Money Money Money

John1983 · November 22nd, 2001, 10:11 AM

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[This message has been edited by MikeBrantley (edited November 24, 2001).]

Prop · November 22nd, 2001, 01:46 PM

Bullshit and a free T-shirt

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Matt Pacini · November 24th, 2001, 07:55 AM

I think we should do what I call "email bombing"
We should respond to his chain letter idea, by all emailing him a 5 megabyte file, five times, then give his email address to five of our friends, with instructions to do the same, and within a couple weeks, he should be terminated by his ISP for bottlenecking the whole system with an overload of huge email attachements.
That's what I do to spammers who ingore my "remove me from your list" requests.
Works every time!

Matt Pacini

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MovieStuff · November 24th, 2001, 01:01 PM

About 15 years ago, I had a deadbeat client once (only once?) that demanded a whole raft of changes to a video then refused to pay for the additional work (she was adding new material to lengthen the product). We argued on the phone for-ev-er and I told her,"Fine. You win. Bring cash and come get your edit master." I was in no mood to get into a legal suit since it was apparent that the amount of extra work would drive the money involved higher than the jurisdictional limit for small claims court. I am quite sure she calculated this.

Anyway, she came over and regally watched her new edits, as well as the entire video. Then after passing judgement she paid me for my services. I reached in the deck, gave her the tape and she left still owing me for the extra work, as far as I was concerned. But, as I indicated, I was in no mood to hire lawyers, etc.

That was on a Wednesday afternoon around 3:30. Come Saturday morning, she called me on the phone, furious and threatening to sue. I remained firm and she ultimately brought me the money she owed and that was the end.

Why?

Well, when she was originally here to review her tape, I played the edit master from the source deck (this was a tape based 3/4 system). However, I pulled a different tape from the record deck (which she knew is where the edit master should be!).

Okay, (snicker) give me a moment to regain my composure during this part....

Okay, okay...what I did NOT know was that she was planning a release party for Friday night and, after leaving my place, went directly to a local duplication house and told them to make 500 rush VHS dubs, complete with shrink wrap and labels. She picked these up at 5:00 and, at 6:00 played one of these VHS dubs at her release party for the pleasure of about 40 guests. The rest of the VHS dubs had been bulk mailed to a variety of industry contacts.

What was on the tape? Big white letters on a black background that read:

"Susan, I do not release edit masters until bills are paid in full."

Hah! And she STILL wondered why the duplication house wanted payment C.O.D. Talk about CLUE-less....

Roger

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Roger Evans
MovieStuff
http://www.afterimagephoto.tv/moviestuff.html

MikeBrantley · November 24th, 2001, 02:50 PM

Roger,

hahaha smile

I was gonna wipe out this whole thread, but your post was so entertaining I ended up only getting rid of the scam spam that started it.

Sounds like your client got what she deserved.

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--Mike Brantley

Matt Pacini · November 24th, 2001, 09:26 PM

Wow, I need a laugh, and that did it!!!

Man, I'm glad I paid in advance for my Workprinter!

Matt Pacini

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MovieStuff · November 24th, 2001, 10:41 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Matt Pacini:
Wow, I need a laugh, and that did it!!!

Man, I'm glad I paid in advance for my Workprinter!

Matt Pacini
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Well, she belonged to the He-woman Man-haters Club, if you know what I mean. Her entire video was about how bad men are and how they can't be trusted and how women need to empower themselves against the likes of me.

I think I showed great restraint while editing that flaming turd of a video.

I have to say, though, that being a fly on the wall at her 'party' would have been a hoot. Can you imagine the horror of it all? Lots of ruined panty shields in the trash that night.

Man, I have to stop. This is making my tail wag too hard. biggrin