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Daydreams: Non-paying clients
Hal Smith, Photographer
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Sedalia | MO | USA | Posted: 8:07 PM on 08.03.09 |
->> You know I've had daydreams these goodfella-esque daydreams of having my personal legbreaker sitting in some advertising execs office with a baseball bat and a laptop.
Here's the conversation:
goombah---Ya know we gave you 30 days to pay-up..... we let it slide to 60.....now it's been 90 day's and my boss wants his money.
ad exec --- I put the invoice through our accounting office.
goombah --- We ain't seen no money, and the boss needs it now! If you don't pay-up which would you like, a couple broken kneecaps or maybe I can cancel your credit cards and hack you credit rating so it looks like a Hollywood star's mortgage debt.
ad exec- --Let me check with accounting.
---ad exec---calls accounting---Hey Bob, I got a guy in my office who really wants to get paid for that shoot back a few months ago.
---Bob--- Photos, we don't pay those photographers...they're a dime a dozen.
---ad exec--- I think this guy's serious.
---Bob--- O.k., I'll look for the invoice..
goombah --- Don't forget the fee for late payment, and usage rights. It should came to about $150,000.
ad exec--- But Bob says the original invoice was for $2,000.
goombah --- You were supposed to using the pictures for in-house marketing, not magazine adds, billboards and the web.
**SO WHAT'S GONE-A-BE** as the goombah shouts as he whacks the exec's desk with bat....It's your choice pay-up.... or be livin out a refrigerator box, and pushin yourself around on a skateboard .
exec--- O.k...O.k. take it easy I'll pay ......Can I pay half now?
Three weeks with his business shuttered the former ad exec is using knuckles as he rolls down the street on skateboard, his legs in casts with a credit rating hovering around 280. If only he paid his invoices in a timely manner it all could have been avoided. |
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Marcell van Aswegen, Photographer
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Pretoria | GP | South Africa | Posted: 8:10 PM on 08.03.09 |
->> haha, brilliant.
Sad but true..... |
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Patrick Meredith, Photographer, Assistant
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Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 8:11 PM on 08.03.09 |
| ->> ummm... |
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Max Lashin, Photographer, Assistant
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Fort Lauderdale | FL | United States | Posted: 9:43 PM on 08.03.09 |
| ->> "A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes." |
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T.J. Hamilton, Photographer
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Grand Rapids | MI | USA | Posted: 10:55 PM on 08.03.09 |
->> Hal, I've been called a lot of names, but this is the first I've been known as a 'goombah'.
All my best...
teej |
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Steve Allen, Photographer
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Concord | CA | USA | Posted: 12:14 PM on 08.07.09 |
| ->> I had a major magazine last year take 9+ months to pay me. For the life of me I can't figure out why it was so difficult. This was for a double page spread photo - the lead photo on a major event story. Just amazing. |
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Matthew Hinton, Photographer, Assistant
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New Orleans | LA | USA | Posted: 12:35 PM on 08.07.09 |
->> I've had success with the John Harrington method of building in a late fee.
On his site it says
"Administrative Fee - We are now building into the invoice the cost to repeatedly follow up with accounts payable departments on past due invoices, and float the cost of payment to our vendors, which require 30 days payment. This fee is approximately 10% of the total invoice. If payment is made within 30 days, you may deduct this amount. A notation to this effect will be made on the invoice."
All the people, so far, pay on time instead of paying the extra ten percent fee.
I did a shoot for Chrysler and made sure I had this fee in the invoice. I got paid within 30 days. Around a month after I cashed the check Chrysler filed for bankruptcy. So thanks John! |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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Lee Weissman, Photographer
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XXXXX | NY | USA | Posted: 4:36 PM on 08.07.09 |
| ->> Had a magazine take over 15 months to pay me. I am not the only one they have done it to. First they tried to underpay me figuring I would be happy getting something. The 10 percent idea is a good idea, but in my experience the bad payers could care less about that and you work for them at your own risk |
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