Getting paid for straw ?

[Clive]

I think your reputation is taking more of a battering here than the unnamed merchant.

seriously? for suggesting i should be paid as agreed ?

how fecking unreasonable i must be hey

clearky mot paying people is acceptable

 

[Bill the Bass]

no - i’ve said several times its a contractor / merchant buyer

i’m often asked by livestock farmers why we are so keen to chop straw and my first post explained this was the reason maybe

I re-read the op. I see what you mean, apologies.

 

[mo!]

seriously? for suggesting i should be paid as agreed ?

how fecking unreasonable i must be hey

clearky mot paying people is acceptable

You're reputation for ignoring what people actually say is very much intact.

How is the legal case going?

 

[Highland Mule]

amazed frankly how many seem to think paying your bills 5 months late is in anyway acceptable

Quite profitable though, if you’re dealing with it professionally.

Invoice at collection with 28 day terms, so four late invoices so far. Reasonable to charge £50/ month for follow up invoices, plus interest at 8.25% annually, which is better than money in the bank.

Unless it actually causes me cash flow problems, I quite like customers who pay me late. I have a mate who successfully claimed fees and interest on the late payment of a bill for late payment fees!

 

[Clive]

If it fits the mods mold , if it don't it gets moved ,
And certain things should be kept in the office
And , if a pidgeon craps on you does that make all pigeons bad
He started off on the wrong foot ,if he should have ever started at all

sadly its not just once though - i have had similar issues with several others over the years

i will add i have also been paid promptly as agreed by some but that seems to be exception rather than the norm

 

[Clive]

You're reputation for ignoring what people actually say is very much intact.

How is the legal case going?

what legal case ?

I’ve digested replies here and the. constructive replies some have offered will influence how i sell straw in the future if indeed i sell straw again at all

the thread had prompted a meeting tomorrow…….. one at which i hope a cheque book will be present !

 

[lloyd]

Quite profitable though, if you’re dealing with it professionally.

Invoice at collection with 28 day terms, so four late invoices so far. Reasonable to charge £50/ month for follow up invoices, plus interest at 8.25% annually, which is better than money in the bank.

Unless it actually causes me cash flow problems, I quite like customers who pay me late. I have a mate who successfully claimed fees and interest on the late payment of a bill for late payment fees!

See Puntabrava post#178

 

[Clive]

Quite profitable though, if you’re dealing with it professionally.

Invoice at collection with 28 day terms, so four late invoices so far. Reasonable to charge £50/ month for follow up invoices, plus interest at 8.25% annually, which is better than money in the bank.

Unless it actually causes me cash flow problems, I quite like customers who pay me late. I have a mate who successfully claimed fees and interest on the late payment of a bill for late payment fees!

agree but cashflow is king and i’m not in the business of money lending ! i’m a farmer not a bank

 

[Highland Mule]

See Puntabrava post#178

See my post #150

 

[Highland Mule]

agree but cashflow is king and i’m not in the business of money lending ! i’m a farmer not a bank

Well get yourself paid then.

 

[Skintagain]

Contractors have bases, take them a copy of the invoice, see what they say, they might be in genuine financial trouble.

Was there any problem with the straw? too green, forced to bale it early etc?

Or bring home a shiny machine

 

[Clive]

Well get yourself paid then.

we have been trying to get whats owed for sometime

lesson learnt though - auction sales from now on or chopper on as its just not worth it

 

[mo!]

agree but cashflow is king and i’m not in the business of money lending ! i’m a farmer not a bank

Sounds like you have behaving as one for years. Only not charging interest. Who's the fool. (I know you like to miss the point so just to be clear - YOU ARE THE FOOL)

 

[lloyd]

we have been trying to get whats owed for sometime

lesson learnt though - auction sales from now on or chopper on as its just not worth it

Auction sales have their risks too !
If the straw trade is poor best chopped.

 

[Highland Mule]

we have been trying to get whats owed for sometime

lesson learnt though - auction sales from now on or chopper on as its just not worth it

Sounds like you’ve not been trying hard enough, if it’s gone this long and still in your own hands.

Make sure they pay the interest too - which you should have been adding to the invoice every month anyway so won’t be a surprise to them.

 

[mo!]

Well get yourself paid then.

He'd rather moan than quietly get on with it.

 

[Still Farming]

Have he been round to his yard to see him/her ?

 

[glasshouse]

hand on heart its true here - the only things i have ever had to chase long overdue payment on in 25yrs of being in business is straw and on one occasion some entitlements sold to a TFF member who decided he didn’t need to pay (small claims court decided he did !)

Small claims courts are cnuts
They made me pay a company for substandard seed which failed twice on 90 acres. Germ was under 85%

 

[Mc115reed]

Small claims courts are cnuts
They made me pay a company for substandard seed which failed twice on 90 acres. Germ was under 85%

2 sides too every story … bet the seed firm made out like you were the villain

 

[glasshouse]

2 sides too every story … bet the seed firm made out like you were the villain

They were all in court
Managing director, financial director, company secretary sales director
Five of them against just me.
I counted it as a moral victory.