John Deere stuck in neutral

I have a new mystery. The tractor works great. I sent in the check.  Now, I have a voice mail from the JD repair shop. They want to know what to do with my check.  It seems the bill has already been covered. I called back, but the person I need to speak with has the day off.

Do you have a credit card attached to the account?  Alternatively, perhaps someone else’s payment was inadvertently applied to your account.  Either way I bet that you still owe money on that repair, though wouldn’t it be great if they decided to do it for free!

Eric

Hi Eric,

I once had, 20 years ago, a JD account. It has not been used in 20 years. I am sure I will pay ... but hell, it is Christmas!

Get that tractor back in for a full overhaul and facelift before the spell wears off!

We had a somewhat similar experience with a tree service many years ago. Had them do over a thousand dollars of work, gave them credit card info for the charges. A few months go by and the charges haven't appeared on the card. I contact the tree service and they say my account shows zero balance. I contact the credit card company and ask if it's possible that a mixup applied the charge to the wrong account -- they say it's highly unlikely, and if it did happen, whoever got the charge would certainly notice. I contact the tree service again and unsuccessfully try to convince them that we still owe them a bunch of money. After that, we accepted with clear conscience that, despite our best efforts, we'd received a free round of service.

Hi Dc,

When the estimate came in so low, I did ask for a number of extras.  Let's see if there really is a Santa.

The plot thickens, no one is too sure what is happening. It appears someone in the shop charged it to an account I did not have and still dont have.  Someone is going to be unhappy when they get my bill.