Poor excuses for not paying! Don't make this sound like a problem unique to web development industry, if McDonald invoices people after they go home with the burger, it will have the same problem.
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
