My
board trusts me implicitly and they wouldn't be on my board if I didn't hand
pick them. They're not there to be social workers they're there because they
lend strategic credibility to my agenda. My accounting department isn't
going to do anything more than has already been done. I have to sign off
on any invoice before it gets paid. If your invoices were more
detailed, I wouldn't have any issues. If you're going to deal with me,
you'll have to be a business man not a con man. All expenses right down to the
scotch tape on my secretary's desk are charted.
All
business is a financially responsible venture and every nickel counts. Your
invoice for $210 was a very sad attempt at gouging me for more than the work
that you did. If you're going to go for something, why not hit the brics for 10
- 20K? To go out of your way to ruin a relationship for $100? I'm really
reaching out to you here and trying to help you understand the big picture.
I'm a
more than fair guy when I'm being dealt with honestly. And I've been in business
long enough to know that you have to apologize even when you're right some
times. You can write this relationship off but I'll still leave the door open.
Business is war and you never know what strange turns life may take. My record
as to how I pay out stands for iteself. I am very well known for paying out more
than I owe. In fact, I've been known to pay off a house, a car or send my troops
on vacation for a week or two to Florence, Italy when the conditions are right.
Don't
shoot the small game. It scares the big game away.
Enjoy
Mexico! Tip one to the Sunset... What part are you in?
Johnathan Dodds, CEO
www.officesupplystore.com
Bellevue,
Washington
425-644-5002
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gotta tell ya... even though the IE Fix isn't really fixed your fix on the
IMPORT is sweet. I don't think the IE Fix is your fault, I think it's PAYPAL and
GOOGLE. I want to pay you something that is fair to both of us and continue
doing business. Today I'm going to PAY PAL you $75.
Can we
break down the remaining $146 and what I'm being billed
for?
Are
you back from Mexico?
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?????????????????
If the two weeks of trouble shooting/bug fixing is not work the bill I have sent you we have a problem.
Why?
Because you have not earned my trust or paid a bill.
on Oct, 29th @ 9:20 AM you sent me this message "Please send me an invoice so I can pay you immediately"
I sent you a invoice for $90
your response at 11:32AM on the same day was "it takes 30 days to setup with your Accounting Firm."
another
email you said "your book keeping department ( I thought you had a
firm?) has to admit me as a approved vendor which takes 90 days."
you said "you have turned bums into millionaires."
you have been doing this business for 10 years, "Office Supply Store, Inc. was Incorporated on 3/29/2007 in Washington state"
you bought your family their first home at the age of 8.
you spent 15 years producing Films and TV Shows with 900 hours of
episodic television under your belt. (search IMDB for your name and
nothing comes up)
you have your own warehouses. (biggestbook.com is owned by United Stationers, I'm pretty sure they drop ship product for you, I don't think you have any warehouses)
Johnathan, I told you to stop bullshitting me but you continue and you just don't seem to want to stop.
The
breakdown of the hour are simple, I sent you an invoice for $90 and
after two weeks of not getting paid I tacked on a few more hours and
made the bill $210. (I spent way more hours doing work for you the what
I invoiced). To see if you where going to pay me, relieving that for
what I had delivered $210 was a steal or you where not going to pay /
haggle over the bill. Obliviously you are not the kind of guy to
realize the deal you where getting and I'm not going to play this game
every time I'm going to invoice you.
Off to work on clients that pay my invoices.
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should get together again in person. It wasn't 2 weeks of work. Negotiating
isn't work. As I've said in previous emails, I can't afford to pay to learn on
the job. If you didn't know the answer, then you should have told me and I would
have found someone who specialized in this scenario.
In any
event, you've got a shit load of talent. The trick is, getting you on my side
instead of against me. I just sent you $15 more dollars.
I'd
like to resolve the remaining issues in person.
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You're
right about OPENCART. I'm trying out www.opencart.com on a new customer who
wanted a web site. How much will you charge to add the IMPORT PRODUCTS SCRIPT
from my cart and get it working?
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see below
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:42 PM, J- <j@officesupplystore.com> wrote:
We
should get together again in person. It wasn't 2 weeks of work. (it
was 7 hours of work over 2 weeks time span. 3 of those hours where for
10/28 ($90) the other 4 where over the next 12 days doing various task) Negotiating
isn't work. As I've said in previous emails, I can't afford to pay to learn on
the job. If you didn't know the answer, (?????
again some things require research to assume you will find anyone that
can do everything is unrealistic, $30 hour is cheap for what I have
delivered, you are paying me to solve the problem) then you should have told me and I would
have found someone who specialized in this scenario.
In any
event, you've got a shit load of talent. The trick is, getting you on my side
instead of against me. I just sent you $15 more dollars.
Then pay my invoice, none of my other clients question my invoices like this, especial for a $210 bill
The $210 is NOT NEGOTIABLE.
I'd
like to resolve the remaining issues in person.
What time tomorrow do you want to meet with $210 cash. We can discuss the opencart product import script.
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I
don't tolerate junk billing. I can't speak for your other clients. But I'm sure,
based on my bill, there's a little bit of fudge in your pockets. I should
have only paid you $75. Really, I should have paid you the $60 you told me it
was going to cost me, but I'm trying to get something going here.
It's
not unrealistic to find someone who specializes in each task. That's the
interview process. And when I asked you if you could do these things you told me
you could. I expected you to be able to read the error codes and go directly to
the code and patch it. Not circle the web or call on an associate because you
didn't know how to target the source of the problem.
You
told me that you fixed the PAYPAL ISSUE with the SSL and PAYPAL is telling me
that they fixed the problem. And dnow there's another JAVA SCRIPT PROBLEM
popping up. The IE Probelm isn't fixed. We still have problems on IE 6 & 7
and I've still paid you.
You've
already got $90. I'm not showing up with any cash tomorrow. This is more of a
meeting for me to determine if you can be reasoned with or not and if we're
going to be able to do business.
Why
haven't you CLAIMED your PAYPAL PAYMENTS I sent you?
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