I hired Mr Davis to repair my grandmother's clock that was left to me after my grandmother passed away. The clock is old and had stopped working. Mr Davis came to my house on Jan 21, 2023 to repair the clock, but it stopped working a day after the initial repair. Mr Davis came back to my house and took the inner workings of the clock, to work on them further at his shop. I checked in with Mr Davis after a few months and he said he was still working on it but would let me know what was going on. I called Mr Davis in June, and he said he had the clock fixed and would return it the following weekend. No phone call, a few weekends pass, and no clock. My husband called Mr Davis at the beginning of August, and he was told that he would bring the working clock parts back the weekend after next. That weekend comes and goes, no phone call and no clock. I called Mr Davis this week and he said he would bring the clock on Saturday or Sunday, but he was working, so he was not sure which day or time. Mr Davis called on Sunday, August 27, 2023, asking if anyone would be home. He said that he could bring the clock but it would be later in the evening, or he could come Monday evening. It has been 8 months since he took the clock parts, and I want my clock back the way it was when I inherited it.
Mr Davis arrived with all of my clock parts (dial face and the clock mechanisms behind it, the weights and the pendulum) in a cardboard box. Nothing was wrapped up or carefully taken care of. Mr Davis reassembled the clock, which worked long enough for him to get out the door to his car. I noticed that ALL of my clock weights are scratched, discolored, corroded, and one weight has a ding in the metal. The weights were in perfect condition when they were taken from my house. Not a scratch, not a blemish. I know the condition they were in, because I am the one that cleans and dusts the clock more then once a month. Mr Davis tried to say the laminate was coming off the weights. How come the lawyer was not coming off for fifty plus years, not until Mr Davis took the clock parts with him. I have pictures of my clock, pictures of the clock sitting in my dining room where he worked on it. Pictures that show shiny, not corroded, unscratched, clock weights. I also have witnesses that have seen my clock up close and can testify to the condition. I called my Davis about 30 minutes after he left, to ask again what happened to my clock weights. Were these even the weights to my clock? He said they were and were in the same box he put them in when he removed them. I told him that this wasn't lawyer coming off. They are corroded, scratched, and not in the condition they were in when he removed them. Mr Davis also took a part of the pendulum with him today, that he says is broken and would replace tomorrow. If he had the clock working, which he said he did, before he brought it back to my house, how did the part for the pendulum get broken? I told him I wanted the weights replaced, so they would be in the condition they were in before he took them. Mr Davis in turn said he wasn't paying $200 to replace the weights. I paid him $175 to fix the clock and I now have a clock that still does not work and is damaged as a result. Mr Davis asked what he could do to make things right, I said he could replace the weights on my clock. Mr Davis said that he wasn't going to do that. I told Mr Davis that he did not exercise due care and caution with my clock parts, particularly the weights. Mr Davis became belligerent and said he would mail me the $175 and that he doesn't ever want to see me or talk to me again. Mr Davis tried to say that I rushed him and had to have the clock returned today and just couldn't wait until Monday. Mr Davis told me Saturday or Sunday, and I think I have been very patient over the past 8 months. Mr Davis also said he had to come to my house 3 times to repair my clock. How is that my fault? He didn't repair the clock the first time. If he was not able to repair the clock, he could have refunded my money back to me instead of taking all the parts from the clock. Since Mr Davis is not interested in fixing the damage he caused to my clock, I will be filing a claim in smalls claims court. read more
