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Woman Owned Business ABUSED!1 Signature
Intended Recipient:Joseph A Bank Clothiers Description:I am a business owner, contractor and construction professional who subcontracted from Tri River Construction out of Pittsburgh, PA to build a store for Jos A Bank clothiers ( josabank.com ). Well, we built it, on time and to spec last October despite a lot of interference that was abusive and a contract change that could have been disastrous. Jos A Bank is now making money from the store we built every day. Their subcontractor, Tri River, has not paid us anything. Simple issue. We asked Jos Bank for payment, and get a reply from Tri River with nothing but excuses. What's up with that? THEN they offer some lame settlement for pennies on the dollar! See, the idea is that in a court case, after fees, we'd get the same amount anyhow. Who wants to play that? I need your help to ask Jos A Bank to do the right thing. Stop hiding behind Tri River, pay us what you owe us, and if you have a problem, go get your money back from Tri River. Simple! Workers have it hard enough as it is! The people in charge must be getting told lies by Tri River, why else would a Billion Dollar company piddle around with something as important as a contractor who built one of their stores?
We got another offer May 20 but this time instead of contacting us directly, Jos A Bank must have contacted Tri River, because Tri River's LAWYER contacted our lawyer directly with some talk about a settlement. After a day of faxing things back and forth (and accruing attorney's fees, thank you very much) the offer was for about HALF of the amount we are owed. Sad, really.
If you were making profit from a store and it cost you $90,000 to build, then why would you offer $45,000 to the contractor? This is something my business cannot stand. I can't feed people with IOU's, I can't buy materials or repair relationships with 50% of my bills paid. Simple as that. CEO wildrick@jos-a-bank.com  Randy H.
Submitted on 6-3-2009
Sounds like an issue for court. BTW: what does being a "Woman Owned Business" have to do with the issue?
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