<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:56 AM, <<a href="mailto:richard.ucci@att.net">richard.ucci@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> <div>Friends,</div> <div>How do you handle the client that after your're finished tuning and present the bill, they say, "We'll send you a check". It is noted in bold letters on my invoice that payment is expected upon services rendered.</div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div> <div>Also, this usually occurs only with my most affluent clients.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same here.  I usually don't worry about it all.  Most of our clients are totally trustworthy.  Sometimes the check comes later than I expected, but it always comes.  So I don't worry about it.</div> <div><br></div><div>I've only had one client who took FOREVER to pay...EACH time.  I had to send a couple of reminder letters each time to get a check.  Finally, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle (especially since they had a nasty Kimball mini-grand).  Never called them back, and they haven't called me either.</div> <div><br></div><div>I almost never have a returned check either.  So I figure I can wait for payment on occasion, although it is quirky behavior indeed.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div> <div> How does one nicely put it without looking broke or offending the client?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You might casually say, "Oh...I don't mind waiting a couple minutes if you want to make the check out today."  I dunno - it almost never happens to me, so I don't have something I say for that.</div> </div><br>-- <br>JF