And did apparently in this case as well.

Think about it this way. Your landscaper mows your lawn for a set price every week. That is all he is hired to do. Mow the lawn. But, one day you come home to find him standing there with a a bill stating he applied fertilizer under your rose bushes. You never asked to have the roses fertilized. So you don't want to pay because you didn't request it be done. So the Landscaper says, hey you can't go into your house until you pay me the $400.00 for the fertilizer. What would you do? Yeah...call the police and have the guy escorted away. Absolutely no difference.

07-04-2011, 11:56 AM	#34
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	I'll say it again. Going on this scenario....no authorization....No work. The only favor that got done....according to this scenario....was to the Marina. If it had been me I would have asked for an itemized bill, paid the bill, with no intent to really pay..so that I could get my kidnapped boat back, and notified my CC company. (Maybe my lawyer the AG and BBB.) Luckily he did not pay with cash. There are no such things as favors. Everything should be strictly business at a Marina. Most are no better than an auto dealership. They think they have you by the gonads and they do. And did apparently in this case as well. Think about it this way. Your landscaper mows your lawn for a set price every week. That is all he is hired to do. Mow the lawn. But, one day you come home to find him standing there with a a bill stating he applied fertilizer under your rose bushes. You never asked to have the roses fertilized. So you don't want to pay because you didn't request it be done. So the Landscaper says, hey you can't go into your house until you pay me the $400.00 for the fertilizer. What would you do? Yeah...call the police and have the guy escorted away. Absolutely no difference.