FN-FORUM: Website invoice advice needed please!

date posted 25th January 2005 22:18

Hi all,

I have a long term client that has been nothing but hassle (some here
may know who I refer to :-)

I finally completed the last website of three September last year, and
invoiced accordingly.

I still haven't received payment!

Therefore I clearly explained at the beginning of this, after sending
several late payment letters etc., that if I didn't receive payment by
the end of this month I would disable the website I built and replace
it with the old one they had previously.

I have a letter I received this morning clearly stating that the
website is not my property and any interference with it will be
constituted as criminal damage.

wtf? how can it be their property if they haven't paid for it?

They have now demanded I make time to come to their premises to train
someone in the use of the CMS before they issue me a cheque - something
I always said I would do before even completing the site, but the guy
who I was originally supposed to train happened to leave the company
suddenly before completion, and I've been waiting for someone else to
be nominated ever since. (Something they are fully aware of...)

Now my position is this: I can go in and train someone, but I don't
trust them an inch to give me my cheque once I am finished.

What should I do? :-/

All I can think of is saying that a cheque needs to be ready when I
arrive in the morning otherwise no training will commence - but the MD
is an absolute fucker for playing around and would happily waste my
time before saying 'oh no, we're not ready for you today, come back
next week.'

All answers gratefully received...

L.

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