What you make of this

[hammers4spanner]

Had a random call out from a company asking me to attend a property as they have no hot water. Went out turned out cylinder was leaking informed them with an invoice attached.
Had a call back from same company saying they will provide the cylinder can i give a price to fit it.

I said yes however i have yet to be payed my call out fee which is 10 days ago. Had a reply stating their terms are EMO +60 days ,what they hell does emo mean ??

Also my terms are payment on completion yet theirs are something else so who stands where considering they called me ??

 

[townfanjon]

Pfffttttttt , leave it hammers , you dont need customers like that

 

[Old Account]

As far as I know it’s down to your terms. But I also agree with Jon.

 

[rpm]

You will be paid by electronic money order 60 days after receipt of your invoice
Or
End of month *** (haven`t a ruddy clue).

 

[rpm]

As to who wins the battle of the terms, I`m afraid they do at the moment because nothing was discussed before hand and they owe you money so it will be on their terms.

 

[Deleted member 32524]

I would have been put off at them phoning me! Decent contractors don't need to look. Only good thing I suppose is they are paying for parts. Maybe tell them you have a 500 quid labour limit with new commercial customers for the fist 60 days. See if they pay. 60 Day payment is pretty standard business to business, some are 90.

 

[Welder]

Had a random call out from a company asking me to attend a property as they have no hot water. Went out turned out cylinder was leaking informed them with an invoice attached.
Had a call back from same company saying they will provide the cylinder can i give a price to fit it.

I said yes however i have yet to be payed my call out fee which is 10 days ago. Had a reply stating their terms are EMO +60 days ,what they hell does emo mean ??

Also my terms are payment on completion yet theirs are something else so who stands where considering they called me ??

If your terms clearly state say 14 days, then send a new invoice every 14 days with the additional amount on. Do it religiously and even when the original is paid keep chasing for the outstanding keeping additional invoices going in.

People will come back and say it doesn't work. It does.
Just before I packed up, I recharged a very big merchants based in Leamington Spa for some mess ups they made and that cost us.
In the end they had close to 8 months of interest added but they paid every last penny