Richard I think the thing that makes my blood boil about what you said is perhaps not the late payment, which unfortunately is a fact of life when you're in business, but the naked cynicism of stating that it's their "policy" not to pay you on your terms.
We've all experienced problems with payment and some agencies work on the premise of "don't even think about chasing invoices before 120days". If you know that this is the way things are before you start a job, a late payment factor can be built into your invoice and they can pay for it. You have to decide whether to work for them again and perhaps pay for the privilege of using you to fund their overdraft. I'd be interested to hear if anyone out here has ever used copyright and the embedded copyright metadata in files to get leverage over really late paying clients. Cheers Paul on 2/12/03 4:02 pm, Richard Lewisohn at richard(at)lewisohn.co.uk wrote: >They told me that they haven't been paid by their client, and > it's their policy not to pay suppliers until they are paid. She was > expecting to get paid 'in a couple of weeks'. ----------------------------------- Paul Hartley Hartley Studios London. England Paul(at)hartleystudios.co.uk 44 (0)20 7482 3768 ----------------------------------- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
