[CAUT] still another billing question

[Scott E Thile]

Back in the early 80's I did concert prep for UCSD. I never received a check
less than 90 days from the billing date. Fortunately it was seldom more than
10% of my income so it didn't cause much of a hardship (lots of other things
did, but not that!). 

If you try to get late fees after 30 days my guess is they won't pay them. I
know our university won't, and even if they did it's more trouble than it's
worth.

We have a much better billing system here now than when I got here, but some
things can still get bogged down. I hand carry anything through for the
venders and subs that I work with. Thankfully I'm on salary...

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On 
> Behalf Of Bob Hull
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:21 AM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: [CAUT] still another billing question
> 
> Billing questions have been on the piano tech list recently 
> but this one has to do with college contract work.
> 
> One of the colleges I service takes a long time every semster 
> to pay.  I'm still waiting for payment on this semester's 
> work and I finished tuning in late March. 
> They take 30 days from the time they get the bill
> (supposedly) and they don't get the bill until the professor 
> signs off on it and turns it in.  
> It may sit on his desk for weeks before he turns it in.  In 
> trying to solve this problem from previous semesters, someone 
> in the business office said I could send a copy of the bill 
> directly to them, bypassing the professor, and they would 
> submit it as approved. 
> But it hasn't seemed to help.
> 
> Do you think a late fee is in order, if so, how much? 
> The utitlity company and phone company print on their bills 
> "The amount due is xxx.xx if paid by dd/mm/yyyy and after 
> that date it is xxx.xx" higher amount.  
> 
> Out of respect for the small business or actually 
> micro-business man it would be nice to be paid promptly.  My 
> main school pays within 2 weeks of receipt of their bill.
> 
> Bob Hull
> 
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