Not a Threat
Telling someone that you’re going to hire someone else because you don’t like the service they’re providing may get you some results or they may not. But when Reddit user cthulhus_tax_return’s client made this threat, he wasn’t shaking in his boots for a very good reason.
“When an unhappy client threatens to go hire a better lawyer. They don’t seem to get that this isn’t a threat when they aren’t paying me…”