I'm a little late to the party, and really don't have any new suggestions for specific courses of action. However, I would say this, whatever course of action you take, start with gentle pressure and slow crank up the severity. There are alot of steps between politely asking and nuking their server.
You may find that less pressure does it and end up keeping the client. If you go straight to the ICBM button then you will certainly lose them as a client, and still might not get any money in the end. I've had a few clients who are slow to pay. Usually you can talk them into paying, given the right leverage. -Cameron On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Dakota Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a large "big name" client in one of the luxury-goods industries, which > I've been servicing for the past 4 years. They are currently overdue on two > invoices, and soon to be three -- totaling $4k. Recently, my client became > acquainted with another development firm through one of their dealers, and > decided to have the new development firm contact me about proposing updates > to the site "I developed", "I host", and "I manage". I feel it's very > unprofessional on the client's part to have someone not affiliated with them > contact me out of the blue asking for access to the site/database. The > client is over 60 days due on programming services, hasn't paid their hosting > bill in 3 months and says "Great job on recent updates, but I'm not the only > one with overdue invoices", which doesn't make me feel any better (this > company sold $82 million dollars last year). To this day, they claim they > want more work out of me if I will just talk with the other development firm > and give them the database + source code so "they" can write up a proposal to > modify the site. The whole thing smells of bad business practices. > > Have either of you been in a similar situation, particularly where you had > some leverage in the deal (hosted their site; client doesn't have access), > and client is overdue on two, soon to be three invoices? > > Dakota ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288175 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
