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I took the hard angry road once, ended up costing a LOT in laywers - got zero out of it besides loosing the money. Today I will just walk away from the burning

• josho 11y ago
  Can you please share more about your cautionary tale?
  • andersthue 11y ago
    In general terms yes ;) I build a website for a customer and did seo/sem/content creation/affiliate management and whatnot. The customer only shipped the actual product. The relationship had a lot of mistrust and bad vipes throughout the entire project, and when revenue skyrocketed the customer witheld the last couple of months of payment (fixed + revenue share) and jumped to another system. I sued and neither lost nor won but something in between - paid the laywer+judges 50.000 USD and got nothing from the customer. Spent countless hours being angry, nervous, sad, in court, talking to lawyer, bitching about the customer where I could have been working for new customers, building new projects etc. These days whenever a project starts to smell I quickly walk away from it, only concentrating on those that makes sense. The return from working with happy customers is much higher than spending time in court - also it is more fun!