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[_] Advice on a client gone nasty..

mike karthauser mikek at brightstorm.co.uk
Thu May 1 07:23:48 BST 2008

hi

On 1 May 2008, at 03:00, Jeff Parsons wrote:

> I'd get the lawyer to draft the letter to him informing him of your
> intent to recover your costs. You'll also be able to gauge the
> situation better from his response. If he's trying to pull a fast one
> and back out the deal unethetically then he'll want to call it a day
> at the 20% deposit and move on.


a way to solve some of this in the future is to call it 20% down  
payment instead of deposit. INAL but deposit tends to imply refundable  
deposit whereas downpayment clearly isn't.

does help with this but might help in the future. We do 50% upfront  
which makes the client think more seriously about the work.

HTH

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