Should be ready the next day at most printers. Maybe this guy is super cheap or something?

I would ask for refund and take it somewhere else.

Take your business elsewhere. He is taking BIG advantage of you. BIG.

Don't pay in advance ever again.

Yikes!

While you can sympathize about a death in the family, this is ridiculous. If he's having a hard time handling his business and the grief he should get someone else to take over the jobs he's committed to for now.

If, at the beginning, I would say, gimme-a-date/gimme-a-(content)-gimme-a price, it would be fine.

But I always think that if I treat people correct that I will be treated correct (I never use the word "right&quot back.

*****O.K., so here's where it stands now: Monday morning, I've got a dental appointment. If the dude doesn't deliver/give-firm-date, I will give him notice to cancel/refund.

EVERYTHING WITH ME is the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. I've been KIND. I'm old/ got limited time, this task was on my To-Do list, have got some people waiting for ME TO DELIVER. Capiche?!1

*********So. What-m-I-gonna do Monday: Go, present. Say, hey give me a date/if not Cancel/Refund. If not, Better Business Bureau/police. How tough I gotta be, and WHY do I gotta be tough/mean/a-hole?!1

If so, call your CC company and tell them to cancel the charge.

I ordered ribbons and prizes for a series of horse shows. Four months in advance with a sizable deposit for everything needed for three shows, a month apart. Delivery dates were set two days in advance of each show. I was trying to support a local business rather than save a few bucks by ordering from a catalog.

Six weeks before the first show I called to check on the order. Clerk that took the call didn't know what I was talking about, couldn't find the order. A few days later I stopped in to talk to the business owner. He clearly didn't remember me, but he did locate the order and made me change some of the prizes since he couldn't get the originals on "short notice" - this over two months after the order was placed!

Two weeks later I checked again. Still the prizes were not in. He wanted me to change my selections again. I told him that I would be happy to cancel the order and order exactly what I wanted from an out of town source. He backed up and said he would get my original selections on time.

After that I called once a week. The owner was getting testy with me but still kept refusing to let me see their progress on the prizes. He claimed the ribbons were no problem and would be ready.

The Monday before the first show I called to schedule when I could pick up the ribbons and prizes. They said Friday, I said the schedule called for pickup on Thursday. They said OK. Thursday I went in - NOTHING was ready. They said to come back Saturday morning.

HELL NO! The show started at 8 AM Saturday. With just my husband and I running the whole thing there was no one available to drive into town, load up prizes and ribbons and get back before the first class ended. They did get the order ready - at 8 PM Friday night.

The owner had the gall to complain about having to work late on a Friday. As I paid the remainder owed for that order I cancelled the orders for the other two shows. The business owner was angry but not anywhere near as angry as I was.

The next week I placed a phone order for the next two shows from a place that had been recommended by a friend. They asked when the shows were and set the delivery date for the Monday prior to the show. A week after I placed the order they called me (instead of me having to call them) to verify the show and delivery dates and the exact order items. Monday before the show the UPS truck pulled up with the entire order, no mistakes, no drama.

Every show I was involved with from then on ordered from that company. One person in an organization asked about ordering from the local business. I told her if she wanted to order from them, fine, but SHE would have to deal with the entire thing and I would have nothing to do with it. We ordered from the other company.

Sorry for the length of this - I didn't realize how angry I still was after all these years. Those shows were in 1987 - I thought I was over caring about the incident!

****

Don't let the company push you around anymore. Give them one last date to deliver. If the job isn't done, get your money back and walk out.

You're not a schmuck; he is. You're nice and patient.

From the first moment I set foot in that place, VIBES were wrong.

First, they have a one-way viewing window, like, you drive up and they can see you but you can't see them, so it's like PARANOID time, they can HIDE, say, so-and-so is not IN, or they say, "Oh, no, it's THAT dude!1"

* So then, the dude had 4-5 Bibles on his desktop. Fine. I assumed he was a Protestant, later/no-Catholic. He said he collects Bibles, has 10+ at home.

* Late in our transaction (his couple of excuses later) I took my 1973 Bible "Common Bible" (Ecumenical), to build rapport/ didn't work.


*****Getting the picture, mon frères? Seems like nothing I do works.

the vendor is betting that the originals will show up.

trying to find a non-malignant motive, too. Part of the equation is that he has a wall (at least with me), doesn't communicate, doesn't explain, just has me in this blank space.

is, if not malignant, high jerkdom.

I would go elsewhere. Now.

Seems to me as a job that could be done in a day.

Hope this gets settled for you.

This person is unreliable.