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Thread poster: Inez Ulrich
Heinrich Pesch
Heinrich Pesch  Identity Verified
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Legal actions Feb 20, 2018

Didn't you check the BB before the first job?

I tried once to get about 800 Euro a German agency had not paid. Filled in all the papers, but it turned out the officials could do nothing, because at the door of the office there was a different name, not the one on my invoice. So I had to write it off as well as my additional expenses.
Perhaps you were a bit too eager, the person did not like being pressed. And we should not use the Blueboard as a thread. A month after the secon
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Didn't you check the BB before the first job?

I tried once to get about 800 Euro a German agency had not paid. Filled in all the papers, but it turned out the officials could do nothing, because at the door of the office there was a different name, not the one on my invoice. So I had to write it off as well as my additional expenses.
Perhaps you were a bit too eager, the person did not like being pressed. And we should not use the Blueboard as a thread. A month after the second reminder, if no money has come, put a 1 at the BB. He will get the message.
But if he is the sort of persons who deliberately keeps us unpaid he will eventually be banned from proz.com.
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Inez Ulrich
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.... Feb 20, 2018

€ 800,- is a lot, I'm sorry this happened to you. I've read many stories from colleagues who lost even more due to such non-paying "companies".

As I said, no, I haven't checked the BB first, which I normally do. I'm sorry, but to say "may he didn't like to be pressed" is nonsense. If my clients don't have to abide by mutual agreements, why should we translators? Deadlines are unnecessary then, but for both parties! I have worked for the money, delivered in time and now he has to f
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€ 800,- is a lot, I'm sorry this happened to you. I've read many stories from colleagues who lost even more due to such non-paying "companies".

As I said, no, I haven't checked the BB first, which I normally do. I'm sorry, but to say "may he didn't like to be pressed" is nonsense. If my clients don't have to abide by mutual agreements, why should we translators? Deadlines are unnecessary then, but for both parties! I have worked for the money, delivered in time and now he has to fulfill his part of the agreement. How can you say it is okay for him to act like this because he might not have liked being pressed? Payment within 8 days was agreed and this is what he has to abide by this agreement, it is as simple as that. I certainly don't wait 1 month before I take action.
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Inez Ulrich
Inez Ulrich  Identity Verified
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... Feb 20, 2018

it is getting better....now all his emails from the last days have disappeared in my email account. Is that possible at all? Anyway, I have printed out mine and his emails since the first job, so I have every word he has written so far.

 
Elif Baykara Narbay
Elif Baykara Narbay  Identity Verified
Türkiye
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hack? Feb 20, 2018

Inez Ulrich wrote:

it is getting better....now all his emails from the last days have disappeared in my email account. Is that possible at all? Anyway, I have printed out mine and his emails since the first job, so I have every word he has written so far.


Unless he has your login information or access to your computer via teamviewer or similar programs, the only way I can think of is hacking.

This guy has obviously some serious problems, but it seems that he has some VERY serious problems. I would have taken legal action immediately, if possible.

Elif


 
Inez Ulrich
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... Feb 20, 2018

I have asked my email provider about it but still have to wait for their answer. I always thought that it isn't possible deleting emails that have been sent and read. I hope this is just some accidental issue, but it is indeed weird and if he really is involved in this then it is much worse than I have thought. I'm only glad I have the complete correspondence.

 
Angie Garbarino
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Oh yes 3000 here, in 2005 Feb 20, 2018

Inez Ulrich wrote:

€ 800,- is a lot, I'm sorry this happened to you. I've read many stories from colleagues who lost even more due to such non-paying "companies".


Lesson learned now.


 
Inez Ulrich
Inez Ulrich  Identity Verified
Germany
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awful Feb 20, 2018

I'm very sorry you had to experience this. Unimaginable what some people are doing to others. We all have mouths to feed, at least our own, and bills to pay. And when I see that there are agencies and clients out there who do this on a regular basis, I can't understand how they can look in the mirror every morning.

 
Wojciech_ (X)
Wojciech_ (X)
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Terrible Feb 20, 2018

I'm sorry for what you had to go through. I don't want to play the nationality card, but since that guy did, may I know what country he comes from that he dares to make such awful comments?

 
Inez Ulrich
Inez Ulrich  Identity Verified
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... Feb 20, 2018

France

 
Inez Ulrich
Inez Ulrich  Identity Verified
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and today...... Feb 20, 2018

... a very positive feedback from a translator on TC's Hall of Fame and Shame. It is a new user there I guess this man is getting desparate now and tries to build a new reputation.

 
Elif Baykara Narbay
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Would you keep us updated? Feb 20, 2018

Inez Ulrich wrote:

I have asked my email provider about it but still have to wait for their answer.


 
Inez Ulrich
Inez Ulrich  Identity Verified
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yes Feb 20, 2018

yes, I'm pretty much concerned about this. Can it be coincidence that only those emails with his insults have disappeared? I hope there is some other reason for this, cause this would be...I don't even know how I would call sth like this.

 
Mervyn Henderson (X)
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Could be worse, Inez ... Feb 20, 2018

... you could be living with him. Think what somebody else has to put up with when he rolls back home for dinner, tired and emotional after a bottle of Ricard.

 
Inez Ulrich
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lol Feb 20, 2018

that is something that couldn't happen to me!! He wouldn't have much fun with me, I guess

 
Lingua 5B
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Exactely. Feb 20, 2018

Mervyn Henderson wrote:

... you could be living with him. Think what somebody else has to put up with when he rolls back home for dinner, tired and emotional after a bottle of Ricard.


I was just thinking the guy sounds drunk or intoxicated.

OP, this is on an extreme end. I still suggest you somehow cool it off, for your own sake. Don't let him get the best of you by engaging too much.


 
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