Re: Rates
- From: Jim Lawton <usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:45:18 GMT
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:02:55 -0000, "Tim Ward" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"tim (moved to sweden)" <tim_in_sweden2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44fg5kF1vkkpU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sending someone a summons, before sending them a letter
before action and waiting a reasonable time (14 days?) is
not going to get you your costs back.
Nor is it going to get you more work or a reoutation for sensible
behaviour.
Well, you reminded them a few days beforehand that payment was due, didn't
you.
No, because most common or garden contractors stick their invoice in
each month and get paid when the agent's software coughs the cheque a
few days later, without any problems.
And nor is it going to get you your money from a "can't pay"
if they go under before it gets to court.
Disagree. If they "can't pay" you're better off getting the boot in as
quickly as possible, in the hope that you'll get paid before the other guy.
If they're on the point of going under your fleabite will have no effect
whatsoever, and again this is not t he reason most invoices are late.
The costs are almost certainly going to be more than the
interest lost by waiting. And waiting gives you the time to find
out if the company that owes you, is actually worth sueing.
See above. I'd rather risk a few tens of pounds on getting paid first.
Of course, walking out on the client *will* usually see a
cheque by return.
Yes of course, sorry, forgot to mention that - probably I thought it was so
obvious it didn't need saying :-)
I think you're just showing off. If I have a relationship with a client
and something goes adrit on payment, I have a word with my main contact,
and with their accounts department, I assess the risk, and if there's no
reason to assume they won't pay, I'll go on working.
By your technique, I walk out, stop getting paid, screw up my
relationship with the client, and have to look for something else to
produce the money.
It's people who carry on working as normal, then timidly ask where their
money is a fortnight after it was due that I can't understand.
Well, they should find out when the due date comes around, but I have
never, in thirty years not been paid, and I've only once had to say that
I'll have to stop working if payment wasn't forthcoming.
--
Jim
a Yorkshire polymoth
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