GALA Bauer invoice is getting more expensive

2025-05-12 07:06:48

Nasty trick.
Write him an innocuous email stating that you accept the price of the specified amount and have understood which part is net and which is gross. Also ask about dates in it.
You can then insist on an invoice after the work is completed and the demanded amount is paid – with reference to the email – and then pay the 19% on top. This email creates a file that has significant effect if left uncontested in writing. Even better if the landscaping contractor gives you dates without addressing the commercial aspects. A common reflex. This way you avoid paying for undeclared work. Net is not undeclared. Here the landscaping contractor then gets into trouble if he wants to add business expenses and his tax burden.

I give you my word that out of the 10k black pardon net, suddenly 15k net will become because he can no longer hold the price.

2025-05-12 08:40:46

I give you my word that the 10k black, pardon net, will suddenly become 15k net because he can no longer maintain the price

I also assume that he will try this, especially since 15k properly invoiced will probably not leave him 10k net. With the email evidence, the original poster has something in hand for the first time. The landscaping contractor must first enforce the 15k. Therefore: Have the work carried out first and demand a final invoice for the rest – referring to the agreed terms – the email counts if not contradicted.

2025-05-12 15:54:12

Note that offers to end customers must fundamentally include the gross price or explicitly indicate net prices in advance.

2025-05-14 09:55:24

that is also my understanding. But I can tell you from my own experience that this didn’t matter to at least 95% of all my craftsmen. At least when you ask for a quote verbally.

I almost always had to ask, "net or gross?".
Of course the craftsman doesn’t have to calculate the tax down to the cent for me, but a quick "total X plus tax" would be enough for me.

2025-05-16 20:29:14

Hello everyone,

a brief update:

The conversation was yesterday and was basically constructive to begin with.

He wanted to recalculate once more so that we could come to an agreement.
This has now resulted in 27,000 euros gross (with 20,000€ already paid!). We would then end up at a total of 47,000 euros.

Net, we would now arrive at 19,000 euros. So with the advance payment, at 39,000 euros.

I’m slowly getting the feeling that someone has miscalculated and is currently trying to wriggle out of the contract...

2025-05-16 20:36:41

I am slowly getting the feeling that someone miscalculated and is now trying to squeeze us out of the contract…

I had exactly this feeling with us as well, or rather it had already happened to this company in another trade before. If he had actually been in the right, he would probably have enforced it, but ultimately it remained an ineffective attempt to enlist the help of a collection agency. However, with us, it was suddenly a multiple of the original amount.

GALA Bauer invoice is getting more expensive

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