I have 3 different business's. I have over 600 customers, All with contracts, it doesn;t seem to matter. 10% of my customers cause me 90% of my problems. They break contracts, machines get broke and they think nothing of it. So I give them a bill for 10,000.00 and they laugh. We'll if you let 1 customer get away with it then everyone trys to get over. So I tell them, it might cost me 5000.00 out of my pocket but I;ll have you're ass in court spending money on lawyers until you've paid them 10,000.00 worth of legal fee's. Most of the time even with contracts it a break even deal and with the lawyers fee's that are outrageous and it doesn't matter which one you hire, they all drag the shit out for more billable hours.
So I guess in the end its all about the pride factor and shoving it up someone's ass cause you know you're right. Lawyers as a collective group are no better than used car salesmen. So to answer you're question if I wasn't paying them just to hopefully break even I'd really be screwed,
Originally Posted by ITISWHATITIS
I have 3 different business's. I have over 600 customers, All with contracts, it doesn;t seem to matter. 10% of my customers cause me 90% of my problems. They break contracts, machines get broke and they think nothing of it. So I give them a bill for 10,000.00 and they laugh. We'll if you let 1 customer get away with it then everyone trys to get over. So I tell them, it might cost me 5000.00 out of my pocket but I;ll have you're ass in court spending money on lawyers until you've paid them 10,000.00 worth of legal fee's.
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Bar: A rather fascinating business strategy. So the guy jacks you for $10,000 and even if you don't have a chance of recovery, you'll flush another $5,000 down the rat hole?
And this is happening at least 60 times if in fact "10% of my "600 customers" cause all the problems.
60 times paying $5,000 to lawyers in a fruitless effort that does not retreive your lost $10,000.
I'm guessing your business future is dimming quickly at that pace.
I have 3 different business's. I have over 600 customers, All with contracts, it doesn;t seem to matter. 10% of my customers cause me 90% of my problems. They break contracts, machines get broke and they think nothing of it. So I give them a bill for 10,000.00 and they laugh. We'll if you let 1 customer get away with it then everyone trys to get over. So I tell them, it might cost me 5000.00 out of my pocket but I;ll have you're ass in court spending money on lawyers until you've paid them 10,000.00 worth of legal fee's.
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Bar: A rather fascinating business strategy. So the guy jacks you for $10,000 and even if you don't have a chance of recovery, you'll flush another $5,000 down the rat hole?
And this is happening at least 60 times if in fact "10% of my "600 customers" cause all the problems.
60 times paying $5,000 to lawyers in a fruitless effort that does not retreive your lost $10,000.
I'm guessing your business future is dimming quickly at that pace.
