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[pepper38_cnd]

I have been advertising my services on this forum for a couple of months, it is great very affordable and I have gained many clients as a result. My dilemma is this. I have some clients and I know they came from this forum that have decided for whatever reason not to pay me for my services rendered ( there have never been any complaints about my services ). My question is this. Would it be ethical of me to post these apparent dead beat clients on this forum, as reputable or would I be over stepping some boundary?

[pjdbm]

I would post dead beats Yes!

[Copier_Guy]

Yeah, so they can't stiff the next guy!

[JustManuals]

Well, being an online merchant myself. I would say to keep it to yourself. There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, theirs and the truth. I don't believe in airing my dirty laundry in public unless I really have to. What I do with problem customer's is I add them to my 'blacklist' , when they try to log in
to my site, they find that they can't, and I get an email notification. Even making new names doesn't help as I have their Paypal accounts flagged.

HtH
Paul@justmanuals.com

[pepper38_cnd]

Thanks for your replies. Paul is probably right. I'll keep it to myself. Just nice to have a chance to rant about it anyway.

[pjdbm]

Again, by keeping it to yourself, you are only helping "yourself". I understand that their is two sides but I would rather see for myself and decide for myself. Usually in a dispute, the crook walks off and never to be seen or heard.


I know if I was selling parts to members here, I would like to know who the bad apples were.


My two cents

[JustManuals]

Just curious, how is it that you allow this to happen? Don't your customer's pay first?

[wagon]

Too trusting..

[pepper38_cnd]

Yes perhaps I am a little too trusting. But I feel when I know I am dealing with authorized KonicaMinolta dealers, I believe I can trust them in fact for dealers in Canada I often bill them net 30 days, maybe Canadians are just more trustworthy? Live and learn I guess.

[blackcat4866]

As gratifying as it might be, you would be stooping to thier level by posting the dead beats. Paul has the right idea about keeping a personal blacklist.

Fortunately for me, our company has a long standing relationship with all our customers. There is just too much other business going on for either our customers or us to reneig <sp?>.

One of the places that I used to work required COD for the first three calls when billable, or if your clicks were overdue. I think this is a great place to start. Anybody who balks at those terms would have stiffed you anyway.

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