My wife and I had a similar incident, we bought special order furniture, the
store told us 6 weeks later they didn't have the stuff and were going out of
business, I could quote "get in line" and take 10 cents on the dollar in
court.

I asked if we could get in stock merchandise, he said yes, the wife didn't
like the furniture so we ended up with a pool table, granted a really nice
pool table, but we had to get the furniture elsewhere.


"Henry Hefner" wrote in message
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Bob La Londe wrote:
I got a call on Firday that the boat shop that was
supposed to be fixing my fiberglass boat is going out of business, and my
boat still isn't fixed. Wouldn't be a big deal, but I gave them a pretty
sizable deposit.

Bob, that's awful! Was the deposit by credit card? Maybe you could reverse
charges. Or maybe you could go pick up your boat first thing in the
morning and see if they have something you need you could dicker them out
of. You know what I mean, maybe they could at least pitch in the parts
needed, even if they aren't going to do the labor.
I would think that if they haven't done ANY work, that keeping your money
would be chargeable as theft, but I'm no lawyer.