Shame on you!
An honest plumber would have looked at the warranty code on the water heater on site and told the home owner that his tank was still under warranty. The home owner could then make the choice on whether he wanted the warranty replacement tank (installed or otherwise). The home owner could have always returned the newly purchased water heater.
There ought to be a law about that. Whoops, there already is. That type of behavior can lead to license revocation and criminal prosecution in all 50 states under the criminal code!
Hope that person liked you. Did you ever see the Sienfeld episode about that? George refused to eat the desert with "the boys", but the "boys" who ate the desert all got violently ill!
You can lock me up, handcuff me with e-cuffs, I'll take the soft pink fluffy ones. You all are a bunch of thread wreckers.
A leaking water heater when a customer commits to me straining my hemmorhoids to pull it up 13 steps and over a couple others, then into my truck straining to get it in the bed, carefully without damaging carpet or tile, linoleum,
That water heater is now my property as I'm being told to haul away the old water heater.
I don't care if the customer used it as a makeshift safe and shoved $100 bills in it,
That's my property when the customer commits me to remove it, haul it away.
Honest plumber is the one who put this exact scenario up on the internet, not giving a flying **** what anyone thinks...got that?
What makes me think now is I bet I've been in this boat before and didn't check enough of them, thinking I might of passed up quite a few opportunities this way.
This makes me sad, and I could have a basement full of warrantless water heaters to keep me in the balance for every water heater replacement that turned out harder than expected.
Ehhh-yup!
Everyone please continue while I eat my bowl of ice cream waiting for more replies.
Not one person asked me how many times I've told a person that their tank is under warranty, and saved them a bundle, with them thanking me profusely and generating work because I was a plumbing commando from my office chair. Go put that in your pipe and smoke it!
(feels backside to see if swelling went down from yesterday's water heater replacement)
Oooohe, it's bad, real bad
Music while you're enjoying your wait for an apologetic response, NOT!