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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:22 PM
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Plaxico Burress didn't pay his bills either
Burress a player who’s not a payer
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/sports/professional/professional_football/article/PLAX10_20090209-215906/202265/
NEW YORK -- To Richard Malin, Plaxico Burress wasn't a customer, he was an ordeal.

It was 2002 when Burress, then playing for the Steelers, hired Malin, a home inspector, to look over a house he was buying in suburban Pittsburgh.

Malin quoted Burress a price of just under $500 and got the job.

He should've turned it down, Malin now says.

When it came time to pay the bill, Burress disappeared. He didn't respond to phone calls or letters. Malin appealed to one of the star's handlers for help, but still no payment. Malin filed a lawsuit; Burress ignored it.

After a judge ruled against the no-show NFL player, he sent Malin a check for $700.

"I got a note from Plaxico saying, 'Sorry for the inconvenience. Please inform the court that the judgment has been paid,'" Malin said.

"Then the check bounced."
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The people seeking payment from the football star run the gamut, from a Pennsylvania homeowners association trying to collect delinquent dues to a Florida woman whose car Burress rear-ended while driving without insurance. Why? He hadn't paid the premium.
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The amounts of the unpaid bills typically have not been large, but that has made no difference when it came time for Burress to pay. In 2002, a Virginia Beach homeowners association sued for $440 in dues. In March 2003, another homeowners association in Moon Township, Pa., sought $890. The school district there sued Burress a few months later for $2,745 in unpaid taxes.
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:26 PM
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1. Did this NIMROD have an agent?
Or did he stiff him/her too?


Big Giants fan here, thanks for last year's ring Plax, but don't let the door hit you on the wa...oops! too late.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:28 PM
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3. Simply hiring a bookkeeper would have done the job
Geesh

This sounds more like being cheap (and stupid) more than anything else.
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:32 PM
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6. I would think that 's the kind of thing an agent would do.
I hope Plax didn't give his agent "power of attorney", or he might discover his bank account is $0.00

Stupid sounds about right.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:26 PM
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2. Well, when you're "only making" what, $3.5 million a year. Times are hard.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:29 PM
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4. I have some inside information on that
the GEICO has a way to pay directly every month

he could look into something like that

:eyes:
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:30 PM
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5. Well, there go his HHS aspirations.
Seriously though, what's up with this deadbeat?
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