Ok, the showdown lasted for 2 hours.
My ID's nice and all smiles at the door, "long time no see." I got her a cup of my prized matcha, used to give her gyokuro last time. Whoever enters my place is a guest, everyone gets a proper drink. Even the gas deliveryman, that's my house practice.
Lead her into my studyroom, sit thru 100+ photos of defects, incompletes, inferior parts used, etc.
As expected, she came up with almost 100+ excuses to match every photo. But I pre-emp that, I arranged my photos in an "entrapment" manner, flashed them to her one by one.
When shown the first defect photo.
- "It's like that, it's supposed to be like that, all like that."
So I showed her the second photo where it's done right.
- "So earlier one was right and this is "wrong"?
Then I asked her about her personal standard on "perfection" I showed her the horde of obviously screwed areas, a case of low standard or too lazy to rectify or act blur?
She was quite speechless and sheepish, especially when I compared other good workmanship with Weiken's. Took her around my place for a tour, asked her opinion on how nice those rubbish workmanship were. And she told me it's standard Weiken fare, all the same.
If that's the case, I asked if the photos of my house is in their portfolio, was it even good enough to be on it? Was she proud that it's her team's project.
She taichi to her boss, said he's the one chasing for the last payment. Told her I will forward those pictures to her, she can use them as a bargaining chip on my behalf. If the conclusion is unsatisfactory, I will personally go thru the entire presentation with him.
If he's not embarassed by his men's work and insist somemore, I will host a free web portfolio of my house for him under Weiken Project, I'll try to get Google to list my site first if anyone searches for Weiken.
So far,
Lawry : 1
ID : 0
