On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:48:50 Jochen Daum wrote: > Hi, > I've passed someone on to www.accountsenforcement.co.nz in November and he > paid within 3 days from receiving their letter. It did cost $25 + 15% of > the invoice. They collected interest - he did have to pay that, but I never > asked anyone for that. They also collected debt collection costs, which the > ex-client didn't have to pay, but did anyway. In the end I was less than > $100 short on a $400 invoice. Simple fire and forget method. > > Even if I hosted a site, I would consider it. I had someone in 2007 who > went bust and had I collected that way, I would have received more than I > did.
Some further thoughts (not specifically directed at any of the previous posters). The vast majority of people in the web development industry are complicit in this problem by taking on jobs where they KNOW the customer is going to LOSE MONEY. Is it any wonder then (in the customer's mind) the web developer is down the bottom of list of priorities to pay? Of course there is the argument that the customer is king, and the web developer is just doing what the customer ordered. But at the end of the day, even if this can be morally rationalised, a lot of the web development industry is still experiencing problems getting paid, and eventually (often quite quickly in challenging economic times) the customer throws in the towel and moves on. The best way to ensure getting paid quickly and as a priority, is to provide a service/product that is KEY to the customer's business and importantly ADDS VALUE. For too long this industry has been about churning out sites, pocketing several thousand dollars for 'a site' and recurring hosting fees. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
