I'm turning into Wilmslow

[Drewster]

blah blah blah.

Why do you fail to grasp the simple point.

Well I think it could be argued that YOU are failing to grasp the simple point....
She made her decision......
YOU think her decision is wrong....... although you argue it is a bad business decision for HER what you are really whining about is your hurt feelings!
She may care what you think...... but equally may not....
She may think she made the right decision - because she got rid of you....
She may regret her decision - because she has lost a long term booking...
(Unless you tell her she won't know that her decision has cost her your business - and unless her business averages out with a "missing" booking per week she hasn't actually lost any business - ie just cos you aren't there doesn't mean she has lost business cos she can now fit someone else in (quite possibly someone from a large group on the "waiting list" who will now pay her a premium rate for the room that you used)

Yes she was right to do so.

No she was neither right nor wrong - in a moral sense

Was it wise to do so or should she have exercised a little discretion?

See above - We (and you) don't know the affect on her business only the effect on you/your business

I think the point here is that she had the opportunity to exercise some intelligence and didn't. IMO this is poor business sense. This kind of "no friends in business mentality" is not for me.

Pleeeeeeease shut up!!!!
Let her run her business as she sees fit - and take the concequences of her decisions (which appear to be "losing" your ongoing business........)

[Pinto]

I see where you're coming from suityou01. Had I been the landlord, I would take this opportunity to show my appreciation for your long term business, and would waver the £30, but not if I had been running the business for 10 years and had heard that story time and time again, sometimes from honest people, sometimes not, or not if I had wavered it once, only to have trouble in the future justifying the charge to the same persistent offender.

Result: 24hr notice or charge applicable to all.

2 years ago, my wife and I spent 13 thousand pounds on dental treatment all done by the same dentist, but I missed the last appointment which was just for the hygienist.

Last month, I returned for a £750 treatment, and guess what he told me?
"You still owe me 30 quid."

[vetran]

Cut her some slack

She still has her mortgage to pay, she showed sympathy when you needed it, she is just charging what you both agreed. The 24hr notice comment sounds like an apology to me.

The wife child minds, we hear the sob stories regularly, we also see how the friendship disappears when the customers owe us money and they have had the service. She has probably been through this a few times!

We do sympathise with the widow, the person who was laid off etc but we still have to pay the mortgage and since my defection to the darkside we need the money.

Say thanks, pay her and buy her some choclates for listening to your whinge. Glad to hear the other half is OK.

[Pogle]

Is your wife OK now?

[suityou01]

Is your wife OK now?

Yes thanks Pogle. Had a second meeting with the doc. The up side to health scares is sometimes that's all they are, just a scare. I think it got me down more than I realised, and now that all is well I am reflecting on stuff.