Quote Originally Posted by Catty1
I corrected a few typos, and am taking a copy of that to my vet tomorrow (weigh-in times for the babies!)
Which typos did I miss? The original was chuck full of typos and misspellings, and all those forward >>>> marks, so I had to hand type the whole thing over again to make it legible. I thought I'd run it through the spell/grammer checker but I know those don't catch everything.


Quote Originally Posted by Wenisrubber
Hehe! I am a good client, then!

One thing I don't understand.. you don't want people to ask you if you have a payment plan available? That's one of the things I ask about when I am looking for a vet.
Many vets won't take payment plans from being burned too many times. I think our county and the 3 surrounding ones only have maybe a couple that take payments. We generally don't do payments but once in a while the head vet will allow an exception and usually gets burned on it.

I've personally seen sweet little old ladies crying their eyes out, swearing on their childrens and grandchildrens lives (no joke) that they'd pay the bill if we'd only let them make payments. Guess who got turned in to the collection agency when she stiffed us for over $400 after 4 invoices with letters were mailed to her over a 4 month time period?

I've seen people who drive up in Cadillac's, Avalanche's, and PT cruizers, dressed to the nines, who cry poverty and want to be billed later, and didn't pay so got turned over to collections.

Vets have been burned soooo many times by nice and seeminly honest people. Someone has to make up that cost and unfortunately it's usually the paying clients that have to pay a higher fee to cover for the ones that don't pay. Needless to say it's bad business, and others shouldn't have to pay higher rates because of the deadbeats. So many vets (in our area at least) won't take any type of payments. If the client wants to make payments they'll have to use a credit card and let the card company deal with non payments.

I know it stinks when you are a person who actually would pay the bill, but think of it this way, on the everyday things you pay less money each time if you aren't having to finance the deadbeats, and the vet can't tell which ones will pay and which ones won't until it's too late.