client paid twice...
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- pango0
take the money and run! LOL
Hookers and Cocaine. keep em coming!
- pango0
Email them.
They would appreciate your honesty and turn put to be a better long run for you.
- sofakingbanned0
call them and say they are $500 short of the $3,000 they already owe you. Cash that shit first though, if they give you jive and for some reason need you to send it back say you'll write them a check and it will be in the mail (wait a couple weeks)
see they owe you money anyway, so don't act like they sent you money for a job they already paid for, act like they didn't pay the full amount for the OTHER job.
did i just say the same thing twice? i need a nap.
- dMullins0
Take it as an opportunity to show you're a stand-up, trustworthy person, and give them a call to let them know.
"Hey, I know you really appreciate my work, but I don't accept tips."
- SrSamaurai0
buy lottery tickets then after you win tell them you think there has been a double payment. everyone wins unless you lose.
- ntimm1
What would Brett Bash do?
- I'm guessing he's never had a paying client before.betelgeuse
- I reckon he'd pull the same sort of dishonest, bone-headed move the OP seems to want to pull.Continuity
- He has. The few things in his portfolio which were awful were his work that he'd been paid to do.orrinward
- The ShihTzu parlour thing was his and the woman paid him.orrinward
- ETM0
Did anyone mention just applying it to a retainer against future work? Clear it with them first, but it sounds like you do repeat business with them anyway.
- sofakingbanned0
they owe him money!!! past due!!! lol
how hard is it to figure this out???
- studderine0
rape and pillage their corporate assets, while you're at it. geeeze.
- randommail1
You're contemplating risking your client relationship and all future credibility with anyone else; over $2500?
(Closer to $1250 after taxes. Although if you decided to keep the check, you might as well go full criminal.)
- $2500 is $1250 after tax?abettertomorrow
- hyperbole probably for him.randommail
- Uhmmm what? 30% of $2500 is ~$750. Do the math jack.chilamont
- I'm just used to NYC taxes, the highest in the country, along with being in the highest tax bracket.randommail
- Why bitch over something so fucking inane? I don't get you people sometimes.dMullins
- JSK0
Not worth it. Potential law suit, criminal charges, loss of creditability = worth $2500?
I had a client who paid $65k twice. I looked at the cheque. Emailed them.
I wondered. Pondered. Even when recent client who paid $8k twice, I still pondered.
- chilamont-3
FUCK THAT CRAP, they'll never know and if they sent it to you and didn't call you by now, they'll never know. BS, keep the money. Come fucking tax time they'll never remember and think that they'd have paid you for two jobs. You'll never make any $, if you take no risks, just say, ohhhh I really didn't notice, I have a lot of projects., Pshhhh easy cash
- ORLY?randommail
- remember??? dude do you not write things down?Projectile
- that’s bad business broGuyFawkes
- hektor9110
its a vicious circle guys everybody screws everybody! Like my grandfather use to say "there are two kinds of people in this world, the kind who wakes up thinking how to screw everybody, and the kind that wakes up thinking how to avoid being screwed"
- Miesfan0
Sends the file again and finished work.
- brodster0
they must really love the work.. keep it!
- arne2
they are testing your loyalty. old trick.
- maikel0
this full of shit.
if they are in arrears send them an email confirming that you got the 2 checks (and thanking them for that) also telling that they still owe you an extra 500.
If they say it was a mistake and you want to keep the client, you will have to return it, no biggie, but maybe on their accounts it will be easier for them to say 'well we've fucked him for a few months, let's let him have this check, as we can starve him on the next project for 2 more months'
don't try to be more christian that the pope. i wouldn't go to a restaurant if i cannot pay the bill, but 'design' seems to be the largest exception where everybody think they can fuck you up and you work for them because you truly like them.
- Projectile0
What I wouold do:
Send an email. but a long one. a very long one that involves them digging up old documents and looking for other emails or something. Basically ask as many questions as possible.
That way, you've done the right thing but you're increasing your chances of geting lucky thanks to their incompetence and/or laziness