I would like some help in obtaining money owed me for 3 clearview movie theater jobs I did for Channelwatch located in California. The jobs were done in NY.
Thanks in advance

There has been a lot of comment on various boards about slow payment/no payment with them. I assume you have emailed and called. How old are the jobs by now?

Channelwatch is disgusting.

Call them back and threaten to go to the Attorney General. It worked for me.

3 Movie Theaters done on 6-21, 8-25, and 10-24 amount owed 49.00

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2009 05:35AM by travelchris1.

Yup, you have all sorts of reasons to be screaming bloody murder. Do, however, take the client name out of your post (review your ICA with the company that you are not to divulge their clients' names).

Arch has a point. In NY you can get some effect by threatening to refer the situation to your Attorney General.

Flash,

The ICA is null since they violated their end by not paying the shopper.
Screw Channelwatch.net....and, seriously, has anybody ever been prosecuted for violating an ICA???

Are you aware that legal judgements are not enforceable in NY State and others???

I have always been a big believer that two wrongs do not make a right. That any company fails to perform their obligations does not free me unconditionally from mine. Different strokes, different folks I guess. I know of no shoppers that have been prosecuted for violating an ICA but I suspect many find themselves terminated or at least not able to be assigned jobs because of violations.

Indeed legal judgements are enforceable in most places and most likely NY State as well. But there are lots of loopholes to avoid enforcement. More than ten years ago a group of juveniles broke into my house while I was away for the weekend. They partied hearty, spilling beer they brought in with them everywhere, puking everywhere, throwing containers from my fridge in a running battle through the house so salad dressings, stews, ketchup etc were dribbling down the walls and in the carpet. They threw a telephone into a ceiling fan and used my violin as a bat to try to hit the receiver as it spun around the room. More than $40,000 in damage in an evening's "fun". The courts found them and their parents (they were all minors) liable for restitution. The courts scheduled "easy monthly payments" that should have had me paid up in 7 years. After nearly twice that time, one 'kid' has paid less than half his legal obligation. Any time he pays $3 per month ($2 stays with the court, $1 gets sent along to me and reduces his outstanding debt) he is not considered 'in violation'. We will be playing this game for decades to come.

Lord, that is one sickening thing to come home to and a mockery of the justice system, to boot.

Yes, my neighbors told me who they had seen in my backyard and the police promptly arrested them and some confessed to save their own hides while implicating others. The parents of those arrested assured me that they would 'get it taken care of' quickly, so I did not notify my insurance company because I did not want the bounce in insurance rates for myself and my neighbors. WRONG MOVE!! Had I just filed the insurance claims I would have been made whole in months. By the time the court reduced my already underestimated damages, divided that reduced amount between the 15 kids that were involved and then for squealing and/or unknown 'administrative' reasons decided not to prosecute a few more kids, we were down to 7 kids convicted, each of whom was responsible for 1/15th of the reduced underclaimed actual damages.

And I do fault the justice system for not cracked down harder on the kids because a few years ago out of curiosity I looked up all of them in the arrest records on line for the county where I lived at that time. I found subsequent arrest records for 11 of the 15--and who knows, the other 4 may have moved out of the area before they became adults--ranging from DUI to armed robbery. Subsequently a friend mailed me a newspaper article that the ringleader of the mess at my house had been drunk and drove his car headlong into an oncoming vehicle killing himself, one or two of his passengers and the husband, wife and infant in the other car.