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. Kind Regards, Jochen Daum Chief Automation Officer Automatem Ltd Phone: 09 630 3425 Mobile: 021 567 853 Email: [email protected] Skype: jochendaum Website: www.automatem.co.nz On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Harvey Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > In my 10 years of business, I have had almost no problems with clients > not paying. I now have a client that owes a smallish amount (< $1000) > for some basic on-page SEO work that was done to his site, which is now > 60+ days overdue and he's not responding at all to any attempts to > contact. He indicated earlier that he was happy with the work, so I > don't think the non-payment is due to dissatisfaction. > > I don't host the website, so I can't simply turn off the hosting or use > the regular methods for getting people's attention (eg disabling their > CMS access or putting a generic error message on the homepage). I have > deleted the backup I took of the site before I started the work once the > revamped site was live and stable - so I can't simply revert the site to > how it was. I can manually undo the changes I made to the site, but this > is likely to take a few hours to do, and I'm loathed to spend much more > time on this for obvious reasons - however I'm not happy about simply > ignoring it and letting him have the work for free. > > I have just sent him a notice saying he has 7 days to pay or make an > arrangement with me, otherwise I will 'remove the site from Google'. I'm > hoping this has the desired effect, and he pays his bill. > > However, if he calls my bluff, I will need to take action of some sort. > I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts on how to approach this. There > are plenty of ways to remove pages from Google (robots.txt, meta tags, > removal request, 404 headers etc), though some of these are > semi-permanent. And it just doesn't seem professional to do permanent > damage to a client's domain, as well as any legal considerations of > doing this. > > Any thoughts or comments appreciated. > > Harvey. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
