[Asterisk-Users] My consulting story

2006-04-14 Thread Voce Lavoce
Hi everybody,I would like to be awareabout what happened to me.Two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning a French guy called me. Ask me to fix some problems with his asterisk. After fixing his problem, he asked more and more, after 10 hours of work I ask him to pay me for the first milestone. However,

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2006-04-14 Thread Douglas Garstang
Well... did you tell him your services where not free and come to a financial arrangement before you started? -Original Message-From: Voce Lavoce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 3:14 PMTo: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] My

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2006-04-14 Thread Voce Lavoce
Hi Douglas,sure I gave him my hour rate and he agreed.He also promised me to pay a week ago.See youOn 4/14/06, Douglas Garstang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... did you tell him your services where not free and come to a financial arrangement before you started? -Original

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2006-04-14 Thread Technical Support
day, April 14, 2006 5:14 PMTo: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] My consulting story Hi everybody,I would like to be awareabout what happened to me.Two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning a French guy called me. Ask me to fix some problems with his asterisk. After fixing his p

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2006-04-14 Thread Michael Welter
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Voce Lavoce *Sent:* Friday, April 14, 2006 5:14 PM *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Subject:* [Asterisk-Users] My consulting story Hi everybody, I would like to be awareabout

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2006-04-14 Thread Jay Milk
Technical Support wrote: That's the nature of consulting - you have to balance demonstrating competency with solving the problem before being paid. We've had many similar experiences, and we now require prepayment for 2 hrs service before we do any work (or even talk to the client for more

Re: [Asterisk-Users] My consulting story

2006-04-14 Thread Steve Totaro
Voce Lavoce wrote: Hi everybody, I would like to be awareabout what happened to me. Two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning a French guy called me. Ask me to fix some problems with his asterisk. After fixing his problem, he asked more and more, after 10 hours of work I ask him to pay me for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] My consulting story

2006-04-14 Thread Steve Totaro
5:14 PM *To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Subject:* [Asterisk-Users] My consulting story Hi everybody, I would like to be awareabout what happened to me. Two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning a French guy called me. Ask me to fix some problems with his asterisk. After fixing his problem, he