Your Mount is Ready but where are you ?????

[pianoman9701]

It seems odd that this is much of an issue.  Seems most people can't wait to get their mounts back.  Out of curiosity, what is "normal"?  I'd guess most customers pick up their mounts within a week of notice that the work is done?

  I'd be chomping at the bit the day I dropped it off. 

[superdown]

I say equally as long as it took to mount.

  Absolutely This is first thing that came to mind when i initially read the question. Although i have had my mounts paid for within the month of them being completed with a 50% deposit to begin with.The taxidermist should be as patient waiting for their money as the customer was waiting for their trophy.

[pianoman9701]

I say equally as long as it took to mount.

  Absolutely This is first thing that came to mind when i initially read the question. Although i have had my mounts paid for within the month of them being completed with a 50% deposit to begin with.

Sorry and no offense, but that's ridiculous. Some mounts or taxis have a 2-year wait, up front. Some even more. If you're having something mounted and you know what the wait time is, and the taxi is within reasonable leeway of that time, you should be prepared to pay for your mount immediately when it's done. What business has the storage space to keep two years worth of orders? Answer: none.

[Mxracer532]

Id say 90 days just for the simple fact that most taxi's take a deposit that covers the expenses of forms tanning ect. Then the rest is pure profit minus their time. So most take close to a yr to be completed and yes  you should have the $ set aside but lets face it ($HIT HAPPENS) so I think for the amount of time we wait for them to be completed 90 days is fair enough. (Unless you dont live pay check to pay check like I do)

[HUNT-HARD]

It was a joke.    Thirty days is ample time unless arrangements are made I would say.

[jackelope]

I say equally as long as it took to mount.

  Absolutely This is first thing that came to mind when i initially read the question. Although i have had my mounts paid for within the month of them being completed with a 50% deposit to begin with.

Sorry and no offense, but that's ridiculous. Some mounts or taxis have a 2-year wait, up front. Some even more. If you're having something mounted and you know what the wait time is, and the taxi is within reasonable leeway of that time, you should be prepared to pay for your mount immediately when it's done. What business has the storage space to keep two years worth of orders? Answer: none.

You're paying for a service. Once the service provider's obligations are complete and the service you requested is complete...it is your obligation to pay for it. You don't get to pay whenever you feel like it, and if you can't pay for it in a timely manner, you shouldn't have signed up in the 1st place.
I voted 90 days. That seems fair as long as the taxidermist has fulfilled his end of the bargain and made effort to contact the customer letting them know the work is done.

[superdown]

I say equally as long as it took to mount.

  Absolutely This is first thing that came to mind when i initially read the question. Although i have had my mounts paid for within the month of them being completed with a 50% deposit to begin with.

Sorry and no offense, but that's ridiculous. Some mounts or taxis have a 2-year wait, up front. Some even more. If you're having something mounted and you know what the wait time is, and the taxi is within reasonable leeway of that time, you should be prepared to pay for your mount immediately when it's done. What business has the storage space to keep two years worth of orders? Answer: none.

No offence taken We certainly have a difference of opinion if takes them 2 years to complete the task then they obviously have the space to store it a certain taxi comes to mind that would certainly prove that point.The last taxidermist I used was well over a year late on the promised delivery date and even though i got him paid within the month of completion He made  me wait an extra year i see nothing unfair with him doing the same.

[pianoman9701]

I say equally as long as it took to mount.

  Absolutely This is first thing that came to mind when i initially read the question. Although i have had my mounts paid for within the month of them being completed with a 50% deposit to begin with.

Sorry and no offense, but that's ridiculous. Some mounts or taxis have a 2-year wait, up front. Some even more. If you're having something mounted and you know what the wait time is, and the taxi is within reasonable leeway of that time, you should be prepared to pay for your mount immediately when it's done. What business has the storage space to keep two years worth of orders? Answer: none.

No offence taken We certainly have a difference of opinion if takes them 2 years to complete the task then they obviously have the space to store it a certain taxi comes to mind that would certainly prove that point.The last taxidermist I used was well over a year late on the promised delivery date and even though i got him paid within the month of completion He made  me wait an extra year i see nothing unfair with him doing the same.

I did state in my original post that if the taxi's late there should be some consideration. However, if you've already waited an extra year to get your trophy, why would you want to wait another year or two? The argument that they already have space for trophies which take however many years doesn't make sense either. That has nothing to do with the kind of space they have left once they're completed. Regardless of your attitude, no one has limitless business space.

You have avenues for recompense if someone breaks a contract with you. If the trophy takes an unreasonable amount of time, you can sue in small claims court for an adjustment of the price as consideration for the lateness, just as you can sue if the product is faulty. But leaving the trophy for a year because it was a year late seems arbitrarily vindictive. And, it would indicate that you really don't care about the trophy. A small claims court judge wouldn't have much sympathy for someone who says the trophy meant a lot to them but waited a year to pick it up.

[casey58]

So far I have picked everything up within a couple days of the phone call.  Most people can't get them back fast enough. I say 30 days is plenty.

[Rainier10]

I always pick my stuff up within a week of being notified.  That being said I realize that this is an expensive purchase and stuff happens.  I voted for 60 days.  My thought is you if you get called and told that it is ready you should at least go out and check out the mount and give the taxi something $20-50, then get the rest paid off within 60 days of them calling to say it is ready.  After 90 days I would be getting frustrated as a taxi.

[pianoman9701]

Superdown, you should also be aware that I play a lawyer on the internet and watch a lot of Judge Judy, so I know what I'm talking about here!

[Gringo31]

I voted 90 days.  That is the amount of time that I think the taxi could start taking measures to "encourage" the customer by storage fees or whatever.  The OP said that this didn't include poor communication so I'm assuming they are talking and for whatever reason its just not being picked up

[Becky]

Superdown, you should also be aware that I play a lawyer on the internet and watch a lot of Judge Judy, so I know what I'm talking about here!

I think you just described like 75% of us.

[Smossy]

I say 90 days, then steep steep storage fees for 1 month. After that its no longer your property.

[cbond3318]

I voted for 30 days only because that was the option of least. I would say 10 business days from notification of completion. Pick your crap up , if something arose financially that did not allow completion of payment and pick up within the specified time, than like all proper business/decent human dealings COMMUNICATE its easy.

Also, it is a stipulation of the contract between client/provider, options are endless.