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Hey all
I do a bit of web development freelance occasionally, and am having issues with a client who is clearly dodging me and wont pay up.
He is actually a mate of a mate, and the budget of the project was probably half what I would have charged (he claimed he had issues with his previous developer, and hence the budget was already set), but as my mate knows him I took it on anyways. I have informed my mate about the situation, and when he tries to call him he cant get through either.
The guy in question is a designer, doing work for one of his clients, work which is now finished and had been for a number of months. The site is complete and being used for its intended purpose.
I have sent him invoices in the post, and over email, yet on the rare occasion I do get through to him (usually by 141'ing my number) he claims he had not received them.
Now I have a 7 week old son, and pretty desperately need the money, so wondered how I should approach this.
I still have access to the FTP and database, so could take it down, but as I said its ultimately for one of his clients so if they have paid him, I am only going to anger them and he probably wont care.
Also I have taken into account they could have the hosts restore from backups whatever I take down, so because of this I have created a back door so if I do get locked out and my site login removed, I can still get access. This I only added when it first dawned on me that getting paid for going to be a mission, and I will happily remove this when this has all been resolved. Obviously I only want to do this as a last resort but I think I am getting to that point.
Anyone offer any suggestions as am getting really fed up of this now and as I say need the money pretty urgently!
I do a bit of web development freelance occasionally, and am having issues with a client who is clearly dodging me and wont pay up.
He is actually a mate of a mate, and the budget of the project was probably half what I would have charged (he claimed he had issues with his previous developer, and hence the budget was already set), but as my mate knows him I took it on anyways. I have informed my mate about the situation, and when he tries to call him he cant get through either.
The guy in question is a designer, doing work for one of his clients, work which is now finished and had been for a number of months. The site is complete and being used for its intended purpose.
I have sent him invoices in the post, and over email, yet on the rare occasion I do get through to him (usually by 141'ing my number) he claims he had not received them.
Now I have a 7 week old son, and pretty desperately need the money, so wondered how I should approach this.
I still have access to the FTP and database, so could take it down, but as I said its ultimately for one of his clients so if they have paid him, I am only going to anger them and he probably wont care.
Also I have taken into account they could have the hosts restore from backups whatever I take down, so because of this I have created a back door so if I do get locked out and my site login removed, I can still get access. This I only added when it first dawned on me that getting paid for going to be a mission, and I will happily remove this when this has all been resolved. Obviously I only want to do this as a last resort but I think I am getting to that point.
Anyone offer any suggestions as am getting really fed up of this now and as I say need the money pretty urgently!