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- Paying Your Bills.
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- Wait until they send the bill the third time then write (never phone )
- writing is slower) and ask why you haven't received and invoice. Demand
- a written reply for your auditors.
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- Ask for an itemized account, but don't explain what you mean by
- "itemized". Then when you receive it, write back saying that wasn't what
- you wanted at all.
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- Sales Taxes give you almost unlimited scope to delay payment. For
- example: Why have they charged you sales tax when your Purchase Order
- (which of course, you never sent them) clearly shows Sales Tax
- Exemption? Alternately, if no sales tax is charged, why not? Or Federal
- but no Provincial? or vice versa?
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- Say your books have been impounded by the R.C.M.P. as evidence in a
- complex and highly secret case which you might (you hint) involve a
- close friend of your supplier company's president.
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- Tell them for accounting reasons you must have the bill broken down into
- two. Then have someone else in your organization start the whole thing
- over by asking why there are two bills instead of one. And then pay only
- one!
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- Send a cheque with figures not matching words. When they call, send a
- corrected cheque ... but omit to sign it.
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- Send a copy of their invoice with a torn corner of a cheque stapled to
- it. This will start a frantic search for your missing cheque. When you
- eventually hear from your supplier, you can delay further while you
- "check with your bank". And all the time they'll be apologizing to you!
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- Tell them your cheque requires two signatures and the other signing
- officer has (gone on a month's cruise) (had a heart attack) (run off
- with your receptionist) (run off with your receptionist and then had a
- heart attack).
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- Send a cheque for about 1/10 the amount owing made out to a different
- (and fictional) Company X. When they call, apologetically tell them your
- office girl is always putting things in the wrong envelope, and you'll
- personally take care of it "right away" (Translation: in 3 months).
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- Tell them you must have a separate breakdown of labour and materials.
- When they send it, tell them you think they got the figures reversed.
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- Deny all knowledge of ordering (or receiving) the items they've billed
- you for. Ask for details of who ordered, when and how shipped, who
- signed for receipt of shipment, etc.
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- Tell them you thought it was clearly understood they didn't get paid
- until your customer pays you, and your lawyers are
- trying to collect now.
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