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Originally Posted by prktkljokr
Maybe getting cash from his customer rather than a email or transfer would have alleviated the need for this thread?
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And therein is the fallacy of your argument.
Your making the assumption that if CB asked for cash they would have handed it over at his demand. But if they always had the intention of stiffing him, or scamming him - whichever way you want to put it, they could likely just have said at that time "nah, sorry, tough shit" and kicked him off their property.
Then the title of the thread would be "Went to get cash payment for my latest invoice, but the customer told me to **** off and leave their property. Now they wont answer their phone. What do I do?"
Same result, CB is left empty handed and out of pocket, doesn't matter the payment method. Getting it now???
Same with getting cleared payment prior to commencing work. Doesn't matter whether its cash or bank transfer, as long as you have legal tender in your possession that meets your demand of "work commences on payment received", then it doesn't matter what the payment method is. Anything beyond that is semantics and personal preference, which we all know what yours is.
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Originally Posted by prktkljokr
For the amount of them that I have handled over the last 35 years I would say yes
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I once knew someone who behaved like you, worked on the cash is king mantra and carried and stored masses of cash.
He's dead now...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-...ling/100383750
Someone worked out a large amount of takings for his business were in cash, because he often carried large wads of cash into town to pay his bills (fist sized rolls, it was rather impressive) and buy booze for his club. Didn't help he liked to tell people about how he ran his business.
One day a group of 3 guys decided to test how true it was. They broke into his house and tortured him, cut off his digits one by one, until he broke and gave up the location of the cash. Somewhere along the line the shot him and accidentally nicked an artery which caused him to bleed out.
Ultimately they were too stupid to enjoy the $20k they made off with, they were caught days later.
Irony was, he was 2 or 3 weeks off settling a sale of the land his golf club was on to a developer for a share of the $20m purchase price. He kinda missed out on every persons dream.