The school itself was very good – the best we have seen in Iceland and as we all know, a good school does not come free. So we paid.
The price was 17 000 IKR a month, plus 3 800 for one hour of after school care a day. Expensive, but we felt it was worth it.
During the summer Kasper attended the school summer camp for the price of 10 500 a week. The camp was great.
Time goes by. We move to Þórshöfn, then one sunny afternoon last Wednesday we were served for court.
WHAT? ARE YOU JOKING?
NO, it seems that the school was in need of some money and hired a guy to come in and go over the book keeping – looking for people that did not pay.
The book keeping was a mess and in this mess they decided we owed a bunch of money, totaling about 60 000, but now we were being sued not just for the 60 000 but for costs.
First we called, this must be a mistake. No, the lawyer tells us, we have tried sending you many bills and notices since September.
Where did they send them? To the old house. They actually just noticed we moved when they tried to have us served for court there, so they served us here.
We did actually change our address with the registry and the post office as soon as we moved – but someone did not catch on.
The lawyer says none of this is his problem, in fact he was a complete ass. So we talked to his boss, the guy that went over the records and decided we owed money.
We told him we paid everything, that we never got any notices and we really do not need to be in court next week.
He said we had to prove it – and we did :)
After spending days digging through old bill, bank statement and papers we found it all. The paper from the registry when we changed our address, showing we were not hiding. The receipt from the post office from asking our mail to be forwarded, the post office is not so good with the mail anymore, but the mail anymore, but this is not my problem. And all the proof of payment for the school and summer camp fees.
Today we sent it all in. Everything was cleared up and we got an apology.
If I would have lived in Reykjavík I would have seen them in court just for fun. But it is not worth the 9 hour drive each way.
Lesson: Keep the papers.
Scary... real freaky scary.
ReplyDeleteGood that you were able to get out of this mess so easily! :-)
Thats good that you got the mess sort it out.
ReplyDeleteAnyways I would go to the court if I lived near it too so that I Could throw the mistake back in his face and tell him that he should consider a career change.
Any ways thats my two cents for the momen.
Tye
I would have called the school and raised hell. They should have paid you for all the time you guys had to spend correcting their mistake..idiots!!
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