help me get my money!
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- piperboytoy0
that's good to know.
- JazX0
yeah ask for 40% up front and he's right most nice agencies will pay you on the spot
- piperboytoy0
really, I've only been paid once after finishing a job. I usually have to wait between 2-4 weeks after finishing a job. I thought that was standard business.
thanks
- Mimio0
Most reputable agencies do payment on delivery for their contractors. If they don't that usually means they have cash flow problems.
- piperboytoy0
Ok, if I got a job with an reputable agency, should I still ask for 30% deposit?
- JazX0
you could threaten to contaminate the Flash work, scare them some how! he hee ;)
- unknown0
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... or is it!
- piperboytoy0
no need for any fancy scripting. My client just called me and made an excuse about the accounting department. He said my cheque is in the mail.
Will keep you posted. Probably won't be for another 2 weeks as I'm unplugged during that time.
thanks all for your help.
- unfittoprint0
'Do that and you'll NEVER get paid.'
believe me, NO client is going to look 1000+ lines of code... and you can direct it just to 404 page. This method should only serve for a non-cotract work... or a-holes clients...
- Shardz0
just hang around their offices and when they close up just camp out undera desk, it will be fun as well as being able to smash up their equipment at night! w00t
- unknown0
'Better advice is to make an appointment with your contact there inform him/her of the problem with billing and have them supervise the invoice submission to accounting. Make someone outside of accounting accountable. '
I think it's gone a bit past that.
- unknown0
another good way... particularly if you're dealing with an agency who is selling your work on... Is to bump the price up by 10 percent or whatever, but tell them that you'll knock 10 percent off the price if they pay up front.
- Mimio0
Do that and you'll NEVER get paid.
Better advice is to make an appointment with your contact there inform him/her of the problem with billing and have them supervise the invoice submission to accounting. Make someone outside of accounting accountable.
- unknown0
To be safe, just program flash to find a tx file on your server. If it DOESNT find, it goes tru, But, if they dont pay, put the file in, it finds the file, redirect to gayfarm.com.
makes sense?
- unknown0
...and with the time clause... say it is set to a month after your payment date... what are they gonna do? You just tell them they should have paid within 28 days, and it's how you protect yourself.
- Bio0
hot.
- unfittoprint0
'In the beginning of your presentation/faslh file whatever it is... get it to look up a variable on your website... e.g A text file called client.txt and in it have clientA=1, so different projects check that the client has the all clear... So when they don't pay...'
been using this method for quite a while. PHP/actionscript little gold key....
- unknown0
could of just put a date clause in it... so when you are paid you just say... 'I've optimised the site a bit more for you, and give them a (clean) version.... otherwise leave them with the ticking time bomb.
- unknown0
Or idf you've got it all in writing just sell the debt on... you won't get as much money obviously... but at least you won't spend any more time trying to get it... best to use some nutter crack heads
- piperboytoy0
I remember watching Single White Female and the main character was developing this program for her client. But they never paid her. She put this timer in the program and self destructed when the pay date expired. It wiped out all the clients info in his computer. That is brilliant.
God I wish I was smart enough to do that. But if I were, I wouldn't be doing $300 jobs.