Grounds for legal action. What would you guys do?

[Alan Lloyd]

The question is not whether you can sue or not. The question is whether you’d win.

[Nick Griffin]

[Al Bergstein] ” I agree with all the posts recommending to let it go.”

My sentiments exactly. While it’s tempting to succumb to negative energy in situations like this, it’s rarely — if ever — productive in the long run. Move on to something positive, like going out and getting one of his competitors. KIDDING! Move on. There’s other work out there.

[Mark Suszko]

A follow-up, Dylan:

I had a situation like yours happen to me just late this week. We phone conferenced with five-six people 48 hours ago and set everything up for a two-hour live multicam software demo interactive webcast, with live phone-in Q&A, they were all gung-ho and set a date…. and so we started assembling the sets and lighting today in anticipation of a shoot early next week.

Late today (Friday), they seem to have put the kibosh on it all… or maybe just delayed it. They’re toying with using VOIP/web-based sharing instead, but they’re paying about the same to get less features and capability, is what they are going to find out early next week.

I’m not mad about it; the urgency of the upcoming event spurred action to get some tweaks done to our lighting grid, and some of our IT infrastructure, in anticipation of client needs. These things remain useful for every client to follow, whether these guys turn out to be “tire-kickers” or not.

Hey, I got a “squeezer” for my Leko out of it, which I’d been wanting to get for literally years, and we got the new set, set up and lit, now we can take pics of it next week to put in our “catalog” for all future clients to reference and see what we can do on short notice.

And, guess what happened a few hours after the maybe-cancellation. Another old client called out fo the blue, wanting to do something very similar to the project that just got side-tracked. We told them that we’ve got everything ready to go on an hour’s notice, and they were impressed at how “responsive” we were:-)

Always look on the bright side of life…:-)

[David Johnson]

To each his own, but personally, I despise being lied to in any context … perhaps it’s my own character flaw, but I take it as an insult to my intelligence since I always seem to know when I’m being lied to and find it very hard to ignore or ever deal with that person again in any way. In other words, I would take the “oh, by the way, this other guy is gonna do it” (at the last minute and at a cut rate) as proof positive that it’s a job I didn’t want in the first place so thank you very much for doing me the favor of not wasting my time. Then again, to each his own.

[Scott Carnegie]

“1) He could make me an offer for compensation”

For what? What did you do besides send some e-mails? Drop it and move on.

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