sorry, this is going to be a bit of anessay but im having such a BIG legal problem!
I havnt seen anyone from beauty college in years then about 7 months ago i stumbled across one of the girls on facebook. Like me she was working just from home, but we thought it was a happy coincidence we both now do spray tanning and eyelash extensions considering we didnt get these taught at college.
We decided to do treatment swaps. After a couple of months of growing quite close again she went to get her nails done at a nail bar in Windsor where I live (shes about 20mins away) and called me saying they had 2 very large beauty rooms free downstairs....PERFECT
We agreed with the Chinese manager that we'd get both large rooms (very large rooms) for £90 a week, 1st 3 months on commission.
We spent a couple of months decorating, fixing up the rooms etc....heres where the problem starts.....
Im a single mum, at the time i was very tight on money and said i would put ALL my spare cash into the room. (She has a part time cleaning job) She agreed that she understood my situation and said that was fine. I paid for child care constantly and called on friends as babysitters for my 1 year old so i could spend afternoons down the room decorating, whilst she always had an excuse to never be there.
straight away she called on her dad to help out. She called me and said he'd agreed to take her to the wholesalers and buy waxings equiptment, tables, etcetcetc, he ended up spending about 500pound.....we were obviously very greatful. She had a best friend called keighley who i never liked and who ever liked me, however Tayla started bringing her down the salon more and more and on all our trips to buy stuff etc.
We chose our accent wallpaper and i bought it, and went down there a week later after arranging and paying for a decorator to go down and hang it, and she had got her dad to buy a new £30 a roll paper, and hang it. It was so-so, but not done to a great standard and my wallpaper i had bought was shoved in a drawer.....she did ALL THIS WITHOUT TELLING ME!!!!!
when i called to ask what was going on she said i shouldnt moan because she'd payed for almost everything down there so i should deal with it. I remonded her it was OURS and she went on to remind me also that everything her dad had spent we would have to pay him back....SHE NEVER TOLD ME THIS?!
Which means that me, who was prepared to do this on our own and start a business, would be working for however many months on my days down in the rooms, paying for childcare and not even breaking even for that childcare as her father expected everything we make to be given to him until we paid it back.
I decided to cut my loses and walk away from the business, losing the money and time id put in, but she was holey unprofessional. She didnt even turn up, answer her phone or contact me on the day we were due to open....the day we had put on all the flyers and postcards and marketing material....which meant i was stood outside the salon turning our first customers away.....
Here's the MASSIVE PROBLEM:Scared:
Whilst we were still on good terms i took out phone contract with 3 as a business phone. Her credit wasnt good enough so i put it in my name. She then asked me to take out a contract for her personally, as she was my friend, i said of course. And within 2 weeks we were allowed to call up and put it in her name. All the hoohaa kicked off before we could do this, so she lumbered me with a business phone in my name for a business i was no longer involved in. She kept her personal phone and agreed to turn it into her name, but refused to take the business phone and contract.
we agreed that she would keep the contract i took out for her as she didnt want to have to change her number again, , and i would take the busniness one as i could get someone to take on the contract, but on the proviso that if she was going to lumber me with a contract for the business, that she returned the new handset for her contract to me (a new BB Torch)
Keighley bought her BB torch handset with box and all to my door....when i got into my kitchen and opened the box and the paperwork, tayla had slipped in her personal Sim card!!! Leaving me with 2 handsets and contracts.
stay with me here.....
I managed to convince someone to take on the business contract, with the BB Torch. so thats 1 contract off my hands. However i am still left with Taylas personal contract.
I have debt collectors calling me every day, and sending me final demand letters saying they are going to take me to court soon. My debt at the moment is only about £60, but obviously theres the rest of the contract yet which is about another 20 months or so.
Ive called 3 and explained the situation but because the contract is in my name, i am responsible for it.
I really dont know what to do. I dont have the money to pay for it at all at the moment as im not working due to childcare, but im also not happy to pay it out of principle.
I took this out as a friend, for someone i thought was a friend to me. She then deliberately pushed me out of the business so she could go ahead with the venture with her best friend Keighley.
I dont have a number for her and she has moved from her dads, to her mums to her nans in the last 7 months so i dont know where she is living, none of which i know the address of.
I found her on gumtree last week, with an address i believe is her mums, but i dont think she's living there.
i dont know what to do :cry::cry::cry::grr::grr::
I havnt seen anyone from beauty college in years then about 7 months ago i stumbled across one of the girls on facebook. Like me she was working just from home, but we thought it was a happy coincidence we both now do spray tanning and eyelash extensions considering we didnt get these taught at college.
We decided to do treatment swaps. After a couple of months of growing quite close again she went to get her nails done at a nail bar in Windsor where I live (shes about 20mins away) and called me saying they had 2 very large beauty rooms free downstairs....PERFECT
We agreed with the Chinese manager that we'd get both large rooms (very large rooms) for £90 a week, 1st 3 months on commission.
We spent a couple of months decorating, fixing up the rooms etc....heres where the problem starts.....
Im a single mum, at the time i was very tight on money and said i would put ALL my spare cash into the room. (She has a part time cleaning job) She agreed that she understood my situation and said that was fine. I paid for child care constantly and called on friends as babysitters for my 1 year old so i could spend afternoons down the room decorating, whilst she always had an excuse to never be there.
straight away she called on her dad to help out. She called me and said he'd agreed to take her to the wholesalers and buy waxings equiptment, tables, etcetcetc, he ended up spending about 500pound.....we were obviously very greatful. She had a best friend called keighley who i never liked and who ever liked me, however Tayla started bringing her down the salon more and more and on all our trips to buy stuff etc.
We chose our accent wallpaper and i bought it, and went down there a week later after arranging and paying for a decorator to go down and hang it, and she had got her dad to buy a new £30 a roll paper, and hang it. It was so-so, but not done to a great standard and my wallpaper i had bought was shoved in a drawer.....she did ALL THIS WITHOUT TELLING ME!!!!!
when i called to ask what was going on she said i shouldnt moan because she'd payed for almost everything down there so i should deal with it. I remonded her it was OURS and she went on to remind me also that everything her dad had spent we would have to pay him back....SHE NEVER TOLD ME THIS?!
Which means that me, who was prepared to do this on our own and start a business, would be working for however many months on my days down in the rooms, paying for childcare and not even breaking even for that childcare as her father expected everything we make to be given to him until we paid it back.
I decided to cut my loses and walk away from the business, losing the money and time id put in, but she was holey unprofessional. She didnt even turn up, answer her phone or contact me on the day we were due to open....the day we had put on all the flyers and postcards and marketing material....which meant i was stood outside the salon turning our first customers away.....
Here's the MASSIVE PROBLEM:Scared:
Whilst we were still on good terms i took out phone contract with 3 as a business phone. Her credit wasnt good enough so i put it in my name. She then asked me to take out a contract for her personally, as she was my friend, i said of course. And within 2 weeks we were allowed to call up and put it in her name. All the hoohaa kicked off before we could do this, so she lumbered me with a business phone in my name for a business i was no longer involved in. She kept her personal phone and agreed to turn it into her name, but refused to take the business phone and contract.
we agreed that she would keep the contract i took out for her as she didnt want to have to change her number again, , and i would take the busniness one as i could get someone to take on the contract, but on the proviso that if she was going to lumber me with a contract for the business, that she returned the new handset for her contract to me (a new BB Torch)
Keighley bought her BB torch handset with box and all to my door....when i got into my kitchen and opened the box and the paperwork, tayla had slipped in her personal Sim card!!! Leaving me with 2 handsets and contracts.
stay with me here.....
I managed to convince someone to take on the business contract, with the BB Torch. so thats 1 contract off my hands. However i am still left with Taylas personal contract.
I have debt collectors calling me every day, and sending me final demand letters saying they are going to take me to court soon. My debt at the moment is only about £60, but obviously theres the rest of the contract yet which is about another 20 months or so.
Ive called 3 and explained the situation but because the contract is in my name, i am responsible for it.
I really dont know what to do. I dont have the money to pay for it at all at the moment as im not working due to childcare, but im also not happy to pay it out of principle.
I took this out as a friend, for someone i thought was a friend to me. She then deliberately pushed me out of the business so she could go ahead with the venture with her best friend Keighley.
I dont have a number for her and she has moved from her dads, to her mums to her nans in the last 7 months so i dont know where she is living, none of which i know the address of.
I found her on gumtree last week, with an address i believe is her mums, but i dont think she's living there.
i dont know what to do :cry::cry::cry::grr::grr::