Overdue Invoice
Jul 10th 2013, 2:10 pm
#31
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Jul 10th 2013, 2:24 pm
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Re: Overdue Invoice
I am sure they exist in Dubai, the banks seem to use them for collecting old loans etc.
As far as I know basically they should make a percentage offer on the debt based on their ability or confidence to collect it. As in your case its a solvent company then perhaps they would buy it outright or a percentage fee of the debt on successful recovery.
edit to say by selling it you might only get 10-20% but on a commission basis they might take 30% for successful recovery. (just based on a firm I knew in ireland)
As far as I know basically they should make a percentage offer on the debt based on their ability or confidence to collect it. As in your case its a solvent company then perhaps they would buy it outright or a percentage fee of the debt on successful recovery.
edit to say by selling it you might only get 10-20% but on a commission basis they might take 30% for successful recovery. (just based on a firm I knew in ireland)
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Jul 10th 2013, 6:01 pm
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Re: Overdue Invoice
I have shitty client who has been sitting on an unpaid invoice for four months now.
I could of course go legal but I'd rather not go down that path as they are a pretty ****ing huge company and have considerably more in house lawyers than I do.
I have however found a man in India who will call anyone I want 100 times a day for $100
Question is do I unleash the phone pest with a nice polite script asking for payment?
How long would you last or how annoying would you find 100 calls a day about the same thing?
I could of course go legal but I'd rather not go down that path as they are a pretty ****ing huge company and have considerably more in house lawyers than I do.
I have however found a man in India who will call anyone I want 100 times a day for $100
Question is do I unleash the phone pest with a nice polite script asking for payment?
How long would you last or how annoying would you find 100 calls a day about the same thing?
Jul 11th 2013, 3:07 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
What does this company (your non-paying scumbag) actually do? I mean, what line of work are they in?
Send a 'would-be' client to meet them and place a huge order, string them along a bit, then cancel it......... they will ask why - well, it's because I heard a rumour that you are not reliable etc etc........
Send a 'would-be' client to meet them and place a huge order, string them along a bit, then cancel it......... they will ask why - well, it's because I heard a rumour that you are not reliable etc etc........
Jul 11th 2013, 3:42 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
What does this company (your non-paying scumbag) actually do? I mean, what line of work are they in?
Send a 'would-be' client to meet them and place a huge order, string them along a bit, then cancel it......... they will ask why - well, it's because I heard a rumour that you are not reliable etc etc........
Send a 'would-be' client to meet them and place a huge order, string them along a bit, then cancel it......... they will ask why - well, it's because I heard a rumour that you are not reliable etc etc........
They are a construction supplies company in a pretty technical niche, I'd need architectural drawings and people who knew what they were talking about etc. way to complicated but I do like the idea
As I said **** it I'm walking away my revenge will be slow and sweet
Jul 11th 2013, 5:46 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
I have however found a man in India who will call anyone I want 100 times a day for $100
For how long ???
For how long ???
Jul 11th 2013, 5:52 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
Jul 11th 2013, 6:04 am
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Jul 11th 2013, 7:17 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
I had an issue with a local clinic, I named them on twitter. After a few phone calls of apology from them I received a full refund in cash delivered to my front door this morning. Hope you get it sorted out 
Jul 11th 2013, 7:25 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
the watered down version : we normal users use latops or pcs for the internet, the website that we visit are man made and are kept (hosted) on large machines kept in big locked up rooms. Those machines are called servers. Just like all of us have individual phone numbers and no 2 phone numbers are alike (within the same country atleast), every server has a distinct IP address to identify it to the rest of the world. Like when you type in www.britishexpats.com your request is taken to the IP 98.58.194.XYZ and connected within seconds (depending upon the speed of your internet connection) to that server. Btw a server can host more than one website.
So a popular way to bring a website down is to ping it (like calling it) again and again. When enough people do it again and again, the server, which is designed to cater for all incoming requests, sometimes cannot handle too many in one go and will crash. This act is called DDOSing a server (distributed denial of service). Sort of like choking it. It is illegal ofcourse and not in use anymore as now its pretty easy to trace who started the attack.
fyi : A few years ago a brilliant mind came up with a trojan which would go get into and sit dormant in an unsuspecting PC. In time that trojan spread to quite a few PCs around the world (it was estimated in the thousands if not more) Once the owner of that trojan sitting in a remote location would need a ddos attack on anyone, he would just send the command and those unsuspecting computers would start sending out the attacks. What was brilliant was the fact that the owner was in no way implicated. I remember reading somewhere that now this service of using 'zombie pcs' is up for sale and anyone with enough money and more importantly enough contacts in the hacker world can hire them.
So a popular way to bring a website down is to ping it (like calling it) again and again. When enough people do it again and again, the server, which is designed to cater for all incoming requests, sometimes cannot handle too many in one go and will crash. This act is called DDOSing a server (distributed denial of service). Sort of like choking it. It is illegal ofcourse and not in use anymore as now its pretty easy to trace who started the attack.
fyi : A few years ago a brilliant mind came up with a trojan which would go get into and sit dormant in an unsuspecting PC. In time that trojan spread to quite a few PCs around the world (it was estimated in the thousands if not more) Once the owner of that trojan sitting in a remote location would need a ddos attack on anyone, he would just send the command and those unsuspecting computers would start sending out the attacks. What was brilliant was the fact that the owner was in no way implicated. I remember reading somewhere that now this service of using 'zombie pcs' is up for sale and anyone with enough money and more importantly enough contacts in the hacker world can hire them.
Jul 11th 2013, 7:41 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
the watered down version : we normal users use latops or pcs for the internet, the website that we visit are man made and are kept (hosted) on large machines kept in big locked up rooms. Those machines are called servers. Just like all of us have individual phone numbers and no 2 phone numbers are alike (within the same country atleast), every server has a distinct IP address to identify it to the rest of the world. Like when you type in www.britishexpats.com your request is taken to the IP 98.58.194.XYZ and connected within seconds (depending upon the speed of your internet connection) to that server. Btw a server can host more than one website.
So a popular way to bring a website down is to ping it (like calling it) again and again. When enough people do it again and again, the server, which is designed to cater for all incoming requests, sometimes cannot handle too many in one go and will crash. This act is called DDOSing a server (distributed denial of service). Sort of like choking it. It is illegal ofcourse and not in use anymore as now its pretty easy to trace who started the attack.
fyi : A few years ago a brilliant mind came up with a trojan which would go get into and sit dormant in an unsuspecting PC. In time that trojan spread to quite a few PCs around the world (it was estimated in the thousands if not more) Once the owner of that trojan sitting in a remote location would need a ddos attack on anyone, he would just send the command and those unsuspecting computers would start sending out the attacks. What was brilliant was the fact that the owner was in no way implicated. I remember reading somewhere that now this service of using 'zombie pcs' is up for sale and anyone with enough money and more importantly enough contacts in the hacker world can hire them.
So a popular way to bring a website down is to ping it (like calling it) again and again. When enough people do it again and again, the server, which is designed to cater for all incoming requests, sometimes cannot handle too many in one go and will crash. This act is called DDOSing a server (distributed denial of service). Sort of like choking it. It is illegal ofcourse and not in use anymore as now its pretty easy to trace who started the attack.
fyi : A few years ago a brilliant mind came up with a trojan which would go get into and sit dormant in an unsuspecting PC. In time that trojan spread to quite a few PCs around the world (it was estimated in the thousands if not more) Once the owner of that trojan sitting in a remote location would need a ddos attack on anyone, he would just send the command and those unsuspecting computers would start sending out the attacks. What was brilliant was the fact that the owner was in no way implicated. I remember reading somewhere that now this service of using 'zombie pcs' is up for sale and anyone with enough money and more importantly enough contacts in the hacker world can hire them.
prertty scary really and i wonder how long before a government hires them to crash an entire country shortly before an invasion
Jul 11th 2013, 8:14 am
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Re: Overdue Invoice
PM me the company name just on the off chance I might know them or someone working there