So, I need to rant...
I wrote for this guy called parvez on wf and well he wanted me to write daily articles for around 40 days. We had agreed on payment every 15 days. On the fifteenth day he says that he will pay at the end of the entire 40 days. I was like WTF, send me my damn payment now! He says that he will be able to pay me once Google news accepts his site (go figure man. Apparently he thinks that Google news will pay him or that some dude on the internet will shell out 1000$ for a wordpress site... I lol’d)
Right, anyway he says that he doesn’t have any money in PP and that he can pay me only after Google accepts the site. Naturally I told him to send me the payment for 15 days before I continue writing further. So now it is like 5 days after the fifteenth day and he says it would be best for both of us (go figure again) if I continued to write for him. He owes me around $650, which is quite a lot and preferably I would like to be paid for it before I write again for him. He says that since I stopped after 15 days, Google news might not accept his site. (BTW he has been into seo for a year now and has absolutely no bloody clue as to what Google really wants which can be seen from the fact that he expects to earn around $700 from AdSense in a month from 2 sites..... even I know better than that!)
So what do I do now? He keeps ignoring my mails and if he does reply, all he says is that it would be best for both of us if I write again, but still no payment.
I guess that a ban would be in order, but my real question is aint it best to charge upfront and are clients willing to pay, even for daily content? I previously had a client whom I wrote daily content for and he paid me well (a bit late around a month later.., but quite well) So naturally I never charged upfront for this job either.
I wrote for this guy called parvez on wf and well he wanted me to write daily articles for around 40 days. We had agreed on payment every 15 days. On the fifteenth day he says that he will pay at the end of the entire 40 days. I was like WTF, send me my damn payment now! He says that he will be able to pay me once Google news accepts his site (go figure man. Apparently he thinks that Google news will pay him or that some dude on the internet will shell out 1000$ for a wordpress site... I lol’d)
Right, anyway he says that he doesn’t have any money in PP and that he can pay me only after Google accepts the site. Naturally I told him to send me the payment for 15 days before I continue writing further. So now it is like 5 days after the fifteenth day and he says it would be best for both of us (go figure again) if I continued to write for him. He owes me around $650, which is quite a lot and preferably I would like to be paid for it before I write again for him. He says that since I stopped after 15 days, Google news might not accept his site. (BTW he has been into seo for a year now and has absolutely no bloody clue as to what Google really wants which can be seen from the fact that he expects to earn around $700 from AdSense in a month from 2 sites..... even I know better than that!)
So what do I do now? He keeps ignoring my mails and if he does reply, all he says is that it would be best for both of us if I write again, but still no payment.
I guess that a ban would be in order, but my real question is aint it best to charge upfront and are clients willing to pay, even for daily content? I previously had a client whom I wrote daily content for and he paid me well (a bit late around a month later.., but quite well) So naturally I never charged upfront for this job either.
