Unpaid Invoice - Transportation of Lamborghini Gallardo

[mc_blue]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 12 January 2014 at 09:28

[DonnyMac]

What are your terms?

[Eric Mc]

He said 14 days.

Was the customer a business or an individual?

[Super Bad]

mc_blue said:

What should I do now? Send a letter?

Yes

[jamesuk28]

PM Me and I can see what we can do for you.

[Bernie-the-bolt]

If James above can't get it nobody can.......

Good luck.

[mc_blue]

Eric Mc said:

He said 14 days.

Was the customer a business or an individual?

Thing is it was a one-off so really it should have been paid on the day of the movement. Like I said nobody in the office processed the payment so it is our fault in that respect. However, they seemed very pleasant when making the enquiry so I thought they would just pay the following day.

The invoice was made out to a limited company.

Seems like trying to be trustworthy just isn't worth it anymore.

[stevieb]

mc_blue said:

Eric Mc said:

He said 14 days.

Was the customer a business or an individual?

Thing is it was a one-off so really it should have been paid on the day of the movement. Like I said nobody in the office processed the payment so it is our fault in that respect. However, they seemed very pleasant when making the enquiry so I thought they would just pay the following day.

The invoice was made out to a limited company.

Seems like trying to be trustworthy just isn't worth it anymore.

You may need a some new terms... No payment on delivery we will keep the car etc and charge £xx per day storage and £xx redeilvery fee. I bet someone in the office would of paid up for it then!

[mcflurry]

I would have added, failure to pay means I will drive the car until you do.
A cheque will take 3 weeks to clear lol

[mc_blue]

No no the car has already been delivered otherwise I'm sure he would have paid.

[skwdenyer]

mc_blue said:

Seems like trying to be trustworthy just isn't worth it anymore.

Not worth the risk in most cases, no. I'm still trying to recover £12k from one client and £15k from another. Credit insurer just refused cover on one of my largest customers, and said customer can't understand why I've had to pull all service to them.

Needless to say, not keen to lose the turnover, but much less keen to lose the cash

[DonnyMac]

Eric Mc said:

He said 14 days.

Was the customer a business or an individual?

Lovin' your work Eric, but where does he say 14 days in the OP? I've read it several times and have missed it.

[mc_blue]

skwdenyer said:

mc_blue said:

Seems like trying to be trustworthy just isn't worth it anymore.

Not worth the risk in most cases, no. I'm still trying to recover £12k from one client and £15k from another. Credit insurer just refused cover on one of my largest customers, and said customer can't understand why I've had to pull all service to them.

Needless to say, not keen to lose the turnover, but much less keen to lose the cash

Ouch, I think it is fair to say that we all have to be rather careful in the future.

[Eric Mc]

DonnyMac said:

Eric Mc said:

He said 14 days.

Was the customer a business or an individual?

Lovin' your work Eric, but where does he say 14 days in the OP? I've read it several times and have missed it.

I might have been thinking of someone els's post elesewhere on the Business Forum.

[jeff m]

As no body has suggested it I assume you cannot place a Mechanics Lien on a car in UK.
With a veiw to ultimately forcing a Lien Sale (which never happens)

Edit It's Lis Pendenz in UK

Although you should go through the "Hi, I have a bit of Cash Flow prob can you let me have half (state a figure), you can have 30 on the rest." first.

Edited by jeff m on Saturday 7th February 15:52

[edb49]

Have you tried going around and knocking on the office door, or leaving a letter on the Lambo's windscreen? If you can't get hold of them any other way then I don't think either of those would be unreasonable.

[Boosted LS1]

I would hope that your invoice set out your payment terms, ie forthwith, 7 days or whatever. Next you need to send another invoice giving them maybe 7 days to pay and stating what the invoice is for. Follow that up with a couple of chasing letters and then a letter befor action. You need to have terms on your invoices though, it makes life a lot easier in a situation like this.

[skwdenyer]

Boosted LS1 said:

I would hope that your invoice set out your payment terms, ie forthwith, 7 days or whatever. Next you need to send another invoice giving them maybe 7 days to pay and stating what the invoice is for. Follow that up with a couple of chasing letters and then a letter befor action. You need to have terms on your invoices though, it makes life a lot easier in a situation like this.

No, no. You can't send "another invoice". If the invoice is already out there, that's it: reminders and statements only now.

[edb49]

Send a letter saying if you don't receive invoice settlement within 7 days you will apply a £40 late payment fee in line with the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act?

[Boosted LS1]

skwdenyer said:

Boosted LS1 said:

I would hope that your invoice set out your payment terms, ie forthwith, 7 days or whatever. Next you need to send another invoice giving them maybe 7 days to pay and stating what the invoice is for. Follow that up with a couple of chasing letters and then a letter befor action. You need to have terms on your invoices though, it makes life a lot easier in a situation like this.

No, no. You can't send "another invoice". If the invoice is already out there, that's it: reminders and statements only now.

That's what I meant, lets call it a duplicate/copy invoice.