Client Back From Dead
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- MSTRPLN0
"What a coincidence, our company is no longer in business either!"
- manonthestreet0
Ok..I like where this was originally headed:
(a )$1400 - [(b) $400 + (x)= (c)
(a) = money collected
(b) = money earned
(x) = management fees / asset storage [be fair]
(c) = money owed to client (or service)Where (c) can be used toward new project discovery/planning and first iteration of design.
- Exactly, this attitude of "too bad, my money now" is just bad businessformed
- whatthefunk0
Good thing you got paid upfront, clearly the company didn't go anywhere and you would have gotten stuck without getting paid. I bet his brother is going to call you next asking for a project.
- honest0
i hate to ask, but how hot is she?
- formed0
Give a proposal for the "new" project, give $1000 credit towards that proposal.
You make money, she feels like she's got her value, win/win
- mikotondria30
Don't do her a website for a $1000 dollars that somebody else paid for different work ? What a bunch of phooey - this woman has no respect for how you operate or any sense of how to go about business. This will be one of the worst, most drawn-out unsatisfactory things you ever do - it'll never be 'right'. The phone will ring at midnight because there's 'a strange box near the bottom of the page', or the green 'just isn't right still - how about I come over there and sit with you shaking my head while you make +1 adjustments to the slider in photoshop, whilst also remarking that it doesn't look webby enough'. It will end acrimoniously and she'll drag it on until she breaks you. She has no stake in this and will not play it as if you are working for hire, or are a valued expert whom she is privileged to have on her side. Walk away now or at least get her to pay some money upfront and and agreement to pay an equal amount at THE END of the project, because without this you're just pissing in the wind and she's holding your cock.
Be as polite as you can, obviously, but she is genuinely mistaken if she thinks you and she are already $1000 into a project. Nu-uh.
Get her to try that in any other business, anywhere in the world.
- Hombre_Lobo0
How do you guys deal with contracts when a face to face signing is not an option? If say your client is on the other side of the world? Does an email contract carry any weight?
- You mail the contract have them sign it and mail backVikingKingEleven
- i_monk0
Tell her your business is gone too.
- dMullins0
Always do a contract, always, always, always.
Then, put terms in your contract that automatically sever the relationship after 30 days of inaction.
- thisfoz
- Good point, I never thought of that. Goes in my contracts from now on.Continuity
- Ancillary0
zombie clients!
- Ancillary0
zombie clients!
- randommail0
Tell her that your time is booked and paid for through the end of the year. But would be happy to talk to her then about her $1000 project.
I'll bet double that amount she doesn't come back.
- sigg0
"no speaka engrish"
*hang up telephone*
- hektor9110
Tell them that during the 14 months have become a wood-engraver.
- detritus0
Thank goodness you didn't spend the rest of that money, eh?
- moniker0
"This new project falls outside of the scope of the original"
or
"Payments for service rendered are non-transferable"
or
"Sorry I wait tables at Denny's now"
- dibec0
easy.
here is a very complex formula for concluding a resolution.
(a )$1400 - (b) $400= (c)$1000.
(a) = money collected
(b) = money earned
(c) = money owed to client (or service)hey look at that!~ You are an outstanding samaritan.
- moniker0
or
Sure I can do that. There will be a $1400 admin fee though.
- hellobotto0
I think it's reasonable to conclude that the original $1400 estimate was only between your and his companies. Now that his company is dissolved, so is the agreement.
That said, to keep things positive, you could go into a new agreement with the wife that states you'll do $1000 worth of work, and treat it as a new ballgame.
If you allow backwash, expect an ill feeling. If you let her blur the lines, then you leave yourself wide open.
P.S. As part of this new chapter, I'd suggest you get a "work complete" invoice showing that you've been paid for work done, and you are not expecting further payment since there is nothing to work on for him...zero everything out.
- capn_ron0
I can't believe she had the balls to ask you. Seems pretty desperate to me. I would avoid it at all costs. or do a quick job for her to get her outta your hair.