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just before 5pm today.....
Thu, 20/03/2008 - 22:49 — David Goodwin
Imagine you're just about to go home, looking forward to 4 days of no work, when the phone rings....
- $Guy: Hi, I need some work done by Monday... budget is no problem, but we need it for Monday...
- $me: errm... that'll be kind of difficult seeing as how we're on holiday from now until Tuesday
- $Guy: Holiday? Oh, *pause* yeah....
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I hope for your sake you
I hope for your sake you told him where to go
oh yes...
It was a case of "Sorry, there's no way we could do $x"
Happened to me once
Same thing happened to me once though not over a bank holiday. It was a Friday @ 5pm.
I agreed £500 for 6 hours work but it had to be ready for Saturday so worked until 2am (had tea and put kids to bed and then started work).
The fecker never paid me, called in the receivers about 4 weeks later.
You live and learn etc.
Bad payment
I must say, over two years we've only amassed about 80 quid's worth of true bad-debt... I can imagine how annoyed you were after all the effort you'd put in.
The guy who rang up wanted some sort of swish javascript thing (like netvibes.com); personally I couldn't do such work, and Adrian (who could) was definitely not going to be available; and suffice to say the time-scales were unrealistic to say the least.
(I'd also have wanted (some) money upfront ... )
Credit control is king
In 6 years I reckon I'm £5K down and as I'm sure you can imagine I resent every last penny lost. Needless to say I'm a tad stricter on credit control these days.
On the plus side I once negotiated that a client pay me up front for a job, which they did, and they then promptly went bust before I'd done more than 10% for the work. The free money (as I still fondly call it) covers any losses I've incurred over the years and then some, with bells on :)
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