Flash Wrote:
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> Sharon, lets make this clear. October/November
> there are payment issues you hope to have cleared
> up during the first week of February. If I recall
> correctly, your payment schedule was 30 days. Are
> December shops going to be paid up at the same
> time? Are you, or will you, then be back to the
> 30 day schedule?
>
> As a shopper, I am accustomed to putting around
> $400-500 per month on my credit card. This needs
> to be paid or I will incur interest charges.
> There are real consequences to me personally to
> tell the credit card company, "Oops, I can't pay
> you by due date because my clients haven't paid
> me!" I keep a 'shopping slush' fund that can pay
> the bill and be replenished by reimbursements.
> When you are slow in payments, it limits my
> livelihood because my 'slush' is reduced. Think
> of the restaurants--they make their money by
> turning tables many times during a meal period.
> Shoppers make their money by turning their 'slush'
> many times during the course of a year.
>
> This business functions on trust. You need to
> trust us to do what is required in a prompt and
> competent fashion. We need to trust that you will
> fulfill your obligations of fairness and
> promptness. You don't want to hear we were unable
> to do a shop because we had a painful hangnail.
> We don't want to hear you will try to get shops
> paid because you overextended by offering more
> shops than you could pay for without prompt
> payment by someone in your supply chain. Perhaps
> you need to take a lesson from shoppers, who can
> ill afford to pay the reimbursement bills out of
> their own pockets except with a slush fund
> garnered over time. Build a slush fund and don't
> have outstanding more jobs than you can afford to
> cover with your slush fund. Our contract for
> services is with you, not your clients.
Well said, Flash!!