This reminds me of a friend who has worked as a consultant/contractor
for at least 20 years.  Whenever he has trouble getting paid, he sends
flowers the the A.P. people at his client sites.  And no nasty notes
either.  He says it works every time.

Eric

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:48:54PM -0600, Brady Hegberg wrote:
> I can state that we got _great_ work from Real Time at my company. 
> Unfortunately our accounts payable dept proceeded to embarrass me by
> giving them the run-around on the bill.  Another thing you have to watch
> out for as a consultant.
> 
> > We have never been coy about pricing at Real Time. We state we are not the
> > cheapest ISP, nor are we the cheapest consulting shop, nor do we want to be
> > either of those. 
>