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Scrooged for the Holidays! Happy Holidays!
Hi All: Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy holiday.
Now for the question and the well deserved lectures.A 2 weeks ago I was contacted by a friend of a friend for an emergency personal project (video/photo montage for a party). Client set the parimiters of the project, I gave him an approximate cost, but told him I work hourly because the scope of these projects generally change.
The scope of the project changed. At the end the client loved his project and agreed to the price even though it was higher than expected. He brought a credit card (which I do not take), but did not have a check.
Against my better judgement, I told him he could Fed Ex the check. He promised, swore that he would send thew check and I would have it by Monday. As you guessed it still has not come and he has not returned my call.
I busted my @#$ for this guy, and guess I got scrooged.
Hope you all have a happy holiday.
Roy
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Roy, Roy, Roy…
Get yourself a PayPal account and set it up to take credit card payments.
BTW, I loved your performance in Jaws…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
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Have you discussed this with the “friend”? I would send him the bill. Who needs friends that bring scum t the table.
You absolutely should have taken the card info. One of us could have processed the card for you. Not exactly kosher, but not illegal either.
Steve Wargo
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With new clients, or non-new clients with a history of payment problems, always get a down payment. That way if they skip town at least you have some money. 50-50 is the norm, although we have done 33.3-33.3-33.3, and occasionally a custom billing motif if the client wants to pay by the end of the year.
Ron should collect all the “grinder” threads and offer them in a leather-bound edition available for sale. It would be a bestseller!
Mike Cohen
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David writes –
BTW, I loved your performance in Jaws…
REPLY – but Roy, you were really great in All That Jazz !
Bob Zelin
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[Roy Schneider] “He brought a credit card (which I do not take), but did not have a check. “
You know, I was the first person in my family ever to use an ATM. Not as sexy, perhaps, as first one to go to college, first to fly in an airplane, first to participate in a nuclear test, but I can’t help but notice how these things have become ubiquitous in the years since.
Surely, if I can take cash out of my New York City bank account using an ATM on the island of Folegandros, your client could have found cash at an ATM near you, as well.
Arnie
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His performance in
The 7-Ups” was underrated, as was his role in “The French Connection”.Ditto the paypal suggestion, ATM’s generally have a $200-$500 daily withdrawal limit for any one account, but there are banks and Currency Exchanges and Western Union Wire transfers. Amex in particular touts their ability to make some kind of payment arrangement for ANY situation, for example, traveller’s checks. Love finds a way, and so do banks.
I would give a few extra days leeway this time of the year due to spotty banking hours and heavy mail traffic.
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[Brendan Coots] “Coal for all Grinders!”
But only one lump!
Ron Lindeboom
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Another reason for no check may be that they have no cash. Credit card may be the only way to get paid. I’d get my hands back on that card and go the Paypal route as others have suggested.
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[Bob Zelin] “David writes –
BTW, I loved your performance in Jaws…
REPLY – but Roy, you were really great in All That Jazz !
Bob Zelin”You were amazing in Seaquest DSV!
Bob C
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