Why are you hesitant to name names?  If he is a deadbeat, in other words a
*CROOK*, I personally want to know who he is, to avoid becoming his next
victim.  Few *hundred* hours?  Are you kidding me?  Send him another email
warning him that you will go public with the situation if it makes you feel
better then POST.  If you are an honest person, and it sounds like you are,
you deserve honesty from those you do business with.  If he has anything to
say then he can post too.

Frankly, I'd make a short web page about him and the situation and feed it
to google.  When he remedies the situation to your satisfaction, you can
change it or take it down.

Its not like you will be committing libel & you are doing honest freelancers
a favor.

Jesse



Dale Botkin wrote:

> Well, it finally happened.  What started out as a promising paying
> code-for-hire job went bad, the customer has stopped responding to emails
> and has apparently decided not to pay for the work done as agreed.  Since
> we're several states apart and the amount isn't enough to get lawyers
> involved, I guess he gets away with it for the time being.  I'm really
> disappointed; it's not like my kids are going to go without shoes this
> winter, but there are a few hundred hours of my time I would have spent
> doing other things if I'd known I wasn't going to get paid for them.  I
> even offered to be flexible on the amount if he was in financial straits,
> but there has been no response to my last four or five emails since
> December.
>
> I debated for a few weeks whether or not to post this to the list.  I
> don't want to be seen as using the list or my so-called position as list
> admin to push a personal agenda.  Sooner or later, though, the guy is
> going to need some changes or fixes made to the code, and I suspect he's
> going to turn to another PICList member to do it.  I'd really like to
> spare the next guy the same fate, and yes, it would irritate me to know
> someone else was getting paid to do what I should have already been paid
> to do.
>
> I'm not going to name names or go too deep into details, but if you get an
> email from someone looking to have some work done on some CCS C source
> code (that still may or may not have my name attached), you might want to
> drop me a note privately to see if it's the same guy.  IANAL, but as far
> as I can tell since I didn't get paid as agreed, he's got no right to the
> code.
>
> Dale
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