Bad Payers!

[skyhuck]

HW martins never paid there bills properly on rail work. I ended up £16k out of pocket with them.

 

Was it the retainer?

 

I know a guy who started court proceedings for his, they coughed up before it went to court.

[Mr Ed]

Was it the retainer?

 

I know a guy who started court proceedings for his, they coughed up before it went to court.

 

That was the retainer over about 4 sites. Retainer is meant to be 5%, not 25%..

 

They owed me another £4k in cancelled night shifts.

I could'nt afford the solicitors fees. He wanted £2k up front:sneaky2:

[arc]

My bad one was for Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering.

I did speak to Martins about doing some work few years ago but I was warned about the retainer issue, so I left it well alone.

My uncle is a solicitor specialising in contract law, I had to use his services to retreive just under £30k from a nationwide landscape maintenance firm who we used to sub for.

It only cost me a bottle of single malt and he got it with 1 (well written) letter.

The problem is some firms take insult and will refuse to work with you again if you use or threaten legal proceedings.

[christreeroot]

My dad has had to stomach just over 75k of bad dedts since the building slowdown, think he is getting a bit sisck of companies going bump on him now

 

 

The worst thing is i have noticed alot of companies going bump then starting up again in the next week, obvisouly so then can just dump the debts, reallly really pees me off :mad1:

[kimtree]

After having to wait nearly five months for payment from a real estate job where they tried to wash their hands of the whole deal,their attitude is ''there's no money in the account so we cant pay you'' i now get no more work from them,could have been the letter of demand i sent them:thumbdown:

[Lee Winger]

After having to wait nearly five months for payment from a real estate job where they tried to wash their hands of the whole deal,their attitude is ''there's no money in the account so we cant pay you'' i now get no more work from them,could have been the letter of demand i sent them:thumbdown:

 

 

I thought you Aussies were made of firmer stuff than that mate, i'd be demanding my money with menaces! pay-up or else!

[conkers]

Just quoted for some work regarding trees on a boundary dispute between two well known companies.

Small job but I don't think the invoice would be paid so I quoted and added that payment must be received on the day of work but before work commences. If they don't pay we will have something else lined up within 10 miles.

If you smell a rat, play hard,of course that is not possible when working for most commercial contracts.

Subbie bashing is a term well used these days unfortunatly and the big guys really do want you to fold due to bad debt.

[Arborlord]

I hate cheque i put a surcharge on cheques i tell the customer first tho.

 

I am getting into the contracting side of arb now and to be honest it is such a pain in the arse always waiting for your money then its never on time.

 

I think we should have a clause if not paid by an agreed date 20% of the total sum is added for the inconvienience haha.

[madmatt]

I've just settled one of mine today. It was with one of my regular customers the guys I deal with are great and try and put a large amount of work my way, however their finance office is useless and are forever losing invoices I lost my temper big style on monday sent them a copy of the invoice with a snotty letter to manager of accounts office by recorded delivery, signed for at 10.30am yesterday cheque arrived at 11.00 this am!!

[tokaloch]

OK everyone here's a good tip for you all

Thomas Higgins are the Uk's largest debt collectors. They wil send a LBA (letter before action) to your customet for £2.00 7 days later you gat a letter from them asking if you got payment and if not do you want them to proceed. In 90% of my cases I got paid for the £2 letter, when I had to go futher, the costs were small and they actualy recovered for me the debt + interestes + costs

I highly recommend them to help us get our money from all get these scum bag bad payers

 

http://www.thomashiggins.com/