Fuck you, Pay me

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  • Nairn2

    Also, Fuck 30 day payment terms - that just gives people a month extra to fuck you around.

    Here in the UK, 30 days is simply the point that you're able to start sending legal missives to get your monies paid. Unfortunately some people seem to think that invoices with 30 day terms is some sort of base level, which it absolutely is not.

    I've fired at least two clients who've played silly buggers with this sort of thing in the past.

    Unilever once tried to claim their standard terms were 60 days - after I'd invoiced them - at which point I got legal advice and started putting in some juicy key phrases in my emails that got them to buck up the pace a little. (Now I always charge corporates in advance - fuck getting involved in labyrinthine accounts messes where they're used to breathing their own farts and believing their own shit).

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    • lol 30-90 days is completely normal...sted
    • I remember a cake supplier stamping this on their invoices: "If you don't pay me, I can't pay them, and they can't pay you!"shapesalad
    • or something like that. Maybe it was "If you're late paying me, I'll be even later paying them, and they'll be super late paying you!"shapesalad
    • 'lol' sted - it's also entirely artificial and in no way beneficial to anyone other than the client, so i don't play that game.
      You play, if you wish. 'lol'.      Nairn
    • The bigger my client, the longer they take to payGnash
    • I mean their ‘terms’ are longerGnash
    • 30 days standard, 60-90 days = jerks
      Unilever, Cola, all the banks, etc. all have 60 days minimum, Cola has 90 days I believe.
      After 30, add late fees, f'em      grafician
    • Also many agencies go for 90 days 'cuz clients pay them in 60. Not to mention no deposits because "we won Cannes Lions, do you know who we are!?"grafician
    • 30 is the most common, few big ones still have 90 days, our average paytime last year was 43 days. i think 90 is still standard in the film industry for examplested
    • Had the 60 days one a few times, but I always try and get on a repeat supplier 30 days one. 60 days is a joke.PhanLo
    • My agency is fairly good at paying quickly. But, 60-90 days is standard for the accounts I touched when I ran my own production company.shellie
    • The last major label I did a music video for, 75% upfront to pay for production hard costs. 25% on delivery net 45.shellie
    • Major labels paying upfront?! Daym that's wildgrafician
    • Worst is 60+ "but usually a week based on submission time" still waiting 60+ later...DarkCover
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