What about helping each other out if we live in different countries. A polite reminder mail from a colleague living in the same country might jog an elbow or two.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Gerhard Killesreiter</b> <<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dominic Ryan schrieb:<br>> There are some really bad Paypal stories here, I had no idea it was that<br>> bad. I always thought transaction could only be contested if the payment
<br>> was made with a delivery address? Have any of you used <a href="http://moneybookers.com">moneybookers.com</a><br>> ? I've used that a couple of times to pay for development work, and<br>> seems pretty good.
<br><br>I've stopped using any of these services and insist on using wire<br>transfer. Mainly because paypal charges an arm and a leg.<br><br>> As for payment, as someone who has paid for<br>> development work several times I always think it is perfectly reasonable
<br>> to ask for a percentage up front.<br><br>This will you protect you from new clients not paying, but how about<br>existing ones? It has happened twice to me now that after a while of<br>good cooperation and regular payments these payments stopped and I was
<br>left with unpaid bills. While in one case I am confident that I'll<br>eventually get the money, I am less confident in another case.<br><br>Seeing that both ex-clients are on the other side of the Atlantic, I<br>don't really see the option of legal action.
<br><br>The problem which makes it even worse is that in that second case I got<br>a personal friend of mine to complete parts of the project and he didn't<br>get paid either.<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Cheers,<br> Gerhard
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