Re: UKNM: Ugh i'm mad (if everyone pays your invoices on time,

[Jo Chipchase]

On the topic of debt collection, the most disgusting tale I can think of,

personally speaking, is a certain magazine, published by Expogroup, which

refuses to pay for two features it commissioned last year.  And the

reason?   It breached the copyright of another publishing house by

erroneously printing a feature I'd supplied as a sample of my work, and got

its knuckles rapped.  So... CUHI is faced with taking this publication to

the small claims court, which is a pain for recovering a small amount.  The

publication is almost certainly aware of this fact.


The same publication also wrongly debited 1,000 quid from the credit cards

of three web design agencies based in Brighton, as duplicate payments for

display advertisements (the agencies had already paid by cheque).  At least

one agency had prolonged difficulties recovering their money.  A very dodgy

practise indeed.


Jo.


At 17:25 13/04/00 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 13/04/00 21:38:18 GMT Daylight Time,

jocan-u-hack-it [dot] com

>writes:

>

><< There's a possible answer...

>

>  ...don't register domain names unless the customer has paid in advance.

>

>  Or take credit card payments for domain names.

>   >>

>Or better still register them and don't release them until they pay and set

>an incremental charge based on time they take to pay.

>And that from me who doesn't approve of domain resale for profit. Still,

>there has to be exceptions.

>Interesting debt collector business card handed to a friend (hoping he

would

>be a client, not become a bad debt)  xxx Debt Collectors, We don't f***

about

>!  - he gave them the job and eveyone paid up.

>

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