Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Clients from Hell: for Gary

date posted 29th January 2004 17:05

same as that,=20
clents from hell are those who demand the earth ( sometimes twice) and th=
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don't pay,
at a minimum to stop your clients doing it to you...

get a deposit or at least agree staged payments,=20
give them a specification/proposal which lists all the main chunks of wor=
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date it and sign it. keep a copy.
This is useful for negotiating staged payments.
stop working if they stop paying.
County court costs very little for small claims and is quite simple, but =
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must have the paperwork.
Verbal agreements mean bugger all, phone calls even less. Always write =
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letter.
HTH
Carrie
On Thursday 29 January 2004 5:20 pm, you wrote:
> The biggie would be don't take something on with a vague specification,=
and
> try and get a sum up front (like 40% of the total cost) as a retainer.
>
> I appreciate it's sometimes not easy to do that, but you do leave yours=
elf
> wide open to this kind of thing if you don't take these precautions.
>
> HTH,
> Dan.
>
> > I've just had that problem today! I am a student, I freelance to try
> > to supplement my terrible part-time job income, and I've spent just
> > over eight months working with a company to design a form of
> > Management Information System customized to their needs.
> > They fired their middle-man who basically mis-communicated the
> > project to me, twice, so I was in the third version of the solution,
> > redeveloping at no extra cost, through pride of my work.
> >
> > After two months of very, very sparse contact, one of the junior
> > employees informed me today: "I think he's given up on that".
> >
> > I've missed coursework deadlines to try and accomodate them and I've
> > written the application twice before, but now I am stuffed, quite
> > basically.
> >
> > Anyone have any advice ?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Baris