[consulting] being a listed consultant

[Victor Kane]

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.

On 4/6/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
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> Dominic Ryan schrieb:
> > There are some really bad Paypal stories here, I had no idea it was that
> > bad. I always thought transaction could only be contested if the payment
> > was made with a delivery address? Have any of you used moneybookers.com
> > ? I've used that a couple of times to pay for development work, and
> > seems pretty good.
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> I've stopped using any of these services and insist on using wire
> transfer. Mainly because paypal charges an arm and a leg.
>
> > As for payment, as someone who has paid for
> > development work several times I always think it is perfectly reasonable
> > to ask for a percentage up front.
>
> This will you protect you from new clients not paying, but how about
> existing ones? It has happened twice to me now that after a while of
> good cooperation and regular payments these payments stopped and I was
> left with unpaid bills. While in one case I am confident that I'll
> eventually get the money, I am less confident in another case.
>
> Seeing that both ex-clients are on the other side of the Atlantic, I
> don't really see the option of legal action.
>
> The problem which makes it even worse is that in that second case I got
> a personal friend of mine to complete parts of the project and he didn't
> get paid either.
>
> Any ideas?
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> Cheers,
>         Gerhard
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