Fucking clients
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- nylon
So a client who looks after celebrities asks us to do a website for one of their clients. We say yes please...
For the point of this A is our direct client and B is the celeb.
We deliver the website and all is paid - happy days...
Then A tells us that 'another' company wants to pay them alot of money to endorse their products on the site with B. Lets call these guys C - still here?
Every month we do changes for C that go on B's website...
A told us to invoice B for the work we do monthly.
B are fucking shit at paying on time.They have NOT paid for 4 months and when I asked B about payment - they said oh you need to speak to A.
I ask A about the 4 invoices and they say - B said they dont think they should pay this much for the changes... I say - you cant not pay and then tell me this 4 months after!?!?!
A told me last Tuesday that they would have an internal meeting about this and get back to me in due course. A tells me on Friday someone will contact me to discuss.
I told them that if all invoices are not paid within 14 days then I will take the site down. I got no response.
Over the weekend - I turned off their permissions so they cant even make new posts etc.
Low and behold A contacted me today and asked why they couldn't edit it. I told them their permissions have been revoked until they pay up.
Now they are threatening legal action against me unless I turn them back on ASAP...
If you dont pay your phone bill - they cut you off
If you dont pay your cable bill - they cut you off
If you dont pay your gas bill - they cut you offThey think I have been outrageously unprofessional here. Personally I think not paying invoices and asking you to do more work is more unprofessional.
Thoughts please?
Oh, and before you tell me I am a cunt - I knew that already!
- mg330
I'm gonna ask the obvious question... do you have a contract, and what does it say in the contract about non-payment?
- mg330
Well if you've got that in the contract and they signed off on it, and they're not abiding by the terms, well, then you're doing what you said and I see no fault in that.
Now, to figure out which celebrity to imagine this is...
- moldero0
fuck you pay me.
unless theres a contract, they might stick you with a lawsuit. hook them back up with limited privileges (if you can) till they pay up. this way their still operational,
I shut a guy down once, turned out it ruined his rep so bad he had to find a new line of work in a completely new industry, it was that this thing:
- nylon0
Why do they think they can stick a law suit on me for services that I have provided and they haven't paid for?
The site is totally up and running - they just cant use the CMS for now...
- exador10
you've absolutely done the right thing.
you have a contract. there's not a thing they can do now, besides pay you in order to keep things running.
- stoplying0
At what do you start banging this client? That's the title of the thread, eh?
- Fantrom0
Classic douche client.
No money to pay invoices but do have for legal action against you.
- mg330
Be honest nylon. Is it Spencer Pratt?
- cannonball19780
If its not paid for, its not theirs. Bring on the legal action.
- nylon0
The ones we bang ALWAYS pay on time!
- cannonball19780
Add a fan photoshop contest feature that replaces the first large image on the site.
- ohhhhhsnap0
you are in the right.
...said site? ;) let's see!
- don't link it - you don't want this thread connected to this situationGnash
- Gnash he won't... I was just joking.ohhhhhsnap
- freedom0
You're doing the right thing
BUT
Why did you wait 4 months to ask about payments? Did you not need the money and trust them?
- nylon0
I would email them every month with reminders etc and they kept ignoring. I didnt want to NOT do the work or no doubt theyd fire us. That said - why work for people who dont pay? Easier to get fired I guess...
- zarkonite0
Bang the client's wife. SOLVED.
- omahadesigns0
Did you invoice after every project or just after a certain amount / time?