Paul,
I'm sorry to hear that.
I have been 'stiffed' before doing contract work and it is a very
uncomfortable experience. I lost about 4,000 dollars on a job to a company
that packed up everything they had over the weekend and we came to work on
Monday to an empty building. I wasn't the one that was hurt as bad as the
Temporary Employment agency that was stiffed for thousands... Last I heard
the owner was wanted by the FBI...I won't go into those details.

Just good business practice I would think to get progress payments from
customers if you can... set milestones in the design and get them to make
the partial payments for reaching those milestones... at least until they
have established good credit with you. It's not easy being a contactor as
I'm sure many other good designers can attest.

Best regards,

Bill Brooks
PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+
Tel: (760)597-1500 Fax: (760)597-1510
Datron World Communications, Inc.
Vista, California

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Brionez [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [DC]

I want to Advise any and all Designers that may be approached by a company
in St Charles, IL to do contract Layout work beware. This was a startup that
I worked with and let them forgo payment for services rendered until they
got on there feet. Now the Bill is 8K and there is no attempt to make
restitution on my behalf. I have refused to do any more work for them until
I am guaranteed to be paid. The company would be looking for a layout
service with Orcad.

Paul Brionez
PB Designs
PCB Designer CID +

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