Hi guys - so the vet office calls me like every 30 days requesting a payment toward my bill. It’s weird because I usually am the one to call in — they’ve communicated with me in the past that it’s perfectly fine to pay any balance toward my bill as long as a payment is made every 30 days. In November the vet, out of the blue, communicates with me that she actually will not be able to care for my horse until all of the debt is paid off in full. Then, my horse unexpectedly had to be put to sleep a week before Christmas and she went out to do what she could. I definitely appreciate that she did that she did that, just now that added $500 more to my bill and I’m in even more debt with them. I made a payment of $500 last month, now have a bit more to go. There was a lot of miscommunication and I’m trying my best to pay this off asap so they stop harassing me about it.
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Unfortunately for some places that’s just protocol each month. When I was younger and worked as a receptionist for a spa, I had a small stack of clients I was to call once each month to collect payments. You could try directly asking her to remove you from the list, but this may be one of those “one bad apple spoiled the bunch”, and someone (or several people) has taken advantage of this leeway by not paying on time. If you’ve got it set up automatically for the payment to transfer each month then usually there’s no call, but if you don’t have a fixed amount then yeah, it may be hard for you to avoid this.
They can’t do anything since you are paying them every month so I would just tell them straight up that you’re doing the best you can, and will pay them every 30 days and to stop harassing you
I’m extremely uncomfortable. I told them I can pay like $50-$100 every month and she goes “oh so it’s going to take you 5-10 months to pay this off?” With a laugh. Then tries to guilt me about how the vet went out there to care for my horse on a weekend.
Tell them it’s either that or longer if they keep harassing you
They can’t even take you to small claims court because you make an attempt to pay them at least 50 bucks every month since I’m sure you’re not making much money
Yeah I’m not sure what their problem is. Maybe need something in writing.
Might work