A few weeks ago Tom asked me to send him a bill for the design work I had done on his websites and the art for his business cards and brochures...so I did. I also included his website hosting bill. He never responded. I was too busy to go chase him so I just waited. Then the deadline for paying the hosting came and went and I did what he would have done himself. I suspended the service. I pay for his bandwidth, and I can't afford to pay so he can earn money and not pay his bills. Yes, I know I'm sounding like him now. I'm sure that was his reasoning when he called and cancelled my car insurance. Yes, I could have called him and asked if he was going to pay it and when and then maybe given him a little more time to pay it, but I also have deadlines, so he would only get a few days. Of course, he could have called me and said can you get your car insurance all set up before the date this one renews so I can take my bank account off the insurance autopay? That would have been lovely. It would also have saved me a lot of money and hassle. But that's never been his way of doing things. He's a control freak, he is always right and he always does things his way. So I decided to play things his way. His deadline came, and ok...I waited another 2 weeks almost (I'm always optimistic that people will see the right way to do things and change their ways), after 2 weeks with no payment, I turned off his email and websites. He asked what it would take to get them back on. I told him $60, just like the invoice I sent said.
So...does he send me $60 to cover his bill? Does he ask if I can wait another week? Does he try to even be reasonable? Nope! He simply tells me he's turning off my cell phone.
See? He doesn't pay his bill, I do what he would have done, what any business would have done, and he finds another way to make it not his fault and he'll punish me for having the nerve to do business in a normal manner.
He's a vindictive horrible person.
And it gets better.
Me, being the moron I am, talk to him and turn his sites back on (without being paid yet) because it's going to hurt his business, blah blah...whatever. Anyway, I turn them back on. Then we discuss the invoice I sent weeks ago (that he still says he never got and that I have since sent a new copy to the new email he set up). He went through the list and told me to send a new invoice with just a few hand picked items on there. He also asked exactly when the hosting had to be paid. Originally it was 11-1-11, but I covered that for him, now I told him 11-17-11, but if he was having a hard time paying that 11-25-11 was the final date to pay before it would all get shut off. He was fine on the phone. Oh, and I also let him know that I had updated my change of address and was now getting the electric bill and verizon bill, since they were still in my name. I explained that all I did was change my address to get my own mail, not try to get his bills, but that I'd be happy to send information as it came in. He was definitely a little weird about that...but what difference is it if I get my mail? Unless he's doing stuff in my name? Hmmmmmmm...
Anyway, he immediately called his lawyer regarding the bills (don't ask how I know, I have my sources) and then when I sent a follow up to the invoice for the hosting and other stuff, he sent back an email saying he didn't respond to extortion. WTF??? Why would he talk on the phone with me, work out what he could afford, have me send an invoice for just those items, and then tell me it's extortion?? He's freaking nuts!!!
I have learned a little bit during this last week. I send copies of everything I send him to his lawyer. I also include Tom's responses. Let his lawyer see how insane he really is...
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