[_] Advice on a client gone nasty..
Paul Barker
paul at claritum.com
Thu May 1 09:40:19 BST 2008
You may also be able to start charging interest on the outstanding amount. http://www.payontime.co.uk/legislation/legislation_main.html It won't necessarily make him pay up right now but might rattle him to see that you're serious, not going to let it go and that his 'risk' is getting larger every day. Had a similar situation many years ago (different circumstances though) and this approach worked a treat. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: mike karthauser [mailto:mikek at brightstorm.co.uk] Sent: 01 May 2008 07:24 To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Subject: Re: [_] Advice on a client gone nasty.. 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 -- Mike Karthauser Managing Director - Brightstorm Ltd Email: mikek at brightstorm.co.uk Web: http://www.brightstorm.co.uk Tel: 07939 252144 (mobile) Fax: 0870 1320560 Address: 1 Brewery Court, North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JS -- underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1404 - Release Date: 29/04/2008 18:27 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.7/1408 - Release Date: 30/04/2008 18:10