What is unreasonable about paying it off @ $100 a month? $25 a week. It was not a $1000+ bill.
If the OP was sent the invoice within a week of the work being done would she/he been able to pay it upfront then? Or would they still have said I can only pay that in instalments.
I personally never got any work done by tradespeople, unless I get a written quote first, so I know what it is going to cost beforehand, and whether I can afford to get it done.
The work was done, has to be paid for sometime. I would have tracked the plumber down to get the invoice off them.. put some money aside in the meantime.
I never got a final electricty bill last year after disconnection due to moving house - I phoned after 6 weeks asking for the bill, they said should be out soon.. called back after a month.. said they would look into it, they sent an incorrect one, said they would fix it, months later sent the same incorrect one.. called them again (they always acknowledged the amount was incorrect) said they would fix it.. then the debt collectors started calling me. My point is I knew I would owe them money so I chased them up.
In the end (5mths later) I went to the Energy Ombudsman and said I want the debt collectors to stop calling me & the bill wiped because I have spent 5 months trying to get an accurate bill from the electricity provider and they have failed to do so. The Energy provider wiped it.
