Originally Posted by
gatrhumpy
It was one of the owners who took on the job. He initially got a small sum of money from the kid, and then took on the job. Ultimately, the shop owner made a small mistake in not getting more of a deposit, but that's hindsight, because the kid wanted more and more stuff done to his car. The shop owner should have taken a deposit for every thing that was done over the long run, but believed the kid. It was the kid who screwed himself and the shop owner by taking advantage of the guy.
He's been in business a fair number of years, so to say that he doesn't know how to run a business is unfair to him because you (or I) don't know him.
That's not really a small mistake, that's a pretty huge mistake to let him rack up a 16000 bill without much in the way of deposits. I am pretty sure the owner knows how big of a mistake it is now.
I don't know him, the only facts I have on the case is the same as everyone else viewing this board has based on the business owner's side of the story. The first thread said he continued to do it because he believed the kid had the money and his shop could really use the cash, which made me believe he was really desperate for cash if he believed the grandfather BS. The story in his own words doesn't really make me feel sorry for him. The dude got easily hussled.
Good luck to japworks on trying to rectify the mistake, I doubt they will get any sort of compensation from the kid. I forsee bankruptcy in the kid's future and the financial institution that mom used for the lien on the car will try to repo it. That is going to make an interesting legal situation. This will probably end up in limbo for years. Hurting japworks more than anyone really. At least they will get some cheap advertising for all their troubles.