Comments on: Freelancer’s – How do you handle not being paid?

By: Translation Services

Translation Services — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:37:08 +0000

Here is my "tactic": I'm seo expert and if they don't want pay,I telling them:"I will build you links from crappy sites,and you will be banned forever from Google!"

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By: Neda | Resume Builder

Neda | Resume Builder — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:23:13 +0000

I think it might be frustrating to not get paid from the client for nine weeks. I believe in asking for money in advance sometimes from clients.

By: present gifts

present gifts — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:26:03 +0000

The way it was explained to me in my state was that it is not the complexity of the procedure moreover the conflict of interest that could be created with self representation. Your state may be different but the cost involved with having someone else deal with it was well well well worth the hassle.thank you.

By: liquid weight loss

liquid weight loss — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:42:03 +0000

Sometimes you find it difficult to cope up with this kind of problem. I’ve experienced not being paid for the projects that I have done at getfreelancer.com a couple of times but I never gave up on it. Instead, I continue accepting projects that I am capable of doing and guess what? I am earning good amount of money than ever before.

By: Sytropin

Sytropin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:29:05 +0000

I don’t work until I’m paid, simple as that. You can get yourself into a real mess in circumstances involving family as well. But you don’t want to give the impression that you can be taken advantage of.

By: fiona Bryan

fiona Bryan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:51:35 +0000

Fortunately I haven’t ever had anyone default all together. I totally relate to your article because I sometimes think of some of my clients as “friends”. I’ve worked with them for a long time or helped them achieve certain things and it is like a partnership so to have to pry money out of them is painful. I’m just starting to use a service bundle company BOTH-USA.com I’m just in the process of getting on board now but because they take care of all the back of the house operations they will now be the ones calling and asking for money (in the manner and wording I ask them to) … something I’m looking forward to.

By: Raymund @ Pinoy Social Network

Raymund @ Pinoy Social Network — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:45:43 +0000

This is a real dilemma. I guess getting some initial pay (deposit) will help.

By: freelance clark

freelance clark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:31 +0000

Not being paid never happen to me, I do freelance on elance, ask my clients to use elance escrow if they can, most of my clients use paypal though.

By: Mark Slater@healthy living

Mark Slater@healthy living — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:33:12 +0000

yeah, most beautiful thing about ‘escrow’ is when you cancel order you get money back, once the money is in escrow you will only have the option to release the money to the provider while the provider will only have the option to cancel the escrow, thus returning the money to you. This shared responsibility will protect both parties from being ripped off.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:51:01 +0000

Hey where is my comment?