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Yeah take days off work to get $300. Totally worth it! I can't understand why everybody doesn't do it.

• db48x 2y ago
  Small claims court never takes days. The whole point of small claims court is that time and money and credibility are not an advantage, since the whole trial takes no more than a few minutes and consists of little more than both sides presenting and briefly explaining the paperwork that they brought with them. And $300 is a lot more than minimum wage. It’s actually higher than the _average_ hourly wage in the US (I would have preferred to compare it with a median, but that might take more searching), if you assume that it takes you a whole day. You could win that case with very little evidence. Merely the written contract, a photo of the loose antenna (or the antenna itself, if the installer left it behind instead of installing it), the statement from the installer stating that he couldn’t complete the job, and the bills for the service that you couldn’t use but that you have had to pay up to that point. That’s all paperwork that you should have held on to anyway, at least for a few years.