Just looking for some impartial opinions on a stupid situation my wife found herself in. My wife is a Girl scout troop leader and they just had their cookie sales that finished up in feb. My wife was in charge of handling the entire troops cookie sales over 20 girls and all that en tales collecting all the money from parents, depositing all money in the troop account, picking up sorting and distributing all the orders to the parents, etc.. A big project for a mom with 3 kids at home all under 8 years old. Our house looked like a distribution center for a week.
Anyway: Well during the process my wife misplaced one of the girls selling envelopes which had the payment checks in it 3 checks total. One of the checks was from the selling families friends business for aprox. $500 dollars. My wife tore the house apart looking for them. After a day or 2 she comes to the conclusion she may have threw them in the garbage by accident. She feels terrible and embarrassed she made such a dumb mistake. So she calls the mom of the selling family and explains the situation apologizes left and right and asks if she could please ask the people for new checks. Right away the Mom is less than cooperative and tells my wife no way the business will write her a new check. They discuss it further and the Mom says she will ask the business. A day or 2 later the Mom tells my wife the business said they have to wait one year before issuing a new check to make sure the first one does not get cashed. Their position is understandable so my wife tells her why don't they stop payment on the first check and even offers to pay the bank fee for the stop payment. The mom agrees to this and says she will talk to the business.
So now 2 months has gone by and no check. The Mom has retreated on her initial statement and tells my wife this has caused so many problems between her family and the business and it is a ridiculous situation, and as far as the business is concerned they paid and not their problem, blah blah blah (I told my wife to tell this Mom try that with the electric company and see how long they have power on). So my wife asks her for the business name and phone number so she can talk directly with them and explain it was her error and not the Mom's and apologize to them. The mom refuses! My wife keeps pushing everyday to come to a resolution on the matter and nothing. The Mom continually refuses to give any info.
So here is the little tidbit that perked my radar. The Mom finally gives my wife replacements for the other 2 checks my wife lost. Personal checks for like $20 each. Here is the interesting part. They are both dated for Jan. 12. So my wife now starts thinking maybe she accidentally gave the mom back the checks and did not throw them away.
So my questions to you folks is:
If you were to write someone a replacement check what date would you put on it. The date you wrote the new one or the date from 3 months ago when you wrote the first lost check?
Also what do you think of this moms position? The way I look at it is not so much legally but morally. A person made mistake and making every effort to correct the mistake and the other party refuses to meet them halfway. I mean this is not some big fortune 500 company it is girl scouts with volunteers running things. Anyway curios your thoughts. sorry for the long read!
Anyway: Well during the process my wife misplaced one of the girls selling envelopes which had the payment checks in it 3 checks total. One of the checks was from the selling families friends business for aprox. $500 dollars. My wife tore the house apart looking for them. After a day or 2 she comes to the conclusion she may have threw them in the garbage by accident. She feels terrible and embarrassed she made such a dumb mistake. So she calls the mom of the selling family and explains the situation apologizes left and right and asks if she could please ask the people for new checks. Right away the Mom is less than cooperative and tells my wife no way the business will write her a new check. They discuss it further and the Mom says she will ask the business. A day or 2 later the Mom tells my wife the business said they have to wait one year before issuing a new check to make sure the first one does not get cashed. Their position is understandable so my wife tells her why don't they stop payment on the first check and even offers to pay the bank fee for the stop payment. The mom agrees to this and says she will talk to the business.
So now 2 months has gone by and no check. The Mom has retreated on her initial statement and tells my wife this has caused so many problems between her family and the business and it is a ridiculous situation, and as far as the business is concerned they paid and not their problem, blah blah blah (I told my wife to tell this Mom try that with the electric company and see how long they have power on). So my wife asks her for the business name and phone number so she can talk directly with them and explain it was her error and not the Mom's and apologize to them. The mom refuses! My wife keeps pushing everyday to come to a resolution on the matter and nothing. The Mom continually refuses to give any info.
So here is the little tidbit that perked my radar. The Mom finally gives my wife replacements for the other 2 checks my wife lost. Personal checks for like $20 each. Here is the interesting part. They are both dated for Jan. 12. So my wife now starts thinking maybe she accidentally gave the mom back the checks and did not throw them away.
So my questions to you folks is:
If you were to write someone a replacement check what date would you put on it. The date you wrote the new one or the date from 3 months ago when you wrote the first lost check?
Also what do you think of this moms position? The way I look at it is not so much legally but morally. A person made mistake and making every effort to correct the mistake and the other party refuses to meet them halfway. I mean this is not some big fortune 500 company it is girl scouts with volunteers running things. Anyway curios your thoughts. sorry for the long read!
