Does anyone else have a client who insists on paying more.

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Julie Innes — Thu, 29 May 2014 19:15:14 GMT

I've had a couple of clients give me £100 in a thank you card, which kind of surprised me.

Also had a few (mainly old ladies!) give me a couple of pounds for "cakes with your tea!", and one of my clients keeps handing in DVD copies (legal, of course, ahem..!) for my children. He also bought us a lottery ticket one week, but unfortunately we didn't win.

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Alison Skipper — Thu, 29 May 2014 18:55:37 GMT

We did have one who always paid us £20 extra, every visit (plus a tube of luxury hand cream, once), because she thought we were so wonderful. Then she suddenly moved to a neighbouring practice for no obvious reason - nothing had gone wrong, no arguments, nothing...

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Wren — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:50:07 GMT

I did have a client who gave me two lettuces, a bunch of onions and four cans of out-of-date lager for taking the stitches out of his horse's Hobday wound. I felt a bit mean when I susequently sent him a bill for the visit charge.

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Martin Atkinson — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:32:58 GMT

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Every Christmas crates of very expensive wine would arrive - and one year an oil painting by an artist he knew that I liked (with the £700 price tag still on the back).

Sadly it all stopped rather abruptly when he was banged up for 5 years for money laundering.

[/quote]I assume that you diligently declared these 'additional payments' so you are not equally culpable.

Actually I did have a restaurateur client who paid an outstanding bill when he went bust with a case of Chateau La Tour. Very nice too. I expect I declared that as payment in kind as I'm so honest.

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bob lehner — Thu, 29 May 2014 11:57:13 GMT

I don't recall clients actually wanting to pay over the odds - but I did once get a tip. A slightly dotty girl whose dog I was treating - as she left the consulting room she put her hand into her bag and took out 50p which she thrust into my fist, saying 'That's for you...'. I was quite touched.

My very best client ever was a wealthy and generous accountant - regularly ran up huge bills and always paid on the dot. Every Christmas crates of very expensive wine would arrive - and one year an oil painting by an artist he knew that I liked (with the £700 price tag still on the back).

Sadly it all stopped rather abruptly when he was banged up for 5 years for money laundering.

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Utlendigur — Wed, 28 May 2014 20:44:52 GMT

We have one client on PDSA who has had several dogs on the scheme over the years. One dog was on longterm nsaids and the donation he gave for each prescription was usually more than he would have paid for the tablets - and even when we pointed that out he still insisted on paying the same. He often drops in just for a chat - and to put more money in the PDSA box He really brightens up the day - and his dog loves visiting (runs into the consult room and jumps onto the table!) which is worth more than any advertising.