Burned by friend/client!...advice?
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- |cY9H3r|
So, here's the deal...I was contracted by a "friend", who I have worked with on many projects in the last 4 years, to do the music and sound design for a major European clothing line...I didn't get a contract, although I kept asking said "friend" to put me in touch with someone at the company that the site was for...he never addressed the issue, although he apparently confirmed my price for the project with them before I would agree to start work on it...I completed the work, everything was approved, and then I started getting different stories about when to expect the bank transfer that was agreed upon, (I am in Canada, he is in Europe)...this was November...then he simply stopped responding to my emails for a period of 2 months...he contacted me finally just as the site was going live to say that he was finally making the payment (it usually only takes 2-3 days to receive a bank transfer from almost anywhere, I do this regularly with overseas clients) this was in February, the same once again in March and April, "I sent the money"...still no payment... When I ask for proof of the deposit, he just keeps saying "the payment has been sent"...amazing...I contacted the company, and obviously they don't care, they had a contract with the "friend"...anyway, I was just wondering if anyone has had anything similar happen to them. Please don't say it's my own fault for not getting a contract, I tried, and i had no reason to think that this "friend" would screw me over in such a farcical manner. Can I somehow make the company remove my work from the site?...any recourse at all?...any advice would be greatly appreciated...thanks.
- ********0
yeah, exactly, watch whom you call friends. That shit has happened to me too! :( sucks
- |cY9H3r|0
damn right it sucks...for the amount of money that he got paid on top of that, it is a complete insult...
- shutdown0
keep calling the company, threaten legal stuff
it sucks, wish i had the answer
- jevad0
jesus - sorry mate...Apart from flying over to europe, kicking his ass and taking the money off him, which is something I have done in the past, I don't know what to say!
- |cY9H3r|0
for real jevad...i was going to go there, knock on his door, wait until he answers, bust in and grab his laptop etc and crack skulls...might just do that...
- mrdobolina0
do you have a telephone contact number for this guy? If not, email and tell him that if you don't receive payment within x amount of days you will be forced to contact the company he sub-contracted you out to and will notify them of his shady business practices. Noone wants a big client to find out of their dodgy dealings. hope that helps, and get paper with everyone you do work with, everyone.
- brooke0
Hasn't happened to me. I don't have any friends.
- dstlb0
Seems like there's one of these 'I got ripped off by my (ex-)friend' threads every day.
In the past I've got around the problem by working for free :/
- |cY9H3r|0
mrdobolina...I have already done that..the company said that they never contracted me, they had a contract with him, so he basically sold my work to them...messy business...
- mrdobolina0
tell him to watch his money-grubbing back. sorry I cant help you.
- |cY9H3r|0
anybody in Amsterdam want to make some money collecting for me?...let me know...
- jevad0
dude ask dutchie! he's fucking big!
- mrdobolina0
jevad, dutchie is too nice though, he needs a bruiser.
- |cY9H3r|0
if there are no takers, i'll just go myself...spring time in Amsterdam is nice anyway...
- FTDme0
Wow, that's fucked...By any chance is this "friend" Niko Stumpo, and is this European Clothing Company Mandarina Duck??????
Hot or Cold
- |cY9H3r|0
FTDme...you are burning up!...
- dstlb0
http://www.adobe.co.uk/web/galle…
You should get together and offer to fuck up his other knee for him.
- jevad0
Niko Stumpo screwed you? Fark I'd be pissed too!!
- FTDme0
OUCH!!!!!
What's dickhead in Italian?
- |cY9H3r|0
haha...apparently the translation is "Dickhead"