I posted this in another topic. But I was curious what the rest of you guys have been through. Please don't delete this it has not sensative info. in it...
Posted 08/21/06
Thank you Brian. I got it defaulted however this customer turned out to be a real deadbeat.
He owned me a balance and was only going to pay half until I got his service working again. He was the one that needed the DS modules. I loaned him two of mine and told him either pay the balance or find yourself another vendor.
It got nasty and his partner blocked me in the parking lot until I told him I was calling the police.
This was a boiler room mortgage loan operation or as my XO rep. calls them the slimy mortgage guys.
They have been a real pain from the start. I should have known something was not right when he told me he did not want his usual vendor to do the work and he started making promises to me of more offices opening. Then he said that they might be moving next month. They just moved into a beautful office park.
All of my equipment got stuck in the elevator one night and the repair man had to be called out and this slim actually expected to bill me for that service call. I got stuck and I he expects me to pay to fix the elevator.
Anyway I know all of us have these horror stories. I am so use to having wonderful customers that when one of these boiler room slimes comes by I get caught off guard.
It was a rush job and I always have problmes with getting paid for rush work. From now on new customers with rush work will be COD and the check gets cashed first.
I did manage to pull my two DS modules that he never paid for. he did get back up and running so I guess some poor vendor wanting to help got suckered in like me.
Well at least I got a deposit payment out of the guy. I guess I broke even that is better than nothing.
Posted 08/21/06
Thank you Brian. I got it defaulted however this customer turned out to be a real deadbeat.
He owned me a balance and was only going to pay half until I got his service working again. He was the one that needed the DS modules. I loaned him two of mine and told him either pay the balance or find yourself another vendor.
It got nasty and his partner blocked me in the parking lot until I told him I was calling the police.
This was a boiler room mortgage loan operation or as my XO rep. calls them the slimy mortgage guys.
They have been a real pain from the start. I should have known something was not right when he told me he did not want his usual vendor to do the work and he started making promises to me of more offices opening. Then he said that they might be moving next month. They just moved into a beautful office park.
All of my equipment got stuck in the elevator one night and the repair man had to be called out and this slim actually expected to bill me for that service call. I got stuck and I he expects me to pay to fix the elevator.
Anyway I know all of us have these horror stories. I am so use to having wonderful customers that when one of these boiler room slimes comes by I get caught off guard.
It was a rush job and I always have problmes with getting paid for rush work. From now on new customers with rush work will be COD and the check gets cashed first.
I did manage to pull my two DS modules that he never paid for. he did get back up and running so I guess some poor vendor wanting to help got suckered in like me.
Well at least I got a deposit payment out of the guy. I guess I broke even that is better than nothing.
