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When freelancing with an agency notorious for stringing along invoice payments I charged double my day rate, but gave a 50% discount if the invoice was paid within 30 days. A quick call to the HR person after 21 days and surprisingly my invoice got paid the next day.
beseku-
charged double my day rate, but gave a 50% discount if the invoice was paid within 30 days
ha!
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I mean this in the best possible way, but if they agreed to your double day rate, why on earth did you remind them to pay you less? Or would it have been the case that they agreed to the high day rate in the knowledge that they would never actually pay it?
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mrJL
it’s a tricky one and I would drop the extra fees if they paid in a timeframe that was ’acceptable’
I do have no usage until payment in full in my T&C’s though which can sometimes help in leverage with late payers.
if you think you want to work with them again then drop the extra fees and haver a 50% up front production pro-forma and 50% then delivery of job on receipt of cleared funds.
I do know a model making firm who’s owner used to sit in the foyer of agencies with his laptop working away on his laptop and asking everyone who walked in the door “Are you here waiting to get paid too?”
it was quite effective.